Facilitator: Pavel Chvykov pchvykov@ncis.org

This is a meditation retreat. It's also a time you can be productive in your research. But most importantly, it's a time to intentionally lean deeper into the joy of doing the work we love, together with like-minded people, surrounded by beautiful mountains.

The core of this will be a guided exploration of how to make our research itself a deep and joyful meditation practice. We will combine focused mindfulness practices (like yoga, breathwork, meditations), with …

This school is an overview of community ecology for interdisciplinary theoreticians, in particular physicists and applied mathematicians.

See here for more details on this upcoming event!

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 common language with an overview of key ideas and tools spanning community ecology, and foster new collaborations and ways of approaching data, experiments or teaching this topic at the interconnection of many expertises.

More information on the dedicated page.

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 complex networks), that can enrich the way we think about and study microbiomes, plan experiments and analyze data.

More information: http://intp.science/content/microbial-community-ecology-2024-autumn-school

We happily hosted 11 students including 10 from several laboratories associated with the CLAPAS Key Initiative (University of Montpellier), see news here.

This residency period, we have welcome INTP friend Juan Giral, as well as Mathilde Defourneaux, Maya Tsur and Toyo Vignal.

All of them are either PhD students or recently elevated to doctor (in Toyo's case, congratulations!), all have an artistic inclination, and as well as personal projects, we shared drawing sessions, discussions about how to teach science through art, and an upcoming thesis chapter-turned-comic book.

More on this soon!

Solène Pichereau (@sedeto), illustrator, graphic designer and singer, came to the INTP for a week in residence to create a traditionally animated clip for one of her songs.

She ran a drawing from life session with all our residents, and offered us a preview screening of her music video accompanied by live singing.

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 sortie de résidence ce samedi 10 août à 20h à la Guinguette Ô Lac (anciennement Snack Ô Lac, site de la Pisciculture de la Courbière, Rue de Saurat, Surba/Tarascon-sur-Ariège). Buvette et restauration sur place (burgers avec option végétarienne et pavés de truite).

Chercheuse à plus d’un titre, Magali Michaut transforme ses questionnements quotidiens en une …

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 sobre el rol de l'art en la co-creació de societats més justes, interdependents i creatives.

INTP invites you to join the conversation “Photography and Travel: Consciousness. Learning. Purpose” hosted by photographer Ray Vüilsen (@rayvuilsen), a space to reflect on the role of art in co-creating more just, interdependent, and creative societies.

Ray's …

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 will host up to 6 people in individual bedrooms. The schedule and meals will be co-organized with participants, we will suggest structures and options for logistics, writing sessions, and outdoors activities.

When : July 8 to 12 included (you may also come only from 9 to 11)

Who : doctoral students from all disciplines as well …

[Externally funded event, on invitation only]

Theme: We are interested in how philosophical concepts of purpose can be applied to, or enriched by, simplified mathematical models of a living system's organization. Among possible questions, we want to focus on the following:

1. Defining purposiveness
- what makes purpose different from other concepts such as optimization
- whether this concept is rightly applicable to any given system, how to characterize purposiveness (e.g. by organizational closure)
- whether purposiveness at one scale …