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Tutorial and Workshop “Secured Distribution of Time and space-born Sytems” (13-15 november 2024, Université Grenoble Alpes)

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FIRST-TF co-organizes, with the Centre Spatial Universitaire de Grenoble (CSUG), a tutorial and workshop on “Secured Distribution of Time and space-born Sytems”. This event will take place the 13th (afternoon), 14th and 15th (morning) of November 2024 on the campus of Université Grenoble Alpes.  Detailed program, details and registration (free-of-charge but mandatory) are available  here.

Application Deadlin : March 18, 2024 – FIRST-TF Call for projects 2024

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The 2024 FIRST-TF call for project is now open. DUe to the end of the current LabEx funding note the unusual terms of the call:
This year, the funding from FIRST-TF will be exclusively for projects already funded previously by FIRST-TF and involving:
– extending contract of post-doc / young researcher, currently employed by CNRS and previously funded by FIRST-TF, for a maximum of 30k€. A full cost simulation is required, and the extension cannot lead to an end of contract later thanJune 30th 2025.
– equipment or small material for Research/Service/Teaching for an existing project previously funded by FIRST-TF (repair, extension, upgrade,…). New operation of teaching/outreach are, however, accepted. The maximum per project is 15k€ and a quote is required. Billing will need to occur before June 30th 2025.

=> Text of the call

=> Reply form

for requests, contact: ao@first-tf.com

Assistant professor position, Sorbonne Université, SYRTE laboratory, Paris (section 30).

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The Systèmes de Référence Temps-Espace (SYRTE) laboratory carries out research in the field of fundamental astronomy, time and frequency metrology and sensor, and history of astronomy. A pioneering institution in their deveopment, it studies different types of cold-atom-based quantum sensors: microwave clocks, optical clocks and inertial sensors (gyrometers, gravimeters, gradiometers, chip-scale interformeters). These sensors have demonstrated a remarkable efficiency for realizing measurement instruments of unprecedented performances, for innovative applications in different disciplinary fields: geophysics, fundamental metrology, tests of fundamental laws of physics, positionning and navigation. In order to overcome sensitivity limits of these sensors, or improve their compactnes to turn them into transportable devices, it is important to utilize ressources offered by quantum mechanics, which have been, so far, little exploited for space-time measurement. These protocols include, as exemples, optimal quantum control, non-demolition measurement and preparation of squeezed states for measurement beyond the standard quantum limit, or even entanglement between different sensors. The SYRTE laboratory wants to hire an Assistant Professor in  quantum physics to work in the specific domain of quantum protocoles applied to cold atoms sensors, in order to improve their limits in terms of sensitivity, and strengthen its position in ahighly competitive domain at the international scale.

Candidates (M/F) may contact the relevant group leaders::

– Optical Frequancy Metrology: contact Jérôme Lodewyck (jerome.lodewyck@obspm.fr)

– Atomic Interferometry and inertial sensors: contact Franck Pereira Dos Santos (Franck.Pereira@obspm.fr)

– Microwave references and timescales: contact Stéphane Guérandel (stephane.guerandel@obspm.fr)

or the director of the SYRTE laboratory: Arnaud Landragin (arnaud.landragin@obspm.fr)

FIRST-TF Calls for projects 2020 are opened ; deadline April 10th 2020 [Update COVID19]

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The FIRST-TF calls for projects 2020 are now opened. The deadline is April 3rd 2020 April 10th 2020 [Update COVID 19].

IMPORTANT: this year, we introduce 2 parralel calls. The usual “one-year project” call, and in addition, a new “multi-year project” call. There is two distincts forms for these two calls.

The texts of the calls and the forms to fill-in can be downloaded here :

[note COVID 19: in case of difficulties in transmitting the “signature pages”, an email to contact@first-tf.fr from the direction of the structure involved will also be accepted]

“One-year project” call 2020 ; “One-year project” form 2020

“Multi-year projects” call 2020 ; “Multi-years projects” form 2020

REFIMEVE+ General Assembly, 1-2 April 2020 in Grenoble (France) [UPDATE COVID19: event Postponed]

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The REFIMEVE+ project (fiber network of frequency reference distribution at ultra-high performance ) will take placeat the LIPhy laboratory (Grenoble) the 1st et 2nd of Avril 2020 [COVID19 : the event is postponed].

This general assembly is opened to  REFIMEVE partners and every people interested in joining the project.

An on-line registration form and a preliminary program will be distributed soon.

Important subjects that will be discussed are : progress of the network, realization and performance of the Paris-Grenoble link, connexion between the Refimeve+ network and Italy, on-going applications.