Droplets 2025 Proceedings & Programme
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Session Overview |
Date: Wednesday, 02/July/2025 | |||
8:00am - 8:45am |
Plenary Speech by Suzie Protière Location: Room 604 Freezing water and hydrogel drops |
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8:45am - 9:30am |
Plenary Speech by Kripa K. Varanasi Location: Room 604 Innovations at Interfaces: Energy & Sustainability to Biomedical Technologies |
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9:30am - 10:15am |
Poster Pitches Session 2 Location: Room 604 |
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10:15am - 10:45am |
Coffee Break Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) |
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10:45am - 11:15am |
Keynote Speech by Tadd Truscott Location: Room 604 Extremely Large Droplet Formation and Breakup |
Keynote Speech by Burak Eral Location: Room 304 Non-photochemical laser induced nucleation: Transient thermocavition bubbles triggered by light for controlling crystallization from solution |
Keynote Speech by Maja Vuckovac Location: Room 204 Wetting dynamics on stochastic superhydrophobic surfaces |
11:15am - 12:15pm |
Oral Session 7 Location: Room 604 Capillary Actuation and Tunable Drop Dynamics in a Helical Geometry Mechanics Division, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway 11:30am - 11:45am Droplet Impact Onto Superhydrophobic Substrates Under High Pressure Chair of Thermodynamics, Technology University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany 11:45am - 12:00pm Dynamics of Fiber Motion in Impacting Fiber-Laden Droplets TU Darmstadt, Germany 12:00pm - 12:15pm Unifying Theory Of Scaling In Drop Impact: Forces And Maximum Spreading Diameter University of Twente, Netherlands, The |
Oral Session 8 Location: Room 304 The Peculiar Shape of Air Bubbles Trapped in Ice 1: PMMH, CNRS, ESPCI Paris, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Cité, F-75005, Paris, France; 2: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA; 3: Physics of Fluids Group and Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics, Department of Science and Technology, J.M. Burgers Center for Fluid Dynamics, and MESA+ Institute, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; 4: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany; 5: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA 11:30am - 11:45am Engineering Porosity: Challenges and Solutions in Freeze-Drying Colloidal Suspensions Nestlé Product Technology Centre Coffee, Switzerland 11:45am - 12:00pm Water Spreading on Ice: Water Wets Ice Partially Only! 1: LadHyX, Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique, CNRS, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, 91120, France; 2: Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC), Université Paris Cité, CNRS, UMR 7057, Paris, 75013, France; 3: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Física, IFIBA, CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, 1428, Argentina 12:00pm - 12:15pm Repeated Drop Impact on a Cold Substrate: the Case of Ice Stalagmites LadHyX, UMR7646 du CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, France |
Oral Session 9 Location: Room 204 Dynamic Droplet Friction on Liquid-like Surfaces 1: The University of Edinburgh; 2: University of Birmingham 11:30am - 11:45am Molecular Origin Of Slippery Behavior In Tethered Liquid Layers 1: School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Australia; 2: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Universita` di Roma, Italy 11:45am - 12:00pm Energy Dissipation of a Contact Line Moving on a Nanotopographical Defect Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), France 12:00pm - 12:15pm Ultra-Early Depinning of a Three-Phase Contact Line with a Precursor Film: Insights from Coherence Scanning Interferometry Kyushu University, Japan |
12:15pm - 1:45pm |
Lunch Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) |
Poster Session 2 Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) +R.52 + R.53 Freezing of Gas Bubbles in a Liquid 1: Institut lumière matière (ILM), UMR5306 Université Lyon 1-CNRS, Université de Lyon 69622 Villeurbanne, France; 2: Sciences et Ingénierie de la Matière Molle (SIMM), ESCPI Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris 75005, France Effect of Single Surfactants and their Mixtures on Droplet Coalescence 1: Department of Chemical Engineering, UCL, Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7JE, UK.; 2: Innospec Ltd. Oil Sites Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, CH65 4EY, UK.; 3: Department of Chemical Engineering, UCL, Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7JE, UK. Vertical Impact of a Water Jet on a Hot Plate: From a Growing Drop to Spray Formation 1: IUSTI – Aix-Marseille Université – CNRS UMR 7343 – 5 rue Enrico Fermi – 13013 Marseille; 2: Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Univ. