Grégoire Chambaz Date: Thursday 16 May 2019 – 11.30am-1.30pm Location: Inria Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes – Grand Amphi ; TAG line C1 Summary: A blackout is the interruption of a region’s electricity supply. It is a phenomenon little known to the general public, but feared by specialists. The consequences of such…
Olivier Vidal Date: Thursday 11 April – 11.30am-1.30pm Location: Inria Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes – Grand Amphi ; TAG line C1 Summary: The energy transition requires the construction of new infrastructures for the production, storage, transport and use of energy, which consume many ‘basic’ raw materials and rarer substances. The production…
Sophie Giffard-Roisin 28 January 2019 Summary:By establishing collaborations with experts in specific fields, we can use the power of artificial intelligence to help make diagnoses, and also to find concrete, local solutions for our societies. I will first talk about my doctoral work in medical imaging and non-invasive cardiac techniques…
Emmanuel Prados 21 January 2019 Summary:Humanity is currently facing unprecedented and intertwined challenges. We now hear daily talk of environmental, financial, debt, economic, monetary, political, democratic, social, refugee and geopolitical ‘crises’. How can we understand and interpret this accumulation of difficulties? Are they temporary or are they due to deeper…
Description du projet La question des limites de la croissance de nos sociétés modernes a été soulevée à grande échelle pour la première fois tant dans le milieu scientifique que dans le grand public par la publication du « rapport Meadows » (Limits to Growth, Universe Books, 1972), il y…
Changes in land use and land cover are one of the main drivers of global change. As such, they are frequently modelled in the environmental sciences in order to assess their impact on ecosystems or their contribution to climate change, and to inform public decision-makers in regional planning about the…
Francoise Berthoud Date / time : 15 November 2018 – 11:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m. Place : Inria Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes – Grand Amphi ; Ligne TAG C1 Summary : For over 10 years, digital technology has been widely promoted as a technological solution to the energy transition and, more generally,…
Benoit Pelopidas Date / time : 9 October 2018 – 11:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m. Place : Inria Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes – Grand Amphi ; Ligne TAG C1 Summary : In 2018, there are more than 14,000 nuclear weapons systems in the world; most nuclear-weapon states are in the process of…
Frédéric Thomas Date / time : 12 June 2018 – 11:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m. Place : Inria Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes – Grand Amphi ; Ligne TAG C1 Summary : Over the course of the 20th century, scientific practices have slowly turned genetic resources into a public good, circulating more or…
