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The European Research Council funds three young researchers
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22.11.22
The European Research Council funds three young researchers
Fabian Cadiz of the Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Adrien Leblanc of the Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée and Félix Tropf of the Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics have been awarded ERC Starting Grants by the European Research Council to set up research teams in their respective fields.
Atomic scale observation and manipulation of spins in semiconductors
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22.11.22
Atomic scale observation and manipulation of spins in semiconductors
Fabian Cadiz, a researcher at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics, has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council for OneSpin, a project on two-dimensional semiconductors.
Global Student Challenge on Generative Models of Financial Markets
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15.12.21
Global Student Challenge on Generative Models of Financial Markets
The " Generative Modelling for Financial Losses " challenge was attended by nearly 300 students from masters' degrees specialising in finance and data...
Marcel Filoche awarded for his work on localization of waves
Research
23.11.21
Marcel Filoche awarded for his work on localization of waves
Waves, whether they are travelling across the surface of the water or sound waves that reach our ears, generally have the property of propagating and...
Claudine Hermann, renown physicist and fisrt woman appointed professor at the École Polytechnique, passed away
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20.07.21
Claudine Hermann, renown physicist and fisrt woman appointed professor at the École Polytechnique, passed away
Claudine Hermann was the first woman to be appointed as a professor at l’X, a renowned physicist and a champion of the promotion of women in the...
X research in nuclear power: Between fusion and fission
23.02.21
X research in nuclear power: Between fusion and fission
March 11, 2021 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident, which occurred as a result of a tsunami following an earthquake on...
A nuclear safety issue: Modeling corium fusion
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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...
Landry Bretheau: Manipulate Condensed Matter at the Single Fermion Level
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03.09.20
Landry Bretheau: Manipulate Condensed Matter at the Single Fermion Level
For more than a century, Quantum Physics has revolutionized our understanding of nature behavior at small-scale and low-energy. Promising applications...
Landry Bretheau, winner of the 2020 Nicholas Kurti Science Prize
Research
26.03.20
Landry Bretheau, winner of the 2020 Nicholas Kurti Science Prize
Sketch of a one-atom Josephson junction (up left), an Andreev reflexion (bottom left) and a Schrödinger cat synthetized by quantum Zeno dynamics...