Present projects


Latest events:

  • Dans les coulisses des prix Nobel en astrophysique : Quelles inspirations pour les entrepreneurs.ses, les créatifs.ves et les artistes ?
    Roundtable, September 17th, 2024, club WeAre, Paris

    Hosted by Federico Musi at the club WeAre, Antoine Kouchner and Matteo Barsuglia will present some of the most important discoveries in astrophysics of the last years, some of which were worth a Nobel Prizes in physics, such as the detection of gravitational waves, the tiny vibrations of space-time produced by the merging of black holes, in 2015.
    They will also touch upon the philosophical and practical implications of these discoveries. Irène Jacob will read and comment some excerpts illustrating the profound link between science and art.

  • Regarder le ciel autrement, Juste Ciel !
    An original podcast by the APC laboratory, the University Paris Cité and CNRS. Original music by Keren Ann.

    Irène Jacob sets out to meet some of the researchers who study the Universe with different ‘cosmic messengers’: not just light, used by astronomers for four centuries, but also gravitational waves, neutrinos and cosmic rays of the highest energies. At the APC laboratory, we study the Universe and its history, the mysteries of energy and dark matter, and we use the Cosmos as a great laboratory to understand the nature of matter, space and time. In the course of these poetic and educational interviews, a new ‘multi-messenger’ astronomy and the mysteries of the universe are revealed. Juste Ciel!

Projects

The RFPU Endowment Fund is co-funding the centre Cosmos, sciences and societies (formerly Paris Centre for Cosmological Physics) in its education and training activities for French and European teachers and students; in its theoretical and field research on educational inequalities, both based on gender and socio-economic background; in its art and science projects and in its actions for diversity, inclusion and accessibility in physics, as well as in its initiatives to foster debate and action on the role of scientists in the climate crisis.

Find out more on the Centre’s website.