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Response boxes revolutionize physics classes

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:17:51 +0200

Full professor-researchers in physics at UPMC have decided to provide their students with remote response boxes to answer questions during lectures. The objective is to measure directly the students’ understanding of the key points in their classes.

How does it work? When a difficult concept is discussed during a class, the professor asks a multiple choice question to the students, who then answer individually and anonymously using a response box. The teacher therefore has real-time information ...

Alessandra Carbone, Grammaticakis-Neuman Prize winner

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:16:55 +0200

A full professor at UPMC’s Department of Computer Science and director of the Genomics of Microorganisms Laboratory (CNRS/UPMC), Alessandra Carbone received the Grammaticakis-Neuman Prize, given by the French Academy of Science. This prize, awarded every two years, rewards the best work in a field, in this case, “Integrative Biology”.

Winner of the Joliot-Curie prize in 2010, Alessandra Carbone obtained her PhD in mathematics at New-York University. Specialized in the relationship between mathematics ...

Sylvia Serfaty, Henri Poincaré Prize winner

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:01:42 +0200

Sylvia Serfaty, a full professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University since 2007 and member of the Jacques-Louis Lions Laboratory, received the Henri Poincaré Prize on August 6th during the 17th International Congress of Mathematical Physics.

Awarded to three individuals every three years, the Henri Poincaré Prize is given for outstanding contributions to mathematical physics but also to recognize and support young people who have already made outstanding contributions to the field.

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CERN observes new particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson

Mon, 9 Jul 2012 15:08:33 +0200

“We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature”

At a seminar held at CERN on July 4th as a curtain raiser to the year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long-sought Higgs particle. Both experiments observe a new particle in the mass region around 125-126 GeV.

“We observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around ...