UnivEarthS is pleased to support the international Conference on History of the neutrino, to be held on September 5-7, 2018 in Paris. Neutrinos play an exceptional role as well in particle or nuclear physics as in astrophysics. The purpose of the Conference is to cover the main steps of their History since the brilliant and inspired idea of Pauli in […]
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Professor George Smoot (Université Paris Diderot, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Nazarbayev University, University of California) will give a colloquium entitled “Reinterpreting Low Frequency LIGO/Virgo Events as Gravitationally-Lensed Magnified Stellar-Mass Black Hole Mergers at Cosmological Distances” (abstract below), in Amphitheater Pierre Gilles de Gennes at 11am on Friday, July 6. Title: Reinterpreting Low Frequency LIGO/Virgo Events as Gravitationally-Lensed Magnified Stellar-Mass Black Hole Mergers at Cosmological Distances […]
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A four-week scientific program on extreme explosive events (such as gamma-ray bursts, compact object mergers, core-collapse supernovae) is held at Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale and sponsored by the Ψ2 initiative of the Paris-Saclay University. In this program we aim to bring together and foster interactions between several communities (core collapse supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, neutron star mergers and magnetars). For this […]
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For the documentary Science Grand Format on the sun, Allan-Sacha Brun was interviewed on RFI in the French program “Autour de la question” to answer many questions: How does the sun work? Our star that has shone for 4.5 billion years Should we fear its eruptions? What are these cycles? When will he disappear? Why turn around the sun? […]
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The APC laboratory, one of UnivEarthS’ trustee, is committed to promoting and defending the place of women in science and particularly in physics. The persistence of gender stereotypes in professional careers was the subject of a discussion meeting organised by the Pôle égalité femmes hommes and the association Genera. A glimpse of these stereotypes that have a long life.
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