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Concrete research for improved understanding of cement

… Concrete research for improved understanding of cement Concrete research for improved understanding of cement Research … for the research being carried out by a team from the Theoretical Physics and Statistical Models Laboratory (LPTMS – …

Published on: Tue 31/08/2021 - 13:51

Damien Prim – a chemist and architect of matter

… development of chemistry in these areas.   After completing a PhD in organic chemistry in 1994 at ‘Université Paul Verlaine’ of Metz and a post-doc at ‘Université Catholique de … ‘Université Paul Verlaine’. He worked at ‘Université Pierre et Marie Curie’ between 1999 and 2001, before becoming a …

Published on: Thu 18/11/2021 - 13:08

Data science or results science: are we shifting away from statistics?

… block is the centre of debate regarding the relationship between these two disciplines. What link, what differences and what complementarities are there between them? These are the questions that an international … present in our daily lives, be it in health, social networks, industry, logistics, video games, or others. No …

Published on: Wed 12/01/2022 - 16:55

The closure of schools, Covid-19 and children’s mental health

… in children at the time of the school closures and detailed the various socio-economic factors associated with … on the same sphere, but its approach would be different. Together, we formulated a questionnaire which was broadened to … as many disciplines as possible,” sums up Alexandra Rouquette, a researcher from CESP, a public health physician and …

Published on: Wed 19/01/2022 - 14:29

Hugo Duminil-Copin is awarded the Fields Medal

… to study the critical behaviour of various models on networks, such as the Ising, the Potts, the self-avoiding … describe a number of physical phenomena (such as magnetisation, polymers, material porosity, etc.) by reframing them through random trajectories, sets or …

Published on: Tue 05/07/2022 - 10:05

Fabienne Goldfarb, from light-matter interaction to laser dynamics

… and where, to put it simply, we had the opportunity to get our hands dirty!" says Fabienne Goldfarb from the outset. She decided very early on to focus on low energy physics. This choice led her to complete a DEA (now equivalent to a Master's degree) in quantum …

Published on: Fri 07/10/2022 - 15:05

Jean-Christophe Tavanti: Economics & Management at the crossroads of science

… . For this economist, a specialist in financial markets, economics & management have an increasingly important … economics and mathematics on the problems of financial markets. This is a subject that he has since helped to update. … PhD thesis in 1994 and spent a year at Université de Toulon et du Var as a temporary teaching and research associate …

Published on: Thu 12/01/2023 - 15:27

A wave of Atlantic cultural exchange

… n.15 - february 2021) The analysis of cultural exchange between Europe, Africa and the Americas at the core of the … the human race lies in its diversity. […] Diversity is not between cultures, but inherent in the very idea of culture … photography and literature. The first of a series of five webinars dedicated to the project took place in November …

Published on: Tue 09/03/2021 - 13:24

Sepsis: a long-term battle, new issues and goals

… complications be avoided? These are questions that the Prometheus University Hospital Institute (IHU), which comprises … parasitic or fungal infection with an acute and sudden onset. The disease is also defined by its long-term … thirty years, Djillali Annane is now head of the Prometheus University Hospital Institute (IHU), whose aim is to …

Published on: Fri 14/02/2025 - 15:20

Nose, olfaction and fragrance: giving a sense to smell

… renewed public interest during the Covid-19 pandemic. And yet, scientists from a wide range of fields have been … capable, by creating multiple combinations, of smelling between ten thousand and one trillion (one billion billion) … transmit the signal to the brain. The brain then interprets it as a scent.   The first experimental structure of a …

Published on: Wed 26/02/2025 - 15:28

David Attié and Sébastien Procureur: From Saclay's water tower to the Great Pyramid of Giza

… particles originating from cosmic rays – to characterize detectors and develop a "cosmic bench"1. "I always wanted to … with my preschool teacher, who introduced us to a new planet in the solar system every week."  After graduating from … aspiration to "be an inventor". While preparing for competitive exams to gain admission to graduate school, he lived …

Published on: Wed 14/11/2018 - 09:00

Jean-Marie Mirebeau: Calculating the shortest path

… partial differential equations using algorithmic geometry tools. He has thus developed his own digital solutions … seismic tomography, the configuration of radar systems, etc. The winner of the 2020 GAMNI-SMAI Blaise Pascal prize … Général de Mathématiques, the General Mathematics Competition (supervised by Thomas Lafforgue). “For the first …

Published on: Fri 05/02/2021 - 16:16