Auguste Gires published a new book he co-authored with his children Nathanaël and Nikita. It corresponds to 50 scientific experiments which you can do with raw material available at home. It is entitled “50 EXPÉRIENCES SCIENTIFIQUES pour les petits physiciens du week-end” and is published by Delachaux et Niestlé. The press release can be found...
Auguste Gires was interviewed by SceauxMag, the monthly journal of the city of Sceaux. A participatory project about pictures highlighting the variability at various scales of the weather in Sceaux and how citizens cope with it is notably discussed. The full interview can be found here (in French).
On March 23rd, Angel Garcia Gago, PhD student at HM&Co, was invited to give a seminar at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) as part of the Meteorology and Geophysics Master seminars. His seminar was entitled “Space-time variability of small-scale wind fields: Simulations and transfer to the calculation of torque in wind turbines” and provided an...
Jerry Jose defended his PhD entitled “Independent and joint multifractal characterization of atmospheric variability in real and controlled environments” on 22 March 2023. The international jury was composed of : TEN VELDHUIS Marie-Claire, Delft University of Technology OBLIGADO Matin, Université Grenoble Alpes MARO Denis, IRSN WANG Li-Pen, National Taiwan University TCHIGUIRINSKAIA Ioulia, École nationale des ponts...
Xin Li defended her PhD entitled “Multifractal intermittency of forced and free turbulence studied with the gyroscope cascade model” on 21 December 2022. The international jury was composed of : FRAEDRICH Klaus, Max Planck Institute Hamburg CAMBON Claude, Ecole Centrale de Lyon LEE Jisun, Pukyong National University LARSENEUR Julien, Bouygues Construction TCHIGUIRINSKAIA Ioulia, École nationale...
Science enables to enjoy the simple beauty of nature. Here, our experimental site located on ENSG roof of the Carnot building on our campus enjoyed a nice sunset on 12 / 13 / 2022. We can notably see the disdrometers of the TARANIS platform as well as small scale highly instrumented green roofs. Picture by...
Auguste Gires defended his HDR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) on 14 October 2022. The international jury was composed of – Vazken Andréassian, INREA – Remko Uijlenhoet, Delft University of Technology – François G. Schmitt, CNRS/Univ. Lille/ULCO – Ana Maria Tarquis Alfonso, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid – Ana Mijic, Imperial College London – Cécile Mallet,...
EOS, Science News by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), published on the 21 July 2022 a discussion by Daniel Schertzer (École des Ponts ParisTech, ; also at Imperial College London) and Catherine Nicolis (Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique) on the significance of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Celebrating 200 years of the presentation of Navier’s memoir on fluid motion to the Academy of Sciences (18 March 1822): Imagining the microcosm to know the macrocosm! 18 March 2022, 14:00-16:00 (CEST) Organised by Ecole des Ponts ParisTech in partnership with the GDR Navier-Stokes 2.00 of the CNRS and the Division of Non-Linear Physics of Société Française de...
Aurore, a powerful autumn storm, hit the North of France during the night from Wednesday 20 to Thursday 21 October 2021. Strong winds were reported and they resulted in damages. Anemometers operated by HM&Co also measured strong winds with peak value 102 km/h at the ENPC campus and 118 km/h at the RW-Turb measurement campaign...