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Conferences
"Capillarity and elasticity" (invited talk, with B. Roman)
Fluid and Elasticity 2009, Carry le Rouet, June 22-26, 2009.

"Capillary winding" (oral presentation)
IMA workshop on Geometrical Singularities and Singular Geometries, Minneapolis, July 14-25, 2008.

"Capillary origami" (invited talk)
14th IASBS meeting on condensed matter physics in  Zanjan, Iran, May 22-23, 2008.

"Elasticity v.s Capillarity: wet hair & origami" (invited talk, with B. Roman)
"Capillary zipping" (oral presentation)
APS March meeting, New Orleans, March 10-14, 2008.

"Origami capillaire" (
oral présentation)
18e Congrès Français de Mécanique, Grenoble, August 27-31, 2007.

"Origami capillaire" (oral présentation)
27th Rencontres de Physique Statistique, ESPCI, Paris, January 25-26, 2007.

"Wet hairs " (invited talk)
Gordon Conf. on Flow and Transport in Permeable Media, New Hampshire, July 30th- August 4th, 2006.

"Elastocapillarity in wet hairs" (oral prsentation)
Euromech. Fluid Mechanics Conference, KTH, Stockholm, June 26th -July 
2nd, 2006.

" Poils mouillés " (poster)
8th Rencontre du Non Linéaire, Institut Pointcarré, Paris, March 9-10, 2006.

"Gouttes soufflées " (oral presentation)
26th Rencontres de Physique Statistique, ESPCI, Paris, January 26-27, 2006.

"Windswept droplets " (oral presentation)
APS-Division of Fluids Dynamics Meeting, Chicago, November 20-22, 2005.

"Poils mouillés : un mécanisme de coalescence élastocapillaire " (oral presentation)
8th Rencontre du Non Linéaire, Institut Pointcarré, Paris, March 9-10, 2005.

"Rolling Stones" (oral presentation)
25th Rencontres de Physique Statistique, ESPCI, Paris, January 27-28, 2005.

"Special Imbibitions "
(invited talk)
Kirkham Conference, Fundamental Processes of the pore scale and continuum scale, Utah State University, October 27-29, 2004.

"Poils Mouillés" (oral presentation)
24th Rencontres de Physique Statistique, ESPCI, Paris, January 29-30, 2004.

"Ex vivo Silk Rheology"(poster)
3rd International Silk Conference, Montréal, Canada, June 16-19, 2003.

"Rolling Stones"
(invited talk)
ESF Meeting, San Felliu de Guixols, March 29 th -April 3rd, 2003. 

" Self-propelling slugs in capillary tubes " (invited talk)
ASME Conference, New Orleans, November 17-22, 2002.

" Rolling, sliding and adhesion on a viscous wall "
(oral presentation) APS-Division of Fluids Dynamics Meeting, Dallas, November 24-26, 2002.
(poster) Gordon Conference, Science of Adhesion, Trenton, August 11-15, 2002.

" Viscoelastic Free Surface Instabilities During Exponential Stretching
(poster) Society of Rheology annual metting, Bethesda, October 21-25, 2001. 
(vidéo) APS Division of Fluids Dynamics Meeting, San Diego, November 18-20, 2001.

" Wetting (or non wetting) of textured surfaces " (poster 650Ko )
TRI Workshop on Nanocapillarity, Princeton, June 4-6, 2001.

"Mouillage et imprégnation de surfaces texturées" (oral presentation) 
La Matière Désordonnée, Rencontres de Carry-le-Rouet, France, May 15-17, 2000.

"Fabrication de pointes" (oral presentation)
20th Rencontres de physique statistique, ESPCI, Paris, January 27-28, 2000.

"Spontaneous motion of a slug in a tube" (poster)
4th EPS Liquid Matter Conference, Grenada, Spain, July 3-7, 1999. 

"Statique du mouillage nul" (oral presentation)
19th Rencontres de physique statistique, ESPCI, Paris, January 28-29, 1999.

"Bigouttes filantes" (oral presentation) 
Les MIAMS 20 ans, Rencontres de Carry-le-Rouet, France, September 2-4, 1998.

"Free Running Double Droplets" (poster)
17th EPS Conference of the Condensed Matter Division, Grenoble, France, August 25-29, 1998.




Seminars
(since 2000)

"Capillary Origami"
LIFC, Mons-Hainaut University, December
2nd 2009,
IMPMC, Université P. et M. Curie, June 29th 2009,
MSC, Paris-Diderot University, March 30th 2009,
FAST, Université d'Orsay, March 9th 2009,
Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, February 24th 2009,
GRASP, Liège University, Belgium, 
April 21st 2008,
Physical Mathematics Seminars, MIT, April 1st 2008,
Schlumberger-Doll research center, Cambridge MA, March 20th 2008,
Applied Mechanics Colloquia, Harvard University, March 5th 2008,
LadHyX, École Polytechnique, September 13th 2007,
Laboratoire de Physique, ENS-Lyon, March 12th 2007,
LMSGC, Marne la Vallée, March 28
th 2007,
Centre Paul Pascal, Bordeaux, April 17
th 2007

"Elasto-capillarity: Gobbling dropplets and Wet hair"
Centre for Non-Linear Dynamics, Manchester, May 
9th 2007

" Du mouillage nul aux poils mouillés ",
Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, Grenoble, March 6
th 2006 ,
Varioptic, Lyon, March
7th 2006,
Laboratoire de Mécanique de Lille
, March 16th 2006 .

"Gouttes soufflées ",
PCT-ESPCI, March 28
th 2006.

"Coalescence élastocapillaire ",
PMMH-ESPCI, February
25th 2005.

" Surfaces texturées "
Colloque interfaces, INRA, October
19th 2004.

"Stretched visco-elastic liquids and gobbling droplets"
Fluid Mechanics Seminars, DAMTP, Cambridge, May 19th 2004.

" Liquides viscoélastiques étirés et jets autophages "
LPS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, February 18th ,
IRPHE, Marseille, March 12th,
ENSTA, Palaiseau, June 9th 2004.

" Surfaces texturées : de l'effet Lotus aux poils mouillés "
Laboratoire mixte CNRS/Saint-Gobain, Aubervilliers, February 3rd,
Laboratoire PMCN, Lyon, June 25th 2004.


" Pierres qui roulent et liquides étirés "

LPMDI, Marne la Vallée, France, December 20th , 2002.

"Like a Rolling Stone?",
Computation in science seminars, Chicago University, November 6th, 2002,
HML Seminars, MIT, October 29th, 2002.

"Viscoelastic Instabilities in Stretched Liquids",
Squishy Physics, Harvard University, March 27th, 2002,
Brown bag seminars, Department of Mathematics, MIT, April 5th, 2002.

"Liquides étirés",
CRPP, Bordeaux, LPMC, Nice and IMFT, Toulouse, November 2001.

"Liquid trains in a tube",
Seminars in Fluid Mechanics and Material Processing, MIT, April 6th, 2001

"Gouttes automotrices et mouillage dynamique en strates",
FAST, Orsay, France, May 10th, 2000.

 "Bigouttes filantes, films de bigouttes et bigouttes fileuses",
IRPHE, Marseille, France, March 29th, 2000,
PCT, ESPCI, Paris, March 14th, 2000.

"Trains de gouttes",
Rhodia, Lyon, France, March 7th, 2000.