UPMC,[3] formerly Pierre and Marie Curie University (French: Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie) or also known as Paris VI,[4] is a publicresearch university in Paris, France.
UPMC is the largest scientific and medical complex in France, active in many fields of research with scope and achievements at the highest level, as demonstrated by the many awards regularly won by UPMC researchers, and the many international partnerships it maintains across all five continents.[8] Several university rankings have regularly put UPMC at the 1st place in France, and it has been ranked as one of the top universities in the world. The ARWU (2014) has ranked UPMC as the 1st in France, 6th in Europe and 35th in the world and also 4th in field of mathematics, 25th in field of physics, 14th in field of natural sciences and 32nd in field of engineering, technology and computer science.[9]
University of Paris (Sorbonne) at the 17th CenturyFile:Université de paris-faculté des sciences.jpgThe old entry of University of Paris 6 as the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris(campus Jussieu, Quai Saint-Bernard)Historic View of University
Creation from the faculties of Science and Medicine of the University of Paris
The University of Paris (French: Université de Paris) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was reorganized in 1970 as 13 autonomous universities after the student protests of the French May.
In 1971, the five ancient faculties of the former University of Paris (Paris VI as the Faculty of Sciences) were split and then re-formed into thirteen universities by the Faure Law.
The campus was built in the 1950s and 1960s, on a site previously occupied by wine storehouses.
The Dean, Marc Zamanski, saw the Jussieu campus standing as a tangible symbol of scientific thought in the heart of Paris, with the Faculty of Science, set in the Latin Quarter, as part of an intellectual and spiritual continuum linked to the university history of Paris.
The University of Paris VI became the scientific center and was set up in 1971; it shared the Jussieu campus with the University of Paris 7 and the Paris Geophysical Institute (Institut de Physique du Globe).
In 1974, the University of Paris VI chose prestigious champions when it adopted the name Université Pierre et Marie Curie, after Pierre and Marie Curie, and ever since has endeavored to perpetuate the scientific legacy of these forebears.
UPMC is now the largest scientific and medical complex in France, active in all fields of research (see "University Rankings").[12]
In 2008 the university joined the association Paris Universitas changing its logo accordingly[13] and adding the name of the association after its own.
Dissolution into the faculties of Sciences and Medicine of the Sorbonne University
UPMC will merge 1 January 2018 into the Sorbonne University, re-creation of the University of Paris, and provide its faculties of Sciences and Medicine[15]
UPMC has more than 5,000 researchers and professors working in over 120 laboratories across four interdisciplinary divisions: Modeling & Engineering; Energy, Matter & the Universe; Living Earth & Environment; Life & Health. The research ranges from fundamental to applied, and explores major issues including health, climate change, water, biodiversity, energy, and communications.
Research cooperation agreements are managed by the Research and Technology Transfer Department. This department is the primary contact for the government ministry, research organizations, private companies, foundations, associations, and laboratories.
Modeling and engineering
UPMC is a leading university in mathematics: pure mathematics, digital computation, probability, statistics, and combinatorics.
Information Technology research is focused on: architecture, networks, systems, artificial intelligence, programming and scientific computation.
In the field of electronics, work is concentrated on the articulation of architecture, electronics, artificial intelligence and signal processing.
In mechanics, applied mathematics and macroscopic physics, research groups are focussed on problems in: fluid dynamics, instability, turbulence, energy transfers, complex systems and coupled phenomena.
Numerous initiatives in scientific and medical imaging, artificial intelligence and robotics are in place. With its three teaching hospitals, UPMC supports many interdisciplinary teams working on medical research challenges, such as imaging, micro-surgery, assistance for disabilities and artificial organs.
Matter and new materials
UPMC research in physics covers most fields in the discipline. Subject areas have been organized around four main areas:
File:Universite-pierre-et-marie-curie---campus-de-jussieu.jpgEntrance of Paris 6File:Paris 6 pitie salpetriere hospital.jpgParis 6 the Faculty of Medicine
Basic phenomena: fields, particles, atoms and molecules
Optics (lasers and measurement) and diluted matter
Condensed matter: structure, order and disorder and complex materials
Nanonetworks, surfaces and interfaces
Chemistry groups have based their research on the principle of interdependence between synthesis, analysis, studies of structures and properties of new chemical compounds:
Design and production of new materials
Characterization of new materials using different forms of spectroscopy and microscopic techniques, and the study of their properties
Studies of reaction mechanisms
Modeling of chemical reactions
Development of new analytical techniques
Projects involving a number of disciplines are mainly joint studies of new materials. Applications concern fields as diverse as concretes, catalysis and new materials for rapid information technology, for analytical sciences and environmental tests, as well as new forms of energy storage and conversion.
Living earth and the environment
Environmental studies at UPMC involve research in: climate change, oceanography, marine ecology, the impact of human activities on continental and marine ecosystems, and management of natural resources.
Unusually, the discipline of Astrophysics, is also included as part of environmental studies because of the reforms passed post-1968 in French research (Earth and environmental sciences are grouped with "Les sciences de l'Univers", that is astrophysics and planetary sciences). The Paris Institute of Astrophysics is included here.
Life and health
Genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology, cell biology, the biology of development and physiology, including at UPMC:
1) development of Group Research Institutes ["IFR – Instituts Fédératifs de Recherche", another means to centralize French research institutes]. UPMC has several, including the IFR at Saint-Antoine Teaching Hospital specialized in the physiopathology of cancers, inflammatory processes, and the hormonal mechanisms involved, and the Pitié-Salpêtrière Teaching Hospital which has two IFRs, one on neuroscience and the other on the heart, muscle and vessels. A third area of research covers topics in immunity and infection. The IFR on Cell Communication & Regulation on the "Cordeliers" campus specializes in the field of cell biology, nutrition and immunology. Finally, an IFR for integrated biology on the Jussieu campus focuses on the integrated study of cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in development, reproduction, and the major physiological functions of animal and plant organisms, and their evolution.
2) development of a network of small laboratories specialized in post-genomics and proteomics, phenotyping and imaging.
UPMC doctoral schools
The UPMC Doctoral Schools are built around their own research teams, which are mostly associated with the CNRS, INSERM, INRA, INRIA, or IRD, as well as with other universities and partner organisations. Each school organises doctoral studies based on the four main research themes of the university.
Collections
The UPMC houses eight notable scientific collections that are open to researchers.[21] Some collections are open to the public as noted.
Minerals – over 1500 minerals on display in 24 cases, open to the public
Physics experiments models – models built by professors from the Sorbonne and UPMC in order to demonstrate different principles of physics
Zoology – teaching collection of stuffed specimens, skeletal mounts, fluid parts, anatomical casts and insect boxes
Paleontology – research collection of fossil invertebrates
G. Lippmann collection – Research collection of 46 photographic plates created by Gabriel Lippmann in his studies of photography and the physics of light
Charcot library – Research collection of the personal library of neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot
Musée Dupuytren – moved from Cordeliers, will be open to the public occasionally, features wax anatomical items and preserved specimens illustrating diseases and malformations.
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