Physics et Mechanics of Random Media: from Morphology to Material Properties: A tribute to Dominique Jeulin's contributions to science, research and teaching at Mines ParisTech

Dominique Jeulin has been Director of Research and Professor at Ecole des Mines de Paris, which he joined in 1986. He previously worked at IRSID, where he developed image analysis for materials of steel industry. At Ecole des Mines, he was at the head of the "Physics of Heterogeneous Media" group, with activities in three laboratories of Ecole des Mines de Paris : the Centre de Morphologie Mathmatique (Fontainebleau), the Centre de Gostatistique (Fontainebleau), and the Centre des Matriaux P.M. Fourt (Evry). His main research interests cover the theoretical prediction of physical properties of random media, fracture statistics models, homogenization of mechanical and optical properties of composite materials and of biological tissues, but also, as illustrated by some of the images in this book, probabilistic segmentation of images, random media and nanostructures, 3D image analysis... His colleagues and friends, from France and abroad, have met in Olron for a workshop in his honor. They also prepared the present book, which collects articles that are both of a scientific nature, as well as "sentimental" views on their collaboration with Dominique...