Les séminaires spécialisés - Specialised seminars

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DARK MATTERS 11-13 December 2017: Joe Silk’s 75th Birthday
Cours/Séminaire
00:26:35
DARK MATTERS 11-13 December 2017: Joe Silk’s 75th Birthday
Silk
Joseph

At this invitation-only conference, invited speakers and panelists summarized the advances in the numerous fields of astrophysics and cosmology in which Joe Silk has made substantial contributions

THE INFORMATICS REVOLUTION IN THE SCIENCES
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01:19:49
THE INFORMATICS REVOLUTION IN THE SCIENCES
Berry
Gérard

Séminaire spécialisé (en anglais), par Gérard Berry, titulaire de la Chaire algorithmes, machines et langages, Mathématiques et Sciences Numériques du Collège de France, médaille d'or 2014 du CNRS. In

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USING GENERAL RELATIVITY TO STUDY CONDENSED MATTER
Conférence
00:53:56
USING GENERAL RELATIVITY TO STUDY CONDENSED MATTER
Horowitz
Gary T.

It has recently been shown that in addition to describing black holes, gravitational waves, and other gravitational phenomena, general relativity can also describe aspects of nongravitational

SECRET LIFE OF SPACETIME
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00:56:46
SECRET LIFE OF SPACETIME
Padmanabhan
Thanu

Combining the principles of general relativity and quantum theory still remains as elusive as ever. Recent work, that concentrated on the points of conflict and contact between quantum theory

FORMATION ET ÉVOLUTION DES SYSTÈMES PLANÉTAIRES ET EXTRASOLAIRES
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00:45:11
FORMATION ET ÉVOLUTION DES SYSTÈMES PLANÉTAIRES ET EXTRASOLAIRES
Lagrange
Anne-Marie

Since the discovery of an extended disk of dust around beta Pictoris in the late 80's, this system has been intensively observed and modeled, in connection with planetary system formation

THE ACCELERATING UNIVERSE
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01:00:40
THE ACCELERATING UNIVERSE
Schmidt
Brian

Since the discovery of an accelerating Universe in 1998, a variety of experiments have been undertaken, and even more proposed, to better constrain the source of the acceleration. I will review

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE: SCIENCE OPPORTUNITIES AND MISSION PROGRESS
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00:40:07
JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE: SCIENCE OPPORTUNITIES AND MISSION PROGRESS
Mather
John Cromwell

The James Webb Space Telescope, the planned successor for the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, is making excellent technical progress. It will carry four instruments to

STAR FORMATION IN THE DESERT: PROBING THE LOW-DENSITY EXTREMES
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00:59:05
STAR FORMATION IN THE DESERT: PROBING THE LOW-DENSITY EXTREMES
Kennicutt
Robert C.

Over the past decade multi-wavelength observations have revealed the extraordinary ubiquity and diversity of star formation in galaxies, ranging over billionfold ranges in star formation rates

ON THE FORMATION OF MASSIVE GALAXIES
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00:51:50
ON THE FORMATION OF MASSIVE GALAXIES
Ostriker
Jeremiah Paul

Looking backwards we have been able to reconstruct from the detailed structure of our own Galaxy and from the fossil evidence derived from the study of nearby galaxies a plausible history of how

CHARTING THE TRANSIENT SKY: THE PALOMAR TRANSIENT FACTORY
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01:03:18
CHARTING THE TRANSIENT SKY: THE PALOMAR TRANSIENT FACTORY

Only about a hundred years ago astronomers came to recognize cosmic explosive events. What was once termed as Stella Nova are now divided into two major families, novae and supernovae (with real

STELLAR DYNAMICS AT THE CENTERS OF GALAXIES
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01:00:00
STELLAR DYNAMICS AT THE CENTERS OF GALAXIES
Tremaine
Scott

The massive black holes found at the centers of most galaxies, including our own, are believed to be the ashes of the fuel that powered quasars early in the life of universe. I will briefly

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Intervenants

France
Docteur es-sciences (Paris 11 - Orsay, 1983). Directeur de recherche au Centre national de la recherche scientifique (en 1995). Professeur à l'École polytechique, département de physique (en 1995)

Chercheur au "Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique", UMR 8501, Faculté des Sciences d'Orsay. Directeur d'une thèse de : Physique, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay (en 2005)

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