In order to cover main areas of current Condensed Matter subjects, plenary and semi-plenary talks are scheduled.
The prize-giving ceremony - Minh Quang Tran (SPS), Fabien Malbet (UGA & Mairie), Eric Collet (Prix Ancel), Michel Spiro (SFP), Julia Higgins (IOP), Marina Galand (Prix Holweck), Roland Horisberger (Prix Charpak-Ritz), Sara Ducci (Prix Ancel), Robert Whitney (SFP), Hans Peter Beck (SPS), Catherine Langlais (SFP), Olivier Sandre (SFP). Photo: © Sylvie Jacob 2018
List of plenary speakers:
- Isabelle Cantat (IPR, Rennes) Soap films
- Eric Collet (IPR, Rennes) ultra-rapid analysis of the structure of matter - Prize-giving: Ancel prize (SFP) 2017
- Sara Ducci (LMPQ, Paris) Correlated photons in semiconductors - Prize-giving: Ancel prize (SFP) 2016
- Silvano De Franceschi (INAC, Grenoble) Qubits and quantum engineering
- Marina Galand (Imperial College, UK) Planetary atmospheres - Prize-giving: Holweck prize (SFP & IOP) 2018
- Emmanuelle Gouillart (CNRS/Saint-Gobain, Aubervilliers) In-situ study of glass formation
- Roland Horisberger (PSI, Suisse) Silicon detectors for particle physics - Prize-giving: Charpak-Ritz prize (SFP & SPS) 2018
- Hamid Kellay (LOMA, Bordeaux) Turbulence and fluid mechanics
- Cyril Proust (LNCMI, Toulouse) 30 years of high temperature superconductivity
- André Thiaville (LPS, Paris-Sud) Magnetism and Skyrmions
List of semi-plenary speakers:
- Basile Audoly (Caltech, USA) Mechanics of viscous filaments
- Jacqueline Bloch (C2N, Paris-Sud) Polaritons
- Lionel Bureau (LiPhy, Grenoble) Bio-inspired systems
- Virginie Chamard (Institut Fresnel, Marseille) coherent x-ray diffraction
- Valentina Giordano (ILM, Lyon) Glasses and x-rays
- Mark Goerbig (LPS, Paris-Sud) The theory of 2D materials
- Sophie Guéron (LPS, Paris-Sud) Mesoscopic physics
- Lionel Hirsch (IMS, Bordeaux) Polymer solar cells
- Etienne Janod (IMN, Nantes) Physico-chemistry of materials and strong electronic correlations
- Xavier Noblin (INPHYNI, Nice) Physics of plants
- Daniel Riveline (IGBMC, Strasbourg) Physics in Biological systems
- Guillaume Schull (IPCMS, Strasbourg) STM on unique molecules
- Virginie Simonet (Institut Néel, Grenoble) Magnetism and spin-ice
- Maria Tchernycheva (C2N, Paris-Sud) Semi-conductor nanowires
- Matthieu Wyart (EPFL, Switzerland) Theory of amorphous and granular solids
