Particles in the Dark Universe

A Dark Matter Journey from Particle Physics to Modern Cosmology.

ENS Diploma

The ENS diploma is generally awarded after three years of study at the ENS. Normaliens students obtain their diploma at the end of their period at the ENS, i.e. at the end of the fourth year.

Students arriving in possession of 120 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) will be able to achieve a master's level of study, amounting to a total of 180 ECTS (L3 + M1 + M2).

Doctoral School Astronomy and Astrophysics for Paris Area

The Doctoral School offers physics and mathematics students training in the broad interdisciplinary field of Astronomy and Astrophysics through all of its methods of observation, measurement and computation. 

The subject area continues to grow every year, covering planets to cosmology, using a wide variety of advanced tools preparing for next generation instruments.

Doctoral School ED564 : «Physique en Île-de-France»

École Doctorale 564 Physique en Île-de-France is run by Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL Research University) and co-accredited by Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC) and Paris-Saclay (UPSaclay) universities.

Its scientific field essentially covers the physics of fundamental interactions, the quantum physics of dilute or condensed matter, statistical physics, the physics of soft or biological matter, as well as fundamental aspects of optics, acoustics and hydrodynamics.

Its scientific positioning is that of fundamental, theoretical and experimental physics, and the applications that naturally follow from this.

More than 700 doctoral students carry out their thesis work within the Physics Doctoral School in île de France, which groups together some 40 laboratories spread across Paris Centre and Paris Sud, and more than 800 thesis supervisors.

Bachelor

In partnership with Sorbonne Université and the universities of Paris Cité and Paris-Saclay-Orsay, the physics department welcomes students in their third year of undergraduate studies (after two years of preparatory classes or university studies).

The program is fully in French so the corresponding pages are in French.

Quantum Computing

The goal of this course is to introduce the main concepts and challenges of quantum computing, a new set of technologies and techniques that promise to solve hard computational problems.

 

a quantum circuit
Ultra Cold Atoms

Since the 80’s, laser cooling has enabled the production of sub-milliKelvin dilute atomic gases - which can be further cooled to the nanoKelvin regime.

Numerical methods for fluid dynamics

Numerical simulation is playing an expanding role in the study of fluid dynamics and often complements experiments and theory. In this course, we will introduce and analyse the various methods available to solve the partial differential equations relevant to fluid dynamics. We will study their application to a wide variety of problems and highlight the effects of discretisation strategies. The objective of the course is to gain a practical knowledge, but also a general view of the existing methods and the ability to decide on the best suited choice for a given problem.

 

Fluid Flow
Active matter and collective behaviour

The lectures offer a statistical-physics perspective on active matter, which encompasses systems whose fundamental constituents dissipate energy to exert forces on the environment. This out-of-equilibrium microscopic drive endows active systems with properties unmatched in passive ones. From molecular motors to bacteria and animals, active agents are found at all scales in nature. Over the past twenty years, physicists and chemists have also engineered synthetic active systems in the lab, by motorizing particles whose sizes range from nanometers to centimeters, hence paving the way towards the engineering of active materials.

The lectures will rely on the modern tools of statistical mechanics, from stochastic calculus to field theoretical methods, using both theoretical models and experimental systems to illustrate the rich physics of active matter.

Quantum physics and condensed matter in advanced technology

The aim of these seminars is to give a perspective about the role of fundamental science in solving societal problems and boosting industrial innovation. A vision on how quantum technologies are inspiring top-class physics research in the private sector will be the core of this teaching.

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