Edited: 2011/12/25
The selection of the second round of national "Equipement of Excellence (EQUIPEX)" has just been released. Two projects in which the LOA is a partner, ATTOLAB and MORPHOSCOPE2, were selected. EQUIPEX are part of the operation "Investments for the Future" set up by the French Ministry of Research. They aim to provide France with scientific equipment of intermediate size (ie, between 1 and 20 million euros), which will benefit all areas of research. ATTOLAB's goal includes the establishment of a new experimental center, based on the Paris-Saclay campus, dedicated to studies of ultrafast electron dynamics in areas such as atomic, molecular, chemical, solid state physics and plasma physics. It was awarded 5 million euros. The CEA is the coordinator (SPAM) and the project gathers 9 partners. The LOA duty is to specifically set up systems for plasma physics. MORPHOSCOPE2 is an infrastructure project incorporating technological developments in microscopic imaging, storage and algorithmic analysis of datato advance the understanding of biological processes and in predicting their behavior according to genetic or environmental variations. It is coordinated by the Ecole Polytechnique (LOB) and gathers around twenty partners.
Press release of the selected 36 national projects: here, with the two summaries ATTOLAB and MORPHOSCOPE2.