Les Amis de l’IHES
Les Amis de l’IHES helps to promote the cutting edge research carried out at IHES as widely as possible. They organize conferences aimed at a broad audience, to introduce current research projects and organize cultural events of a scientific nature.
Les Amis de l’IHES is an association which was created on 8 October 1998 to coincide with the Institute’s 40th anniversary celebrations. Louis Michel was Chairman until he passed away on 30 December 1999; he was succeeded by Marcel Berger, former IHES Director, by Jean-Marc Deshouillers, professor at the University Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 and by Valentin Poénaru, former professor at the Paris-Sud University (Orsay) from 2009 until 2022. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, former IHES Director, was appointed President on 31 May 2022.
Messengers of the violent Universe, by Kumiko Kotera
Join us on November 26th 2025 for the new Amis de l'IHES conference presented by Kumiko Kotera
New event organised by Les Amis de l’IHES on Wednesday November 26th 2024, 6:30 pm (French time) at IHES.
Kumiko KOTERA, (CNRS-Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris) will give a conference in French, entitled:
“Messengers of the violent Universe”
As genuine paparazzi of the cosmos, astronomers today capture fleeting supernovae, pulsars, black hole coalescences, gamma-ray bursts and other phenomena. These sources have an extraordinary amount of energy, and release not only light, but also cosmic rays, neutrinos and even the gravitational waves, that we can detect since a few years now. In this lecture, we will explore this new field of research: the violent Universe, and the hunt for its multi-messengers. In doing so, I will tell the collective adventure of the GRAND project, that aims at detecting these particles using tens of thousands of antennas deployed in the Gobi Desert and the Argentine pampas.
Contact: Ingrid Peeters
