Académie d'Excellence "Systèmes Complexes"

Our next MECABIONIC seminar will take place on Tuesday 17th of June at 11am at the Conferences Room of the LJAD (Valrose Campus).

We will welcome Viola Vogel from ETH Zurich who will talk about :

Is there a future for mechano-pharmaceuticals?

We are delighted to announce the Summer School on “Population Dynamics: From fundamental to applied science”.

This 2-week summer school will take place in the AEC village in Grasse in the French Riviera, from Monday, June 16th till Friday, June 27th 2025.

SPONSORS

The school is sponsored by:
A) Université Côte d'Azur, in the framework of a thematic semester on the topic of “Population Dynamics”
B) CNRS as a Thematic School
 

TOPIC

This summer school is focused on models for population dynamics that aims to provide modern viewpoints on the concepts related to population dynamics (covering topics such as crowd dynamics, traffic flow, viruses, cell growth, complex fluids with bubbles or nanoparticles).

It will gather researchers from various communities to fertilize cross-disciplinary research and methods on this topic.
 

CONFIRMED INVITED LECTURERS

1. Yves Achdou (Laboratoire Jacques Louis Lions, Paris, France)

2. Julien Arino (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba, Canada)

3. Céline Casenave (Mathematics and Numerics division, INRAE Montpellier, France)

4. Maria Teresa Chiri (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen’s University, Canada)

5. Alexandra Fronville (Laboratory of Medical Information Processing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brest, France)

6. Daniele Marchisio (Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politechnico di Torino, Italy)

7. Adolfo Vazquez Quesada (Department of Fundamental Physics, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain)
 

More details on the topic of their lecture is available on the School website.

APPLICATION

To apply to this summer school, please fill the form on the following link: https://project.inria.fr/populate2025/ecole-dete/application/

before Sunday, March 30^th 2025

PRACTICAL INFORMATION, REGISTRATION, CONTACT

More details on: https://project.inria.fr/populate2025/ecole-dete/

Objectives
For the last few years, machine learning techniques have fastly emerged as a disruptive way to analyze complex systems in absence of models, on the basis of observational data. Despite their potential, the naive application to physical problems has however revealed some critical drawbacks, such as the lack of accuracy, robustness and explainability, the expensive training or the inability to intrinsically verify some established physical principles.

To overcome these limitations, the hybridization of machine learning techniques with classical scientific computing methodologies is a promising research axis.

In this context, the objective of the thematic semester Machine Learning + Simulation is to contribute to the development of these activities, by building bridges between specialists of machine learning and experts in simulation for various application fields.

Events

The thematic semester Machine Learning + Simulation at Université Côte d’Azur is mainly composed of some scientific events, related to the interaction, coupling and hybridization of machine learning techniques and simulation methodologies.

The semester will be hosting in 2026 the following three events:

• Spring workshop on “Machine learning for simulation”
• Summer school “Machine learning + simulation”
• Fall workshop on “Hybridization of machine learning and simulation”

Internships

A set of Master2 internships, whose topics are in line with the semester, will be granted in 2026 at Université Côte d’Azur.

Visits and seminars

Some professors / researchers will be invited in 2026, giving seminars on selected topics.

The POPULATE project is a thematic semester, held by Christophe HENRY, Researcher at INRIA. This project is dedicated to Population dynamics that studies the evolution in time of the characteristics of individuals in a given population. The population can be living beings (e.g. fishes, birds, insects, humans, viruses) or inorganic objects (e.g. ashes, dusts, droplets). Various characteristics can be of interest (such as the size of the population, the age of individuals, their weight, their composition).

Several events will be organised during this thematic semestrer:

• Spring conference in March 2025
• Summer school in June 2025
• Fall conference in October 2025

More details and information on the project website

MECABIONIC is a thematic scientific program on mechanobiology sponsored by the Académie Systèmes Complexes of the Université Côte d'Azur (UniCA).
MECABIONIC involves different UniCA research laboratories including LJAD, IBV, INPHYNI, IPMC and IRCAN.

The behavior, functioning and development of biological systems are controlled by the synergy of biochemical and physical cues. Mechanobiology specifically focuses on the study of mechanics in a biological context. Mechanical forces can be intrinsically generated and biochemically regulated within cells or can result from external cues resulting from the cell physical environment.

Project website