As part of my doctoral studies at McGill, I will conduct archival research on the formation of bhakti (devotional) communities in North India. I will focus on the Ramanandi Sampraday, which formed around the fourteenth-century Hindu guru Ramananda and is still one of the largest ascetic sects in Hinduism today. There are many stories written […]

Collision avoidance can be described as a whole-body movement control problem in which visual information is used to elicit accurate movement adaptations. Age-related visuomotor degradation is a potential factor contributing to mobility difficulties in older adults. However, there remains a gap in understanding what age-related visuomotor changes are causing older adults to be more susceptible […]

Increasingly, addictions are being conceptualized by their similarities. These similarities, or transdiagnostic processes, are thought to underlie addictions. That is, addictive disorders are thought to be distinct manifestations of similar underlying pathologies. Being able to understand the similarities of multiple addictive disorders may enable the simultaneous treatment of numerous addictions, creating a more effective treatment […]

Due to the huge data volume in the big data era, the dimension of feature parameters and the size of datasets continue to increase. This trend induces a paradigm shift for the learning networks from the centralized in-cloud learning ones to the distributed on-device learning ones. Benefit from the parallel computation and local training, the […]

L’application de certains types de plasma sur une surface biologique permet la stérilisation du milieu en question. Il est également possible de rendre cette stérilisation sélective par rapport au choix des cellules devant être affectées par le plasma. Ce faisant, la stérilisation sélective de cellules cancérigènes ou de pathogènes par un actionneur à plasma est […]

Dans mon doctorat, j’étudie les traductions des représentations audiovisuelles des immigrés indiens en comédie. Depuis les années 2010, des artistes prolifiques comme Mindy Kaling, Aziz Ansari ou Hasan Minhaj contribuent à proposer des images médiatiques nouvelles des Américains d’origine indienne, aidés par des plateformes de diffusion comme Netflix. Ces nouvelles représentations, que je considère comme […]

During human navigation, vision plays a key role in efficiently guiding movements towards a goal by taking into account the interaction between the environment and the observer. Collision avoidance is comprised of two main aspects: visually perceived information, and behavioral adaptations. Previous research has demonstrated that humans alter their collision avoidance behaviours depending on situational […]

Tropical dry forests(TDFs), comprising of 42% tropical forests worldwide, are considered as the first frontiers for economic development in Latin America because TDFs not only provide a source of agricultural and urban land but also a source of goods and ecosystem services for people who live around them. Due to the driving force for economic […]

De New York à Portland, les ménages aisés sont de plus en plus nombreux à (re)conquérir les quartiers populaires – souvent racisés – des mégalopoles étasuniennes, un phénomène complexe inédit communément appelé « gentrification » (Glass, 1964). Impactant le quotidien de milliers d’individus marginalisés, la gentrification a paradoxalement peu fait l’objet d’études sociologiques critiques (Slater, […]

Lorsqu’une impulsion lumineuse intense se propage dans une fibre optique, des interaction non linéaires surviennent et modifient le contenu spectral de l’impulsion. De façon imagée, l’impulsion lumineuse change de “couleur” à mesure qu’elle se propage dans la fibre. Ces interactions non linéaires sont étudiées exhaustivement depuis l’avènement du laser en 1960. Cependant, l’étude de la […]

In Martian history, asteroids have continuously collided with Mars. The catastrophic activity (impact) can produce high pressure, and finally affected properties of minerals in meteorites, which means the minerals were shocked. The force of impact for ejecting Martian meteorites can be 60 GPa, about 600,000 times of the atmosphere pressure on Earth surface. When the […]

This project will experimentally establish a completely new method for accessing enantiopure materials starting from racemic substrates: stereoretentive-enantioconvergent catalysis. The ability to synthesize chiral molecules in enantiopure form is vitally important, most recognizably for the pharmaceutical industry. This is because the molecules of life are chiral (e.g., D-sugars and L-amino acids) and enantiomers often interact […]