IHES returned to London

IHES closed out 2022 with two events in London, bringing together many friends of the Institute and science lovers. In July 2023, the Institute returned to the British capital with a rich agenda of events and meetings.

On Tuesday July 4^th, the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni hosted a scientific breakfast organized by IHES in collaboration with the Higher Education, Research and Innovation Department of the French Embassy in the UK.

After an introduction by Emmanuel Ullmo, director of IHES, Thibault Damour, theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at IHES, gave a talk entitled “Proust and Einstein: In Search of Time”. Friends of IHES, scientists and French science and literature lovers gathered together to discover the similarities between the idea of Time illustrated in Marcel Proust’s “À la recherche du temps perdu” and the conception of Time suggested by Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity.

The French bookshop La Page joined the event organized by the Institute with the support of the Embassy, and offered participants the chance to purchase a signed book “Mysteries of the Quantum Universe” by Mathieu Burniat and Thibault Damour.

This stay also allowed IHES to greet several of its London-based friends. It was concluded with the signing of a new sponsorship agreement with Qube Research & Technologies at the company’s London office. On this occasion, Thibault Damour gave a lecture on gravitational waves and black holes (find out more).