Ecole Normale Superieure Rue D39Ulm Paris

Campus

The facade of the ENS, at 45 rue d'Ulm.

The SLA is one of the few major schools still occupy a campus in the heart of central Paris, Rue d'Ulm , in the heart of Quartier Latin.

This is the 4 November 1847 she moved into these buildings under the law of 24 April 1841 , built by the architect Alphonse de Gisors , she still holds today. Above the entrance gate, two female figures representing the arts and sciences on both sides of the medallion of Minerva , Roman goddess of wisdom.

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The current facility include:

• The historic buildings at 45, rue d'Ulm. These are arranged in a square around the central court, the Court came to Ernests square which attaches itself both wings more recent north-east wing Erasmus (named after the street Erasmus School along the north ) and the wing Rataud south-east (named after the street Rataud along the school to the east) . South of the square, another court, the Court Pasteur separates the school buildings housing the Rue Claude Bernard. Finally, a new building, said the new building along Rataud Rataud Street and connects the wings Rataud Erasmus and the main buildings. These buildings include, in addition to school management, literary departments (philosophy, literature and language, classical studies, archeology) and science (mathematics, computer) and the vast library of literature and mathematics library and computers, staff accommodation and boarding facilities, administrative services, restaurant (Pot), etc.. Le Pavillon Pasteur (with frescoes by Louis Edouard Fournier ) hosted the famous biologist's laboratory. The memorial, inaugurated in 1923, is the work of the sculptor Paul Landowski . In the words of Gustave Lanson , the nude figure symbolizes "the torch of the spiritual and scientific truth" .

• The buildings of 48, boulevard Jourdan , former premises of the Ecole Normale Superieure for girls , where the social sciences, a second restaurant, and other boarding schools, opened in 1948 (Germain and Edouard Crevel Debre architects). The campus is intended to be reconstructed under the project contract-state region of Ile-de-France.

• Buildings Montrouge (1 rue Maurice Arnoux) mainly boarding house.

• Foljuif Biological Station at Saint-Pierre-les-Nemours , which also hosts seminars and other events.

Court to Ernests

Court to Ernests.

The historical building of the School is built around a square courtyard, a real "cloister" described by Romain Rolland. A circular pool, recently renovated, it houses some cyprinids. These peaceful fish are nicknamed "Ernest" (named after a former director of the School, Ernest Bersot ) and are one of the unofficial symbols of the School. By extension, this court is called to Ernests Court, and the lobby of the School overlooking the courtyard is called by analogy "Aquarium".

Around the courtyard are the busts of forty major French men who distinguished themselves in the disciplines represented at the ENS: scientist in the north and men of letters in the southern part. By turning it clockwise to counterclockwise from the west entrance of the court, they are:

Court to Ernests under the snow.

• on the west wall: Jouffroy , Buffon , Lagrange , Cauchy , Poisson ;
• on the north wall: Fresnel , Ampere , Foucault , Arago , Laplace , Biot , Pouillet , Lavoisier , Berthollet , Gay-Lussac ;
• on the wall is: St-Hilaire , nard , Beudant , Jussieu , Cuvier , Descartes , Pascal , Corneille , Molire , Racine ;
• on the south wall: Boileau , La Fontaine , Bossuet , Fnelon , Malebranche , La Bruyere , Massillon , Voltaire , Montesquieu , Rousseau ;
• on the west wall: Rollin , Lamartine , Chateaubriand , Aug. Thierry and Cousin.

The names listed under each corresponding bust, here reproduced as indicated.

Access

The main campus of the Rue d'Ulm is accessible by train RER Luxembourg , the subway line Place Monge and Cardinal Lemoine , and several lines of bus RATP RATP 21 27 38 82.

Campus boulevard Jourdan is accessible by train RER University City , by the line of tramway Montsouris, in the subway Porte d'Orleans , and several lines of bus RATP RATP 28 38 88.

