Program

Graphyz3 will start from November 8 evening before dinner time, and will end November 13 after lunch time. Plan to arrive at CIRM on Sunday 8 before 7pm!
Accommodation and meals will all be on-site, inside the exceptional site of the CIRM.  See here for practical information on how to access the event, and here for practical information regarding accommodation.

Schedule at a glance

Detailed schedule

Arrival – Sunday 8 nov 2026

  • 19h00 : Welcome and room key retrieval
  • 19h30 – 21h30: Dinner Buffet (not accessible after 21h00)

First Day – Monday 9 nov 2026

  • 09h00 – 09h30: Introduction, Basile Audoly (CNRS – École Polytechnique), Florence Bertails-Descoubes (Inria – LJK),  Benoît Roman (PMMH) & Mélina Skouras (Inria – LJK)
  • 9h30 – 10h30: Keynote Alexey Stomakhin – Weta Digital (Chair: Florence Bertails-Descoubes)
  • 10h30 – 11h. Coffee break
  • 11h – 12h30. Class on Homogenization I (1/2), Basile Audoly & Jean-Jaques Marigo – LMS, École Polytechnique (Chair: Benoît Roman)
  • 12h30 – 14h. Lunch
  • 14h – 16h. FREE TIME
  • 16h – 17h30. Class on Homogenization I (2/2), Basile Audoly & Jean-Jaques Marigo – LMS, École Polytechnique
  • 17h30 – 18h. Coffee break
  • 18h – 18h50. Contributed Talks Session 1: NUMERICAL SIMULATION (Session Chair: Mélina Skouras)
    • Physics-inspired procedural texturing of extremely deformable surfaces – Chris Wojtan (ISTA)
    • TIEing it all together—Continuous geometry in computational elasticity – Doron Grossman (Living Materials)
    • Topology- and geometry-exact discretizations for fluid structure interactions – Jonathan Panuelos (University of Toronto)
    • The beauty and power of Green’s functions – Jiong Chen (Inria Paris)
    • The peculiar demands of the machine: notation for physical and spatial computation – Christopher Horvath (Nvidia)
  • 19h30: Dinner

Second Day – Tuesday 10 nov 2026

  • 08h45 – 10h15. Class on Homogenization II (1/2), Basile Audoly & Jean-Jaques Marigo (LMS, École Polytechnique)
  • 10h15 – 10h45. Coffee break
  • 10h45 – 11h45. Keynote in Duet: Shells and Folds, Dominic Vella – Oxford & Huamin Wang – Style3D (Chair: Stephanie Hahmann)
  • 11h45 – 12h25. Contributed Talks Session 2: SHELLS, CLOTH &TEXTILES (Session Chair: Claire Lestringant)
    • Simulating dynamic wrinkles on coarsely meshed cloth – Rahul Narain (IIT Dehli)
    • Memory storage and computation in model woven textile – Frédéric Léchenault (CNRS)
    • Yarn-level simulation of the mesoscale self-folding behavior of weft-knitted textiles – David Breen (Drexel University)
    • Better bending: analysis, construction and verification of discrete bending models for Kirchhoff-Love shells – Etienne Vouga (University of Austin)
  • 12h30 – 14h. Lunch
  • 14h – 16h. FREE TIME
  • 16h – 17h30. Class on Homogenization II (2/2), Basile Audoly & Jean-Jaques Marigo (LMS, École Polytechnique)
  • 17h30 – 18h. Coffee break
  • 18h – 19h. Contributed Talks Session 3: COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN (Session Chair: David Levin)
    • Bifurcation-aware actuation optimization for multistable elastic structures – Liliane-Joy Dandy (EPFL)
    • Spin-it faster: quadrics solve all topology optimization problems that depend only on mass moments – Christian Hafner (ISTA)
    • Realistic material deformation simulations using automatic differentiation – Lode Vermeulen (University of Amsterdam)
    • Multi-material 4D printing of pre-programmed 3D microstructures – Alexandre Avaro (École Polytechnique)
    • Modeling, simulating, and exploring the shape space of elastic rod-sheet hybrid system – Junyu Liu (EPFL)
    • Towards differentiable interactive mechanical simulation for control and learning in soft-robotics – Hugo Talbot (Inria)
  • 19h30: Dinner

