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optional IAP course at MIT (2003), IASBS Institute, Zanjan, Iran (2008),
Ochanomizu University, Japan (2009)

Millifluidics: Capillarity and Interfacial Hydrodynamics

JM Burgers Center Course, Univ. Twente (2009)

Elastocapillarity

Super-hydrophobicity

M2 Nanochimie, Molécules, Surfaces, Université Paris 7 (2009),
option Surfaces actives et Surfaces intelligentes

Wetting surfaces (~450Mo)

Fluid mechanics (lectures from Marc Fermigier)

Exercises (with Marc Fermigier & Pascal Kurowski) : 6h

Lab teaching (with Marc Fermigier) : 135h
    experimental setups developped with Patrice Jenffer & Laurent Quartier :
            - Fluidized bed
        - Laser Doppler velocimetry (oscillating wake behind an obstacle)
          - PIV (thermal convection)
          - Hot wire anenometry
        - Wave pool (dispersion relation)
          - Tensiometry
        - Granular avalanches

Tutoring (with G.Lapeyre, M.Fermigier , P.Kurowski, L.Limat, A.Maurel, R.Godoy, C.Clanet, Y.Pesson) : 2x5h

Physical-Chemical Thermodynamics (lectures from Henri van Damme)

Tutoring (with Olivia du Roure & Anne-Laure Biance from 2003 to 2007) : 2x6h

Students supervising
2009
- Miguel Piñeirua (with Benoît Roman, since October 2008), PhD Paris 6 University: Capillary Origami and Electrowetting

- Jérémy Hure (with Benoît Roman, since January 2009), PhD Paris University: Adhesion with geometrical constraints

- Kevin Njifenju (with Marc Fermigier, since January 2007), PhD Paris 6 University: Windswept films and droplets

- Joel Marthelot (with Benoît Roman), 3rd year ESPCI: Soap film cones

- Saba Moshin (with Benoît Roman & Sunny Young), 2nd year MIT, France-MIT program: Liquid jet piercing an interface

2008
- Yuko Aoyanagi (with Dominic Vella, Benoît Roman & Ko Okomura), PhD Ochanomizu University: Delamination from soft, sticky substrates

- Filippo Chiodi (with Benoît Roman), L3 Torino University: Wet hairs

- Ken Armoogum (with Benoît Roman), L3-Phytem ENS Cachan: Capillary winding

- Guillaume Batot (with Benoît Roman), L2 ENS Ulm: Capillary wrapping

- Alejandro Bohé & David Salfati (with Benoît Roman), M2 physique théorique: Giant origamis

- Leatitia Girault & Lionel Agostini (with Benoît Roman), M2 Orsay practical session: Capillary Origami

2007
- Lingguo Du (with Benoît Roman), M1 Tongjin University (Shanghai) / ESPCI : Coalescing jets

- Ariane Calvar (avec Aline Delbos & Benoît Roman), L3-magistère Paris 7 : Elastocapillary buckling of rings

- Chloé Gerin (avec Benoît Roman), L3-magistère Paris 7 : Antifractures

- Julien Pizzinat (avec Benoît Roman & Marc Fermigier), L1 Paris 6 : Windswept droplets

- Fabien Closa (avec Benoît Roman), 3rd year ESPCI : Capillary Origami

- Aline Delbos (avec Benoît Roman), M2 recherche : Elastocapillary buckling at the surface of water

2006
- Lionel Doppler (with Charlotte Py & Benoît Roman), L3-Phytem ENS Cachan : Capillary Origami

- Hélène Berthet (with Marc Fermigier), 3rd year ESPCI : Fibrin injection device

- Gabriel Amselem (with Marc Fermigier), M2 recherche : Windswept dropplets

- Li Hua Luu (with Benoît Roman), 3rd year ESPCI : Capillary aggregation

- Priscilla Poulay Ramen & Vithiya Vairon (with Benoît Roman), L3 Paris 6 : Coalescing jets

2005
- Renaud Bastien (with Benoît Roman), magistère P7 : Wet fibers

- Jérôme Guilet (with Benoît Roman), licence ENS Ulm : Coalescing jets

- François Besselièvre (with Marc Fermigier), 3rd year ESPCI : Windswept dropplets

- Benoît de Gaudemaris (with Benoît Roman), 3rd year ESPCI : Piercing an interface with an elastic rod

2004
- Sébastien Réau (with Benoît Roman), licence Phytem ENS Cachan : Free running humps

- Suraj Deshmukh (with Marc Fermigier), PhD at MIT (France-MIT exchange program with Gareth McKinley) : Magnetic filaments

- Sophie Chuun (with Marc Fermigier), 3rd year ESPCI , et Angelina Aessopos, master MIT (France-MIT excahnge program with Peko Hosoi) : Spreading flowers

- Loïc Moulin (with Benoît Roman), 3rd year ESPCI : Elatocapillary coalescence in wet hair

Popularizing work

Science festival at the PMMH lab (every year since 2003)
          - ferrofluids
        - non-wetting
        - self propeling systems
        - ring bubbles
          - tearing sheets

Exhibition one researcher one experiment at the Palais de la Découverte (science museum) with Daniel Beysens (3 afternoons, fall 2003)

"Des gouttes pointues?", (in French) inTextes et Documents pour la Classe, 234 (2007)

"Origami capillaire" professional course Université Paris 6 (resp. Françoise Brochard), May 13^th 2008

Programme national de pilotage (Ministère de l'Enseignement, Académie des Sciences), "Matière et Matériaux" with Etienne Guyon, May 14^th 2008

"Poils mouillés et Origami capillaire" with Benoît Roman, Experimental conference at the Espace des Sciences of ESPCI, February 9^th 2009,
Lycée Faidherbe, Lille, March 11^th 2009,
Lycée Chateaubriand, Rennes, November 26^th 2009