Numérique

With IMT Atlantique's new doctoral program, supported by the European Union and ten leading industrial and academic partners, 40 doctoral students will benefit from cutting-edge PhD training over the next five years. The innovation-driven program takes an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and international approach to better support major transformations.

Error correction, very high throughput, DNA storage, AI contributions... A team of researchers from the Mathematical & Electrical Engineering (MEE) department at IMT Atlantique is working on the latest advances in coding, which plays a key role in all digital communication systems.

SLICES is a unique initiative in the digital sciences. It aims to provide a large-scale scientific instrument to support research activities addressing issues around the design and management of digital infrastructures. SLICES entered the ESFRI roadmap at the end of 2021, successfully moving from the design phase to the preparation phase.

Social anxiety is a global problem with significant personal and societal costs. Virtual reality makes it possible to consider new treatment alternatives, in particular for exposure therapy: a practitioner can gradually confront patients with the situations that are problematic to them.

Starting next fall, Ecolog, an initiative that brings together experts from all over France, aims to provide, via open source, a set of educational resources (syllabus, modules, MooC, tools, etc.) dedicated to "responsible" digital technology, for engineers of all profiles.

Combining digital technology  and energy to make the management of a heating network as close as possible to the aspirations and constraints of users(local authorities, network managers and subscribers) is possible now with the decision support platform currently being developed by a team of five researchers from IMT Atlantic as part of the Euro

A fine delegation from IMT Atlantique was in Vienna from 4 to 6 December 2018 to participate in the largest event organised by the European Commission in the field of information and communication technologies, ICT proposers' day 2018: Imagine Digital - Connect Europe.

In preparation for 2019 academic year, IMT Atlantique is recruiting teacher-researchers for its Brest and Nantes campuses. 12 positions are open in different fields: environment and digital, energy and digital, cyber security, artificial intelligence, energy and environment.
Deadline for applications is 31 March.

Professor Pierre Cointe, scientific director of the Atlanstic 2020 regional programme and lecturer at IMT Atlantique, has initiated a partnership agreement with the new Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO) in Quebec. The agreement concerns the development of joint actions in the area of data science, optimisation and artificial intelligence.