When the M meets the P

Tuesday 3 May 2022, 14:00 → 18:30 Europe/Brussels

Cycl.01 (Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve))

14:00 → 16:00 IRMP: Presentations

14:00 Scientific exchanges between Einstein, Weyl and Cartan - The birth of Gauge Theory

TBA

Speaker: Prof. Nicolas Boulanger (UMONS)

15:00 Distal and proximal causes of biodiversity loss

We no longer have any scientific doubt about the importance of the biodiversity crisis, and we are beginning to understand the consequences it can have for the global functioning of the earth's ecosystem and for the development of humanity.
To manage this situation, we need to identify the causes. The proximal causes are well known : disappearance and fragmentation of natural habitats, simplification of ecosystems, intensive agriculture, pollution, invasive species, climate change. It should therefore be easy to find solutions to these various aspects and yet we are failing.
One of the reasons lies in the fact that these proximal causes are closely dependent on distal causes that push us to constantly overexploit natural resources. The constant search for financial profits is the basis of the economic system and conditions our well-being. We are therefore bound by a system that we can only modify at the margin at the risk of a major dysfunction of society. To ask the question of biodiversity preservation is also to ask the question of the means of this change of system. One of the tracks is the reinjection of benevolence in the economic relations so that the resolution of needs takes priority over the realization of profit. Such an upheaval requires the establishment of a genuine participatory and egalitarian democracy that defines the needs in relation to the limits of the planet. This short presentation aims to place the very functioning of our societies at the heart of the debate.

Speaker: Prof. Thiery Hance (UCLouvain)

16:00 → 16:30 coffee break

16:30 → 17:20 IRMP: gong session: gong session

16:30 Nilpotent quandles

Speaker: Jacques Darné

16:37 Machine Learning in High-Energy Physics

Speaker: Ramon Winterhalder (CP3)

16:44 Cosmic muon radiography, with the MURAVES experiment and a custom-made portable telescope

Speaker: Samip Basnet (UCL - CP3)

When_the_M_meets_the_P_samip_basnet.pdf

16:51 Non-additive left derived functors

Speaker: Maxime Culot

16:58 Enumerating Standard Model Effective Field Theory with Group Theory Technique

Speaker: Haolin Li

17:20 → 18:20 Drink