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Communication from SAAFE, by Michael Rose, on July 1, 2020.

Turbulent flows, like planetary atmospheres, oceans, or flow around an airfoil or a wind turbine, undergo strong fluctuations. Sometimes, the system may even undergo abrupt transitions between entirely different flow configurations. Such transitions seem to occur at random times, in an unpredictable manner.

With regard to international mobility, the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior have indicated that travel can resume in Europe from June 15 (possible restriction for England and Spain) and outside Schengen from July 1, subject to favourable health conditions.

On June 12, 2020, the seventeenth edition of one of the most consulted university rankings in the world was published.

Call for applications for international doctoral students - 2020/2021
Deadline: June 19, 2020, 12:00 noon (French time)

Since 1922, the Louis Ancel Award is granted every year by the French Society of Physics. It rewards a French physicist for his/her work in condensed matter physics.

On April 10, 2020, ANR announced the funding of 86 projects concerning Covid-19. Six are associated with ENS de Lyon laboratories.
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On past March 26, a little Soay sheep was born in the garden. In order to choose a first name for it, the members of ENS de Lyon were invited to vote.

The Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO in French) has set up a blog focusing on the current epidemic.

The decree of March 27, 2020 authorizes ENS de Lyon to permit you to organize a defense, in this particular period of the Covid-19 epidemic, with a full jury in videoconference.

On March 26, a little Soay sheep was born in the garden of ENS de Lyon. Now it has to be named. What name are you going to vote for?

A CIRI project, in collaboration with HCL, has united CIRI immunologists to work on understanding the immune response to Coronavirus in patients.

From the room known as the "Café des sports", one of the virtual videoconferencing rooms of the biology department accessible from the Study portal, François Roudier, Director of the department and Nathalie Alazard, Assistant Director, tell us about almost 4 weeks of intense remote work. Four weeks, three phases, a first assessment and a constant optimism despite the complexity of an ever-changing situation.

The research laboratories of ENS de Lyon are continuing to support hospitals and public services that are on the front line of the health crisis.

A birth in our garden is good news.

The European Research Council (ERC) has just communicated the list of beneficiaries of the Advanced grants. Each recipient will have up to €2.5 million over five years for his or her research project. Among the 185 projects funded is the LDRam project by Alice Guionnet.

The ENS de Lyon is continuing to support hospitals and public services that are on the front line of the health crisis.

The research laboratories of ENS de Lyon are helping support hospitals and public services that are on the front line of the health crisis.

During the closure of the ENS sites in Lyon, classes will be carried out remotely on the study portal, which includes a distance learning tool.  Just a week after the suspension of all classes on site, already more than 200 virtual classes have been created and the number of connections to the study portal has doubled.

Since access to the ENS de Lyon campuses has been suspended (as of Monday, March 16 and until further notice), all staff -except those authorized to enter the buildings as part of the PCA - are either teleworking or on special leave of absence, including in the research laboratories. 

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The selection committee met on January 23, 2020 and announced the six winning projects from the Tech4Earth call for proposals. Two of them are carried by ENS de Lyon.

For the second edition, the CNRS call for projects '80 Prime' has once again given special emphasis to interdisciplinarity and risk-taking.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions support researchers at all stages of their careers, regardless of age and nationality. Researchers working across all disciplines are eligible for funding. The MSCA also support cooperation between industry and academia and innovative training to enhance employability and career development.

The Bronze Medal is awarded to early work of researchers who are specialists in their field. This distinction represents an encouragement from the CNRS to pursue research that is well underway and already fruitful.

Thierry Dauxois, CNRS Research Director at the Physics Laboratory, was appointed Vice President in charge of Research (VPR) on February 3, 2020, taking over from Yanick Ricard.

"Studies and Research at ENS de Lyon: what will you remember about your time spent with us?"

The international Times Higher Education (THE) ranking remains innovative and offers this year a new global Top 100 of institutions with an international vocation.

Together with a collaborator from Kew gardens, two researchers from ENS de Lyon mobilize the plant genetics community to the political challenges associated with the social and environmental crisis, in a featured review in Trends in Plant Science.

Yves Robert has been selected to receive the 2020 IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award “for contributions to parallel algorithms and scheduling techniques.”

The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation presented ENS de Lyon with the national 2019 Higher Education teaching award “Passion Enseignement et Pédagogie” designed to encourage institutional commitment to the pursuit of excellent, innovative university teaching and learning. ENS de Lyon won in the "Internationalization" category, for its international “Transatlantic Translation Workshop”.

The master class of Loïc Touzé as well as his lecture are postponed to a later date.

On 11 December 2019, the ENS de Lyon welcomed a delegation from the East China Normal University (ECNU).

The 10th Steering Committee of the Joint Research Institute for Science and Society (JoRISS), under the joint chairmanship of Mr QIAN Xuhong (President of ECNU) and Mr Yanick RICARD (Vice-President Research of ENS de Lyon), was held on December 11, 2019 at ENS de Lyon. Six projects were selected in the framework of the call for research projects launched in autumn 2019.

For several years, the higher education and research institutions of the Lyon Saint-Étienne site have been involved in a collaborative and structuring process for the site. The aim of the "Université de Lyon 2020" project is to create a world-class, inclusive and multidisciplinary institution, known as the “Target University”.

Publication by LBMC on PLOS One on Novembre 21, 2019.

As part of IDEXLYON, 5 projects were selected from the call for the Scientific Breakthrough Program to receive funding of up to 1.2 million euros per project.

Press release by Laclarée on November 15, 2019.

The École normale supérieure de Lyon had the honor of awarding the status of Doctor Honoris Causa to Joseph E. Stiglitz, the American economist, Professor at Columbia University, and 2001 winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel.

The 2020 Bôcher Memorial Prize will be awarded to Laure Saint-Raymond on January 16, 2020, during the Joint Prize Session at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Denver.

On Monday, October 21, 2019, the Chemistry Laboratory officially opened its new premises. Now all laboratory staff are in the M6 building on the Monod campus.

The prestigious Simons Foundation of New York has announced funding for an international project to revisit the fundamental problems of fluid turbulence using statistical mechanics.