Focus 2021 Une année au coeur du LAAS-CNRS
Kathleen Belhassein receives the 2022 MSHS-T thesis award
Friday, 28 October, 2022 - 00:00 to 23:30
Kathleen Belhassein, PhD in psychology from the Jean Jaurès University of Toulouse and former PhD student in the RIS team of LAAS-CNRS, has received the 2022 thesis award from the MSHS-T.
Optimizing Internet traffic: a first tool to explore the return paths at the scale of the net
Tuesday, 25 October, 2022 - 00:00 to 23:30
The knowledge of Internet paths allows operators and scientists to better understand its functioning and to solve various problems. With his collaborators, Kévin Vermeulen, a researcher in the SARA team of LAAS-CNRS, has designed, implemented and evaluated the first open solution capable of exploring the return paths on a large scale. These results are presented at the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) on October 25, 2022.
A new mechanism for microplastics to enter the food chain
Friday, 17 June, 2022 - 00:00 to 23:30
Microplastics enter plankton aggregates, which are then ingested by fish and move up the food chain. Scientists from three laboratories in Toulouse were the first to use atomic force microscopy to study the problem. In work published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, they confirmed the existence of a mechanism where the presence of microplastics favors the aggregation of microalgae and discovered a second, previously unknown mechanism.
How spatial confinement regulates cell proliferation
Tuesday, 19 April, 2022 - 00:00 to 23:30
In confined spaces, cells modulate their proliferation through little-known mechanisms. By studying baker's yeast cells, scientists have discovered that an increase in crowding in these cells is linked to a decrease in protein production. Published in Nature Physics, this work presents new avenues for studying solid tumors, which are precisely confined to organs.
Jean-Bernard Lasserre in search of the optimum
Monday, 14 March, 2022 - 00:00 to 23:30
The 2021 Grand Prize of Inria - Académie des sciences, awarded to Jean-Bernard Lasserre for his entire career, is an opportunity to look back at the career of this researcher, the originator of a new method in mathematical optimization that has made him famous.