China and France have signed in October, 22th 2008, in Beijing, an agreement to create an International Associated laboratory called "Origins" in the field of Astrophysics. Origins activities include research on the origin of the matter and energy in the Universe, origins of the galaxies and heavy elements and origins of planets including those possibly hosting life. Its main goals is to favour and support collaborations between chinese and french research teams, in both science and instrumentation.

• Probing Baryons in the Universe

  2016 (Sèvres, France. Nov 14-18, 2016)

• 6th Sino-French Workshop “LIA-ORIGINS”

  2014 on "Dark Matter: Astrophysical and Experimental Constraint" (Beijing, China, Oct. 20-25, 2014)

• 5th Sino-French Workshop “LIA-ORIGINS”

  2012 on " Numerical simulations: from theory to instrumentation" (La Londe les Maures, France, May 13-17 2012)

• Origins Workshop “Preparing for the SKA”

  Nov 2011, Paris

• Summer School on Observational Astrophysics

  Oct 2011, Beijing

• Origins IFU Workshop

  Nov 2010, Lijiang, China

• 4th Sino-French Workshop “LIA-ORIGINS”

  2012 on "Galaxies, Cosmology, High Energy Astrophysics, Extra-solar Planets, Stellar Physics, and Instrumentation." (Tongling, China, July 20-25, 2009)

• 3rd Sino-French Workshop

  Oct 15-20, 2007, Paris Sèvres, France

• 2nd Sino-French Workshop

  Apr 18-24, 2005, Beijing, China

• 1st Sino-French Workshop

  March 10-12, 2004, Fondation des Treilles, France