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Portrait de Anna Erschler, lauréate de la Médaille d'Argent 2020 du CNRS, chercheuse en mathématiques au Département de mathématiques et applications à l'ENS Paris, spécialisée dans la théorie géométrique des groupes et marches aléatoires.

The Youtube channel Zeste de science explores all aspects of scientific research, proving that even the most complicated scientific facts can be explained in less than 5 minutes, and that even the most seemingly trivial events of everyday life, if thoroughly studied, can contribute to the biggest technological advances. Episode 25: Can we predict the behaviour of a crowd evacuating a room? To understand this phenomenon, scientists have created mathematical…

The battle of Marignano in 1515 is one of the most famous episodes of the Italian wars. What is not well known is that to get to the battlefield, Francis I of France ordered his 40,000 men to cross the Alps in armour, so that they would be ready and equipped in case of an enemy attack. Historians, biomechanists and 3D imaging specialists from the CNRS have joined forces to reproduce this extraordinary journey. For example, researchers dressed in armour that is similar to that worn in the 16th…

Portrait Anne-Laure Dalibard lauréate de la Médaille de Bronze 2018 du CNRS. Enseignante-chercheuse en mathématiques, spécialiste des phénomènes multi-échelles en océanographie et plus généralement en mécanique des fluides, au Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions. Elle bénéficie depuis 2015 d'une bourse ERC Starting Grant pour le projet BLOC qui a pour but d'analyser différents types de couches limites intervenant dans l'analyse des courants océaniques.

At the Institut Henri Poincaré, the exhibition "Esthétopies, variétés d'espaces sensibles" (esthetopies, varieties of sensitive spaces) has the ambitious goal of sharing the fascinating beauty of non-Euclidian geometry with the general public. This project originated from the initiative of Pierre Berger, a former student of Decorative Arts, now a mathematician specialising in three-dimension spaces. Inspired as much by Man Ray's writings as by the work of William Thurston, he designed a…

The 2016 CNRS Gold Medal was awarded to the mathematician Claire Voisin. This distinction came as recognition for her major contributions to Complex Algebraic Geometry. Famous for her original and multifarious research, she won numerous rewards and has achieved exceptional international credit. In this portrait, Claire Voisin takes a look back on her career and enthuses over the endless questions raised by mathematics. As a CNRS researcher for more than thirty years and rewarded on many…