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… Pierre Gilles Lemarié-Rieusset: From wavelets to Navier-Stokes Pierre Gilles Lemarié-Rieusset: From wavelets to Navier-Stokes Researcher portraits Research … exam, and then at the ENS, which he joined in 1979. “At the time, among everything I was being taught, it was the only …
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… Virginie van Wassenhove is awarded an ERC Synergy Grant Virginie van Wassenhove is … the theory that the brain develops a cognitive map of time which can be generalised to different brain scales and … Virginie van Wassenhove is awarded an ERC Synergy Grant On 5 November …
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… oceans Mathematics applied to the oceans Research Surging waves are at the origin of the most destructive natural … Paris-Saclay, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay) are modelling ocean waves in real time. 26 December 2004 is a date forever marked by one of … Mathematics applied to the oceans Research Surging waves are at the origin of the most destructive natural …
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… the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1. With World War II raging in the background, a race began to develop the … before Hitler's Germany and end the global conflict. This was the Manhattan Project. Eighty years later, Andrea Zoia, … of these materials,” explains Andrea Zoia. At the time, it was crucial for Fermi and his colleagues to obtain …
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… ellipses, more or less elongated and oriented in one way or another, are often used to indicate its direction,” … brought good luck to Jean-Marie Mirebeau. He has just been awarded the 2020 (GAMNI-SMAI) homonymous prize from the … (supervised by Thomas Lafforgue). “For the first time, I came across problems that I couldn't solve and that …
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… at the CHU Henri Mondor in Créteil, he thought his path was clear. But in 1983, he was offered a position in intensive care at the Gustave … because I was not an oncologist,” he said. “At the time, I was interested in the first immunotherapy treatments … at the CHU Henri Mondor in Créteil, he thought his path was clear. But in 1983, he was offered a position in …
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… and Applications track at Université Paris-Saclay. By the time she graduated from secondary school in Italy, Ester Mariucci was a well-rounded student, equally interested in the … choosing mathematics over other scientific disciplines, it was obvious to me, as I found it so immediately satisfying," …
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… Its dilation (or aneurysm) leads to a rupture of the aortic wall if not treated in time. In ninety percent of cases, this leads to the person’s … to improve the management of aortic aneurysms. EndoVx was the winner of the call for university hospital research …
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… of L'Edition How does matter behave on an infinitely small time scale? Is it possible to observe or even control the … this takes place on a smaller scale: in femtoseconds.” It was the observation of atom dynamics on the femtosecond … which earned the Egyptian American chemist, Ahmed Zewail the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1999. Beyond the …
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… Nuclear fusion: steps towards energy production Nuclear fusion: steps towards energy production Research (This article was … in line with the fight against global warming. At the same time, this crisis shows how important the world’s energy … Nuclear fusion: steps towards energy production Research (This article was …
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… physics at the Orsay campus. Morange has recently been awarded the CNRS bronze medal, an honour that has encouraged … boson. Higgs boson is a particle unveiled for the first time in 2012, which enables researcher to enter the long … the Higgs boson , an infinitely small particle that was predicted back in the 60s by the standard model theory …
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… a taster of the discussions to come. The Covid-19 crisis: a wake-up call for sustainable development With part of the global population in lockdown, it seemed as if time had stood still on Earth and as a result, the world’s … is that we can adopt a circular economy approach all we want, but constant growth and the rising global population …
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