Sébastien Michel successfully defended his dissertation titled About the fracture pattern of inflated elastic brittle rings on 11.10.2024.
During the summer, Sébastien Michel (supervisor: András Sipos) was awarded first prize at the BMe Researcher Competition, as decided by the EHBDT. The abstract of the research is available
on the EHBDT website 
.
Congratulations on this outstanding achievement and we wish him all the best for his future career!
A pioneering work, involving colleagues from our department, has been published in the
PNAS Nexus journal.
The new and universal class of shapes presented in the paper is called “soft cells”. The work, co-authored by research professor Gábor Domokos and PhD student Krisztina Regős, was reported on the front cover of
Nature , the leading journal in the field of natural sciences.
According to the decision of the Board, Máté Szondi's two-focus Diploma Thesis of Excellence entitled Calculation of membrane surfaces using the unidirectional spatial Bloore equation and the investigation of the mechanical behaviour of membrane shell structures (supervisors: István Sajtos, András Sipos) was awarded a Special Prize in the Hauszmann Prize competition. The prize was awarded at the 2024 Diploma Ceremony of the BME Faculty of Architecture. Congratulations!
At the Faculty Council ceremony, Eszter Fehér received the Tutor of the Year Award. Congratulations!
During the spring of 2024, our department co-supervised two Diploma theses of Excellence.
Both students defended their thesis with distinction. Congratulations and best wishes for the professional career!
In the
Biodesign Challenge 2024 ,
an international education program involving more than 50 institutions, the entry
Shell We Dance?
by a team of students from the California College of the Arts Architecture and the University of California, mentored by Professor Gábor Domokos, was awarded the Outstanding Science Winner prize.
The editors of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, a leading journal of engineering geology, have awarded the Giovanni Barla Best Paper Award 2023 to an article
(link )
coauthored by the colleagues of our department.
The paper investigates the stability of the 360-tonne Pena di Equilibrio rocking stone and provides a new method for quantifying its stability. The first author of the paper is Balázs Ludmány, a research assistant at BME VIK Department of Control Engineering and Informatics, and the authors include Gábor Domokos and András Sipos. The prize is awarded annually by the editors of the journal to 2-3 articles published in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering that they consider outstanding.
Krisztina Regős, a second year PhD student of our department supervised by Gábor Domokos won the 2nd prize of the BMe Research Grant. The award was presented by Professor László Nyulászi, President of the EHBDT, at the "Who we are proud of - our scientific excellence 2023" university event.
A summary of Krisztina's research is available on the
EHBDT website .
Congratulations on the outstanding result!
András Sipos gave a talk about Shape evolution and geometry in nature at the MTA Tudományünnep+ science festival organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
The host of the event was Eszter Fehér. The talk in Hungarian is available here:
mta.hu/tudomanyunnep2023-felvetelek
This year 9 Undergraduate Research Papers have been supervised by our colleagues.
Our students will present these at the sessions
Digital Architecture and Structures
(from 8.30 AM in room K350) and
Morphology
(from 9.00 AM in room K222) at the Undergraduate Research Conference on November 16.
Good luck to all speakers! All interested are welcome.
“As a mathematical discipline travels far from its empirical source … there is a grave danger that the subject will develop along the line of least resistance, that the stream, so far from its source, will separate into a multitude of insignificant branches, and that the discipline will become a disorganized mass of details and complexities.” [János Neumann]
In 2023 the series of BME Applied Mathematics Days continues. The speakers this year are István Scheuring (HUN−REN Centre for Ecological Research) and Eduardo Altmann (University of Sydney).
Date and time: 6th December, 2023. 3pm
Venue: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Building Q Room QAF14.
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Congratulations to András Árpád Sipos, who receives a publication prize given by the BME for the last five years of his publications.
Link
MIT Technology Review, a journal of the leading engineering school MIT, published a detailed profile about the professor of our department, Gábor Domokos, and his outstanding research.
The article:
technologyreview.com
A study with the participation of the staff of the Department of Morphology and Geometric Modeling
was published in one of the world's most prestigious journals, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The study proposes a solution for mapping the supramolecular pattern of single-layer materials based on a geometric idea.
The lead author is Krisztina Regős, a doctoral student in our department, and the list of authors includes Gábor Domokos, a research professor of our department along with Nobel Prize-winning professor Kostya S. Novoselov and researchers from the University of Basel and Bern.
PNAS
bme.hu
Student research topics announced by the department: SRS Topics ❯
Department of Morphology and Geometric Modeling