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Pierre Gilles Lemarié-Rieusset: From wavelets to Navier-Stokes

… Pierre Gilles Lemarié-Rieusset: From wavelets to Navier-Stokes Pierre Gilles … a competitive exam, and then at the ENS, which he joined in 1979. “At the time, among everything I was being taught, it … IUT de Cergy-Pontoise, he became an associate professor in 1988 at Université Paris XI. In 1995, he was appointed as a …

Published on: Fri 03/06/2022 - 16:33

Stéphane Bazot: understanding the ecology of the plant-soil system

… It was therefore not surprising that once he had completed his scientific baccalaureate, he decided to focus on plant biology. Following a Master's degree in population and ecosystem biology, during … where I’ve studied the decline of beech trees.” Since 2018, driven by the desire to combine functional ecology and …

Published on: Fri 24/06/2022 - 10:35

Bertrand Maury: mathematising reality

… the CNRS. Before graduating from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1988 and embarking on a PhD, Bertrand Maury had never … related to fluid mechanics. After defending his thesis in 1995, Bertrand Maury decided to move away from a traditional … the numerical simulation of fluid and grain flows. On his return to France, he was recruited as an associate professor …

Published on: Thu 01/09/2022 - 10:27

Gravitational waves: listening to the vibrations of the universe

… issue of L'Édition  Gravitational waves were theorised over 100 years ago by Albert Einstein and can now be seen thanks to very high-tech instruments called interferometers. What interest do these waves have for scientists and … Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916, several months after he had published his …

Published on: Thu 20/10/2022 - 15:18

Camille Coron: a passion for applied mathematics

… to biology, particularly developing models for the genetics of biparental populations.  Camille Coron's daily life? Crunching numbers! This passion began in year 11 in secondary school, thanks to her mathematics teacher, … mathematics, which she discovered during her 2nd year master's at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now …

Published on: Wed 14/02/2024 - 07:35

Claire de March: the discovery of the experimental structure of an olfactory receptor

… High School in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. With her sights set on ISIPCA, a prestigious school specialising in … In 2008, she was accepted into a professional Master's programme and completed a work-study programme with … Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne University) in 2011. During this degree, she completed an internship at …

Published on: Fri 15/03/2024 - 17:11

Olfatask: the role of olfaction in bees, queens of social organisation

… in insect colonies?   Age as the first response In the 1960s, while observing bees, scientists identified the first clue: a correlation between the role of bees in a hive and their age. The … encoded calcium sensor in the honey bee . PLoS Biology , 21(1): e3001984, 1-20, 2023. … Olfatask: the role of …

Published on: Wed 29/01/2025 - 17:16

Frédéric Chevallier: atmospheric inversion turned on its head

… Rennes, where Frédéric Chevallier grew up reading Sciences et Vie magazine, particularly the articles on aerospace, … he learnt by heart. Later, he was inspired by a 2nd year Master's internship at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory … apply to various atmospheric radiation applications in the 1990s. "Today, we talk about automatic learning and …

Published on: Wed 05/02/2025 - 12:05

Artworks, cultural goods: Re-examining questions of provenance and restitution

… This article was originally published in L'Édition n°26 . Whether it's artworks or cultural goods looted during wars or … - with the aim of preserving and bequeathing them ." In 2012, Marie Cornu published a Dictionnaire comparé du droit du … an intensive week of workshops and conferences for PhD and Master’s degrees’ students at Université Paris-Saclay was …

Published on: Mon 17/03/2025 - 08:38

Architects are listening

… can you understand the acoustics of a room that does not yet exist? These are some of the questions at the forefront … a former PhD student at LIMSI (which merged with the LRI on 1 January 2021 to become the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire des sciences …

Published on: Wed 31/03/2021 - 10:21

Jean-Michel Bismut: The geometrisation of probability

… Jean-Michel Bismut: The geometrisation of probability Jean-Michel Bismut: The … of mathematics. He has also been awarded the prestigious 2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. Jean-Michel Bismut graduated from the ‘École polytechnique’ in 1970 and the ‘École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris’ …

Published on: Thu 07/10/2021 - 13:54

Environment, animals, humans: The one health approach

… our environment is full of dangers for human beings means rethinking medicine through the "one health" approach, which … an increase in malnutrition and disease affecting nearly 71 million people," warns the researcher.  In Kenya, where … are relying on multidisciplinarity.  During the Covid-19 pandemic, the pooling of observations by hospitals and …

Published on: Fri 15/12/2023 - 17:17