Proud of our students

The Chemistry Master's Team from the Faculty of Sciences shines at the French Chemists' Tournament

What is the French Chemists' Tournament?
It is a competition between seven institutions (ENS, ENS Lyon, ENS Paris Saclay, École Polytechnique, Chimie ParisTech, ESPCI, and the University of Montpellier).
Seven enthusiastic and motivated teams battled it out on March 25 and 26, 2022, at Chimie ParisTech in scientific debating competitions. During these scientific debate marathons, the teams take on different roles, in which students take turns presenting results, critiquing and arguing about another team's work, or moderating a scientific debate.

In its first participation, our team won the bronze medal, beating prestigious universities such as ENS Paris Saclay, X Ecole Polytechnique, ENS Lyon, and Chimie ParisTech.
One of our students, Bruna Rafaela Pereira-Resende, was also awarded the prize for best debater.
This result is the outcome of the tremendous work carried out by our team of students and supervisors, demonstrating the excellence of our chemistry programs within the Faculty of Science.

Codige Award

IESF – OM CODIGE 2020 AWARDS CEREMONY

VFriday, October 16, 2020, at 6 p.m. – Lecture Hall 36.01

The IESF OM, in association with Codige, organizes an annual award to recognize the best internship reports.
This year, the first prize will be awarded to Clara Erard from the Master's program in Ecology and Biodiversity Management Engineering.

Each year, nearly1,000 master's internshipslasting at least six months arecompletedin France and abroad and validated by students in the Faculty of Sciences.

This prize comes with a check for €1,500, which will be presented to the winner at the award ceremony.

The winners are selectedbased on an examination of their end-of-study internship reports, covering a minimum period of six months, completed by the candidates within a company.
These internships may cover a variety of fields, such as life sciences, material sciences, biology and health, technology in general, economics and management, etc.

The selection process takes place in two stages. First, the director or president of each institution involved selects and submits two internship reports for Master 2 students. Then, a jury made up of engineers, teacher-researchers, scientists, and industrialists makes the final selection and ranking of the winners.

The evaluation criteria takeinto account the quality of the project, its integration into the company's strategy, and the candidate's mastery of it. The intern's involvement in the company, their writing skills, and their communication effectiveness are also considered. The innovative nature of the study and its results, and the quality of the link between the analysis and the proposed actions are all assets that are also taken into account to highlight the scientific and technical value of the intern's work.

TAF Project (Tropical AgroForestry)

Who are we?

Thibault Martino (21), Justin Rousset (21), and Léa Pouget (22) are three students in their final year of a Bio-Eco Bachelor's degree at Fds. All three of us are aiming to pursue a Master's degree in tropical plant ecology and/or agricultural systems, which will enable us to acquire new skills for our respective professional projects.
=> Thibault plans to build his future on working with local populations to develop sustainable agriculture based on agroforestry and agroecology techniques.
=> Justin is interested in the management and conservation of tropical natural areas, which are a source of biodiversity essential to understanding ecosystems.
=> Léa would like to be involved in applied research, working to promote a balance between biodiversity and community use of forests.

Discover the entire project by clicking here!!!

A description of our project

Despite this pandemic, the world keeps moving forward and our problems won't solve themselves: our consumption patterns, especially our relationship with food and its production, are an ecological and humanitarian disaster. They have a significant impact on biodiversity through pollution, disrupt the climate, and even affect our own health (UN 2017,Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food).This is a global issue, but it affects developing countries, and tropical countries in particular, even more.Indeed, in these latitudes, the effects of our overproduction are felt more strongly, which has a major impact on populations that are already economically vulnerable.

However, solutions do exist:
Agroecology and agroforestryare two agricultural methods thatallow for the coexistence ofpreserving life(and even using the services it provides us) andfood production, whileenabling farmers to diversify and secure their production. Combined witha fair economy, thisgreatly improves farmers' living conditions.

