Over the past decade multi-wavelength observations have revealed the extraordinary ubiquity and diversity of star formation in galaxies, ranging over billionfold ranges in star formation rates

There is a "Warped side" to our universe, consisting of objects and phenomena that are made solely or largely from warped spacetime. Examples are black holes, singularities (inside black holes

Only about a hundred years ago astronomers came to recognize cosmic explosive events. What was once termed as Stella Nova are now divided into two major families, novae and supernovae (with real

The massive black holes found at the centers of most galaxies, including our own, are believed to be the ashes of the fuel that powered quasars early in the life of universe. I will briefly

Combining the principles of general relativity and quantum theory still remains as elusive as ever. Recent work, that concentrated on the points of conflict and contact between quantum theory

It has recently been shown that in addition to describing black holes, gravitational waves, and other gravitational phenomena, general relativity can also describe aspects of nongravitational

Looking backwards we have been able to reconstruct from the detailed structure of our own Galaxy and from the fossil evidence derived from the study of nearby galaxies a plausible history of how

The success of the standard concordance cosmological model in predicting the primordial abundances of the light elements, and modeling the power spectrum of fluctuations of the cosmic microwave

I propose to discuss how we arrived at the tightly woven network of evidence that shows we have a good approximation to what happened as the universe expanded and cooled, and then present

The James Webb Space Telescope, the planned successor for the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, is making excellent technical progress. It will carry four instruments to

Hawking predicted that black holes should radiate thermal radiation, the temperature being a function solely of the geometry near the horizon of the black hole. The same arguments show that one

Since the discovery of an accelerating Universe in 1998, a variety of experiments have been undertaken, and even more proposed, to better constrain the source of the acceleration. I will review

La spintronique, qui exploite l’influence du spin sur la conduction électrique et prend racine dans des recherches fondamentales sur les propriétés de transport des métaux ferromagnétiques, s

La localisation d'Anderson est un phénomène quantique imaginé par Phillip Anderson il y a plus de 50 ans pour comprendre le comportements surprenant de certains matériaux désordonnés à basse

Since the discovery of an extended disk of dust around beta Pictoris in the late 80's, this system has been intensively observed and modeled, in connection with planetary system formation

Cet exposé s'adressant à un public de spécialistes, montrera en quel sens le modèle standard et la renormalisation conduisent à une modification de l'idée naïve de la géométrie de l'espace temps.