Poland, Denmark, Uruguay

Poland

Particle Physics

The CNRS-IN2P3¹ and the Institute Fizyki Jadrowej PAN,² representing the consortium of Polish research bodies, signed an agreement for scientific cooperation on October 15, 2006 in Warsaw. This represents a new phase in the thirty-year-old collaboration between IN2P3 and Polish research. Back in 1974, shortly after the creation of IN2P3, the first agreement outlining collaboration between IN2P3 labs and nuclear and particle physics labs in Poland was signed. The agreement promoted major scientific developments in particle, hadron, and nuclear physics, as well as opening up a field of research into astroparticles.

October 15 also witnessed  Warsaw Technological University becoming an official participant in  the “European Ultra Relativistic Energies Agreement” (EUREA). This European research network will focus on analyzing the data from the STAR experiment conducted with the US-based Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC); prepare the Alice experiment, which will use the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN; and finally, take part in the research and development program on high-technology detectors. It brings together French, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian teams who have been cooperating for several years in the field of heavy ion physics.

1. Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules: National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics.

2. www.ifj.edu.pl

Contacts:

Barbara Erazmus, berazmus@admin.in2p3.fr

Éliane Perret, perret@admin.in2p3.fr

Denmark

Fostering Exchanges

The first cooperation agreement between CNRS and the Danish National Research Foundation was signed in Paris on December 11, 2006. It will lead to increased exchanges of young researchers (PhD students and postdocs) between the two countries and to the development of joint research projects. The Danish National Research Foundation is a public foundation for research in fundamental sciences, including human and social sciences and technical sciences.

Contact: Anne-Marie Brass, DREI.

anne-marie.brass@cnrs-dir.fr

Uruguay

Collaboration on Leukemia

France and Uruguay collaboration on the study of viral leukemias will be based at the Institut Pasteur in Montevideo, in the Laboratory for Viral Pathogenesis in Leukemias (LFUPVL),¹ which were both inaugurated on  December 8, 2006.  

The LFUPVL, set to run for four years, brings together teams from CNRS/Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Institut Pasteur in Montevideo. The goal is to carry out a scientific program concerned, on the one hand, with the viral etiology of human chronic lymphoid leukemia (CLL) and, on the other, with the study of a bovine model of CLL caused by the bovine leukemia virus (BLV). BLV is responsible for Enzootic bovine leukemia (EBL), as well as a type of CLL in cattle and sheep which displays characteristics similar to the human form of the disease. Its widespread occurrence in cattle makes it a major problem for animal health in Uruguay.

Contact: Valérie Lemarchandel, CNRS.

valerie.lemarchandel@cnrs-dir.fr

www.pasteur.edu.uy/

1. Laboratoire Franco-Uruguayen sur la pathogénèse virale des leucémies.