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Victor Lafaurie defended his PhD "Pulsed plasma approach for mild or strong ignition of a detonation wave using gradient of atomic species"
On March, 2025, Victor Lafaurie defended his PhD "Pulsed plasma approach for mild or strong ignition of a detonation wave using gradient of atomic species". Abstract : This thesis presents a study conducted on the ignition of a detonation wave with non-equilibrium plasma. This form of plasma-assisted combustion has been of recent increased interest with the developments of new forms of detonation-based propulsion and their implementation into real...
LPP organized the NASA MMS mission 10th anniversary workshop in Paris
LPP organized the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission 10th anniversary, 11th MMS Community workshop, at the Pierre and Marie Curie Campus of Sorbonne Université in Paris between 12th and 14th of May 2025. MMS mission is constituted of 4 identical satellites evolving in the near Earth’s environment along an equatorial orbit, separated at electron scales and focused on the study of collisionless magnetic reconnection. More than 100 participants...
Sophie Masson defended her Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) entitled "The dynamics of the solar corona and solar energetic particle events."
Sophie MASSON’s research field is solar physics, with a particular focus on eruptive and impulsive phenomena. To address these topics, she uses two distinct yet complementary approaches: modeling and observational diagnostics. Her work is part of the broader context of space weather research and aims to enhance our understanding of solar phenomena, which are key drivers of Sun–Earth interactions. She develops and analyzes three-dimensional MHD...
