Disability & Accessibility Challenges in Academic Research, L. Petitdemange (Sorbonne University) – November 21st 2025 @2pm

November 17, 2025

Accessibility in academic and scientific settings remains a major challenge. This seminar will explore the obstacles faced by people with disabilities and present practical solutions to improve accessibility—both in terms of infrastructure and workplace culture—to foster a more inclusive and welcoming environment.

Speaker: Ludovic Petitdemange, who has been visually impaired since childhood and is an astrophysicist at Sorbonne University.

The seminar will be conducted in French.

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Seminars & Defenses

Disability & Accessibility Challenges in Academic Research, L. Petitdemange (Sorbonne University) – November 21st 2025 @2pm

Accessibility in academic and scientific settings remains a major challenge. This seminar will explore the obstacles faced by people with disabilities and present practical solutions to improve accessibility—both in terms of infrastructure and workplace culture—to foster a more inclusive and welcoming environment.

The bolometric way to the discovery of neutrinoless double beta decay: CUPID and beyond, A. Giuliani (IJCLab) – November 14th 2025 @2pm

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay is a rare, pivotal process to test Majorana neutrinos and lepton number conservation. The seminar highlights bolometric detection methods and CUPID’s cutting-edge tech—a next-gen experiment with strong discovery potential.

Evidence for evolving dark energy from the DESI DR2 results, J. Mena Fernandez (LPSC) – October 24th 2025 @2pm

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping 11 billion years of cosmic expansion with unprecedented precision. Early results from its first three years suggest dark energy may evolve over time—not stay constant—challenging current theories about the universe’s acceleration.