Events
Residency weeks and dates to come are also on the calendar.
2026
- 12-17/10/2026 2026 INTP Autumn School: Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology The 4th INTP Autumn School “Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology” will take place from October 12 to 17, 2026 in Ariège, in the French …
- 27/9 - 4/10/2026 Work Alive retreat @ INTP 2026 More info on the event webpage We learn early that the work isn't supposed to feel good now. It's supposed to pay off later, …
- 20-27/9/2026 Honest Science Workshop @ INTP 2026 Full website (see for more info) What actually drives your science? Not the fundable version—the real thing. The questions you think about in the …
- 7-12/9/2026 Interdisciplinary Summer Camp 2026 This is an experimental format in a style of a "science summer camp" for adults, combining introductions to multiple scientific and interdisciplinary research areas, …
- 5-11/7/2026 2026 Summer School: Unifying Mathematical Models of Biodiversity Following up on our 2025 Spring School, we are happy to announce the upcoming 2026 summer school Like the previous edition, it will be …
- 8/5/2026 Honoring Sébastien Ibanez On May 8, our friend Sébastien Ibanez, co-founder and member of INTP from 2020 to 2024, passed away at the age of 44 in …
- 20-24/4/2026 INRAE doctoral residency We had the pleasure of welcoming a group of PhD students from INRAE Occitanie-Toulouse for a full week of focused work. Highlights of the …
2025
- 27-31/10/2025 Writing retreat - October 2025 We are organizing a writing retreat (for articles, theses, personal projects, fiction...) at INTP the end of this month, from Monday Oct 27 to …
- 6-11/10/2025 2025 INTP Autumn School: Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology Overview The 3rd INTP Autumn School “Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology” will take place from October 6 to 11, 2025 in Ariège, in the … <a href=/content/campus>INTP campus</a>, <a href=/content/directions>Surba 09400 France</a>.
- 29/9 - 3/10/2025 Co-research Retreat in Theoretical community ecology 2025 A 3- to 5-day retreat where participants (researchers or doctoral students) make progress on their own research, while sharing daily scientific discussion times, both …
- 8-14/9/2025 Interdisciplinary science school @ INTP 2025 Sign up here - https://bit.ly/INTS_signup - until 8th June. Whether you sign up or not, complete this form to help us understand your interest, …
- 27/7 - 2/8/2025 Mindful Co-working Retreat 2025 Meditation and work retreat for digital nomads and remote workers <a href=/content/campus>INTP campus</a>, <a href=/content/directions>Surba 09400 France</a>.
- 20-26/7/2025 Mindful Research Retreat 2025 Meditation and work retreat for researchers <a href=/content/campus>INTP campus</a>, <a href=/content/directions>Surba 09400 France</a>.
- 16-21/6/2025 Research & Mountaineering Retreat 2025 Deadline extended to June 4 The residency consists of co-working sessions to progress on your research (writing, analysis, etc.) in the morning and physical …
- 28-30/5/2025 Stochastic Dynamics and Artificial Intelligence Workshop Organizer: Wylie Ahmed (CNRS, Université de Toulouse) Invited Speakers: Nicholas Brubaker (CSUF, USA) Jay McMahon (CU Boulder, USA) This workshop brings together researchers interested …
- 18-24/5/2025 2025 INTP Spring School - Mathematical Theory in Community Ecology This school is an overview of community ecology for interdisciplinary theoreticians, in particular physicists and applied mathematicians. See here for more details on this …
- 27-30/4/2025 Microbial Community Ecology - 2025 Spring Workshop & School in the Pyrenees This 3-day workshop in Microbial Community Ecology aims to bring together scientists (researchers, engineers...) working on microbial communities in diverse contexts, help create a …
2024
- 6-8/11/2024 Microbial Community Ecology - 2024 School This 3-day school in Microbial Community Ecology aimed to give an overview of the key concepts and tools from community ecology (from coexistence to …
- 26/9 - 20/10/2024 Residency - Arts and Science October This residency period, we have welcome INTP friend Juan Giral, as well as Mathilde Defourneaux, Maya Tsur and Toyo Vignal. All of them are …
- 29-5/8/2024 Residency - Creating an animated music video Solène Pichereau (@sedeto), illustrator, graphic designer and singer, came to the INTP for a week in residence to create a traditionally animated clip for …
