Following government announcements and instructions from our supervisors, Sorbonne University and the CNRS, the building of the Henri Poincaré Institute is closed to the public from October 30 until further notice. We will keep you informed on this page of the continuation of our activities.

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Thematic program of the Centre Émile Borel  :
Combinatorics and Interactions
9th January 2017 - 31 March, 2017

Organizers :  Marie ALBENQUE, Gaëtan BOROT, Guillaume CHAPUY, Valentin FERAY
 

The library will soon offer you to watch again the movies shown at the IHP's Film Club    

Please come at the library's reception to get your movie and headset set up. This service is free and you can also use your own headphones.

A short book selection is available to accompany each movie!

Some movies are in French only -- but international releases are available in both English and French.

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The Henri Poincaré presents its new documentary.                                                                        

General information
Director: Quentin Lazzarotto
Co-authors: Jean Eisenstaedt, Quentin Lazzarotto and Jean-Philippe Uzan
Producer: Look at sciences, in partnership with RMC Découverte, the Henri Poincaré Institute, CNC and Institut Lagrange de Paris
Running time: 52 minutes
 

Film summary
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has revolutionised our understanding of gravitation, space and time. First acclaimed, then forgotten, and now rediscovered, the history of this hundred-year-old theory has marked the history of the 20th century. From its inception, a mathematical difficulty arose that could have nipped the theory in the bud: the Schwarzschild singularity. In the company of great international relativistic physicists, the viewer embarks on a discovery of this theory with a singular destiny. We discover a « curved » universe that proves to be even stranger than Einstein envisioned, and harbours some objects – such as black holes – that still challenge today’s scientists...


Scientists
JOCELYN BELL BURNELL, astronomer, Oxford, Mansfield College
SEBASTIEN BIZE, physicist, SYRTE/Observatoire de Paris
THIBAULT DAMOUR, theoretical physicist, IHES
JEAN EISENSTAEDT, historian, CNRS/SYRTE
ROGER PENROSE, mathematician, Oxford
ALAIN RIAZUELO, physicist, IAP/CNRS
CARLO ROVELLI, theoretical physicist, Université Aix-Marseille
HANNS SIEGEL, physicist, ZARM Drop Tower, Bremen
JEAN-PHILIPPE UZAN, theoretical physicist IHP/IAP/CNRS
CEDRIC VILLANI, mathematician, IHP/CNRS/UPMC
And ALEXANDRE ASTIER, Albert Einstein’s voice-over

Press release for download

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