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Sur les pas de savants genevois du 18e

Jérôme Baudry, Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu, Simon François Dumas Primbault

Sophie Iselin vous emmène en direction du sommet du Mont Buet, à plus de 3'000 mètres d'altitude, partager le parcours et reproduire les expériences de scientifiques qui ont pris les premières mesures en montagne au 18e siècle. Reportage en compagnie de St ...

2022

Expérimenter avec l’histoire. Comprendre les savoirs passés par la pratique et le terrain

Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu, Simon François Dumas Primbault

Depuis deux décennies, les historien.ne.s des sciences et des savoirs ont entrepris de mettre l’archive en pratique en répliquant des instruments scientifiques, des expériences ou des expéditions. Comme les géographes du XIXè siècle qui ont sorti leur disc ...

2021

Toward catchment hydro-biogeochemical theories

Andrea Rinaldo, Paolo Benettin, Ilja van Meerveld, Li Li

Headwater catchments are the fundamental units that connect the land to the ocean. Hydrological flow and biogeochemical processes are intricately coupled, yet their respective sciences have progressed without much integration. Reaction kinetic theories tha ...

WILEY2020

L'examen savant des inventions. Claude-Pierre Molard à l'Académie des sciences, 1815-1837

Jérôme Baudry

Le 8 mai 1815, Claude-Pierre Molard, alors administrateur du Conservatoire des arts et métiers, est élu dans la section de mécanique de la première classe de l’Institut (la première classe retrouvera, dès l’année suivante, son autonomie en tant qu’Académie ...

2019

The Intellectual Organisation of History

Giovanni Colavizza

A tradition of scholarship discusses the characteristics of different areas of knowledge, in particular after modern academia compartmentalized them into disciplines. The academic approach is often put to question: are there two or more cultures? Is an eve ...

EPFL2018

Penser (par) la carte

Carole Thérèse Lanoix

What do Marine Drive and Shibuya have in common? Both the long promenade at the southern end of Mumbai, and the gigantic pedestrian crossing in the heart of the Japanese capital, are places where one walks. This thesis discusses places of convergence and o ...

EPFL2017

On unique solvability of the full three-dimensional Ericksen-Leslie system

Tudor Ratiu

In this paper, we study the full three-dimensional Ericksen-Leslie system of equations for the nematodynamics of liquid crystals. We announce the short-time existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for the initial value problem in the periodic case and ...

Elsevier2016

An online intrinsic stabilization strategy for the reduced basis approximation of parametrized advection-dominated problems

Alfio Quarteroni, Andrea Manzoni, Yvon Maday

We propose a new, black-box online stabilization strategy for reduced basis (RB) approximations of parameter-dependent advection-diffusion problems in the advection-dominated case. Our goal is to stabilize the RB problem irrespectively of the stabilization ...

Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier2016

Mobilité et territoires de vie des aînés

Dominique Von Der Mühll

Conserver son autonomie le plus longtemps possible fait partie des plus importants souhaits des personnes âgées. Pouvoir rester dans son logement en est une première condition. Pouvoir se déplacer de manière autonome hors de son logement en est une autre, ...

EPFL, EESP, IUMSP2016

Polariton interactions in semiconductor microcavities

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud

In this review, we will try to summarize the results that we have obtained on the measurement of polariton interactions. We will describe here the samples, the experimental systems and some of the important results. We will also give a few highlights on th ...

Elsevier2016

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