JST and the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche; “ANR”) concluded a Framework Agreement in December 2017.

The purpose of this Agreement is to foster Japanese-French collaboration in scientific research and to fund joint research projects conducted by Japanese and French partners eligible for funding from each agenc on:
Quantum technology: Creation of an innovative quantum technology platform based on the advanced control of quantum states

The full description of the two areas is appended to the document on the national regulations for French applicants.

The proposals should be led by a Japanese PI and a French PI and will be evaluated via a peer-review procedure by JST and ANR. The call is open to public and private partners.

The average ANR funding will be around 500 k€ per project depending on the number of partners and the ambition of the project, for a 5-year duration.

The JST-CREST call will be launched at a later date for non-joint proposals but the Japanese-French consortia must have submitted their proposals to ANR website before April 16th, 10AM CET.

⇒ More information: http://anr.fr/CREST-2018

Mehdi Langlois will defend his thesis on 21st of December at 15:00 on the subject “Design and realisation of a cold atom gravity gradiometer”, realized in SYRTE under the direction of Franck Pereira dos Santos and the supervision of Sébastien Merlet.

The defense will take place in the amphitheater of the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), in front of a jury composed of Christophe Daussy, Laurence Pruvost, Saïda Guellati-Khélifa, Philippe Bouyer and Bruno Desruelle. The entrance will be at 77 avenue Denfer-Rochereau, 75014 Paris.

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April 9th to 12th, 2018 at conference centre of the Museo dell’Automobile in Torino (Italy).

The European Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF) is an international conference and exhibition, providing information on recent advances and trends of scientific research and industrial development in the fields of Frequency and Time.

Authors are invited to submit abstracts of recent and original work of interest to the frequency control communities in the following topics:

• Group 1: Materials, Resonators & Resonator Circuits
• Group 2: Oscillators, Synthesizers, Noise, & Circuit Techniques
• Group 3: Microwave Frequency Standards & Applications
• Group 4: Sensors & Transducers
• Group 5: Timekeeping, Time and Frequency Transfer, GNSS Applications
• Group 6:  Optical Frequency Standards and Applications

Abstracts will be collected through a web-based submission tool.

Abstract Submission deadline: December 22nd, 2017

=> Details on abstract submission and conference information.

Meropi Morfoulie will defend her thesis on 12th December 2017 at 2:30 pm on the subject “From precision in time measurement to the theory of universal gravity (1630-1740)”, realized at SYRTE laboratory under the direction of Christian Bracco and Efthymios Nicolaidis.

The defence will take place in Lecturing hall L 361, ENS, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris.

Denis Savoie will defend his thesis on 24th November 2017 at 2 pm on the subject “Continuous and interleaved operation of a cold atom gyroscope and improvement of its stability”, realized at SYRTE laboratory under the direction of Arnaud Landragin and co-supervised by Remi Geiger.

The defense will take place in the main amphitheater of the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris.

Romain Bouchand will defend his thesis on 21st November 2017 at 4 pm on the subject “Optical frequency comb-based ultralow phase noise photonic microwave generation”, realized at SYRTE laboratory under the direction of Yann Lecoq.

The defense will take place in the main amphitheater of the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris.

The defense will be in english.

Slawomir Bilicki will defend his thesis on 10th November 2017 at 2 pm on the subject “Strontium optical lattice clocks: clock comparisons for timescales and fundamental physics applications”, realized at SYRTE laboratory under direction of Sébastien Bize and supervised by Jérôme Lodewyck.

The defense will take place in the main amphitheater of the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris.

The defense will be in english.

Carolina Cárdenas will defend her thesis on 20th october 2017 at Politecnico di Torino (Torino, Italy) on the subject “Digital Instrumentation for the Measurement of High Spectral Purity Signals”. This work has been done in FEMTO-ST Intsitute under the supervision of Enrico Rubiola.

The defense will be in english.

Maxime Favier will defend his thesis on 11th october 2017 at IAP (Paris) at 14:00 on the subject “Mercury optical lattice clock: from high-resolution spectroscopy to frequency ratio measurements”, realized at the SYRTE under the direction of Sébastien Bize and supervised by Sébastien Bize and Luigi De Sarlo.

The defense will take place in room “Salle des séminaires” of the “Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris” (IAP) located 98 bis boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, in front of a jury composed of Martina Knoop, Leonardo Fallani, Thomas Udem, Philippe Grangier and Jean-Michel Raimond.

The defense will be in english.

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