Plenary Debate #2 1 Hour 15 Minutes
7:45 am – 9:00 am (CDT), UTC -5
Darcy’s law is meaningless for flow within individual pores.
Moderator: Chloé Arson
Catherine O’Sullivan
“For” the Arguement
Catherine O’Sullivan is a Professor in Particulate Soil Mechanics at Imperial College London. Originally from Ireland, she obtained her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2002. Since arriving at Imperial College in 2004 she has continued to develop research that examines soil behaviour focussing on the particulate scale.
Benoît Coasne
“Against” the Argument
Benoit Coasne obtained his PhD in Physics on capillary condensation in nanoporous materials (Paris, 2003). Then, he worked from 2003 to 2005 as a postdoc with Prof. Keith Gubbins on freezing of nanoconfined systems (Raleigh, NC, USA). Benoit Coasne was then appointed CNRS researcher in Montpellier (2005) and promoted CNRS Research Director (2015). During a 3 year visiting stay, he was leading fundamental research on multiscale modeling of adsorption and transport in the CNRS/MIT lab at MIT in Boston (2012/15). He is currently affiliated CNRS Research Director in the Interdisciplinary Physics Lab in Grenoble, France. He is also currently appointed Senior Scientist Councelor for Veolia Water Technologies. Benoit Coasne was Cofounder and first President of the French Adsorption Society.