→ Raúl Cruz gives the talk "Rheology of complex granular flows" as Keynote speaker at the DEM10 congress . Japan, July 2025.

→ From July 1 to 31, Lucía Alegre, a student at the University of Zaragoza, is doing her summer internship with us.

→ Ángel Garcimartín, Diego Maza, Iker Zuriguel, Iñaki Echeverría, Raúl Cruz, Sara Levay, Marta Grasa, Axel Katona and Tomás de Navascués participate in FisEs'25. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. June 2025.

→ From May 1 to July 14 Chris Van Ham, Master's Degree student at the Eindhoven University of Technology, is collaborating with Iñaki Echeverría.

→ From April 24 to May 10 we are visited by Alexandre Nicolas from the University of Lyon. Dr. Nicolas will give the seminar graduate "Anticipation in pedestrian dynamics (and other human peculiarities)".

→ Sergio Ardanza-Trevijano, Roberto Arévalo, Sahily Estradé, Diego Maza and Iker Zuriguel publish "Three-dimensional granular deposits characterized by persistent homology" in Physical Review E.

→ Diego Maza together with Muhammad Ahmed Hanif and Devaraj van der Meer publish the article "Effect of particle shape on the discharge from a mono-layer hopper", in Granular Matter. This is the result of Muhammad's stay in our laboratory in the CALIPER framework .

→ Sara Levay gives the lecture "Collective behavior of photoactive macroscopic particles" at the APS Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, USA.

→ Iker Zuriguel gives the invited lecture "Collective behavior of photoactive macroscopic particles", at the DPG Spring Meeting Conference in Regensburg, Germany. March 2025.

→ The article "Granular convection in a monolayer induced by asymmetric horizontal oscillations", by A.J. Batista-Leyva, D. Hernández-Delfin, Karol Asencio, R.C. Hidalgo, D. Maza, is published in Physica A. This work was born with the stay of Alfo Batista in our laboratory more than 3 years ago.

→ Diego Maza and Martín Maza participate in the 3rd meeting of the Spanish Chapter of the Complex Systems Society (CS3). 19-21 February 2025, Madrid, Spain. Martín Maza presented "Frictional oscillations for tunable particle driving".

→ Iker Zuriguel, together with François Gu, Benjamin Guiselin, Nicolas Bain, and Denis Bartolo publish the article "Emergence of collective oscillations in massive human crowds" in Nature. This work started in 2019 and will continue in the coming years thanks to the "Sanfermín CrowLab" agreement with the Pamplona City Council.

→ We visit María Victoria Ferreyra, from Luis Pugnaloni's group , to work on ...

→ Diego Maza presents the paper Granular collective dynamics driven by friction at Dynamics Days Latin America and the Caribbean (DDAYS LAC 2024). 9-13 December 2024, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

→ At the School of Engineering and Sciences of the Universidad de la Frontera (Chile) Diego Maza gives the seminar "Granular media and statistical mechanics. There is still a lot to do".

→ At 7th Southern Workshop on Granular Materials. December 2-5, 2024, Puerto Varas, Chile, Raul Cruz presents "Acting forcé on objects immersed in static or flowing granular materials" and Diego Maza, "Granular collective dynamics driven by friction".

→ Iker Zuriguel gives the plenary lecture titled "Stronger is slower in the bottleneck flow of macroscopic active matter" at Traffic and Granular Flow 2024. December 2-5, 2024, Lyon, France.

→ Iñaki Echeverría, Sara Levay and Ángel Garcimartín participate in Traffic and Granular Flow 2024. December 2-5, 2024, Lyon, France. Ángel Garcimartín presents the communication "Robot swarms as a model for traffic and active matter" and Sara Levay, the one entitled "Collective behavior of macroscopic light-driven active particles".

→ Iker Zuriguel, Raúl Cruz and Sara Levay participate in Conference '2nd Spanish Soft Matter 1 1/2 Day'. November 3-6, 2024, Benasque, Spain. Raúl Cruz will give the talk "Effect of Particle Shape on the Flow of an Hourglass" and Sara Levay will give the talk "Cluster formation in a system of photoactive macroscopic particles".

→ Martín Maza and Diego Maza publish "Efficient transport controlled by biharmonic frictional driving" in Physical Review Letters.