Directeur :
Thierry Dauxois
EventsThis international workshop will gather experimental, numerical and theoretical experts working in various fields: Optics, Convection, Turbulence, Fracture, Noise and Fluctuations... This workshop will be an opportunity to celebrate Sergio Ciliberto's 60th birthday.
This international conference gathers every two years the community of scientists involved in the study of turbulence, from fundamental physics issues to applied fluid mechanics.
HighlightsThe study of waves instability in stratified fluids, by Baptiste Bourget, has been selected as Focus on Fluid by Journal of Fluid Mechanics, where the article with T. Dauxois, S. Joubaud et P. Odier has been published.
Tommaso Roscilde and an international team of researchers have just published in the review Nature a paper on properties of quantum particles in the presence of disorder.
The "Washboard road" experiment of Baptiste Percier, Nicolas Taberlet and Sébastien Manneville following the publication of their article in Phys. Rev. E. A CNRS press release and a Focus of the magazine "Pour la Science" have also been devoted to this work.
The work of a team from the laboratory has been selected among the 10 major scientific breakthroughs of the year 2012 in Physics World's ranking.
A collaboration involving Pascal Degiovanni and several researchers from three different laboratories (Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Laboratoire de Photonique et Nanostructures, Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon) succeeded in producing quantum interferences between two electrons originating from different sources.
Defences"Dynamique d'un empilement granulaire : instabilité de tôle ondulée et fluage d'une colonne de grains", June 28th Juin, 2pm in amphi A.
Link to pasts events (in French)
The activities of the Physics Laboratory at ENS Lyon cover various fields, from quantum gravity to the prospects for air treatment by cold plasma in hospitals, accurate results for Hamiltonian systems to acoustic volcanic vents, internet traffic to physical systems exhibiting long-range interactions, to name a few examples. This multidisciplinary approach is particularly fostered by the strong association with the physics teaching activity at ENS Lyon.
The diversity of topics studied allows this laboratory to tackle old problems and emerging ones combining modeling and experiments at the highest level. Internal expertise in the laboratory can rely on a ground of exact results, on the most advanced numerical approaches, and on experiments that keep inventing new tools.
The research topics of the laboratory can be gathered into eight themes, following the presentation made in the last activity report 2005-2009:
Mathematical Physics |
Condensed Matter |
Statistical physics and complex systems |
Signal and infophysics |
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Soft Matter |
Hydrodynamics |
Biophysics |
Geophysics |
From an administrative standpoint, the laboratory is organized into four research teams (see the banner at the top of the page, as well as the organization chart of the laboratory), which only partially overlap with the above splitting into themes. Some research topics, such as statistical physics and geophysics, are transverse to the teams.
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