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, UMR 8520 – IEMN – Institut d’Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, F-59000 Lille, France Capillary-mediated Deformation Upon Laser-droplet Interaction at Low-Weber Numbers 1: ARCNL, Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography, Science Park 106, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2: Department of Physics and Astronomy and LaserLab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 3: Van der Waals–Zeeman Institute, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, 1098XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands Spontaneously Charged Water Drops Induce Corrosion Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany Drying of a Confined 2D Droplet Using Interferometry: Investigating Drying Kinetics and Mass Transport in Complex Fluids 1: Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, CNRS, LFCR UMR5150, 64600 Anglet, France; 2: Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, Syensqo, LOF UMR5258, 33608 Pessac, France Optical Cavity Properties of Colliding Droplets Gakushuin University, Japan Active Bacterial Baths In Droplets 1: Departamento de Física, FCFM, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.; 2: Laboratoire PMMH, UMR 7636 CNRS-ESPCI-Sorbonne, PSL Research University, Sorbonne Université-Université de Paris, 7-9 quai Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris, France.; 3: Laboratoire Gulliver, UMR 7083 CNRS, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, 75005 Paris, France.; 4: Laboratoire Softmat, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UMR 5623, Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, 31062, Toulouse, France.; 5: Institut Universitaire de France, France. Investigating Advancing Contact Lines For Microdroplets On Circular Micropillared Surfaces The University of Edinburgh Pattern Control In Single Hole Lifted Hele-Shaw Cells Northumbria University, United Kingdom Energy Dissipation Mechanisms During Droplet Impact on Superhydrophobic Surfaces: A Numerical Analysis 1: Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, Tetbury Hill, Malmesbury SN16 0RP, UK; 2: Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UK; 3: Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK Building Towers Using Water Droplets Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland Capillary Droplets for In-Situ, Time Resolved, and Non-Intrusive Tensiometry 1: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; 2: J. M. Burgers Centre Research School for Fluid Mechanics, The Netherlands Revisiting The Partial Wetting Problem To Account For Large Bond Numbers 1: Aix-Marseille University, IUSTI UMR CNRS 7343, Marseille, France; 2: Aix-Marseille University, Centrale Méditerranée, LMA UMR CNRS 7031, Marseille, France Drop Impact Onto Moving Pools: Bouncing into a New Dimension 1: Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, United Kingdom; 2: School of Engineering, Brown University, United States of America Silicone Nanofilament Coated Membranes for Membrane Distillation Department of Physics at Interfaces. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. Ackermannweg 10, Mainz, 55128 Germany. Pinned Volatile Pure Sessile Droplet Simulations Inspired By Microgravity Experiments 1: Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; 2: Université de Liège, Belgium; 3: University of Pisa, Italy Spontaneous Electrowetting and Surface Charging by Sliding Drops 1: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany; 2: Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; 3: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India; 4: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati, India Interfacial Instability Driven Self-division of Aqueous Droplets 1: Microfluidics Innovation Center, France; 2: Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Italy Levitating Droplet on a Moving Surface: Measurement and Scaling of the Air Film Thickness 1: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan; 2: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, France Oscillations Induced in Droplets by Influence of Vapor Layers 1: The Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Magurele, Romania; 2: National Institute for Laser, Plasma & Radiation Physics, Magurele, Romania Swimming Dynamics of a Self-propelled Deformable Active Droplet 1: Physics of Fluids, University of Twente, Drienerlolaan 5, Enschede, 7522NB, the Netherlands; 2: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, University of Roma ‘Tor Vergata’, Via del Politecnico 1, Roma, 00133, Italy; 3: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Am Fassberg 17, Göttingen, 37077, Germany Droplet Dynamics In Both Limits Of Low And High Soluble Surfactants In a Hele-Shaw Cell 1: Institut de physique de Rennes, Rennes, France; 2: Laboratory of Energies & Theoritical and Applied Mechanics, Nancy, France Maximum Droplet Spreading After Impact on Teng Surface for Maximum Energy Generation Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,Hauz Khas,New Delhi,India Aerophilic Debubbling MIT, United States of America Droplet-Based Microfluidics for Microplastics Pollution Research 1: National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR), Romania; 2: Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics ELI-NP, "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Romania; 3: Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), University of Bucharest, Romania; 4: Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania Ground State of an Armored Liquid Bridge Under Shear 1: SMAT-C, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago Chile; 2: Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8520-IEMN, F-59000 Lille, France; 3: Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, F-38000 Grenoble, France; 4: Université Gustave Eiffel, Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, CNRS, Laboratoire Navier, F-77454 Marne-la-Vallée, France Microfluidic Emulsion For Giant Unilamellar Vesicle Synthesis ULB, Belgium Friction of Polymeric Droplets