Past ICTAM Locations & Prize Winners

Mr. Adrien Bussonnière
University Rennes, CNRS, Rennes, France, with the paper Soap film deformations: toward a local rheological model for foams, presented during a Lecture (fluid mechanics)

Mr. Alessandro Marengo
Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, with the paper A robust explicit algorithm for phase-field modeling of quasi-brittle fracture, presented during a Lecture (solid mechanics)

Mr. Michael M. Selwanis
Polytechnique Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Military Technical College, Cairo, Egypt, with the paper Multi balls rotating in a circular track efficiently mitigate flow-induced vibrations, presented during a Seminar

Mr. Romain Labbé
LadHyX, Ecole polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, with the paper Mist harvesting with vertical fibers, presented during a Lecture (fluid mechanics)

Prof. Stavros Gaitanaros
John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, with the paper The effect of polydispersity on the crushing of open-cell random foams, presented during a Lecture (solid mechanics)

Dr. Ashleigh Hutchinson
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, with the paper A new model for the two-fluid laminar classical wake, presented during a Seminar

Mr. Mickael Bosco
Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomenes Hors Equilibre, France, with the paper Instabilities of a cylinder wake in a stratified fluid, presented during a Lecture (fluid mechanics)

Prof. Dennis Kochmann
California Institute of Technology, USA, with the paper Ultra-high stiffness and damping composites and structures due to constrained mechanical instabilities, presented during a Lecture (solid mechanics)

Ms. Huachuan Wang
The George Washington University, USA, with the paper Molecular simulations of the formation of gold-molecule-gold junctions in moletronics device, presented during a Seminar

Mr. Wim van Hoeve

University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, with the paper Microbubble pinch-off in flow-focussing devices, presented during a Lecture (fluid mechanics)

Ms. Katia Bertoldi


Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, with the paper Mechanically-triggered transformations of pattern and phononic band gaps in periodic elastomeric structures, presented during a Lecture (solid mechanics)

Mr. Kazuya Shimizu


Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan, with the paper Study on the occurrence of the liquid yet and the bubble breakup in a convergent divergent channel flow, presented during a Seminar

Mr. Ingo Kaiser
German Aerospace Center, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, Wessling, Germany, with the paper The running behaviour of an elastic wheelset presented during a Lecture.

Ms. Pantxika Otheguy
École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, with the paperInstability of corotating vertical vortices in a stratified fluidpresented during a Lecture.

Mr. Taisuke Sugii
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan, with the paper Molecular dynamics study of permeation process of small molecules through a lipid bilayer presented during a Seminar.

Prof. Tim Colonius
Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, USA, with the paper Simulation, modeling, and control of self-sustained oscillations in the flow past an open cavity presented during a Lecture.

Mr. Philippe Corvisier
Mécanique et Energétique des Fluides en Situation Reélle, Laboratoire d’Energétique et de Mécanique Théorique et Appliquée, France , with the paper Analysis of the rheological structure evolution for a thixotropic fluid flow in a pipe presented during a Seminar.

Mr. Thomas Daxner
Institute of Lightweight Structures and Aerospace Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, with the paper Adaptation of the density distribution in weight-efficient metal foam structures presented during a Lecture

Dr. Jacqueline Vollmann
Institute of Mechanics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, with the paper Wave propagation in cylindrical structures containing viscoelastic components presented during a Lecture.

Dr. Peter J. Thomas
Department of Engineering, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, with the paper An experimental study of gravity currents in a rotating frame of reference presented during a Lecture.

Xie-Nung Chen
China, with the paper Slender ship moving at near-critical speed in a shallow channel presented during a Seminar.

Mr. Simon D. Guest
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, with the paper Propagation of destabilizing waves in the folding of faceted tubes presented during a Lecture.

Prof. Hideyuki Horii
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan, with the paper Mechanics of cracked solids and models of fracture process zone presented during a Lecture.

Prof. Robert E. Johnson
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA with the paper Coating flows in rotational molding presented during a Seminar.

Dr. Arne Lorenzen
Max-Planck Institut für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen, Germany, with the paper Observation of hysteresis in baroclinic unstability presented during a Lecture.