Café des sciences | 2012sciencefestival

The "café des sciences" will serve as an opportunity to see four different projects which are proposed and animated by experts in their fields. These are 30 to 45 min sessions each with student interaction.

Tuesday, October 30th: 9:00-9:45 AM - Baldwin Auditorium

A class from the "Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy" will have an exchange with a class from the Lycée Charlie Chaplin of Décines. The students will make an observation of the altitude of the sun at exactly the same time. This observation will allow them to get the difference of longitude between Chicago and Lyon. This historical experiment will be reborn thanks to the videoconference. The students will show and discuss a selection of their favorite experiments. It is also an opportunity to have a cultural and scientific exchange.

Presented by: Phillipe Jean-Jacquot, professor, ACCES ENS-IFE & Lycée Charlie Chaplin, Charles-Henri Eyraud, PhD in the history of science, Dalida Halfaoui, professor at Lycée Chaplin science, Françoise Morel-Deville, Institut français de l'éducation, Gerald P. Niccolai, Deborah Sanders & Eric Hawker, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

"ACTIVITY AROUND ASTRONOMY: SIMULTANEOUS HISTORICAL MEASURES"

"PARTICLE PHYSICS AT FERMILAB AND THE LHC & CERN VIDEOCONFERENCE"

Monday, October 29th: 12:00 - 1:00PM - Searle Seminar Room

Tuesday, October 30th: 9:00 - 10:00 AM & 12:00 - 2:30 PM - Searle Seminar Room

Short films will present two of the main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, the European Center for Nuclear Research, ATLAS and CMS, where protons collide at energies up to 7 tev, simulating a situation very close to the Big Bang. Discusions about the potential discoveries of the Higgs Boson will be performed. Posters displayed will show the detectors at the LHC and at the Tevatron Fermilab in Chicago. A live video link with the CERN will be provided each day at 12:00 PM.

Presented by: Christophe Royon, Research Director at the Institut des Recherches fondamentales sur l'Univers

"INTERNATIONAL PROJECT: WATER, A SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT FOR ALL"

Monday, October 29th: 10:45AM & 12:15 PM - Baldwin Auditorium

Tuesday, October 30th: 10:30 AM & 01:45PM - Baldwin Auditorium

There will be two sessions at that will reflect on the films created by the student from Bangalore, Milwaukee and Landerneau on water management in their regions. There will be in-depth discussion on how the students in the films were able to see the importance of having water ressources near them

Presented by: Lara Luthien, Les Petits Débrouillards, Coordinatrice Drôme Ardèche

Monday, October 29th: 10:00 AM & 11:30AM - Baldwin Auditorium

Tuesday, October 30th: 9:45AM & 01:00PM - Baldwin Auditorium

There will be two sessions at that will reflect on the films created by the student from Goa (India) and Chicago, IL on Waste management in their regions. there will be in-depth discussion on how the students in the film were able to find solutions to the issue of waste disposal and present their finding to the authorities in order to achieve a more sustainable future

Presented by: Angela Ford, President and CEO of TAG Worldwide

"INTERNATIONAL PROJECT: WASTES, A SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT FOR ALL"

"L'Eau, une ressource vitale" & "L'Energie , quels choix pour demain"

The photographic exposition was realized by the Goodplanet.org association in partnership with Yann Arthus-Bertrand, le Ministère de l'Education Nationale, le Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable et de l'Aménagement du territoire.

Exhibition: "Sweat Water, Rare Water"

This exhibition is realized by the Institut pour la Recherche et le Développement (IRD) and witch shows the element to understand the fresh water research that is undertaken in developing countries with very different natural environment (the Andes, the Sahara, tropical islands etc.). They all have on thing in common: they lack fresh water, a vital resource for the population of these areas.