| In the News cnrs I international w 4 magazine 2014 Scientific Fi lm Festival: Submit your Entry w Launched in 1997, and operating in its current form since 2008, the Researcher’s Film Festival (Festival du Film de Chercheur) has been a tremendous success, drawing more than 5000 viewers in 2012. Hosted jointly by CNRS and Lorraine University for the stated purpose of promoting research findings and making them better known, understood, and appreciated, the event makes imagery, in the form of scientific films, the focal point for contact and dialogue between researchers and the general public. In 2013, the Festival went “on the road,” giving researchers and filmmakers the opportunity to meet the public and show their films in some 20 cities and towns throughout the Lorraine region (eastern France). In 2014, a best film competition will be held during the Festival, which will take place in the city of Nancy on June 10-15. The competition is open to all researchers worldwide. If you are a researcher and have actively participated in writing, directing, or producing a scientific film, please submit your entry. The only restriction is that all foreign films must be subtitled in French. The official call for submissions will be posted on the festival’s website on September 15, 2013, along with registration forms and participation conditions. Prizewinners will be announced in June 2014 in Nancy. online:. > www.filmdechercheur.eu > contact@filmdechercheur.eu w On April 12, a building endowed with remarkable properties was inaugurated at CN RS’s Institut Néel in Grenoble, in the presence of France’s Minister of Higher Education and Research Geneviève Fioraso, and CN RS Chief Research Officer Joël Bertrand. Dedicated to research in nanoscience, the facility is designed to reduce as much as possible the effects of mechanical vibration and of electrical, acoustic, thermal, hygrometric, and magnetic interference on experiments carried out on site. The building, which is unique in Europe, represents an investment of €17 million and is a key asset for research in fields as diverse as quantum information, crystal growth, microscopy, optics, and nanofabrication. q Opening ceremony (bottom) of the nanoscience building (top) at the Institut Néel on April 12. © institut néel-CNRS Alp es-servic e communicati on Patrick Couvreur, European Inventor of the Year… w On May 28 in Amsterdam (Netherlands), biopharmacist Patrick Couvreur and his team from CN RS and the Paris-Sud University received the European Patent Office’s European Inventor Award. They won the accolade for their pioneering work on drug delivery nanocapsules. In 2012, Patrick Couvreur had already been awarded the CN RS Medal of Innovation. …and Other Awards w The economist Thomas Piketty from PSE1 received the Finnish Yrjö Jahnsson Award for his original contributions to economics, specifically the study of inequality and mobility. Antoine Joux, a researcher at the “Parallelism, Networks, Systems and Modeling” laboratory,2 was awarded the Gödel Prize for his cryptography model. He is the second French researcher to receive the prize, which rewards outstanding work in theoretical computer science. 01. Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (CNRS / EHESS / ENS / École des ponts ParisTech / Inra). 02. CNRS / UVSQ. q Patrick Couvreur receiving the European Inventor Award. q Thomas Piketty (left) and Antoine Joux (right). A New Home for Nanoscience © F. Janin /CNRS Phototh èqu e © M. Finias z © M. Kooren/EIA
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