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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It took decades of research to accumulate the observations that led to the emergence of the theory of plate tectonics in the late 1960’s. Many contributions participated in its final acceptance — or “birth” — with seminal publications in (1) 1966 on the perfectly symmetrical distributions of magnetic anomalies on either side of the East-Pacific rise by Walter Pitman and […]
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Eric Armengaud (IRFU/DPhP CEA Saclay) kindly accepted to give a colloquium entitled “Dark matter beyond WIMPs : light, warm, fuzzy and others”,at 11am on Friday, June 15, in room 454A of Condorcet building at Université Paris Diderot. Title: Dark matter beyond WIMPs : light, warm, fuzzy and others. Abstract: Many astrophysical and cosmological observations can only be interpreted assuming the existence of a dark matter component in […]
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One year after Pierre Binétruy’s death, all his colleagues wanted to pay tribute to him by making a film called “Intrikation: A portrait of Pierre Binétruy”. The movie was made possible thanks to the testimonies of many researchers, colleagues and friends. It is available with English subtitles. As Director of the APC in 2011, Pierre was one […]
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Sotiris Loucatos, director of the APC laboratory and director of UnivEarthS, is featured this week in the Paris Diderot University research newsletter. You can read the paper in the newsletter Diderot Infos or below : Since January, Sotiris Loucatos has been in charge of the AstroParticule and Cosmology laboratory (Paris Diderot, CNRS, CEA, Paris Observatory) before handing […]
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