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That iswhy we, three EBO students, have decided to immerse ourselves in real-life conditions next year to understand the real ecosystem and socio-economic issues at stake. We will do this by contributing our acquired knowledge and, of course, our "muscle power" to the implementation of environmental and solidarity projects, with a view to promoting the exchange of sustainable technical and cultural knowledge between here and there.

The project will therefore run throughout the year with four different NGOs, all working to improve local living conditions and resolve environmental issues (setting up and managing experimental plots, biodiversity inventories, etc.). It will be carried out in India, Madagascar, Togo, and Colombia in order to explore the three different tropical regions and the different technical and cultural approaches associated with each location.

The project will be carried out in collaboration with theUniverlacité programat the University of Montpellier to facilitate exchanges between young people from the countries visited and young people from Montpellier.

Upon the project's return, several conferences will be organized, as well as photographic exhibitions of the journey.

If you would like to find out more (and perhaps support us?), pleasevisit our Facebook pageand our Instagram page à@projet.taf.Pour.For more detailed information, please contact us atprojet.taf@outlook.fr.

Winner of the Grand Narbonne National Engineering Challenge

Antonin Arnaud, a student in the Electronics, Electrical Engineering, and Automation (EEA) department of the Faculty of Science, won first prize in the national engineering challenge last weekend.No fewer than 100 participants and 14 teams gathered at IN'ESS for a first hackathon to present the best innovation.Antonin, who has a pilot's license, is developing an electronic solution to facilitate aircraft landing, complementing existing solutions, particularly for light aircraft and small airfields. His team of three engineering students provided him with essential information on the technology to be used and the priority customer target. Shhh! We can't say any more, because a patent is going to be filed to protect his idea. Well done, Antonin, you are the pride of our faculty!!!

Participation in the SWERC competition

Julien Rodriguez, Guillaume Pérution, and Mattéo Delabre (from left to right)

On January 25 and 26, three students from the Faculty of Science's Master's in Computer Science program represented the University at the SWERC programming competition. After five hours of competition between the 100 participating teams, École Polytechnique came out on top, while the University of Montpellier took 45th place, moving up 21 places from the previous year.

Hello Julien, Guillaume, and Mattéo, can you introduce yourselves?

We are three friends united by our passion for science and research since we met while studying for our bachelor's degree in computer science. We are currently completing our master's degree in theoretical computer science at FDS and plan to continue with a PhD next year.

How does the contest you participated in work?

The SWERC(South Western European Regional Contest)is a computer science competition in which teams of students from across southwestern Europe have competed every year since 1995. During the five-hour competition, participants are presented with ten problems that they must solve using their knowledge of algorithms and programming.

This competition is unique in that each team has access to only one computer that is not connected to the Internet. In addition to the skills needed to solve problems, teammates must therefore demonstrate good organization and team cohesion to rise to the top of the leaderboard, despite the long duration of the competition.

What motivated you to take part in this contest?

We have been enjoying competitive programming for several years now, particularly through online contests such as those offeredby CodeForces(http://codeforces.com/),CodinGame(https://www.codingame.com),and Battle Dev(https://battledev.blogdumoderateur.com/).

In addition to the competitive atmosphere that we enjoy, there are many educational benefits: preparing for the competition allows us to learn new algorithmic and programming techniques through practice and to practice problem solving. SWERC is also an excellent opportunity to meet other computer science students who share the same passions as us.

Was this your first time participating?

The first team representing the university, formed in 2017 on the initiative of our friend Nabil Kherraf, already included Mattéo. Since last year, our trio has taken over. Each time we participated, it was a memorable and very enriching experience for us. Over the course of these editions of the competition, we have managed to climb from 70th place in 2017 to 45th this year, and we hope that the team that succeeds us in 2020 will do even better.

So you won't be participating next year?

We would have loved to participate again, but the competition is reserved for undergraduate and master's students, so we will have to give up our place. This is a great opportunity to invite anyone interested in participating in next year's competition to contact us now! We are currently putting together the team(s) that will represent the university next year.

When will the next edition take place?

Registration usually begins in September and the competition in December. Information will be posted in due course on the SWERC website (https://swerc.eu).

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