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… to observing the sky. Recent detections of gravitational waves resulting from the coalescence of compact objects … this for the past two years. A better observing sequence Set up by the ‘gravitational waves’ group at the Laboratory … (IJCLab – CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay), GRANDMA contributes to the missing link in the observing sequence. With …
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… Patricia Bouyer-Decitre: making safety-critical software more reliable through mathematics Patricia … science is that it has the same rigour as mathematics, but with an applied focus.” These applications ensure the … 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 … cavity and matter are no longer excitons or photonic modes, but a coherent linear combination of a photon mode and an … Deleporte was able to further develop her projects and then set up an interdisciplinary team, including physicists and …
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… (ADIS). “I’m delighted to have been able to contribute to the creation of this joint economics and management … 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 …
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… (CREST) at INSEE, which he defended in 2007. His subject was ‘Downward social mobility, the challenge of social … and his work was published in 2009 by the publisher Grasset. It dealt with the subject of social demotion between … the challenge of social advancement had been studied a lot, but the challenge of social demotion less so.” This insight …
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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 … collapse. Tsunamis are generally triggered by earthquakes, but also landslides, causing sudden spillage of huge amounts …
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… optical systems and smart materials. Rémi Métivier has always been fascinated by molecules and their interaction with … fundamental processes have been studied for centuries, but some of them still aren’t understood. I study molecules … 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 … which generates femtosecond pulses in the visible range but 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 … the materials he was studying. “This problem seems simple, but my theorem is still only a partial answer. Perhaps the … 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 … like other viruses.” A vaccine against this disease exists but it does not cover all the strains that are circulating … 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 … is now the fourth leading cause of death in the world but remains difficult to diagnose and monitoring its … 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 … fundamental ecology and the study of population dynamics, but I gradually shifted to a more applied approach by …
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