Like every year, CRIStAL is taking part in the 'Mai à vélo' collective chalenge. The collective aim is to cover as many kilometres as possible over 1 month (from 1 to 31 May). Last year, the University of Lille finished No.1 in the teaching category and the CNRS No.1 in the employer category.

By Jenny Sorce, CNRS Research Fellow in Cosmology, CRIStAL Laboratory Respondent Alain Vienne, Director of the Lille Astronomy Laboratory Mardi 29 avril 2025 à 18h30 The universe is infinite, as evidenced by its inordinate size, its geometric shape that is still unclear, with a rather flat …

Title: Artificial Learning: Putting into perspective half a century of evolution. Speaker: Antoine Cornuéjols The search for algorithms capable of learning bagan immediately after the definition of the Turing machine in 1936 and the development of the first computers. Recently, the …

Mathematicians disagree with each other about the nature of infinity, and in particular about the infinity of the set world. The aim of the talk will be to explain in as simple a language as possible this discussion, which is at the heart of infinity theory today. By Jean-Paul Delahaye, Professor …

How many ways are there of cutting a rectangle into two superimposable pieces? This apparently simple questionleads to some intersting combinatorial reasoning. Jean-Paul Delahaye Article in "Pour La Science N° 569"

The 2nd edition of 'The Night is Beautiful! in the MEL/in the North' will take place on Friday 11 April 2025 in Fromelles, Anstaing, Carnin, Baisieux or Villeneuve d'Ascq. On the programme: sky-watching sessions, night-time bird-watching walks, games and/or reading in the dark, etc. Scientific …

The 3rd serious game jam was held from 30 January to 1 February 2025. A game jam is a hackathon focusing on games in the broadest sense of the term. Eleven teams, made up of five participants, had 48 hours to imagine and design a serious game prototype around the theme of 'Artificial intelligence: …

Join us on the Grand'Place in Lille on 4 and 5 April 2025 (in front of La Voix du Nord), from 9pm to 1am, for the Video Mapping Festival, to discover L'Isle des Foux. This audiovisual creation coordinated by Pablo Gracias is inspired by the Get-In-Past project (ERDF Région Hauts de France) and …

Is there a risk that the carbon footprint of the digital transition will explode with the rise of generative artificial intelligence? This question also concerns the higher education and research sector. When it comes to the digital transition, the higher education and research sectors are far …

The BioComp research consortium, launched in January 2025, aims to structure the scientific community around bio-inspired computing. Its aim is to faciliate exchanges between experts in neuroinspired computing and designers of dedicated hardware architectures to develop hardware systems for …