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The year 2013 saw some major renovation work at Maison MINATEC. The improvements include automatic doors to improve handicapped accessibility, digital signage at the entrance to the main corridor and in front of each conference room to better steer visitors to their destinations during events, and new lighting and projection equipment in the auditorium for […] >>

Starting on April 11, the complimentary sandwiches offered to attendees of the Midi-MINATEC brown-bag lunch talks will be made by a volunteer “sandwich team.” The idea is to help break the ice and make the event even friendlier and more welcoming by getting as many people as possible to participate. To sign up for the […] >>

In mid-February French Minister for Higher Education and Research Geneviève Fioraso broke ground on the Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma expansion slated for delivery in mid-2015. The campus expansion project includes a seven-story building—with classrooms, labs, a student lounge, and a tech transfer center for second-year student projects—and a 500-seat auditorium with enough room for an […] >>

As part of the inaugural edition of FADEx, the French-American Doctoral Exchange seminar, the French Embassy in Houston organized a trip to France for a group of ten US Ph.D. students in nanocharacterization. The visiting Ph.D. students attended lectures on the latest developments in nanometric chemical analysis in Toulouse before travelling to Grenoble on March […] >>

The InMRAM 2014 summer school, organized by Spintec for the second year running, will be held at MINATEC on July 2–4. Participants will get an introduction to magnetic random access memory (MRAM). Ph.D. students, research scientists, and engineers are eligible to register. The purpose of the summer school is to introduce professionals with “traditional” microelectronics […] >>