“La Nuit du Quantique”

Held every two years, the “Nights” are festive events open to all, taking place simultaneously in around twenty cities across France. Following the Night of Light in 2015, the Night of Gravitational Waves in 2017, the Night of Antimatter in 2019, the Night of Time in 2021 and 2022, and the Physics & Sport Night […]

Artificial Neurons Communicating Through Light: A Major Advance for Hardware-Based Artificial Intelligence

Current artificial intelligence performance relies heavily on energy-intensive computing architectures that are difficult to miniaturize. A team of researchers is now proposing a radically new approach: memristic artificial neurons capable of communicating with each other through light, paving the way for ultra-compact and highly efficient three-dimensional neural networks. In a recently published article in Nature […]

Let’s Talk About Gender Equality – Roundtable

Save the Date – The roundtable entitled “Gender Equality: Childhood, Education, Health, Justice… We Are All Concerned,” moderated by Pierre Ancet (Professor of Philosophy at UBE), will be held on Friday, January 23, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. in the Grand Amphitheater of Polytech Dijon. It will bring together seven guests from diverse backgrounds to explore […]

“Let’s Quantify Together!”: The Conference to (Re)discover on Video

The conference “Let’s Quantize Together!”, organized during the Digital Transition University of Territories in Dijon, is now available in its entirety on video. Organized by the DiTeQ team from the ICB Laboratory and its partners, the conference offered a unique format combining: Relive the conference in video Whether you are a student, teacher, science enthusiast […]

2026 New Year’s Greetings from the ICB

As is tradition at the start of each year, the ICB Laboratory brought together all its members for the traditional Epiphany cake celebration. This convivial gathering allowed the director to extend his best wishes for 2026 and to offer a retrospective of the past year. 2025 was marked by numerous highlights for the laboratory: scientific […]

“Heat, energy, thermodynamics. Carnot’s message today… 200 years later,” by Gilles Bertrand

To mark the bicentenary of Sadi Carnot’s seminal work, “Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and on Machines Fitted to Develop This Power” (1824), Gilles Bertrand, Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry at the ICB Laboratory (University of Burgundy Europe), has written a book that sheds new light on the scientific and visionary legacy of […]