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… partial differential equations, used to model shock wave propagation phenomena. "To my surprise, this … to Supervise Research or HDR in French) in 1986. "This was the first rigorous result obtained in this field, so I … Côte-d'Azur) as a CNRS Director of Research. There he set up and piloted the Wolfgang Döblin Research Federation …
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… and services purchased by consumers. The climatic hell towards which we seem to be heading is paved with good … made. On the one hand, governments are failing to set common climate commitments. On the other hand, civil and … of the services and products we consume, or the other way around? Whatever the choice of the decision-making …
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… via organocatalysis) aims to synthesize polyesters from renewable resources, using organic catalysts. In the future, … artificially by chemical synthesis. In a bid to move away from oil, a new approach is exploring the use of … less than 1% of the world's total polymer production, is set to rise sharply in the years ahead. These future …
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… inactive (OFF) to the active (ON) state , and shortly afterwards the first structure of a GTPase-activating protein. … successes, Jacqueline Cherfils obtained funding to set up a team and purchase equipment. Since the late 90s, … cell biology, brefeldin A, the only GTPase inhibitor that was known at the time. In 2003, the biologist and her team …
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… work at the Institute of Physical Chemistry (ICP). "I was already studying biological phenomena at the molecular … at the University of California, Riverside (USA), she was hired in 2003 as a lecturer at Université Paris-Sud (now … oxidase and oxidative stress To develop her projects, she sets her sights on an enzyme her scientific group had …
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… directly linked to applications, the researcher, who has always claimed to apply mathematics to physics, is thriving in … understanding of the behaviour of a dry granular material set in motion by a towed ball . "Our models do not always take into account all the physics of the experiment. …
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… Paris-Sud (now Université Paris-Saclay) in 1985. It was there that she earned her master's degree and embarked … of maximal attractors, guaranteeing the existence of a set of states towards which the solutions evolve. "Contrary to some … Paris-Sud (now Université Paris-Saclay) in 1985. It was there that she earned her master's degree and embarked …
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… Doctor in Gastroenterology at Saint-Antoine Hospital, who was writing a thesis on the analysis of the microbiota … its protective effect in murine models of colitis. "This was the beginning of a long story that changed our lives and … unit, he embarked on the entrepreneurial adventure to set up a biotech company at the end of 2015. Together with …
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… his start-up as part of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste on 29 September, launched by the United Nations (UN) … to an industrial scale. It's a challenge, because you can't set up a factory overnight. You need support, financing, …
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… published this portrait of Gilles Dowek, who passed away on Monday, 21 July 2025. This portrait will continue to pay tribute to the scientist he was. Gilles Dowek was a director of research at Inria, a … proof systems and the lack of equivalence between them, he set out to develop universal logical frameworks. "I felt …
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… of the Earth's formation from an early age. As a child, she was fascinated by a lecture given by Maurice and Katia … "My first contact with the theory of plate tectonics, which was still very new at the time,"she recalls. Three years … of NASA's VERITAS mission, an orbiter scheduled to set off to map Venus in 2031. " My role is to model the …
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… articles on aerospace, which he learnt by heart. Later, he was inspired by a 2nd year Master's internship at the … The PhD candidate replaced a complex physical model with a set of artificial neural networks that the LMD's Atmospheric … about automatic learning and artificial intelligence. So, I was working on what we now call machine learning," recalls …
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