On Thursday 14th October 5.00pm, we will be holding our monthly casual French Lab meeting referred to as the ‘After Lab’ with Annu Jalais, a Singapore-based Environmental Anthropologist!

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On this occasion, we are delighted and privileged to welcome Annu Jalais, Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore’s South Asian Studies and Comparative Asian Studies Departments. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching experience focuses on the human-nonhuman interface, environment, and climate change, religious identity and migration, caste, and social justice. Her primary region of specialization is South Asia, specifically Bangladesh and India, and her secondary zone of interest encompasses Southeast Asia and China, especially around Indian Ocean exchanges in the religious and cultural realms. She is the author of two books, a few articles and is currently collaborating with artists, scholars and Sundarbans islanders on developing two projects: the ‘Southern Collective’ and the ‘Asian Bestiary’.

To find out what Annu Jalais will be covering during her AfterLab, please take a look at her abstract available here:

How do ideas about beasts and the wild inform our socio-cultural worldviews? Following anthropologists such as Philippe Descola, who have studied the intimate relations humans share with animals, there is now a greater engagement with culturally diverse understandings of the non-human. This has offered a necessary and important challenge to discourses based in Judeo-Christian ideas of ‘nature’ where the animal is always seen as inferior to the human. What are the ways in which we can today rethink non-western, non-hegemonising, non-imperial relationships between humans and non-humans? An exploration of the “non-human” in various Asian cultures highlights why ethics and politics are so important on any study of the non-human.

Members and non-members feel free to join us !

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On Thursday 27 May 5.30pm, we will hold our casual French Lab meeting with Christian Miniatura: AFTER LAB!

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Christian Miniatura is the Director of the International Research Laboratory MajuLab (MajuLab is an IRL involving the following institutions, CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur, Sorbonne Université, National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University of Singapore). He is also visiting research Professor for the Centre for Quantum Technologies at NUS since 2008. Christian Miniatura will discuss the Era of Quantum 2.0 and Majulab: 

Quantum physics is the theory that underlies the fundamental properties of Nature. It arose gradually at the turn of the 20th century to explain experimental observations which could not be reconciled with the existing prevailing (classical) physical theories of the times: black-body radiation problem, photoelectric effect, etc. These early attempts to understand microscopic phenomena, now known as the “old quantum theory”, led to the full development of the theoretical body and fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics in the mid-1920s. With it came a technology Era dubbed Quantum 1.0 where important advances like the transistor, semiconductors, computers devices or the laser (to cite a few) were developed and changed our societies.

The Quantum 1.0 Era made use of a key feature of quantum systems: the wave nature of individual physical objects and superposition of quantum states. In the Eighties, it became gradually clear that another important feature of quantum systems, entanglement, could be also used to develop the next generation of quantum devices. Entanglement is in fact the quintessential feature of quantum physics and what makes it unique compared to other theories. Within this so-called Quantum 2.0 Era, quantum-secured communication schemes have been developed and the notion of the quantum bit, or qubit, opened the route to the development of the first working prototypes of quantum computers.

During my talk I will speak about these 2 quantum technology Eras and I will present MajuLab, an IRL pooling CNRS, UCA, SU, NUS and NTU and formally created in 2014 on a collaboration started in 2008 with the Centre for Quantum Technologies of Singapore.

The event will be held online.

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Come hear STMicroelectronics at the second AfterLab of the year on Thursday 11 March at 5pm!

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This session will be slightly different from the others before in that it will be presented by three speakers: Francois SUQUET (Regional Vice President of Human Resources, Asia Pacific) will introduce the session followed by Francesco ITALIA (Analog Custom Product Division General Manager). Then LEONG Foo Leng (Business Unit manager for Wireless charging, Analog Custom Product Division) will focus on wireless charging technologies covering the basic concepts, market trend and emerging technologies and more. He will also talk about the future in the key markets, the emerging market applications and the position of STMicroelectronics in the ecosystem.

The event will be held online.

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