Science and society
… 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 … in the southern hemisphere. It will be necessary to wait for herd immunity (60% to 70% of the world's population …
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… 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, … are all very excited about the prospects of inventing new ways to organize work in general. Besides the …
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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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… 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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… 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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… travel grant, she went to Canada to study for a PhD which was jointly supervised by Université Paris-Sud and Université de Montréal. The PhD’s title was “Subjective measures and epidemiology, methodological … the pandemic Alexandra Rouquette was asked to help with setting up the Epidemiology and Living Conditions under …
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