Colloquium 2022-2023

Colloquium, année 2022 - 2023

Le colloquium du département de physique est un séminaire général destiné à un large public de physiciens théoriques et expérimentaux.
Il a lieu le mercredi à 13h15 et rassemble les chercheurs et étudiants du département. Les séminaires sont généralement donnés en anglais, leur durée est de 50 minutes plus questions.

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Self-propelling liquid pearls

David QUERE, PMMH - ESPCI Paris - PSL Wednesday, May 31, 2023 1:30 p.m. — ConfIV (E244) Liquid pearls are drops that hardly wet their substrate. This situation makes it difficult to control them (control of drops is most often triggered by (...) | ↦ Lire la suite

Empreinte carbone des laboratoires de recherche : de la mesure à la réduction

André ESTEVEZ-TORRES & Marie-Alice FOUJOLS, Sorbonne Université & Université de Lille Wednesday, May 23, 2023 1:30 p.m. — ConfIV (E244) Depuis trois ans, la recherche sur l’empreinte environnementale des activités de recherche est en (...) | ↦ Lire la suite

Statistical physics for climate sciences : application to wave turbulence, extreme heat waves, and extremes of renewable energy production

Freddy BOUCHET, LMD-ENS & CNRS Wednesday, May 10, 2023 1:30 p.m. — ConfIV (E244) I will discuss several examples where statistical physics and large deviation theory can be useful to solve fundamental problems for the dynamics of the (...) | ↦ Lire la suite

Quantum Chaos and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics

Mark SREDNICKI, University of California, Santa Barbara Wednesday, March 29, 2023 1:30 p.m. — ConfIV (E244) Understanding the emergence of the rules of statistical mechanics for an isolated many-body system from an underlying (...) | ↦ Lire la suite

Cell biophysics : from phase diagrams to phase portraits - POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER 2023 !!

Cécile SYKES, Laboratoire de Physique de l’ENS !!! POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER 2023 !!! Wednesday, March 08, 2023 1:30 p.m. — ConfIV (E244) Cell functions such as motility and division can be studied with the use of stripped-down experimental (...) | ↦ Lire la suite

Quantum light generation with artificial atoms

Pascale SENELLART, Université Paris-Saclay Wednesday, February 15, 2023 1:30 p.m. — ConfIV (E244) Quantum light is a key ingredient of the emerging second quantum revolution. It is the cornerstone of many applications ranging from quantum (...) | ↦ Lire la suite

Simulating strongly correlated systems with tensor network algorithms

Philippe Corboz, University of Amsterdam Wednesday, January 25, 2023 1:30 p.m. — ConfIV (E244) One of the biggest challenges in physics is understanding strongly correlated quantum many-body systems, which give rise to very remarkable (...) | ↦ Lire la suite

Quantum many-body physics with ultracold atoms : Sailing the quantum seas

PRIX DES TROIS PHYSICIENS 2022 Frédéric Chevy, Laboratoire de Physique de l’ENS Wednesday, January 11, 2023 1:30 p.m. — Amphi Jaurès (E244) Understanding the properties of a large number of particles in interaction is one of the frontiers of (...) | ↦ Lire la suite

On the nature of the glass transition

Mathieu Wyart, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Wednesday, November 23, 2022 1:30 p.m. — Amphi Jaurès (E244) Under cooling, a supercooled liquid undergoes a glass transition and stops flowing. Physicists do not agree on the (...) | ↦ Lire la suite

Quantum Science with Rydberg Atoms

Serge Haroche, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Collège de France Wednesday, November 09, 2022 1:30 p.m. — Amphi Jaurès (E244) The exaggerated properties of Rydberg atoms (enormous sizes, very long life times..) make them extremely sensitive to (...) | ↦ Lire la suite

Meridional heat transport in idealized oceans and planetary atmospheres

Basile Gallet, CEA Saclay Wednesday, October 19, 2022 1:30 p.m. — room Conf IV (E244) Ocean mesoscale vortices are turbulent structures tens of kilometers wide that play a central role in transporting tracers such as heat, salt and (...) | ↦ Lire la suite

The Swampland Program in Quantum Gravity

Timo Weigand, Universität Hamburg Wednesday, October 5, 2022 1:30 p.m. — room Conf IV (E244) The concept of an effective field theory is central to practically all modern areas of physics : In order to describe the physics below a certain (...) | ↦ Lire la suite