2026–2027 Program
Preliminary program (still incomplete)
- Wednesday, September 16. Annina Salonen (ESPCI), "How foams age in complex fluids," Soft Matter (12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. – Lecture Hall A1, Building hbar-625).
- Wednesday, September 23. Bertrand Thirion (Inria, French Academy of Sciences), AI and brain imaging (12:30 PM–1:30 PM – Lecture Hall A1, Building hbar-625).
- Wednesday, October 7. Manuel Valentin (National Museum of Natural History), The Soleil Synchrotron for Anthropology.
- Wednesday, October 14. Laura Bernard (CNRS, Paris Observatory), Gravitational Waves and Alternatives to General Relativity.
- Wednesday, November 18. Jean-Christophe Antona (Alcatel), Submarine fiber-optic networks.
- Wednesday, November 25.
- Wednesday, December 2. Walid Abdel Maksoud (CEA), Superconducting magnets for fusion and large research facilities.
- Thursday, December 10. Alain Bouyssy Symposium.
- Wednesday, December 16. Roland Lehoucq (Irfu, CEA), Science Fiction: The World of (Im)measurement.
- Wednesday, January 20.
- Wednesday, January 27. Nathanaelle Schneider (IPVF) on photovoltaics
- Wednesday, February 3.
- Wednesday, February 24.
Archives 2025–2026
- Wednesday, September 10: David Ros (IJC Lab, Paris-Saclay University, Senator from Essonne), Public Research Policy.
- Wednesday, September 24: Xavier Sarazin (IJC Lab, Paris-Saclay University), ""Can Light Be Slowed Down in a Vacuum?".
- Wednesday, October 1: Laurence de Viguerie (LAMS, CNRS), "From the Lab to the Museum: The Revealed Secrets of the Great Masters".
- Wednesday, October 8: Acri-ST, a company in the space industry.
- Wednesday, October 15: Luc Pastur (ENSTA), "Floating Wind Turbines: What Are the Technological Challenges?"
- Wednesday, November 19: Giolio Biroli (ENS), "AI and Physics". Lecture organized in collaboration with the FFJ.
- Wednesday, November 26: Ludovic Perruchot (Thales), "Anti-drone lasers".
- Wednesday, December 3: Yann Mambrini (IJC Lab, Paris-Saclay University), "New Physics Beyond Standard Models". Lecture organized in collaboration with the SFP.
- December 11 at 9:30 a.m.: Hugues Pothier (CEA Saclay) "The 2025 Nobel Prize: Quantum Physics with Electrical Circuits." As part of the Alain Bouyssy Symposium
- Wednesday, December 17: Andrei Bernevig (Princeton), "High-temperature superconductivity". Lecture organized in collaboration with the FFJ.
- Wednesday, January 21: Bérengère Dubrulle (CEA Saclay). Turbulence.
- Wednesday, January 28: Sébastien Bigo (Nokia Bell Labs, Massy), quantum physics and optics.
- Wednesday, February 11: Roundtable on quantum technologies. Guests: Anne Chauvet-Louchet (CNRS, Institut Langevin, Paris), Valérian Giesz (Quandela), and Patrice Bertet (Quantronique, CEA Saclay).
- Wednesday, February 18: Charles Antoine (Sorbonne University), “The Schrödinger Equation Turns 100”
- Wednesday, February 25: Jean-Christophe Galas (Jean-Perrin Laboratory, Sorbonne University), Morphogenesis in microfluidics.
Archives 2024–2025
- Wednesday, September 25: Chris Greene, Professor at Purdue University (USA). Broadening our understanding of the remarkable Efiov effect.
- Wednesday, October 2, Marc Ernoult, IJCLab, UPSay, Various electro-nuclear scenarios.
- Wednesday, October 9, David Rousseau, IJCLab, UPSay, Machine learning for physics.
- Wednesday, October 16, Emmanuelle Gouillart, Scientific Director of Saint-Gobain Research.
- Wednesday, November 13, Bart Van Tiggelen, Publications and “Open Science”
- Wednesday, November 20, Jacques Laskar, Paris Observatory and the French Academy of Sciences. “In Search of a Coherent Scenario for the Evolution of the Earth-Moon System”.
- Wednesday, November 27: Christophe Daussy, Laser Physics Laboratory, Paris-Nord University. The European fiber-optic metrology network REFIMEV.
- Wednesday, December 4: Rodolphe Gilbin, IRSN. Environmental consequences of nuclear accidents.
- Wednesday, January 22: Lou Barreau, ISMO, Paris-Saclay University, attosecond physics.
- Wednesday, February 5: Albert Polman, AMOLF Institute in Amsterdam, Photovoltaics.
- Wednesday, February 12: Loïc Bertrand, PPSM ENS Paris-Saclay, Physical chemistry of ancient materials and cultural heritage.
- Wednesday, February 19: Roberto Zenit, Brown University, Bubble hydrodynamics for physics, art, and biology.