Third Day – Wednesday 11 nov 2026

  • 08h45 – 10h15. Class on Homogenization III (1/2), Basile Audoly & Jean-Jaques Marigo (LMS, École Polytechnique)
  • 10h15 – 10h45. Coffee break
  • 10h45 – 11h45. Keynote in Duet: Programmable Materials, Pierre-Thomas Brun (KU Leuven) & Emily Whiting (Boston University)
  • 11h45 – 12h25. Contributed Talks Session 4: KIRIGAMIS AND ORIGAMIS (Session Chair: Arthur Lebée)

    • Creating pattern using Turtletoy plateform – Joo-Won Hong (IUSTI)
    • K-apillary-gami : capillary forces in cut elastic sheets – Tom Marzin (Université Paris Saclay)
    • Liquid crystal elastomer kirigami – Irina Malina Strugaru (ISTA)
    • A continuum geometric approach for inverse design of origami structures – Alon Sardas (University of Toronto)
  • 12h30 – 14h. Lunch
  • 14h – 18h. FREE TIME
  • 18h – 19h30. Class on Homogenization III (2/2), Basile Audoly & Jean-Jaques Marigo (LMS, École Polytechnique)
  • 19h30: Dinner

Fourth Day – Thursday 12 nov 2026

  • 08h45 – 10h15. Class on Homogenization IV, Basile Audoly & Jean-Jaques Marigo (LMS, École Polytechnique)
  • 10h15 – 10h45. Coffee break
  • 10h45 – 11h45. Keynote in Duet: Sound from Friction, Soizic Terrien – LAUM) & Timothy Langlois – Adobe (Chair: Emily Whiting)
  • 11h45 – 12h25. Contributed Talks Session 5: RODS (Session Chair: Eitan Grinspun)
    • Mechanics of surgical knots – Javier Sabater Gazulla (EPFL)
    • Cable-actuated ribbon and pop-up ring – Jiayu Wang (Liphy)
    • Snapping in elastic rods: newer mechanisms and predictions – Chakri Dhanakoti (University of Trento)
    • Biological rope coiling: universal mechanics for the shape of poo – Mehdi Habibi (Wageningen University)
  • 12h30 – 14h. Lunch
  • 14h – 16h. FREE TIME
  • 16h – 17h30. Class on Collective Media I, Bertrand Maury – Université Paris Sud (Chair: Olivier Pouliquen)
  • 17h30 – 18h. Coffee break
  • 18h – 19h10. Contributed Talks Session 6: CONTACT MECHANICS AND GRANULAR MATERIALS (Session Chair: Anaïs Abramian)
    • Compaction of sheets under confinement: large deformations, contacts and friction – Stéphanie Deboeuf (Institut d’Alembert)
    • The physics of graphite-pencil drawing – Vincent Bertin (NPHYNI, Université Côte d’Azur)
    • A new energy-based formulation of Coulomb’s friction law – Manon Thbaut (ETH Zürich)
    • Rolling instabilities of closed elastic ribbons – Sergio Murillo-Garcia (Inria Grenoble)
    • Numerical homogenization of sand from rigid-body simulations – Yi-Lu Chen (ISTA)
    • Predicting fractures in cohesive granular materials – Claire Lestringant (Institut d’Alembert)
    • The configurational element method for nonconvex granular medias – Eitan Grinspun (University of Toronto)
  • 19h30: Dinner

Last Day – Friday 13 nov 2026

  • 08h45 – 10h15. Class on Collective Media II, Bertrand Maury (Université Paris Sud)
  • 10h15 – 10h45. Coffee break
  • 10h45 – 11h45. Keynote in Duet: Architected Materials, Kostas Danas – LMS and Ecole Polytechnique & Jonas Martinez – Inria Nancy (Chair: TBA)
  • 11h45 – 12h20. Contributed Talks Session 7: INFLATABLES (Session Chair: Samara Ren)
    • Programming developable surfaces using multilayer inflatables – Nathan Vani (University of Amsterdam) & Ofir Mirkin (Liphy, Inria)
    • Designing inflatable shells using unstructured meshes – Arthur Lebée (Laboratoire Navier, ENPC)
    • Deflatables: Shape morphing 3D printed structures using vacuum – Camille Shreck (Inria Nancy)
  • 12h30 – 14h. Lunch
  • END OF THE EVENT

Details on speakers

Introductory keynote:

Alexey Stomakhin (Weta FX)

Duet keynotes:

Classes:

Contributed Talks:

When registering, participants will have the opportunity to submit a short abstract for an oral presentation (around 10-15 minutes per presentation). The format of presentation is free (and duet presentations are welcome). The topic should be at the interface between Graphics and Physics/Mechanics.