Paris Diderot University (), also known as Paris 7 or Paris VII, was a public university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 1970. Paris Diderot merged with Paris Descartes University in 2019 to form the new University of Paris, which was later renamed Paris Cité University.
With two Nobel Prize laureates, two Fields Medal winners and two former French Ministers of Education among its faculty or former faculty, the university was famous for its teaching in science, especially in mathematics.The university is ranked 47th in the world in mathematics by the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2010. Many fundamental results of the theory of probability were discovered at one of its research centres, the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires (Laboratory of Probability and Random Models).Brief history of the Laboratory of Probabilites and Random Models
History
Paris Diderot University was one of the heirs of the old University of Paris, which ceased to exist in 1970. Professors from the faculties of Science, of Medicine and of Humanities chose then to create a new multidisciplinary university. It adopted its current name in 1994 after the 18th-century French philosopher, art critic and writer Denis Diderot.
Formerly based at the Jussieu Campus, in the 5th arrondissement, the university moved to a new campus in the 13th arrondissement, in the Paris Rive Gauche neighbourhood. The first buildings were brought into use in 2006. The university had many facilities in Paris and two in other places of the general area. In 2012, the university completed its move in its new ultramodern campus.
Paris Diderot University was a founding member of the higher education and research alliance Sorbonne Paris Cité, a public institution for scientific co-operation, bringing together four renowned Parisian universities and four higher education and research institutes.Presentation of the Sorbonne Paris Cité alliance
The university became a member of the Sorbonne Paris University Group on 31 March 2010. It merged with the Paris Descartes University in 2019, gaining its new appellation, the University of Paris.
List of facilities in Paris
There are:Detail of all facilities PRG (Paris Rive Gauche) - Main campus Jussieu Campus - former Main campus Charles V - English studies RFF Building - Administrative offices Javelot - Geography, history and social science (GHSS) Chateau des Rentiers - Linguistics Garancière - Odontology Xavier-Bichat - Medicine Lariboisière Saint-Louis - Medicine St Louis Hospital - Hematology Rue de Paradis - Medicine
UFR (Unité de Formation et de Recherche) Paris Diderot University offers courses in many fields, each taught in a different section of the university designated as a UFR - Unité de Formation et de Recherche (Unit for Teaching and Research).List of the Fields and departments
UFR of Life Sciences UFR of Chemistry UFR of Computer Sciences UFR of Mathematics UFR of Physics UFR of Science of the Earth, Environment and Planets UFR of English studies UFR of Cross-cultural and Applied Languages studies UFR of Geography, History and Social sciences UFR of Languages and Cultures in East Asia studies (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese) UFR of Letters, Art and Cinema UFR of Linguistics UFR of Psychoanalytical Studies (formerly Human clinical sciences) UFR of Social Sciences UFR of Medicine UFR of Odontology
Academic degrees There are:
1 Diplôme universitaire de technologie (called DUT) 27 different bachelor's degrees (Licence) 32 different master's degrees (116 specialities) 1 Engineering school 24 different Ph.D.s (Doctorat)
Teachers and former teachers
Jaak Aaviksoo, Estonian Minister of Defense Claude Allègre, Minister of National Education (France) from 1997 to 2000 and member of the Académie des sciences (France)Claude Allègre's resume Artur Avila, 2014 Fields Medal Jean-Luc Bennahmias, French Member of the European Parliament Bernard Cerquiglini, rector of the Agence universitaire de la FrancophonieAgence universitaire de la Francophonie Michel de Certeau, French Jesuit priest, historian and anthropologist Michel Ciment, French journalist, writer and president of FIPRESCIInternational Federation of Film Critics Vincent Courtillot, geophysicist, member of the Académie des sciences (France)Vincent Courtillot CV Jean Dausset, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1980 Luc Ferry, French Minister of National Education from 2002 to 2004Luc Ferry's CV Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst, sociologist and feminist Robert Mallet, writer Thierry Morand, French biocontainment expert and entrepreneur. Élisabeth Roudinesco, French historian and psychoanalyst Jean-Michel Savéant, member of the Académie des sciences (France)Jean-Michel Savéant CV Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician Laurent Schwartz, 1950 Fields Medal, Justin E. H. Smith, author and professor of history and philosophy of science George Fitzgerald Smoot,Press release of the University Paris-Diderot Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 for the discovery of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation Yazdan Yazdanpanah, infectiologist Stefano Zacchiroli, Former Debian Project Leader
Noted alumnae
Christine Bard Founder of the Archives du féminisme
References
External links
University homepage Map of facilities