NASA’s Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft is on track for a soft touchdown on the surface of the Red Planet on Nov. 26, the Monday after Thanksgiving. But it’s not going to be a relaxing weekend of turkey leftovers, football and shopping for the InSight mission team. Engineers will be keeping a […]
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The goal of this workshop, organised the 10th of December by the Paris Center of Cosmological Physics, the Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie and the GdR “ondes gravitationnelles”, is to explore the implications of past and future gravitational waves observations on modified gravity theories. During the session of the morning review talks about theory and past and future gravitational-wave observations will […]
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The researchers of UnivEarthS team I6 : From dust to planets actively participated in the preparation of the Bepi Columbo mission, to study the interior of Mercury through the theme “Differentiation, inner structure and geological evolution of terrestrial planets”. To learn more about the mission, CNES is organizing a “Space Tuesday”: November 20, 2018 – BepiColombo: Unveiling Mercury Launched in […]
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The 6th edition of the “Rencontres Jeunes Physiciens” (RJP) from Ile de France will take place at the Collège de France on Friday 23 November 2018. The objective of these Meetings is to bring together the community of young physics researchers from Ile de France for a day of colloquium organized by and for them. This day allows everyone […]
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APC laboratory is happy to welcome Albert Stebbins (Fermilab) on Friday this week. Al kindly accepted to give a colloquium entitled “Spectroscopic Count Intensity Interferometry with Extremely Large Telescopes” (abstract below), in 454A at 11am on Friday, October 26. Title: Optical Intensity Interferometry (Hanbury Brown Twiss) is an astronomical imaging technique that was used to make the first direct measurement of stellar diameters. The technique was abandoned […]
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