WHITE NIGHT OF ASTRONOMY: “Where will astrophysics be when the CNRS turns 100?”
To celebrate the 80 years of the CNRS, the Institut d'astrophysique de Paris organizes a sleepless night of astronomy, from Saturday 8th to Sunday 9th of June, 2019. On the program: observations (in partnership with the Association Française d'Astronomie, the Société Astronomique de France and “The little pickers of stars”), a marathon of small conferences (30 minutes), from 8 pm to 8 am, with the theme: “Where will astrophysics be when the CNRS turns 100?”.
These conferences are broadcast live on the YouTube Channel “Le Sense of Wonder”, and hosted by Sébastien Carassou, Étienne Ledolley, Alice Thomas and Sophie Félix. They are illustrated by the cartoonists from the Café des sciences. A quiz is organized by doctoral students, and an exhibition presents in more detail the different research activities at the IAP, but also those of the International Astronomical Union.
Replay website on YouTube (in French)
Live broadcast website on YouTube (in French)
Pictures taken during the night in the amphitheater and elsewhere
Drawings (in French)
Courtesy: Y. Dubois (Horizon-AGN simulation/IAP) & Euclid Satellite (ESA/C. Carreau) ; ESO/UltraVISTA DR4 ; focal plans of the VIS/Euclid instrument (J. Mouette/IAP) ; simulation of a black hole (A. Riazuelo/IAP)
Programme of the conference marathon
All talks and conferences are given in French.
Welcome | 19h00 | |
Antoine Petit | 19:30 | Inauguration of the white night by the President and Chief Executive Officer of the CNRS: https://youtu.be/ALwh0FXD4BI |
Sandrine Codis | 20:00 | “The large-scale structure of the Universe”: https://youtu.be/7hLT5Ge-i2Q |
Roland Lehoucq | 21:00 | “Science and science-fiction”: https://youtu.be/R8xK7IA5QOo |
Miho Janvier | 22:00 | “The Sun”: https://youtu.be/PyqtpBC4c3M |
Guillaume Hébrard | 23:00 | “Exoplanets”: https://youtu.be/Tc-9F1-4pT8 |
Frédéric Daigne | 00:00 | “Gamma-ray bursts”: https://youtu.be/-NgH_dIPsqY |
Pauline Zarrouk | 01:00 | “Dark energy”: https://youtu.be/RPE9Oa3PFpw |
Sylvain Bouley | 02:00 | “The earthes of the sky, from Flammarion to today”: https://youtu.be/7Js7BN7Dx8s |
Karim Benabed | 03:00 | “The cosmological fossil radiation”: https://youtu.be/FS4VdmxfByI |
Pierre Guillard | 04:00 | “Galaxy evolution”: https://youtu.be/EAPx9DNYOh8 |
Francis Bernardeau | 05:00 | “Primordial cosmology”: https://youtu.be/XJWhRWLE69s |
Alain Riazuelo | 06:00 | “Back holes”: https://youtu.be/75uYNSAYX10 |
Kumiko Kotera | 07:00 | “High energy Neutrinos”: https://youtu.be/4Cmj0cBA90Y |
Guy Perrin | 08:00 | Closing of the marathon by the Scientific Deputy Director of the Institut national des sciences de l'Univers: https://youtu.be/TnKALtyk3s0 |
Karim Benabed | 08:30 | Conclusion |
Astronomical observations on the terraceThree groups of 10 people are accompanied (at 10pm, 11pm, 00am, 01am, 2am, and 3am) to the terrace, where there are several telescopes, and animators of the Association Française d'Astronomie, the Société Astronomique de France and “The Little pickers of stars” (association working towards introducing the world of space and stars to hospitalized children). The observation sessions of the Moon and the planets Jupiter and Saturn, take place every hour between 22:00 and 4:00, if the sky is clear. Astronomical images are taken with a remote controlled telescope, and demonstrations of the processing of images are perfomed with a computer installed in a dedicated room. |
The cartoonists from the Café des sciencesMélanie Laborde Hélène Malcuit |
PartnersThe Île de France Region through its programme “Science for all 2019 - scientific, technical and industrial culture” (in French) The CNRS The International Astronomical Union The Association Française d'Astronomie (in French) The Société Astronomique de France (in French) “The little pickers of stars” (in French) |
Terms of accessAdmission is free, without registration (subject to availability). A food truck (http://www.californiajo.com/) is present in the yard until around 1 am. Hot drinks are available all night, and pastries are offered for breakfast. |
Contact
Jean Mouette
Institut d’astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, SU
mouette [at] iap [dot] fr
Organization and scientific committee: Elisabeth Vangioni, Karim Benabed
Production, communication, iconography and web layout web: Jean Mouette
Administration and reception: Sandy Artero
Logistics: Christophe Gobet
Web writing: Karim Benabed, Valérie de Lapparent
Web writing: Karim Benabed, Élisabeth Vangioni, Valérie de Lapparent
Layout: Jean Mouette
May 2019