{"73007":{"#nid":"73007","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Forms Research Unit with France\u0027s CNRS","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech and France\u0027s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) have partnered to create a joint international research unit (unit\u00c3\u00a9 mixte internationale - UMI) to focus on telecommunications and innovative materials research.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe UMI, which is the first of its kind in France, will be based at Georgia Tech Lorraine (GT Lorraine), the European campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology located in Metz, France. Created in 1990, GT Lorraine excels in secure networks and innovative materials research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo large and select French engineering schools, ENSAM and SUPELEC, and two universities, Franche Comt\u00c3\u00a9 University in Besan\u00c3\u00a7on and Paul Verlaine University in Metz, are associate members.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The fact that the UMI agreement was officially signed in Paris at the CNRS headquarters in the presence of Dr. Catherine Brechignac, president of CNRS, and Dr. A. Migus, director of CNRS, shows that CNRS attaches great importance to this new venture between Georgia Tech and CNRS. It is clear that Georgia Tech Lorraine played an important role in this strategic partnership,\u0022 said Dr. Yves Berthelot, director of GT Lorraine.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe partnership between GT Lorraine and CNRS started in 1998 with a mixed research unit (UMR) of CNRS in the area of secure telecommunications networks through optical fibers. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new mixed international GT-CNRS unit will be devoted to optics-based communication using the dynamics of chaos in optoelectronic components, quantum cryptography and ultrafast optical communication.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe UMI\u0027s research will also focus on innovative materials related to optics, electronics and mechanical engineering, with an emphasis on nanotechnology and intelligent materials. The research will target industrial applications for aeronautics, automotives, biomedical engineering and energy.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Abdallah Ougazzaden, a GT Lorraine professor, will direct the UMI. Ougazzaden has a doctorate in optoelectronics, and his thesis led to record performances on a worldwide scale and a transfer of know-how in the new technology of semiconductor laser manufacturing with Alcatel CIT. He was previously a researcher with CNET and worked as a director of research with Bell Labs in the United States. He then joined the University of Metz as professor and deputy manager of the Photonic Optical Materials Laboratory and Systems (LMOPS\/SUPELEC). He is the author and joint author of more than 130 publications and holds 20 patents.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I look forward to leading the combination of the research strengths of Georgia Tech with other superior French universities and engineering schools to make significant advances in secure networks and materials research and to extend this international partnership with other partners and other research areas,\u0022 Ougazzaden said. \u0022I\u0027m sure that we have all the ingredients to be successful in this international research unit.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Largest scientific organization in Europe collaborating with Georgia Tech on secure networks and innovative materials"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech and France\u0027s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) have partnered to create a joint international research unit to be based at Georgia Tech Lorraine. The unit\u0027s research will focus on telecommunications and innovative materials.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Unit to focus on secure networks, materials"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2006-05-04 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:00:55","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73008":{"id":"73008","type":"image","title":"Dr. Abdallah Ougazzaden","body":null,"created":"1449177971","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:11","changed":"1475894668","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:28"}},"media_ids":["73008"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cnrs.fr\/accueil.html","title":"CNRS"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}