Sliding Van der Waals–Zeeman Institute, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam; Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands Wettability and Surface Chemistry Changes of LIPSS-covered Femtosecond Laser Textured Stainless Steel Surfaces During Ageing LTDS, France The Impact Dynamics Of Picolitre Droplets On Surfaces University of Bristol, United Kingdom Explorations of Field Induced Droplet Ionisation for Resolving Chemistry at the Droplet-Air Interface University of Bristol, United Kingdom Study of Free Moving Droplet-particle Collisions 1: University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2: University of Manchester, United Kingdom A Novel Heated Acoustic Levitator for Application to Study Phase Change on Drying of a Commercial Surfactant - Alpha Olefin Sulfonate University of Leeds, United Kingdom Fragmentation From Inertial Detachment Of A Sessile Droplet: Implications For Pathogen Transport 1: MIT, United States of America; 2: Sorbonne Université, France Vertical Oscillations of Liquid Column and Atomization due to Impact of Liquid-filled Flasks Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Direct Measurement Of Contact Line Friction 1: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany; 2: China University of Mining and Technology, 221116 Xuzhou, China; 3: Johannes Gutenberg University, 55122 Mainz, Germany Quasi-Static and Dynamic Collapse of the Superhydrophobic State 1: Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, China; 2: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Droplet Moving On Tilted Pillar Array 1: Physicochimie des Électrolytes et Nanosystèmes Interfaciaux, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France; 2: Soft Matter Sciences and Engineering, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France Inverse Leidenfrost Impacting Drops 1: Université de MontpellierLaboratoire Charles Coulom L2C) Université de Montpellier & CNRS; 2: Mines Paris, PSL, Ce,nter for Material Forming (CEMEF) Dynamics of Pore-scale Protean Droplets In Porous Media 1: Emory University, United States of America; 2: Yale University, United States of America; 3: City College of New York, United States of America Spontaneous Droplet Formation In A Capillary Tube POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania Droplet Formation Within a Capillary Tube POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania Spontaneous Emulsification Kinetics At Water-Heptane Interfaces Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, MADIREL, France Time Evolution Of Transitions Between Wetting States On Slippery Nanoparticle-Based Superhydrophobic Surfaces. 1: University of Ioannina, Greece; 2: University of Copenhagen Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark Evaporation-induced Freezing Dynamics of Droplets in Acoustic Levitation Kogakuin University, Japan Effect of High Wind Speeds on Droplet Formation in Sprays University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Dielectrowetting of Smectic and Nematic Liquid Crystals Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy |
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1:45pm - 2:15pm |
Keynote Speech by Jose Manuel Gordillo Location: Room 604 From drop splashing to Worthington jets |
Keynote Speech by Hanneke Gelderblom Location: Room 304 Active bacterial pattern formation inside evaporating droplets |
Keynote Speech by Elise Lorenceau Location: Room 204 Stress distribution upon the impact of droplet |
2:15pm - 3:15pm |
Oral Session 10 Location: Room 604 Morphological Evolution of Impacting Droplets Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan 2:30pm - 2:45pm Rim Dynamics And Droplet Ejections Upon Drop Impact On Star-Shaped Poles 1: ETH Zürich, Switzerland; 2: University of Liège, Belgium 2:45pm - 3:00pm Raindrop Dynamics in Forest Canopies: Machine Learning and Rain Simulation Insights into Canopy Drip and Splash Throughfall 1: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan; 2: University of Delaware, DE, USA; 3: Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan; 4: University of Miyazaki, Japan; 5: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Japan |
Oral Session 11 Location: Room 304 Droplet Evaporation on Porous Substrates 1: University of Strathclyde; 2: University of Bath; 3: University of Edinburgh 2:30pm - 2:45pm Evaporation of Annular Droplets 1: University of Bath, United Kingdom; 2: University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom; 3: University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; 4: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 2:45pm - 3:00pm How Fast Does Coffee Evaporate? Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, UMR 7636 du CNRS, PSL Research University, ESPCI, 75005 Paris, France 3:00pm - 3:15pm 3D+t Sessile Droplet Evaporation Dynamics 1: Institute of Biotechnology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico; 2: Graduate Program in Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico; 3: Renewable Energy Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico |
