The Joliot Curie School trains each year, and since 1982, PhD students, post-doctorates and researchers on scientific breakthroughs performed in a topic related to nuclear physics, in a broad range.
Elevated to the rank of European School of Physics in 2009, the Joliot Curie School has excelled over the years in promoting and teaching the most recent advances in fields as varied as nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics and associated applications to students and researchers alike.
First being a high-standard French speaking school, it became international since 2009. The school is mainly funded by IN2P3/CNRS.
HISTORY
* Excerpt from the preface to the first edition, 1982:
We can’t introduce the courses in this first edition of the Joliot-Curie School of Nuclear Physics without briefly presenting the school itself. In choosing to associate it with the names of Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie, its organizing committee wished to pay a tribute that the scientific and human stature of the latter alone justified. But it was mainly because of their fundamental role in the development of French research in Nuclear Physics that we wanted to place ourselves under such a prestigious patronage. Indeed, the ambition of this school is to contribute, in its own right, to ensuring that our discipline retains the vigour and quality it has demonstrated in France since the days of Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie. The celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of artificial radioactivity will be an opportunity for us to measure the progress made, but even more so to celebrate the fact that the problems opened up at that time remain as numerous, varied and motivating as ever.
The school’s pedagogical approach is to present the results and prospects of a topical issue in a format that is accessible to all researchers, including students graduating from a specialized DEA. The vitality and dynamism of a discipline like ours is measured by our ability to attract young researchers. We are delighted to note that around 30% of the participants in this school are about to embark on, or have recently embarked on, a post-graduate thesis. The balance between these young physicists and more established researchers, whether or not working in the strict field covered by the school, is also a necessary condition for success.
This school has come into being and will continue to fulfil its role thanks to the moral and financial support of IN2P3, and the backing of its Director, Jean Yoccoz.
Long live the Joliot-Curie School of Nuclear Physics!
P. QUENTIN
The successive chairs have been:
1982‐1989 Philippe Quentin (CENBG, Bordeaux)
1990‐1998 Yvon Abgrall (CENBG, Bordeaux)
1999‐2003 Christian Le Brun (LPC, Caen)
2004‐2008 Marie-Geneviève Porquet (CSNSM, Orsay)
2009‐2010 Faïçal Azaïez (IPN, Orsay)
2011‐2013 Navin Alahari (GANIL, Caen)
2013‐2016 Elias Khan (IPN, Orsay)
2017‐2022 Miguel Marqués (LPC, Caen)
depuis 2023 Stéphane Grévy (LP2i, Bordeaux – former CENBG)
EJC 2024
The 2024 edition of the School will be an opportunity to explore the theme of healthcare applications of subatomic physics, 20 years after the 2004 edition « Radiation and Life ». Within the CNRS, these research efforts are led by the GDR (groupement de recherche) MI2B, which gathers researchers from IN2P3, INSB, and other CNRS institutes, as well as some teams from Inserm, IRSN, and CEA. Another important challenge of the EJC is a broader multidisciplinary opening to the nuclear physics, high-energy, and astroparticle physics communities, aiming to spark or motivate scientific interest in societal fields. Generating this interest among a pool of young researchers is essential for fostering ambitious common projects in a collaborative framework afterward.
This year’s speakers are :
- Jacques BALOSSO, Centre François Baclesse
- Julie CONSTANZO, IRCM
- Rachel DELORME, LPSC
- Christian FINCK, IPHC
- Arnaud GUERTIN, Subatech
- Antoine MAITRALLAIN, LP2iB
- Laurent MÉNARD, IJCLab
- Marco PULLIA, CNAO
- Charlotte ROBERT, Institut Gustave Roussy
- Florent SUREAU, BioMaps
- Hoang TRAN, LP2iB