To (re)watch – Let’s Talk About Gender Parity Roundtable

🎬 The roundtable discussion “Gender Equality: We Are All Concerned!” is now online! Thank you to everyone who participated, whether in person or virtually. From childhood to justice, including education, health, and the world of work, a single reality emerged throughout the discussions: gender inequalities are built very early, are expressed daily, and affect us […]

“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 […]

Art, Science and the Anthropocene: an exploration of exoplanets at ENSAD Dijon

Last week, as part of the University of Burgundy Europe’s Graduate Programme: Art, Science, Anthropocene, ENSAD Dijon hosted a week-long interdisciplinary workshop on a topic at the crossroads of science and artistic creation: exoplanets. This week of experimentation opened with a lecture by Vincent Bondon (Research Director at the CNRS/ICB Laboratory), who presented recent advances […]

ICB is participating in the 2025 Science Festival around the theme “Intelligence(s)”

From October 3 to 13, 2025, the Science Festival was held throughout France under the theme “Intelligence(s),” inviting the public to explore the many forms of intelligence—human, animal, plant, and artificial—and the questions they raise for research and society. The Carnot Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Burgundy (ICB) participated in this year’s festival through several events organized […]