It’s September … also known as “Academic New Year”: new classes, new students … and, once in a while, also a new colleague. This year, I’m thrilled to welcome dr. Kevin Jiokeng, who will be joining my group as an…
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It’s summer…which means that while our engineering and graduate students are leaving campus, we’ve got an occasion to spend important quality time with our PhD students and colleagues, and make (attempts at) leap and bounds on our scientific production ……
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Last Wednesday, Michela Meo from Politecnico di Torino paid a visit to Ecole Polytechnique – she was in town for, in her own words, “one of the small research-related things I still get to do” … a somewhat intimidating statement, given…
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Any business traveler will recognise this: you arrive, tired after a long flight…take a shuttle to your hotel, where you queue to check in, and do all sorts of formalities including most commonly showing picture ID, having your credit card…
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Science rocks. Working at a multi-disciplinary research university also rocks – because, it means unrestricted access to serious science publications. Such as this gem, which roughly states that my cats love cuddling up with their pet human (=me) more than…
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