David Lacoste CNRS Researcher Laboratoire Gulliver ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin. Escalier F, 3ème étage droite. 75231 Paris cedex 05. France. Tél.: +33 (0)1 40 79 51 40 Fax: +33 (0)1 40 79 47 31 Email: david.lacoste@espci.fr

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What's New

• Internship and PhD proposals available, via funding of Ecole Doctorale EDPIF only.
  Please contact me directly for information.
  
  
• Recent news are now posted on twitter.
  
  
• In 2024, I am co-organizing a conference to honor the two hundred anniversary of the paper of S. Carnot of 1824,
  which is considered by many as the birth of thermodynamics.


• Arthur Genthon has defended his thesis Fluctuations in cell lineages and population trees: a thermodynamic perspective" on Oct
  14th, and Gabin Laurent has defended his thesis A statistical view on the origin of homochirality" on Nov 9th.


• Our paper on "Pareto-optimal trade-off for phenotypic switiching of populations in a stochastic environment" has been published
  in J. Stat. Mech. in 2022, there. Video of the corresponding talk in Edimburg seminar serie.
  
  
• Our paper on Emergence of homochirality in large molecular systems came out in January 2021 in PNAS.
  This work was advertised in Science X and in the corresponding talk in April 2022 at Imperial College.
  
  
• Former PhD students and postdocs in academia :
  Arthur Genthon         Reinaldo Garcia Garcia
  Gabin Laurent
  Alex Blokhuis         Sourabh Lahiri
  Gatien Verley         Anupam Kundu
  Falko Ziebert         Ranjith Padinhateeri