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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.

Publication by Laboratoire de Physique in Physical Review Letters on December 23, 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 prestigious Simons Foundation of New York has announced funding for an international project to revisit the fundamental problems of fluid turbulence using statistical mechanics.

Publication by Laboratoire de physique in Physical Review Letters on August 30, 2019.

The first edition of Knowledge Summit was held in March 2018. It was organized on the occasion of the State visit of the President of the Republic in India and inaugurated by Mrs. Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation which helped to establish the roadmap for Franco-Indian cooperation for the coming years, in partnership with companies.

On Tuesday 8 October, 35 young women researchers received the Young Talent Award from the L'Oréal Foundation, in partnership with UNESCO.

Publication by Laboratoire de physique in Physical Review Letters on October 4, 2019.

Vance Bergeron, Ane Aanesland, Livio de Luca, and Orphée Cugat are the 2019 CNRS Innovation Medallists. Since 2011, this CNRS prize has rewarded researchers for their work in the technological, therapeutic, economic, and social fields.

While students are entering the ENS de Lyon, researchers are just as active.

The Simons Foundation announced on June 4, 2019 the establishment of the Simons Collaboration on Wave Turbulence, directed by Jalal Shatah from NYU assisted by Laure Saint-Raymond from ENS de Lyon and Nicolas Mordant from UGA.

On June 2019, Professor Gilles Chabrier was awarded for his seminal contributions to a variety of astrophysical domains, from planetary to stellar and galactic astronomy.

The 2019 JoRISS call for Sino-French research projects is open as of June 1st 2019.

At the very end of a high-level final, the team of physics students from ENS Lyon finished second in the International Physicists' Tournament 2019, which was held from April 21 to 26 at EPFL in Switzerland.

Lucile Savary's Prize Lecture and Award Ceremony will be held in during the 27th International Conference on Statistical Physics – StatPhys 27 – from July 8 to July 12, 2019 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The selection committee met on January 17, 2019 and announced the eight winning projects from the Tech 4 Inclusion call for proposals. Two of them are carried by ENS de Lyon.

Alex Andrix had already collaborated in October 2018 with the Physics laboratory on a work entitled "Variations physiques" (Physical Variations).

Recipient of the Jaffe Prize last June, Sergio Ciliberto is now receiving the EPS Prize for his research work as a whole.

The "ENS de Lyon/UCBL/UDL" team came top, with a final score of 161.84 points. In April, the team will therefore represent France in Switzerland.

Publication from Laboratoire de physique at ENS de Lyon, FAST, Institut Lumière Matière and Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics in Physical review letters, February 15, 2019.

The LIA "Matter: structure and dynamics" reinforces an already long-standing collaboration in physics between French and Chilean research teams.

Publication by Laboratoire de physique in Sciences on January 4, 2019.

CNRS national press release.

Pierre Corvol, Vice-President of the French Academy of Sciences in 2017-2018, has just been elected President of the Academy of Sciences for 2019-2020. In parallel, Patrick Flandrin has been elected Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences for the same period.

Quantum networks and quantum radar from Einstein’s spooky action at a distance.

MUSE spectrograph reveals that nearly the entire sky in the early Universe is glowing with Lyman-alpha emission

On September 27-28, 2018 in Tieste, Italy was held "SISSA meets ENS de Lyon", the second of a series of Sissa/ENS de Lyon workshops devoted to strengthening the collaboration between the two institutions.

The project Sciences 2024 aims at helping high-level French sportspeople improve their performance for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, by providing them with research conducted by scientists and students from 11 top Grandes Écoles and the CNRS.

Photo Release from the European Southern Observatory (ESO)

As part of IDEXLYON, 6 projects were selected from the call for the Scientific Breakthrough Program to receive funding of up to 1.2 million euros per project.

Doctor of science, eesearcher in the Department of Ttheoretical astrophysics at the Ioffe Institute and Pulkovo Observatory, Russia.

At the 69th Annual Meeting of the Max Planck Society in Heidelberg, Professor Alain Pumir from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) was appointed as an external scientific member of the Göttingen Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS). With this award, MPIDS acknowledges the long-term intensive cooperation between the internationally renowned physicist and the departments of the institute.

The Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon had the honor of awarding the status of Doctor Honoris Causa to Ingrid Daubechies, professor of Mathematics at Duke University in North Carolina in the United States.

The 2018 issue of the «Highlights» publication of the Laboratoire de Phy­sique gathers facts, events or research achievements of 2016 & 2017.

Doctor Honoris Causa of ENS de Lyon, March 15, 2018

Topology sheds new light on the emergence of unidirectional edge waves in a variety of physical systems, from condensed matter to artificial lattices.