Gabbie Chang (a bachelor graduate from Caltech) has joined our group as a visiting researcher (until end of September). She is hosted by SIGMA Lab and Prof. Samuel Poincloux (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan).

Taiki's paper: Twist deformation of physical trefoil knots is published in Extreme Mechanics Letters! Congratulations!

Takara's paper: Snap and Jump: How Elastic Shells Pop Out is published in Advanced Robotics Research! Congratulations!

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Prof. Sano is on parental leave. Although our lab is open every day as usual, Prof. Sano will come back to work on 1st July.

Graduation ceremony! Bon voyage, everyone!

Yukiho Matsumoto received the best presentation award for his graduation research! Congrats!

Submission of new paper on twisted trefoil knots !

Kotone's paper: Curling morphology of knitted fabrics: Structure and Mechanics is published in Extreme Mechanics Letters! Congratulations!

Submission of new papers: Jumping phenomena of shells and knitted fabrics!

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Lab trip to Futtsu!

Research presentation in JPS annual meeting (Hokkaido U). Oral presentation by Abe, Shibuya, Nomura, Goto and Tajiri. Poster presentation by Ebine. Prof. Sano organized the symposium: Physics of Soft Robotic Matter.

Jose Bico (ESPCI, France), Yoshiyuki Tagawa (TUAT, Japan) visit our group．

Research presentation in 摩擦学の新展開(YITP, Kyoto)．Poster presentation by Nomura, Ebine, Goto, and Yamakawa. Prof. Sano gave an invited talk.

Research presentation in ICTAM 2024 (Daegu, Korea)．Oral presentation by Abe, Nomura, and Tajiri. Poster presentation by Shibuya. Prof. Sano gave an ivited talk.

Corentin Coulais, Kostas Danas, Douglas Holmes, Francesco Dal Corso visited our lab．

We (Abe, Shibuya, Nomura, Tajiri, Goto) presented posters at IUTAM Soft Robotics． Prof. Sano was an invited speaker.

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Graduation ceremony! Bon voyage, everyone!

Kotone Tajiri received the best presentation award for her graduation research! Congrats!

We (Abe, Shibuya, Nomura, Sano) joined the APS March meeting (Minneapolis)．

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We (Abe,Sakai,Sekiya,Sano) participated in IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear dynamics (Tsukuba), JPS meeting (Tohoku Univ.), and M&M symposium (Tsukuba Univ.).

Lab trip to Okutama!

New paper about randomly stacked shells is out!

Prof. Sano's lecture (Mechanics of flexible materials and structural design) starts in the spring semester.

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Graduation ceremony! Bon voyage, everyone!

Kosei Kataoka received the best presentation award for his graduation research! Congrats!

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Welcome new members!

Prof. Sano is nominated for FOREST researcher at Japan Science and Technology Agency!

Graduation ceremony! Bon voyage, everyone!

Naoki Sekiya recieved the best presentation award for his graduation research! Congrats!

Prof. Sano is nominated as Emerging Talents 2021, Journal of Physics A.

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Prof. Sano gave a public talk at InteraxionPodcast Ep.20 (in Japanese).

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