Opening Ceremony
“Tomorrow an electric world”

30 January 2025

with Alain Aspect, Nobel Prize in Physics, 2022

Logo SAAMA

Timetable for the ceremony

All presentations will be in French

  • 15:00 Welcome and introduction
    • Welcome and introduce Alain Aspect
      Emmanuel Trizac, President of ENS Lyon
    • A Word to Sponsors
      Emmanuel Lambert, Cabinet Director, EDF Regional Division
      Laurent Barbieri, CNRS Regional Delegate
    • Presentation of the 250th anniversary celebrations of Ampère and thanks to all the sponsors
      Alfonso San Miguel, President of Société des Amis d’André-Marie Ampère
  • 15:30 “Ampère, un savant universel1
    • Lecture by Alain Aspect, Nobel Prize in Physics, 2022
    • Discussion – Questions
  • 16:45 Speeches from the Patronage Comitte
    • Daniel Rouan, président de la Société Française de Physique
    • Nathalie Fournier, Présidente de l’Académie de Sciences, Belles Lettres et Arts de Lyon
  • 17:00 L’héritage d’Ampère – Round table discussion with Alain Aspect :
    • Christine Blondel, Former Research Director at the CNRS, Ampère specialist
    • Pierre Crépel, Académie des Sciences, Belles Lettres et Arts de Lyon
    • Jean Dalibard, Collège de France
    • Patrick Flandrin, Académie des Sciences
    • François Gerin, President of Société de l’électricité, de l’électronique et des technologies de l’information et de la communication
  • 18:30 Ampère birthday cake and Book signing by par Alain Aspect

  1. The conference will be recorded and broadcast at a later date. ↩︎

Inscription

As the number of places is limited, you must register (free of charge) with this link

Location

Amphithéâtre Charles Mérieux – ENS Lyon
École normale supérieure de Lyon
Pl. de l’École, 69007 Lyon

Scroll to Top