Séminaires et conférences

• 18/12/2024 
• 21/11/2024 Thomas Swinburne - Linear models in atomic machine learning: accuracy, uncertainty and beyond  → video 
• 24/10/2024 Aleksandra Walczak - How personalised is your immune repertoire?  → video 
• 26/09/2024 Giulio Biroli - Statistical Physics and Generative AI → video

• 20/06/2024 Etienne Barthel - How does an amorphous solid flow - and why do glasses break? → video
• 30/05/2024 Sébastien Renaux-Petel - Cosmological inflation: gravitational physics, quantum physics and observations, all at once → video
• 02/05/2024 French team at the 16th IPT - Silver medal at the 16th International Physicists' Tournament: our students present to us three projects from their award-winning work → video
• 28/03/2024 Carole Rossi - Nanoenergetics: paving the way for smarter and cleaner pyrotechnics → video
• 18/01/2024 Clément Livache - Connecting the Dots: Ultrafast Photophysics and Colloidal Optoelectronics with Semiconductor Nanocrystals → video
• 21/12/2023 Michel Dyakonov, Xavier Waintal & Thomas Ayral - Quantum computing, between promise and technological challenges: A round table discussion 
• 30/11/2023 Yann Mambrini (Colloquium Friedmann) - A modern history of the Universe, from the Big Bang to the present day... and beyond → video 
• 16/11/2023 Christoph Salomon - Quantum simulation: Quo Vadis → video
• 28/09/2023 Slava Mukhanov (Colloquium Friedmann) - How predictive are cosmological theories? → video

Les Conférences Coriolis pour l'environnement sont organisées à l’École polytechnique depuis 2008. Elles sont aujourd'hui organisée par le centre interdisciplinaire Energy4Climate (E4C) et l'association d'élèves Next.

Le niveau adopté pour les conférences Coriolis est celui d'un séminaire scientifique généraliste, sans spécialisation technique excessive : la présentation, d'une durée de 45 minutes environ, est suivie de questions/débat avec le conférencier. Les conférences du cycle "Energy: research and innovation" sont en anglais, celles du cycle "Ingénieur de demain" sont en français.

Les conférences sont ouvertes à tout public interne ou externe à l’École : chercheurs de tous domaines, élèves, étudiants, doctorants, post-doctorants, personnels technique, d’encadrement et administratif, curieux. Pour accéder au site : https://www.polytechnique.edu/fr/accesetorientation 

⇒ Les présentations et vidéos des conférences Coriolis sont disponibles ici.

• 28/11/2024 Mireille Martini - Finance as a key to understand energy projects (provisional title)
• 24/10/2024 Antoine Gerschenfeld - Nuclear power in startup mode - What role can startups play in the design of new nuclear reactors?
• 16/10/2024 Dominique Méda - Pourquoi et comment engager nos sociétés dans la reconversion écologique ?
• 03/10/2024 Janos Pasztor - Inconvenient Truth 2.0 The Earth is getting increasingly hot, and the world is not ready for it
• 07/03/2024 Jean-Baptiste Fressoz - More, more and more: an all consuming history of energy

École Polytechnique, 16-18 September 2024, France

https://carnot-legacy.sciencesconf.org/    
 

Presentation

When Sadi Carnot published his "Reflections on the motive power of fire" in 1824, there was no sign that one of the greatest scientific revolutions was about to take place, in a world then dominated by mechanics and optics. Yet, by bringing a conceptual analysis to the practical problem of the steam engine, Sadi Carnot wrote the birth certificate of thermodynamics, and, in particular, its second principle.

Today, thermodynamics has branched out into a multitude of fields and applications, from industrial processes to microscopic systems, and continues to renew our view of science.

Since its origins, thermodynamics has raised as many questions as it has answered.

To celebrate the bicentenary of the "Réflexions", the colloquium Sadi Carnot's Legacy - "Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the 2nd law of thermodynamics"  was organized from September 16 to 18, 2024.

This colloquium aimed to bring together members of the thermodynamics community and to invite them to take a critical look at modern thermodynamics and the open questions it raises. The colloquium has been structured around pedagogical presentations introducing the various fields of the discipline. Poster sessions allowed participants to share their work. 
 

⇒ Please, find the program here.

Sponsors  

The Colloquium Sadi Carnot's Legacy was supported by École polytechnique, Fondation de l'École polytechnique, Centre interdisciplinaire Energy For Climate (E4C), Société Française de Physique, Société Française de Thermique, Société Française de Génie des Procédés (SFGP), Femto ST, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Energies de Demain, and Académie des sciences.

Videos & slides

The colloquium was filmed: the videos will be uploaded below. You can also find the presentations projected by the speakers during their conferences.
 

Session: Introduction

• Colloquium Introduction by Daniel Suchet → Vidéo

• History : "Reflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu", Sadi Carnot, 1824 by Raffaele Pisano (HOPAST at IEMN, Department of Physics) → Vidéo

• Physics : The many faces of entropy by Christophe Goupil (Université Paris Cité, LIED, France) → Vidéo

Session: Thermodynamics paradigms

• Axiomatic & pragmatic approaches to thermodynamics by Erik Aurell (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden) → Vidéo 

• Out of equilibrium thermodynamics by Pierre Gaspard (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) → Vidéo

• Stochastics thermodynamics by Christopher Jarzynski (University of Maryland, US) → Vidéo

  • Panel round table (moderated by D. Lacoste & J.E. Wegrowe) → Vidéo

Session: small scale thermodynamics

• Thermodynamics of demons by Felix Ritort (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) → Vidéo

• Quantum thermodynamics & coherences by Janet Anders (University of Exeter, UK) → Vidéo

• From classical thermodynamics to quantum energetics by Alexia Auffèves (MajuLab, Singapore) → Vidéo

  • Panel round table (moderators C Goupil & D Suchet) → Vidéo

Session: Large scale thermodynamics

• Thermodynamics of complex systems by Remi Monasson (LPT, ENS, Ecole polytechnique, France) → Vidéo

• Climate thermodynamics by Didier Paillard (CEA, LSCE, France) → Vidéo

• Black hole thermodynamics by Éric Gourgoulhon (Observatoire de Paris, LUTH, France) → Vidéo

• Thermodynamics & living systems by Pablo Sartori (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal) → Vidéo

  • Panel round table (moderated by B. Dubrulle & D Lacoste) → Vidéo

Session: Applied thermodynamics

• Heat machines thermodynamics by Michel Feidt (Université de Lorraine, LEMTA, France) → Vidéo

• Engineering Thermodynamics: Fundamentals and Challenges by Milivoje Kostic (Northern Illinois University, US) → Vidéo

• Thermodynamics applied to Gas-Solid Materials Fabrication processes by Elisabeth Blanquet (TOP - SIMAP, Grenoble, France) → Vidéo

• From Carnot to thermodynamics of solar radiation, via Planck and photovoltaics by Tom Markvart (University of Southampton UK & Centre for advanced photovoltaics, Czech Technical University) → Vidéo

  • Panel round table (moderated by J.N. Jaubert & F. Lanzetta) → Vidéo

Poster session

Invited talks were intended to provide an educational introduction to the major areas of modern thermodynamics.

Participants' research work were presented and shared in poster sessions. All participants were invited to take part in these sessions: their posters have been displayed according to the number of participants and the poster theme.

⇒ Please, find the list of posters here.