ICHEP 2010, G. Wormser July ,26 « La nuit des particules » The night of the particles • Our public conference event will take place on Tuesday July 27 in the movie theater, « Le Grand Rex » located near the Opéra. • Why should you come ? – Our distinguished colleague Professor Michel Davier will give a very interesting lecture for the general public (19H45) « Cosmos mysteries » – This evening is much more than the usual public conference! Two other sequences: – « Movies and science » 20h45-22h00 (see next slide) – A great feature film « Sunshine » , by Danny Boyle (the director of Slumdog Millionnaire) 22h15-0H00 – The theater itself « Le Grand Rex » is quite worth a visit : it is one of the largest movie theater in Paris ( 2750 seats) and has a very special architecture both inside and outside! – It is FREE ! Bring everybody! • The conference will be given in French but the movie « Sunshine » is in English ! • We gave ourselves quite a challenge : fill up a room of ~3000 people to spend an evening about particle physics. Success not guaranteed but it will be fun! Come and support us!
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ICHEP 2010, G. Wormser July ,26
« La nuit des particules » The night of the particles
• Our public conference event will take place on Tuesday July 27 in the movie theater, « Le Grand Rex » located near the Opéra.
• Why should you come ?– Our distinguished colleague Professor Michel Davier will give a very
interesting lecture for the general public (19H45) « Cosmos mysteries »– This evening is much more than the usual public conference! Two other
sequences:– « Movies and science » 20h45-22h00 (see next slide)– A great feature film « Sunshine » , by Danny Boyle (the director of Slumdog
Millionnaire) 22h15-0H00– The theater itself « Le Grand Rex » is quite worth a visit : it is one of the
largest movie theater in Paris ( 2750 seats) and has a very special architecture both inside and outside!
– It is FREE ! Bring everybody!• The conference will be given in French but the movie « Sunshine » is in
English !• We gave ourselves quite a challenge : fill up a room of ~3000 people to
spend an evening about particle physics. Success not guaranteed but it will be fun! Come and support us!
ICHEP 2010, G. Wormser July ,26
ICHEP 2010, G. Wormser July ,26
The sequence « Science and Movies »
• It will be divided in two parts:– A classical one : movies excerpts from « Angels and
Demons » and « Sunshine » (a few minutes each) to trigger a debate with the public about :
• Matter and antimatter• How does the Sun works
With the participation of our colleagues Marie-Hèlène Schune, Gautier Hamel de Monchenault, Pierre Antilogus
– A more unusual one : participation of two movies stars live : Irène Jacob and Pippo Delbono
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IRENE and ALICE• Irène Jacob, famous French movie actress,
interpretation prize winner at Cannes movie festival, is the daughter of Maurice Jacob, our dear colleague from CERN who left us 3 years ago.
• Irène will speak about her scientific relationship with her father or how an actress sees particle physics
• She got so interessed about this project that she wrote specially for us a short movie « Alice », directed by her friend and famous italian theater director and actor Pippo Delbono that will be projected for the first time.
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Pippo Delbono• « Pippo Delbono is one of most important figures of the italian contemporary scene »
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SUNSHINE• .
Sunshine, by Danny Boyle
The Sun is dimming and will soon become extinct; A crew is sent to re-ignite the Sun!
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Conclusion
• Please all come along to « Le Grand Rex » with all your family and friends!
• More information on the ICHEP2010 web site « La nuit des particules » and http://nuitdesparticules.fr
• You should eat something beforehand (there will be a short pause at 10 pm during which you will be able to buy food and drinks but suppose there are really 3000 people)
• How to get there : line 1 to Concorde then line 8 direction Creteil, stop at Bonne Nouvelle (Good news!)
