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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 David Linton Award is given to a geomorphologist who has made a leading contribution to the discipline over a sustained period. The winner is invited to present the Linton Lecture, which is one of the central elements of the AGM.

Potential role of flimsy antibiotic exposure

"Human Frontier Science Program" Research Grants provide 3 years of support for international teams involving at least two countries. Preference is given to intercontinental collaborations. All team members are expected to broaden the character of their research compared to their ongoing research programs and interact with teams bringing expertise that is very different from their own so as to create novel approaches to problems in fundamental biology.

Through a quirk of nature called “gravitational lensing,” a natural lens in space amplified a very distant star’s light. Astronomers using Hubble took advantage of this phenomenon to pinpoint the faraway star and set a new distance record for the farthest individual star ever seen. They also used the distant star to test one theory of dark matter, and to probe the make-up of a galaxy cluster. The team dubbed the star “Icarus,” after the Greek mythological character who flew too near the Sun on wings of feathers and wax that melted. Its official name is MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1.

The challenge: Students have to make their thesis topic easily understandable in clear, concise and convincing French or English – and with the help of only one slide! Participants are filmed under competition conditions, and a multidisciplinary jury chooses finalists based on the videos, rating each participant’s performance according to the criteria in the official rules

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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

Education and human exchange constitute an essential dimension of the partnership between France and India. Collaborations in higher education, research and innovation lead the priorities of the third edition of Bonjour India, which culminates with the first Indo-French Knowledge Summit.

The research team of Gaël Yvert at Laboratory of Biology and Modeling of the Cell (LBMC) has discovered mutations that increase cell proliferation in conditions of repeated stress.

...inside the cell volume yields their cortical localization, stable alignment, and sensitivity to external cues

Geoscientists Solve the Riddle of the “Rainforest Crisis”

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

The extreme rarity of asexual vertebrates in nature is generally explained by genomic decay due to absence of meiotic recombination, thus leading to extinction of such lineages.

How to encourage new scientific vocations among the youngest, and fight against gender bias?

Theo Tacail in "Archeology", Michael Rao in "Mathematics" and Amina Doumane in "Information Science".

The Murchison Medal recognises geologists who have contributed significantly to 'hard' rock studies

Plastic Bodies is already well on its way to becoming a touchstone in the medical anthropology and STS literatures on gender, bodies, and pharmaceuticals.

Sanofi and Institut Pasteur award five researchers for their major contributions to the health service

The fifth edition of the «Étoiles de l'Europe » prize - researchers rewarded for their European commitment in the framework of the 4th HORIZON 2020 Forum

"Working as a researcher is fantastic and it gives you exceptional freedom". The ENS de Lyon interviews the mathematician Alice Guionnet. (Photo credit: Bryce Vickmark)

Authors: Márton Karsai, Hang-Hyun Jo, Kimmo Kaski

For contributions to the theory and application of nonstationary signal analysis.

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CNRS 2017 bronze medal

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