La Nuit de la physique 2024 at the Grand Rex: special "Physics and Sport" evening with Maxine Eouzan

Published by Communiqué Sponsorisé · Published on March 27, 2024 at 02:22 p.m.
La Nuit de la Physique awaits us on April 2, 2024. In Paris, the evening will take place at the Grand Rex and will be hosted by Maxine Eouzan, sports journalist and winner of Koh Lanta 2021. On the program: conferences, debates, interactive quizzes and screenings. Free with registration!

This year, to celebrate the "Year of Physics" and the organization of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the theme of Physics Night will be "Physics and Sport".

Athletes' intuition and genius help define excellent strategies, but there's another key success factor that's just as important... mastery of the physical phenomena underlying sporting feats! This opens up a fascinating field of synergy between physics and sport, becoming a powerful lever transcending human limits!

The Société Française de Physique, the CNRS and the CEA are offering a Night of Physics on the theme of sport, with lectures, reports, debates, interactive quizzes, the presentation of prizes to young people who took part in school competitions, and the screening of the film "The Flying Scotsman", which tells the story of Graeme Obree, the English racing cyclist who broke a record using a bicycle made from washing machine parts!

La Nuit de la physique will be hosted from the Grand Rex in Paris by Maxine Eouzan, sports journalist and winner of Koh Lanta 2021, and broadcast live on the Société Française de Physique Youtube page.

Program:

  • 6 p.m.: Conference "With more physics, more medals" with Caroline Cohen, physicist at the LADHYX Laboratory (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique), specialist in sports physics.

  • 6.30pm: Conference "The evolution of records and the physics of limits" with Jean-François Toussaint, professor at Université Paris-Cité, director of the IRMES Laboratory at INSEP (Institut National du sport, de l'Expertise et de la Performance)

  • 8pm: Interactive sequence linked to the 16 other participating cities: multi-site "Physique et Sport" quiz, reports, winners of the Nuit de la Physique "Physique et Sport" competitions.

  • 9pm: Screening of "The Flying Scotsman" (2006, 96 minutes, OV subtitled), introduced by Caroline Cohen

The true story of Graeme Obree, the English racing cyclist who broke a record using a bike made from washing machine parts.

A full evening of sport and laboratory research!
With Jonny Lee Miller, Sean Brown, Joseph Carney, Billy Boyd, Laura Fraser, Brian Cox, Ron Donachie, Morven Christie, David Hounslow, Gary Hollywood, Pauline Lynch, Moray Hunter, Steven Berkoff, Niall Greig Fulton

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Dates and Opening Time
On April 2, 2024
Starts at 06:00 p.m.

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    Location

    1 Boulevard Poissonnière
    75002 Paris 2

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    www.inp.cnrs.fr

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