School and Society

Foundation of the ENS

General Background
Identity card
Legal form	Foundation of public utility
Foundation	13 March 1986
Headquarters	45, rue d'Ulm - Paris
Speaker (s)	Alain-Gerard Slama
Website	http://www.ens.fr/fondation/
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Created in 1986 at the initiative of several companies, the Foundation of the ENS of public utility, contributes to the development of research in schools, including promoting foreign researchers.

Chaired by Alain-Gerard Slama , professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris , it manages since 1996 the international research chairs Blaise-Pascal, by delegation of the State and the Regional Council of Ile-de-France. The Agreement State-Region Project 2007-2013 provides 6.9 million to this title. Each chair allows the home for twelve months (possibly split over two years) of a foreign researcher or applied sciences at a university Paris region, after selection by a committee chaired by Jean-Pierre Changeux. Through their multidisciplinary nature, these chairs have acquired a great reputation in the academic world : the holder must indeed disseminate its findings through conferences open to the widest audience. Among the researchers received include:

• George Fitzgerald Smoot , American astrophysicist (Nobel)
• Gabriele Veneziano , Italian physicist (price Enrico-Fermi)
• Robert Langlands , Canadian mathematician (Wolf Prize)
• Igor Mel'uk , Russian linguist (price Laurendeau)

She also directed the Villa Louis Pasteur, near the rue d'Ulm (Paris V ^e), for the reception of foreign researchers for a long time and the strengthening of relations between public research and industry (home Pasteur ).

She has also contributed to the creation of two chairs in the scientific laboratories of the ENS, the pulpit "security of telecommunications networks" with France Telecom and the pulpit "vision" with EADS.

Multimedia Knowledge Portal

Since 2001, the Internet portal of the Diffusion of Knowledge ENS provides access to over 2000 records of lectures and seminars that took place at the ENS, both in arts, sciences and humanities to provide access to the latest results from research , but also scientific events (conferences, etc..) organized at ENS.

Some modules are specially designed as part of the training , the teachers preparatory classes and, more generally, high schools.

A new version of the portal Knowledge in multimedia, with increasing functionality, which provides access to the records of some courses, was launched in 2009.

Conferences ERNEST

On 12 December 2009, ENS has inaugurated a new lecture series multidisciplinary public, ERNEST conferences. These lectures on diverse subjects (economics, philosophy, science, literature ..), each lasting 15 minutes, and stakeholders are selected for their charisma, among subject matter experts.

Editions Rue d'Ulm / Presses de l'ENS

Founded in 1975, the presses of the ENS, became in 1999 ditions Rue d'Ulm, contribute to the dissemination of research carried out at the ENS and the ENS, mainly in the Humanities and Sciences man and society. For the public university, some literature have nevertheless met a wide response among the general public, such as The Society of distrust. How the French model of self-destructs Pierre Cahuc and Yann Algan (Book Prize of Economics, 2008).

Over 300 books are available in bookstores or online, published in 16 collections including "Acts of research at the ENS (online), the" collection of CEPREMAP (economy), "The meetings Normale Sup ', "" Italica (Italian history), the Studies of ancient literature, "" French version "(translation criticism)," Aesthetic "(co-edited the Quai Branly Museum ) and "street? Talk about it! "(With Emmaus ). At a rate of 25 new products per year, books are published and distributed by Les Belles Lettres and Numilog.

ditions Rue d'Ulm are directed by Lucie Marignac-Gatty.

Research support

The Institute of expertise and foresight of the ENS, established in 1985, serves as an interface between schools and enterprises conducting seminars and studies at the request of companies. This research development is expanding in variety of fields, from finance to biotechnology through the law.

The SLA also includes a service enhancement of research designed to facilitate partnerships between public and private research and with the world of industry.

Club normaliens in Business

The Club of ENS in the business since 1983 brings together all alumni activity in a public or private. Space for exchange between the research world and the world of business, it also contributes to the employability of former students. Its members include Anne Lauvergeon , CEO of Areva , Christophe Barbier , director of L'Express / I>, Florence Maux, CEO of AFAQ AFNOR, Dominica Hinnin, Chief Financial Officer of Lagardre, and Bertrand Mabille, CEO of SFR Entreprises.

In 2008, the Club has launched the Growth & Innovation for bringing the school of SMEs in innovative high growth.

