n°28I qUarterlyI JanUary 2013 CNRS Networks | 35 w india china w w The Sino-French program A new French-Indian International Joint Unit (UMI) in for environment and mathematics was set up in sustainable development cooperation with the Indianministry (SEED) held its 5th annual ofscience andtechnology.the seminar, focused on key Indo-frenchcenter forapplied environmental issues for mathematics (Ifcam), which will be marine coastal ecosystems, in based at the Indian Institute of montpellier (france) last science inbangalore, will provide a october.more than 80 people joint platform for applied attended the two-day event, EMING mathematics projects in numerous which was jointly organized Ka fields including computing, statistical bycnrs and thechinese qcas researchers, © physics, and biology.french partners academy ofsciences (cas). talent Innovation program— laureates of includecnrs, the École Polytechnique, created in 2008,seeD is a developed by thefrenchembassy in francetalent ens Paris, Inria (national Institute for pluridisplinary program that aims to china to identify potential partners— Innovation, during the 2012 seminar research incomputerscience and federatefrench-chinese cooperation took part in the event. inmontpellier. control), and the universities of for the environment and sustainable nice-sophia-antipolis and Paul- development. contact InformatIon:catherine.bastien-ventura sabatier intoulouse. the laureates of the 2012france > catherine.bastien-ventura@cnrs-dir.fr aLTo Exotic Nuclei in Action BY VahÉ termInassIan Thismorning,theoperatorsarework- wayfortomorrow’sphysicsofexoticnu- ingonsilver-128nuclei,a“veryneutron- clei. Funded to the tune of €1 million w rich isotope involved in certain stellar byanumberofFrenchpublicentities,2In its shielded cave at the heart of the TANDEM accelerator building,at processes,”explainsaLTo’sleadscientist the installation is scheduled for orsay’s Institute of Nuclear Physics DavidVerney.Theaccelerator—practi- inauguration in March 2013. Not (IPNorsay),1theaLTofacilityisalreadyup callytheonlyoneofitskind—pavesthe only will it provide physicists with a and running. Twenty-four hours a day, wealth of eagerly-awaited results, it operatorsseatedattwoconsolescontrol shouldalsogivethemvaluableexpertise its first production of extraterrestrial in the techniques to be used nuclei.Theseelements,alsoknownas in next-generation facilities like exoticnuclei,whicharetoounstableor SPIRaL2,currentlyunderconstructionat radioactivetoexistonEarthinthenatu- theGanilLaboratoryinCaen. ral state, are found in stars and Each year, some 50 physicists and supernovae. astrophysicistswillbeinvitedtoworkat Researchintoexoticnucleihaslong thelaboratoryheadedbyFaiçalazaiez, beenlimitedbythefactthattheseiso- inanefforttoadvanceourunderstand- topescouldonlybeproducedinminute ingofexoticnuclei—especiallyofnew quantities. aLTo represents a decisive neutron-rich nuclei, several dozens of step towards solving this problem. by whichwillbestudiedbyaLToforthevery usingatypeof“gun”tobombardstreams firsttime. of electrons onto uranium-238 pellets 01.Institutdephysiquenucléaired’orsay(IN2P3-CNRS/ heatedtoover2000°C,theaccelerator UniversitéParisSud). 02. Ile-de-Franceregion,theEssonnedépartement, generatesthenucleiintheformofara- theFrenchMinistryofResearch,andCNRS. dioactiveionbeam.Enoughnucleiare produced to enable specialists, using twosetsofmeasuringinstruments,to /IPN/CNRS contactInformatIon : structure,lifetime,andother ETI electron > verney@ipno.in2p3.frDavid Verney's linearrsay.o,n-IPaltoaltoqNzoproperties,fundamentaltheirdetermine including characteristics. © accelerator.
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