Laurie Calvet: From transistors to bio-inspired nanotechnology
… on the study and understanding of new devices and materials used in nanotechnology. Today, one of her main … functions to create new computing machines. Laurie Calvet was born in America and received a comprehensive academic … under the supervision of Mark Reed. The physicist, who was the first to coin the phrase “quantum dot” to describe a …
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Lou Barreau: Observing light-matter interaction on extremely short time scales
… 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 … at a certain wavelength can eject an electron out of a material. Lou Barreau focused on observing the electron …
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Pierre Pansu: A geometrician of hyperbolic spaces with a passion for disseminating knowledge
… the appeal of mathematical sciences. Pierre Pansu was born in Jura and studied at the ‘École normale … In the simplest case, it involved understanding why some materials naturally occur as flat faced polyhedra. This … naturally generates the facets seen on the materials he was studying. “This problem seems simple, but my theorem is …
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Sébastien Descotes-Genon: exceeding the limits of the standard model of particle physics
… decided to focus his research on these from the year 2000 onwards. “I’m involved in a type of physics called ‘flavour … scientists in high-energy physics. “This experience was very enriching as I reviewed and deepened fundamental … of Nuclear Physics (IPNO), the Centre for Nuclear and Material Sciences (CSNSM) and the Laboratory of Medical …
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FUNGADAPT, ArTIFICE: studying cheese for a better understanding of evolutionary mechanisms
… to the same environment (in this case, cheese) in the same way. Phenotypic and genetic differentiation As part of … to recover lost traits without the addition of new genetic material. In other words, this repeated cloning leads to a … and its diversity is lower than for the other two," warns the researcher. "Our studies show that we're …
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Elias Fattal: delivering drugs as close to their target as possible
… Institute (IGPS - Univ. Paris-Saclay, CNRS) , where he was its director from 2010 to 2019. He specialises in … to be administered using these nanoparticles in the same way that messenger RNA vaccines are administered today." … a researcher, when he discovered "directly, on biological material , that we can turn off a gene involved in a …
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Aline Lefebvre-Lepot: modelling and simulating granular flows
… directly linked to applications, the researcher, who has always claimed to apply mathematics to physics, is thriving in … of application, from the industrial production of granular materials (such as pastes made from grains in a viscous … 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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A3C - Ageing, Climate Change and Citizenship
… 3 ECTS credits and a certificate of attendance will be awarded to the participants. Date: 12 - 29/07/2021 Target … 3 ECTS credits and a certificate of attendance will be awarded to the participants. Date: 12 - 29/07/2021 Target … 3 ECTS credits and a certificate of attendance will be awarded to the participants. Date: 12 - 29/07/2021 Target …
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