Oral Session 12 Location: Room 204 Receding Contact Line Dynamics on Superhydrophobic Surfaces 1: Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS UMR 7010, Institut de Physique de Nice, 17 Rue Julien Lauprêtre, 06200 Nice, France.; 2: Soft Matter Sciences and Engineering, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France.; 3: Physicochimie des Électrolytes et Nanosystèmes Interfaciaux, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France. 2:30pm - 2:45pm Extraordinarily Slippery Liquid-Repellent Surfaces Aalto University, Finland 2:45pm - 3:00pm Liquids on Slippery Surfaces: Dynamics of Thin Lubricant Films 1: Department of Physics, Soft Matter Laboratory, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India; 2: Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China 3:00pm - 3:15pm Coalescence of Drops in a Viscous Medium 1: Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, IIT Dharwad, Dharwad 580011, India; 2: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India; 3: IFP Energies Nouvelles, Rond-point de l’e ́changeur de Solaize, 69360 Solaize, France; 4: Institut de Me ́canique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), Universite ́ de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France |
3:15pm - 3:45pm |
Coffee Break Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) |
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3:45pm - 5:00pm |
Oral Session 13 Location: Room 604 Splash On A Liquid Pool: Coupled Cavity–Sheet Unsteady Dynamics MIT, United States of America 4:00pm - 4:15pm Spreading, Penetration, and Breakup of Viscoplastic Drops Impacting a Pierced Thin Plate 1: Mines Paris, PSL University, Centre for material forming (CEMEF), UMR CNRS 7635, rue Claude Daunesse, 06904 Sophia-Antipolis, France; 2: Departamento de Matemática e Computação, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho', Presidente Prudente, Brazil; 3: Department of Mechanical Engineering, COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Centro de Tecnologia, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 24210-240, Brazil 4:15pm - 4:30pm Drop Impact in a Cool Liquid Bath: What is Final Shape? 1: Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, 91405, Orsay, France.; 2: Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique (LadHyX), UMR 7646 CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique, IP Paris, 91128 Palaiseau, France.; 3: Soft Matter Sciences and Engineering, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France 4:30pm - 4:45pm The Interplay Of Impact Dynamics And Freezing Characteristics Of Water Droplets On A Superhydrophobic Surface 1: KU Leuven; 2: University of Ljubljana 4:45pm - 5:00pm Complex Morphology on the Underside of a Leidenfrost-levitated Hydrogel Sphere 1: Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria; 2: Faculty of Science, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 3: TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Oral Session 14 Location: Room 304 Marangoni Flow Driven Hysteresis And Azimuthal Symmetry Breaking In Evaporating Binary Droplets 1: Physics of Fluids Department, Max-Planck Center Twente for Complex Fluid Dynamics and J. M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, 7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands; 2: Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Am Faßberg 17, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 4:00pm - 4:15pm Physicochemical Hydrodynamics of Condensate Formation in Evaporation-driven Phase Separation Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands, The 4:15pm - 4:30pm Droplet Growth Due To The Kelvin Effect In Evaporating Microdroplet Arrays 1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom 4:30pm - 4:45pm Surface bubbles Accelerate Evaporation Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR 7057 CNRS, Université Paris Cité, France 4:45pm - 5:00pm Diffraction of Walking Droplets by a Standing Wave 1: Aix-Marseille Université, France; 2: University of Liege, Belgium |
Oral Session 15 Location: Room 204 Tunable Wetting of Droplets on Patterned Liquid Surfaces 1: Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, U.K.; 2: Department of Physics, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, U.K.; 3: School of Engineering, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, U.K. 4:00pm - 4:15pm Supercooling Droplets on Environmentally-friendly Biomimetic Anti-icing Surfaces 1: UMR 8520 - IEMN – Institut d'Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, F-59000 Lille, France; 2: UMR 8207 - UMET - Unité Matériaux et Transformations, France; 3: Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Rue Descartes, 75000 Paris 4:15pm - 4:30pm Visualizing how Drops Dissipate Energy when Moving on Superhydrophobic and Lubricated Surfaces 1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany 4:30pm - 4:45pm Promoting Dropwise Condensation Via Silicone Oil Grafting 1: Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, Scotland, UK; 2: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore 39161, Pakistan; 3: School of Engineering, Institute for Energy Systems, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, Scotland, UK; 4: International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER), Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan 4:45pm - 5:00pm Nanometer-scale Wetting of Porous Carbons: a Synchrotron Small-angle Scattering Study 1: University of Liege, Belgium; 2: KULeuven, Belgium; 3: ESRF, France |
6:15pm | Departure of coaches for the Gala Dinner Location: Liège-Guillemins train station |
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7:00pm - 11:30pm |
Gala Dinner Location: Ferme du Banneway (Transportation provided from Liège-Guillemins station) |
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11:30pm | Coaches leave to bring participants back to the station Location: Ferme du Banneway |
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