Events
Events:
Public Lecture - So Many Dynamos Apr 12, 2016
IISER Pune is happy to invite you all to a Public Lecture:
So Many Dynamos
by
Prof JF Pinton
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Time: 12.00 noon
Venue: Lecture Hall Complex (LHC) 101, IISER Pune
Abstract:
The dynamo instability is at the heart of the generation of magnetic fields in planets and stars. As a scientific problem it dates back to the 17th century and is rich of contributions / controversies / ups and downs in very nonlinear (!) development. I will review a few major steps from a physicist point of view, although contributions come from an exceptional variety of scientific fields (maths, computer science, geo and astrophysics, chemistry, high energy …), and point towards current developments.
About the Speaker:
Born in 1959 in Nice, Jean-François Pinton, president of the ENS de Lyon since 2014, was himself a former student of the École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud prior to its merger with the ENS de Fontenay.
After advanced studies in physics (he passed the agrégation in 1984), Jean-François Pinton joined the newly-born ENS Lyon in 1989. As a senior researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), he led research on statistical physics and complex systems.
In 2007, the French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Grand Prize of the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) for his work on the dynamo effect. Jean-François Pinton also founded the International Center for Turbulence Research and sits on the editorial committees of several publications, including the New Journal of Physics and European Physical Journal.
2006-2001: Head of the physics lab at the ENS de Lyon
2011-2012: Deputy director in charge of the Research Department at the ENS de Lyon
2012-2014: Head of France’s National Physics Institute at CNRS
