Fifty Years of Finite Freedom Mechanics

LMA, Marseille
25, 26, 27 octobre 2010

Conference in honor of Michel Jean on the occasion of his seventieth anniversary


This colloquium is organised in honor of Michel Jean on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Michel Jean began his career in the laboratory of Mechanics and Acoustics of Marseille. After having stayed a year in the University of California and another, a few years later, in the Fluid Mechanics Research Institute in Colchester, he spent ten years in the Laboratory of Mechanics and Civil Engineering of Montpellier during which he had the opportunity of many fruitfull collaborations with Jean-Jacques Moreau. He is now an emeritus researcher in the laboratory of Mechanics and Acoustics of Marseille. Among the numerous responsibilities Michel Jean has had over the years, he was especially appreciated during the five years when he was president of the ninth section of the national comitee of the C.N.R.S. An important part of Michel Jean's scientific activity concerns finite freedom mechanics, particularily when contact and friction are involved. His contributions on the subject are both theoretical and numerical. The colloquium was therefore naturally centered on this theme although a certain number of recent theoretical problems appearing in solid mechanics shall be tackled. The colloquium shall last three days during which only one hour invited lectures shall be given.


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