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Patrick Mayor
Patrick Mayor
Ph.D. student
Institut de Physique de la Matière Complexe
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 693 3393
Fax +41 21 693 4470
Academic history
| 2001 - 2005 | Ph.D. thesis
on the topic « Dynamics of vibration-fluidized granular matter », under
the supervision of Dr. G. D'Anna, at the Institute of Physics of
Complex Matter, EPFL, Lausanne
| | 2000 - 2001 | Diploma work
on the topic « Diamagnetism in a gas of charged bosons », under the
supervision of Prof. Ph.-A. Martin, at the Institute of Theoretical
Physics, EPFL | | 1996 - 2000 | Physics studies at the EPFL |
Publications
| [1] | G. D'Anna, P. Mayor, G. Gremaud, A. Barrat, V. Loreto
Extreme events-driven glassy behaviour in granular media
Europhysics Letters, 61 (2003) 60
| | [2] | P. Mayor, G. D'Anna, G. Gremaud
Jamming in weakly perturbed granular media
Materials Science and Engineering A, 370 (2004) 307 | | [3] | G. D'Anna, P. Mayor
Hierarchically related processes and macroscopic emergence of fluctuations in weakly perturbed granular media
Physica A, 325 (2003) 267 | | [4] | G. D'Anna, P. Mayor, A. Barrat, V. Loreto, F. Nori
Observing brownian motion in vibration-fluidized granular matter
Nature, 424 (2003) 909 | | [5] | G. D'Anna, P. Mayor
An oscillator in the granular matter
In « Unifying concepts in granular media and glasses », eds A.
Coniglio, A. Fierro, H.J. Herrmann, M. Nicodemi, Elsevier, 2004 | | [6] | P. Mayor, G. D'Anna, A. Barrat, V. Loreto
Observing Brownian motion and measuring temperatures in vibration-fluidized granular matter
New Journal of Physics, 7 (2005) 28, in « Focus on Brownian motion and
diffusion in the 21st century », part of the Celebratory Focus Issues
edited for the World year of physics 2005 | | [7] | A. Baldassarri, A. Barrat, G. D'Anna, V. Loreto, P. Mayor, A. Puglisi
What is the temperature of a granular medium ?
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 17 (2005) S2405, part of a special issue on « Granular media » |
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Scientific outreach (results featured in the news)
Conferences
| September 2005 | 14th International Conference on Internal Friction and Mechanical Spectroscopy (ICIFMS 14)
Kyoto, Japan
Invited speaker, presentation entitled « Brownian motion and temperature in shaken granular materials » | | January 2005 | Thematic meeting « Solid-Fluid transition », part of the « Session on Granular Matter »
Centre Emile Borel, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France | | June 2004 | XIX Sitges conference « Jamming, yielding, and irreversible deformation in condensed matter »
Sitges, Barcelona, Spain
Invited speaker, presentation entitled « Observing the Brownian motion in vibration-fluidized granular matter » | | June 2004 | Workshop « Experimentalist-Modelling Interactions : New Trends on Modeling Granular Flows »
CECAM, Lyon, France
Oral presentation entitled « Observing the Brownian motion in vibration-fluidized granular matter »
| | February 2004 | Workshop « Wet Granular Material in Movement »
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Poster presentation entitled « Dynamics of vibro-fluidized granular matter : from the glassy to the fluid behavior » | | March 2003 | Meeting of the Swiss Physical Society
Basel, Switzerland
Poster presentations entitled « Granular thermal bath : measuring the
viscosity and temperature of vibro-fluidized granular media » and «
Ratchet system in vibro-fluidized granular matter » | | December 2002 | Materials Research Society Fall Meeting
Boston, USA
Poster
presentations entitled « Glassy behavior of weakly perturbed granular
media » and « Granular thermal bath : measuring the viscosity and
temperature of vibro-fluidized granular media » | | July 2002 | NATO Workshop « Stochastic Systems : from randomness to complexity »
Erice, Italy
Poster presentation entitled « Dynamics of perturbed granular media : from the glassy to the fluid behavior » | | July 2002 | 13th International Conference on Internal Friction and Ultrasonic Attenuation in Solids (ICIFUAS 13)
Bilbao, Spain
Poster presentation entitled « Dynamics of perturbed granular media : from the glassy to the fluid behavior » | | February 2002 | Meeting of the Swiss Physical Society
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Oral presentation entitled « Jamming in weakly perturbed granular media » |
Teaching activities at EPFL
| 2004 - 2005 | Assistant for the lecture « Advanced statistical physics » (phase transitions, quantum fluids)
Prof. Ph.-A. Martin
| | 2003 - 2004 | Assistant for the lecture « Statistical physics » (general theory, statistical ensembles, second quantization, linear response theory)
Prof. Ph.-A. Martin
| | 2001 - 2003 | Assistant for the lecture « General Mechanics »
Prof. W. Benoit
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| Assistant for the lecture « Thermodynamics »
Dr. G. D'Anna |
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