- 10/8/2024 Concert by Magali Michaut Cette semaine nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir à l'INTP Magali Michaut, scientifique de métier et autrice-compositrice-interprète par passion ! Magali donnera un concert de …
- 9/8/2024 Fotografia i Viatge: Consciència. Aprenentatge. Propòsit L'INTP els convida a participar a la conversa "Fotografia i Viatge: Consciència. Aprenentatge. Propòsit" animada pel fotògraf Ray Vüilsen (@rayvuilsen), un espai per reflexionar …
- 8-12/7/2024 Thesis writing retreat 2024 The Institut Natura e Teoria en Pirenèus is offering a week-long writing retreat for young researchers to work on their thesis or articles. We …
- 6-14/6/2024 (Meta-)workshop: Concepts and models for organizational theories of purpose [Externally funded event, on invitation only] Theme: We are interested in how philosophical concepts of purpose can be applied to, or enriched by, simplified …
- 17/4/2024 Introduction to logic This week at INTP, Samuel Tronçon from the cooperative ANÁNKÉ, a philosopher and computer scientist of Brouwerian inspiration, offers an introduction to the logic …
- 16-18/4/2024 Presentations - Ocean Conservation + Artémisia Arts and science 16/04 18h - Francesco d'Ovidio - Conservation of 30% of the global ocean for 2030: communication operation or historical opportunity? The recent COP 15 …
- 4/4/2024 La conservation de la biodiversité arctique autour d’une station militaire canadienne Cette semaine, nous restons dans la thématique Arctique à l'INTP ! Nous aurons le plaisir d'écouter Émilie Desjardins, doctorante à l'UQAR avec Dominique Berteaux, …
- 29/3/2024 Écologie animale dans la toundra du Haut-Arctique canadien Cette semaine, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir à l'INTP, Dominique Berteaux, chercheur en écologie Arctique à l'Université du Québec à Rimouski, qui donnera le …
- 22/3 - 31/8/2024 INTP at Eurêkafé 2024 The INTP is speaking several times this year at l'Eurêkafé, our favorite science café in Toulouse: March 22 - Ecology and video games by …
- 15/3/2024 Conférence gesticulée de Gwennyn Tanguy Nous avons le plaisir de recevoir vendredi 15 Mars, 19h, à l'INTP (Surba), Gwennyn Tanguy qui donnera une conférence gesticulée intitulée "ECOFEMINISME ou comment …
- 17/2/2024 Manon Jarry - La météo spatiale : des éruptions solaires aux aurores boréales Le samedi 17 février à 18h30, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Manon Jarry, doctorante en astrophysique et présidente de l'asso UniverSCiel, qui nous parlera …
- 6/2/2024 LIDAR and forest structural complexity: an illustration by Violette Zgraja Violette Zgraja (@la_froguita), soon to finish her studies in scientific illustration at the École Estienne (ESAIG), did in 2023 an internship co-supervised by Olivier …
- 5/1/2024 Call for residencies 2024 The Institut Natura e Teoria en Pirenèus is opening its 2024 series of scientific and/or artistic research residencies. Please see more details on this …
2023
- 21/11/2023 Seminar “Let’s talk about AI extinction risk” Maxime Fournes, researcher on AI risk, was a resident at INTP from November 8 to 21, 2023. He gave a public seminar entitled “Let’s …
- 10/11/2023 Arctic ecology at Eurêkafé in Toulouse Azenor Bideault will intervene at Eurêkafé in Toulouse to give a popular science presentation entitled Impacts of climate warming on bidoversity in the Arctic. …
- 1/11 - 15/12/2023 Dialogues with high school students (programme Déclics) For the second year running, members of the INTP have been out to meet students from high schools across the Occitanie region, as part …
- 9-14/10/2023 2023 INTP Autumn School: Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology The 2nd INTP Autumn School "Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology'' will take place from October 9 to 14, 2023 in Ariège, in the French … Campus INTP (09400 Surba)
- 2-4/5/2023 Radio Temps Rodez in residency Immersion in research and interviews INTP Campus (09400 Surba)
- 23-31/3/2023 Antoine Sugita returns This week we are receiving at INTP, the young and talented artist Antoine Sugita ! Antoine spent 6 months at INTP last year to …
- 1-3/3/2023 INTP in residence with Radio Temps Rodez First part of a cross-residency project between Radio Temps Rodez (RTR) and the INTP, financed by the DRAC Occitanie, on the topic of Education … Rodez