Case of the collective Palestinian

In early February, the collective Palestinian files a request to reserve a room for a debate in the week against Israeli apartheid with guests such as Omar Barghouti , director Simone Bitton and Palestinian and Israeli students. Director Ms. Canto-Sperber has refused to reserve the room with the reason "ENS is not intended to house meetings of political parties or meetings organized by national or international militant groups in which s' express a view unambiguous ^{Sports and Associative Life}

The COF

Community life is organized around the Organizing Committee for the holidays ( COF ), common name of the Association of Students (see above ), and Bureau of Sport, which gained its independence in 2007 .

COF, which contains very many sports clubs, artistic or festive, publishes each week for nearly 20 years the jar weekly newspaper devoted to news in-school and is in charge of organizing parties and events festivities taking place at school. The best known is "Night of the rue d'Ulm (formerly known as Gala ENS), the largest student night in the school, which takes place around the court to Ernests fully illuminated.

The COF also includes an Office of Arts, major partner of Parisian cultural scene.

DG

The General Delegation of students (DG) provides the distribution of Thurne (the famous thurnages) between students and manages some material issues delegated by the school administration. It consists of four delegates general (dgs, said large, beautiful and strong) elected each year by students, and a special delegation to the environment.

Other associations

Social actions are federated normaliens by welfare student. One can also note the action of ENS for the opening social engineering schools, particularly through associations Talens , Springboard and Animath.

Paris Mountain Association holds an annual festival dedicated to popularizing science and promoting careers in scientific research.

An international summer school literary held at school in 2008 at the initiative of several students.

Several trade unions and political clubs are located in the school. Chief among them is Pollens (association for policy at the ENS), which organized a policy seminar with great guests each week. Pupils and students are represented on the Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board.

Jargon

ENS uses a rich jargon relating to local circumstances. Nobody knows when this jargon was formed, probably around 1900. For some reason now forgotten, many words are inspired by South America, as "cacique", "tapir", "alligator" ...

A "turn" or "Thurne is a bed and boarding (known as" Thurne day "for parts of study). The "thurnage" is the relatively complex procedure for awarding Thurner students from the second year (ENS has rooms on several sites and arranged differently, so differently valued).

Time of rooms with two occupants, the roommate called the "co-Turn." An "alligator" is an aggregate-preparer , that is to say, a teacher in charge of the aggregation and whose education is to prepare students and auditors to aggregation, these are usually young researchers (under 30). By extension, especially in literary studies, a crocodile is any teacher of the ENS.

A cacique is a major at the entrance of the ENS. By extension, called cacique anyone ranked first in the entrance examination to high school, aggregation, etc.. Originally cacique designated a tribal leader in Central America, so "cacique" is also in use today in the direction of a leader, not without irony. Conversely, the last of the promotion is sometimes referred to as the "culal. A "ArchiCube is an alumnus. The alumni directory is "archicubier.

The "pot" means the School's restaurant, the service is provided for lunch and dinner. Breakfast is also proposed, as the "small pot". By extension, the word refers to pot just about anything that has a near or distant relative with food. For example, "it is pot means it's time to go eat," pot "is also the nickname of the steward, etc.. We used to speak of "Goimard", which is always a ArchiCube to attend the pot (the term comes from the name of Jacques Goimard ).

The housekeepers and more generally all service technicians were once called "Sioux".

The "ernestisation" is to throw a person in the basin.

Each year sees a weekend special offers inbound integration, commonly called WEI in other engineering schools. At the ENS, this weekend called "Mega" in reference to an ancient tradition of worship of a fossil Megatherium , preserved by the Library of letters. This fossil has since been transferred to the National Museum of Natural History. The association of students, officially ENEA, is most often called COF (for "Organizing Committee for the holidays"), you obviously never did speak of "student office.

A "tapir" (reference to "small animal flesh bland but nourishing") is a student who gives a normalien tutoring. "Tapirat" and "Tapir" result.

Each year, are nominated by the ENS of the Catholic princes "and" princesses tala, "the nickname that students from public school to private school students threw (the" tala "," those References

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