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22.03.21
Eric Moulines: EURASIP 2020 Technical Achievement Award
An influential European learned society in the field of signal processing, EURASIP has awarded its 2020 Technical Achievement Prize to Éric Moulines, professor at the Centre for Applied Mathematics, for his major contributions in statistical inference, in particular on hidden Markov chains and non-linear filtering.
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17.03.21
Covid-19: An update on research, a year after the first lockdown in France
The month of March marked the anniversary of a nationwide lockdown in France, decided by the government to stem the pandemic of Covid-19, which...
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17.03.21
Rigid and viscous, the truth about white blood cells
Credits : Julien Husson, LadHyX, https://cellmechanics.jimdofree.com/ In the continuation of their research on the physical properties of cells...
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26.02.21
“Emotional" algorithms for artworks
Recognizing images A key problem in computer science is teaching computers to “understand” images. Traditionally this means developing algorithms that...
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26.02.21
First laureate of the "CFM Women in quantitative finance" grant
First winner of the "CFM Women in Quantitative Finance" thesis grant from the " Econophysics & Complex systems" Chair, Cécilia Aubrun is a young...
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24.02.21
A miniature gas sensor based on carbon nanotubes
Image Credits : Salomé Forel "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom": In a founding speech for nanotechnology, physicist Richard Feynman encouraged...
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23.02.21
The blockchain promises are more relevant than the Bitcoin frenzy - Julien Prat, Research Director (CNRS), Crest
The price of bitcoin has experienced a new surge exceeding 50,000 dollars after the car manufacturer Tesla and its founder Elon Musk declared their...
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23.02.21
Discovery of a stellar graveyard
Credits : Nasa/Hubble Globular clusters are extremely dense stellar systems in which the stars are very close together. Eduardo Vitral (X2015) and...
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16.02.21
A nuclear safety issue: Modeling corium fusion
While severe accidents are extremely rare in nuclear power plants, it is nonetheless vital to be able to prevent them and, if they do occur, to manage...
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12.02.21
Understanding space in laboratory
Their dimensions and distances make most astrophysical phenomena inaccessible to experimentation. To better understand them, researchers use...
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27.01.21
Salt caverns to store hydrogen?
Deep underground, France hides deposits of crystallized salts over a large part of its territory. In total, more than 20,000km² of salt, hundreds of...
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27.01.21
A MOOC on the challenges of renewable energies for the power grid
Variable renewable energies such as wind and solar power are expected to become the main contributors to the world's power systems as a large number...