… A wave of Atlantic cultural exchange A wave of Atlantic … in the creation of political, linguistic or symbolic boundaries which establish or renew large cultural areas,” adds … which states, particularly from the 20 th century onwards, set up structures to promote their own culture. In fact, …
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… when astrophysicists see (infra)red Research (This article was originally published in L'Édition No.17 ) The James … is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which was launched in 1990 to orbit the Earth and which is still … that each filter is positioned in front of the detector, a set of multispectral images is obtained,” explains Alain …
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… at the cutting edge of technology Research (This article was originally published in L'Edition No.18 ) An overview … the traditional bit transcribes information in a binary way (0 or 1), according to whether or not there is an … and his team are designing algorithms capable of describing sets of interacting particles. They are testing their …
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… French physicists Albert Fert and German Peter Grünberg – awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2007 – marked the … 30% by 2030. An environmental cost incompatible with global warming and the need for energy sobriety. Consequently, a … Vincent Cros of UMPhy. These magnetic textures have a set of remarkable intrinsic properties. “They are often …
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… has been no problem, however. From his living room, he has set up “ conférences confinées ˮ (lectures in lockdown) … with the end of the pandemic, even if there is no longer a wave of contamination and death such as the one we are … because it is affecting all countries. In this case, solidarity between member states is part of a strategy which is …
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… venturing into interdisciplinary data science projects. Besides seed-financing concrete projects, we have also been … data provider arrives with a problem and an associated data set. We get together 20-30 participants and 3-5 coaches. We … between the teams. We have been building both software and management tools to foster creativity, diversity, …
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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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