MaNEP in media

MaNEP in “Horizons”

MaNEP appears in “Horizons” this month, the Swiss National Science Foundation magazine. The article talks about NCCR. It underlines how the collaboration between researchers is important as well as with industry. MaNEP is mentioned as an example of success.
[ read the article ]

Awards

Vivien Lecomte awarded

The “Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical” has recently announced Vivien Lecomte, Julien Tailleur and Jorge Kurchan, as winners of the 2009 Best Paper Prize. The paper, entitled “Mapping out-of-equilibrium into equilibrium in one-dimensional transport models”,was chosen as it excelled in novelty, achievement, potential impact and presentation.

Congratulations to Vivien Lecomte who is working in Prof. Thierry Giamarchi’s research team at the University of Geneva.
[ read the article ]

The SPS OC Oerlikon award

Stefano Gariglio, Nicolas Reyren and Andrea Caviglia in the group of Jean-Marc Triscone have recently received the Swiss Physical Society (SPS) OC Oerlikon award (one of the SPS prize) for the exceptional quality of their work on the superconducting interfaces. Congratulations !
For more information about their work, see article in scientific highlights.

Science meetings and conference

Conference "Life and Space Sciences"
By Donald Pettit, astronaut

Donald Pettit, a NASA astronaut who, among other things, stayed during several months on the international space station will deliver a conference entitled "Life and Space Sciences. Living far from our Planet : Scientific, Physiological and Psychological Stakes".

Conference will be followed by an aperitif.

Date : September 29, 2009 at 17h
Place : Ecole de physique, grand auditoire, quai Ernest-Ansermet 24, Geneva.

Tech Transfer

"Piezo-Pinch"
Unigap supports researchers

University of Geneva, trough its technology transfer service called Unitec, has a new fund, Unigap, which aims to help researchers to bring their scientific discoveries to practical applications.

Prof. Christoph Renner, MaNEP deputy director, is one of the first two researchers to have benefited from this fund, with the "Piezo-pinch" technology, allowing one to measure deformations at a nanometre scale using an electrical resistance measurement. It is a particularly sensitive sensor that could be applied in various sectors.

"Piezo-Pinch" has been co-invented by: Prof. Christoph Renner, Alistair Rowe (Ecole Polytechnique de Palaiseau) and Steve Arscott (Institut d’électronique de microélectronique et de nanotechnologie de Lille).

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