AH70 – A Scientific Symposium in Honor of the 70th Birthday of Professor Alex Hansen

Recognizing more than 45 years of scientific research and science leadership, the friends and colleagues of Professor Alex Hansen are organizing a two-day Scientific Symposium in his honor.

The Symposium will be held on March 19-20, 2026, at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, and focus on forefront research topics in the field of statistical physics. The event will open at 9:00 on March 19, featuring two full days of talks by renowned scientists.

HANSEN’S LEGACY

Alex Hansen has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, since 1994. Since 2017, he has served as Director of PoreLab – the Porous Media Laboratory, a Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway. PoreLab operates jointly between NTNU and the University of Oslo (porelab.no).

In 2024, Professor Hansen was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant (AGIPORE) from the European Research Council, dedicated to addressing the scaling-up problem in immiscible two-phase flow in porous media.

His research lies at the intersection of statistical mechanics and fluid mechanics.

Professor Hansen is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, and the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. He was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. h.c.) by the University of Rennes 1 in 2009, where he also completed his habilitation thesis in 1993.

He has chaired the Commission on Computational Physics and currently serves as Vice President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). Professor Hansen earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 1986.

Page 46 of my lecture notes from Kenneth G. Wilson’s course on the renormalization group given at Cornell in the fall of 1982. The lecture is dated October 1, 1982, which was less than ten days before the Swedish Academy announced that he had won the Nobel prize in physics for the renormalization group. – Alex Hansen

SYMPOSIUM VENUE

The Symposium will be held in the Amphithéatre Charles Hermite, Bâtiment Borel, Rez-de-chaussée (first floor for non-French people), at the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP), Sorbonne University, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris, France.

Close to the Panthéon and the Jardin du Luxembourg, the IHP is located in the heart of the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The closest public transportation is the RER B (station Luxembourg) or the Métro Line 7 (station Place Monge)

For questions and concerns regarding the venue, contact local organizer: Marcel Filoche, marcel.filoche@espci.psl.eu

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

REGISTRATION

Oral contributions to the Symposium is by invitation only.
Researchers who are interested in attending are welcome to contact Marie-Laure Olivier at marie-laure.olivier@ntnu.no for more information.

SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order)

  • Lucilla de Arcangelis, Università degli Studi della Campania, Italy
  • Saman Aryana, University of Wyoming, USA
  • Harold Auradou, FAST, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, France
  • Carl Fredrik Berg, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
  • Steffen Berg, Shell Global Solutions International BV, The Netherlands and PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
  • Paolo Botticini, University of Brescia, Italy
  • Dag Werner Breiby, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
  • Marcel Filoche, Langevin Institute, ESPCI, France
  • Eirik G. Flekkøy, PoreLab, University of Oslo, Norway
  • Alex Hansen, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
  • Hans Herrmann, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil, and ESPCI, France
  • Mogens Høgh Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Werner Krauth, Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
  • Ferenc Kun, University of Debrecen, Hungary
  • Federico Lanza, PoreLab, University of Oslo, Norway
  • Gaute Linga, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
  • Joachim Mathiesen, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
  • Marcel Moura, PoreLab, University of Oslo, Norway
  • Knut Jørgen Måløy, PoreLab, University of Oslo, Norway
  • Marie-Laure Olivier, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
  • Håkon Pedersen, SINTEF, Norway
  • Davide Picchi, University of Brescia, Italy
  • Finn Ravndal, University of Oslo, Norway
  • Alberto Rosso, LPTMS, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, France
  • Subhadeep Roy, BITS Pilani, India
  • Sitangshu B. Santra, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
  • Jean Schmittbuhl, University of Strasbourg, France
  • Santanu Sinha, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
  • Jose Soares Andrade Jr., Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
  • Sauro Succi, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy and PoreLab, NTNU, Norway
  • Laurent Talon, FAST, CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, France
  • Renaud Toussaint, University of Strasbourg, France
  • Damien Vandembroucq, ESPCI, France
  • Jean Vannimenus, Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
  • Øivind Wilhelmsen, PoreLab, NTNU, Norway

SYMPOSIUM AGENDA … is coming soon

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