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… to observing the sky. Recent detections of gravitational waves resulting from the coalescence of compact objects … observatories are scanning the heavens when gravitational waves, gamma-ray bursts or neutrinos take place. Once an … this for the past two years. A better observing sequence Set up by the ‘gravitational waves’ group at the Laboratory …
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… Patricia Bouyer-Decitre: making safety-critical software more reliable through mathematics Patricia Bouyer-Decitre: making safety-critical software more reliable through mathematics Researcher portraits … faith in Patricia Bouyer-Decitre and Évelyne Contejean to set up the future laboratory’s scientific project. “Our two …
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… industry in 2012. However, Emmanuelle Deleporte was not destined to work in this field and her career took a … Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, CNRS). She was director of the Physics Department at ENS Cachan from … Deleporte was able to further develop her projects and then set up an interdisciplinary team, including physicists and …
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… companies were forced, albeit completely reluctantly, to set up whistleblowing platforms while hoping that no one would ever use them. This paradox was a first in the history of management and deserved to be … Promoting the ‘soft sciences’ Sandra Charreire Petit has always felt it is important to promote dialogue between …
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… (CREST) at INSEE, which he defended in 2007. His subject was ‘Downward social mobility, the challenge of social demotion’ and his work was published in 2009 by the publisher Grasset. It dealt with the subject of social demotion between … (CREST) at INSEE, which he defended in 2007. His subject was ‘Downward social mobility, the challenge of social …
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… trigger tsunamis. In order to understand the amplitude of waves and risks that coastal populations are exposed to, a … CNRS) and the University of California, Santa Barbara, set an experimental modelling system of these phenomena. It established a scaling law between the height of waves and the volume of material involved, and successfully …
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… optical systems and smart materials. Rémi Métivier has always been fascinated by molecules and their interaction with … laboratory LIA (a laboratory ‘without borders’) was born out of these partnerships and Rémi Métivier has … young researcher's first results were promising from the outset. “We were able to show that when fluorescent molecules …
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… interaction during her undergraduate-master course. “It was the course taught by Anne Lafosse in particular, who was my spectroscopy lecturer as an undergraduate and who is … does not have a device for attosecond pulses. “We have to set up a mirror system ourselves to convert the pulses from …
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… the appeal of mathematical sciences. Pierre Pansu was born in Jura and studied at the ‘École normale … naturally generates the facets seen on the materials he was studying. “This problem seems simple, but my theorem is … and dissemination of scientific culture in the region and set up an international exchange programme for PhD students. …
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… which need to be researched. Although the researcher was recently in the limelight for the coronavirus crisis, he … infectious diseases; a reported case of rabies case is always fatal. “It still kills 60,000 people a year around the … immunity (the cell’s defences) and how the virus itself sets up its own counter-defences to evade those of the …
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… (PMNCO - Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy, Inserm) , was selected in the 2021 call for university hospital … in terms of public health, is called Reveal. The project was the 2021 winner of the university hospital research … However, this means creating new tests which can detect a set of molecular abnormalities in a blood sample which are …
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… completed a thesis on the epidemiology of feline aids. “It was during this time that I discovered my passion for … the researcher. With his PhD completed, Franck Courchamp set off for the United States, where he carried out his … on the dynamics of rare populations. In the year 2000, he was taken on as a research fellow at CNRS in the Ecology, …
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