CERN ignites imaginations at the Fête de la science in the Ain department

The 2022 version of the Fête de la science, a French initiative that seeks to coach the general public on scientific matters, is drawing to an in depth. It’s time to take inventory of the occasions held within the Ain division, a lot of which concerned CERN’s participation. 

On 7 October, ALTEC, the scientific, technical and industrial affiliation of the Ain division, formally opened the thirty first version of the Fête de la science in the principle auditorium of Bourg-en-Bresse’s Scène nationale. The night kicked off with a screening of the documentary movie Massive Bang, l’appel des origines, directed by Dominique Regueme. Following the movie, Frederick Bordry, CERN’s former Director for Accelerators and Expertise, and astrophysicist Nicolas Laporte led a roundtable dialogue on the theme of the infinitely huge and the infinitely small, which attracted an enthusiastic 350-strong viewers. 

On 1 October, greater than 80 science fans got here to the opening of the exhibition “Une mission scientifique pour le XXIe siècle” (A scientific mission for the twenty-first century) in Saint-Genis-Pouilly, throughout which native children loved CERN’s science present See the Invisible. The exhibition will likely be on show on the Médiathèque Georges Sand till the tip of October. Round 100 pupils from the Lycée worldwide in Saint-Genis-Pouilly additionally attended a screening of the movie Francois Englert, rebelle et Nobel, and received the possibility to speak to its director and producer, in addition to to Belgian physicists Albert de Roeck and Filip Moortgat.  

Lastly, on Saturday 15 October, CERN hosted a stand on the Fête de la science et de la biodiversité in Ferney-Voltaire, which offered the right alternative to indicate our neighbours the efforts the Group is making to restrict its environmental footprint as a lot as attainable. The principle focus was CERN’s flagship heat recovery project at point 8 of the LHC, which is able to warmth a brand new neighbourhood being inbuilt Ferney-Voltaire.

Guests of all ages and from all backgrounds had the chance to seek out out concerning the varied environmental themes introduced and to be taught extra concerning the warmth restoration mission from CERN engineers Serge Claudet and Paul Pepinster, and representatives from the HSE Unit, Anna Prepare dinner, Luisa Ulrici, Ebba Jakobsson and Sonja Kleiner.

We want to prolong our heat due to the occasions’ organisers and to the numerous volunteers who, yearly, assist to advertise CERN’s actions in an enticing and accessible method.