Contact a satellite in orbit around the Earth is simple … on paper. In practice, it is important to prepare well in advance, and of course to get the necessary permissions. To ensure optimal use of radio waves in France, the National Agency for Frequencies (ANFR) is in charge of regulating radiofrequency emissions in the territory. It supervises the authorizations […]
» Read morePhysics professor in the Paul Eluard high school of Saint Denis, Mohamed El Abed attended the UnivEarthS Fall School 2015 on the theme “Phase changes and eruptions in the Universe.” His involvement and interest were noted by stakeholders, and himself came back enthusiastic after the seminar. “Conferences of quality high-level stakeholders and discussions I had with them opened my eyes […]
» Read moreClaude Jaupart, director of IPGP and of UnivEarthS, was awarded the 2015 Harry H. Hess Medal at the AGU Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 16 December 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. The medal is for “outstanding achievements in research on the constitution and evolution of the Earth and other planets.” Citation Claude Jaupart has made major contributions […]
» Read moreWhile 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 […]
» Read moreThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass” Neutrinos are elementary particles, present everywhere in large quantities, and have played an important role in the evolution of the Universe. They are very […]
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