Workshop on Distributed Computing in Astrophysics, December 10+11, 2015

While the performance of the computing hardware is rapidly evolving the evolution is no more primarily due to development of a single processor but is rather achieved by increase of the number of coordinated processing units. Distributed hardware requires special design of the software, supporting dedicated parallel algorithms, reliable and resilient, capable of handling simultaneous access to large and diverse […]

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Seminar: From Diderot to Big Data – the Power of Knowledge

Stefan Atze (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg) is going to give a seminar about the history of the connection between knowledge and power. The seminar will take place on Tuesday, December 2nd, at 2 pm in the Amphitheater Pierre-Gilles de Gennes at APC. The challenges for contemporary/todays science and research are neither new nor unique. A side glance in the history […]

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Back on the first UnivEarthS Labex brainstorming

On the 1St of July, was held the first UnivEarthS Labex brainstorming at APC laboratory. This informal meeting, open to everybody, aimed to identify new ideas to develop for calls for projects (H2020, CNRS…) while promoting interdisciplinarity. Stavros KATSANEVAS, UnivEarthS co director, launched the meeting by reminding that participants were free to comment on the presentations and highlighted the importance […]

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Review of the Evolution day of the May 16, 2014

Many of you participate in the day about evolution and we thank you for that. In this spotlight file, you will find a photo montage depicting the day, a film where all speakers explain concisely the subject of their talk, and also all the presentations in PDF format and a link to 2D animations. Morning : Instrumental issues for detectionin […]

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Evolution : registration and agenda for UnivEarthS scientific day on Friday 16 May

Registrations for the third UnivEarthS scientific day are opened. The agenda is organized around 3 sessions on the Universe, planets and the Earths, will be accompanied by 3D movies and will be closed by a general CNES talk. Presentations will take place from 10 am to 5 pm at AIM (Saclay, Orme des Merisiers). A bus will be chartered in […]

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