- 18/2/2023 Visit of Alessandro Pignocchi Conference-discussion INTP Campus (09400 Surba)
- 12/2/2023 21st Petit Poucet Contest Great news! We are very happy to announce that INTP is the winner of the 21st edition of the Petit Poucet Contest in the …
- 20/1/2023 Conference at Eurêkafé in Toulouse Matthieu Barbier will intervene at Eurêkafé in Toulouse to give a popular science presentation entitled Understanding biodiversity: the role of competition, mutualism and chance. …
2022
- 4/11/2022 INTP General Assembly 2022 and change of administration The members gathered in the physical world and online for the general assembly on Nov 4. Our demographics evolved: Azenor Bideault and Benjamin Girardot …
- 3-8/10/2022 2022 INTP Autumn School: Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology The 1st INTP Autumn School “Syntheses in Theoretical Community Ecology” took place from October 3 to 8, 2022 in Ariège, in the French Pyrenees. …
- 10/5/2022 MSH-T-Projet Glomec-webinar "science facing environmental and sanitary crisis" On may 10, the INTP was invited to attend the MSH-T-Projet Glomec-webinar in Toulouse. The professor Dirk Schmeller from Toulouse University has prestented the …
- 20/4/2022 Atecopol books event INTP members were present at the meeting with the Atecopol (Atelier d'Ecologie Politique) about the release of their first two books, Greenwashing and Débrancher …
- 16/4/2022 Journal Club: Axial Age We will read and discuss the following article: Mullins DA, Hoyer D, Collins C, et al. A Systematic Assessment of “Axial Age” Proposals Using …
- 15/4/2022 School Biodiversity project (Lisle-sur-Tarn) The INTP was kindly invited by the association Iti Ke Na Zonza to co-organize a school mediation project in Lisle-sur-Tarn ! For nearly two … Lisle-sur-Tarn
- 31/3 - 4/4/2022 Annual INTP Meeting 2022 The first Annual INTP Meeting took place from March 31 to April 4, 2022. Most INTP members converged in the flesh for four days … Surba
- 11/3/2022 Antoine Sugita's end of residency concert Antoine Sugita, pianist, stayed at INTP for five months for an artistic residency. We organized a private end-of-residency concert to celebrate the release of …
- 11/3/2022 Journal Club: Bear Rituals We will hold a journal club on Friday March 11th at 6pm. We will discuss the bear killing ritual of the Ainu (indigenous people …
- 9-23/3/2022 Visit of Pr. Naphtali Meshel (HUJI) We were honoured and pleased to welcome Naphtali Meshel, philologist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), for a second residency at …
- 10-20/1/2022 Visit of Prof. Naphtali Meshel (HUJI) Short residency: Thinking Rite
2021
- 7-12/12/2021 Working group: Ecology & Physics Interdisciplinary working group with four young researchers
- 30/11/2021 Azenor Bideault defended her PhD! Azenor Bideault defended her PhD on the 30th of November. She was supervised by Dominique Gravel from the Integrative Ecology Lab of the University …
- 14-17/11/2021 GDR THEOMODIVE meeting The research group on the theory and modeling of biodiversity (THEOMODIVE) had its annual meeting from November 14 to 22. The meeting was organized …
- 10-12/11/2021 ECONET 2021 Nuria Galiana and Azenor Bideault presented their work at the V Symposium on Ecological Networks at the Universitat de les Illes Balears in the … Universitat de les Illes Balears
- 18-22/10/2021 Visit of Prof. Mathew Leibold (U Florida) Mathew Leibold is Professor of Biology in the University of Florida. Prof. Leibold is both an experimental and theoretical ecologist, who has worked on …
- 17-24/7/2021 Visit of Dr Sonia Kéfi (CNRS) Short residency: Regime shifts in ecological networks
- 3-17/3/2021 Visit of Simon Carbonnelle Simon Carbonnelle visited us from March 3-17. He is a PhD student in Artificial Intelligence at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics …
2020
- 15/11/2020 Breaking grounds New associate and new campus The Internet & Surba
- 4/10/2020 Fête de la Science at the Muséum de Toulouse Popular science event about Human-Nature relationships <a href=https://www.museum.toulouse.fr/>https://www.museum.toulouse.fr/</a>
2019
- 14/3 - 30/6/2019 Course: Numerical methods We will be holding weekly classes between March and June at our current host institution (CNRS Moulis). We plan for these classes to cover … Moulis
- 28/1/2019 Foundation The grand online opening of the INTP.