frozen : gare aux engelures cosmiques

Nine students in science illustration have dealt with low temperature physics, in collaboration with a physicist. They created movies, animation pictures, flyers, posters about space, dilution cryostats, superconductors, history of science… Discover their four projects near absolute zero.

A project conceived and realized by Eve Barlier and Monika Moll of the DSAA Illustration scientifique of the Estienne school in collaboration with Julien Bobroff (LPS, University Paris-Sud).

Nine students in science illustration have dealt with low temperature physics, in collaboration with a physicist. They created movies, animation pictures, flyers, posters about space, dilution cryostats, superconductors, history of science… Discover their four projects near absolute zero.

This conference-happening shows the world’s coldest book, and through the book and live experiments, the history of low temperature physics.

Conference by Julien Bobroff, at ESPCI with ESPGG in 2017.

La physique quantique est invisible, abstraite, elle échappe à nos intuitions. Et pourtant, elle se cache dans le monde qui nous entoure. Dans certains solides récemment découverts, la quantique se révèle de façon très surprenante, constituant l’un des sujets de recherche les plus actifs.

Les Mardis de l’Espace des sciences avec Julien Bobroff, Physicien expert de la physique quantique dans les solides, et enseignant-chercheur à l’Université Paris Sud.

Avec la lévitation supraconductrice, les ordinateurs quantiques, la nanophysique et les matériaux protecteurs de l’environnement, l’exploration des propriétés étonnantes de la matière et de la lumière ne fait que commencer. Attendons-nous à de belles surprises!

Conférence par Julien Bobroff, physicien, professeur à l’université Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de physique des solides au Palais de la Découverte en Mars 2017

The artist Patrick Corillon collaborated with Julien Bobroff, physicist, to build a work around the absolute zero. The result comes in the form of a website, videos, animations, a book, but also and especially drama performances of Patrick Corillon. This work explored the links between art and science, and in particular, explored what research in the arts compared to research in science.

In this work developed with the illustrator Marine Joumard, we wanted to invent a new way to tell the science. For that, we designed illustrated cards. Each discovery is described in 9 cards: what, who, where, when, the question, the discovery, the article, the Nobel and the applications. These cards can be used by a science explainer or a scientist to tell a discovery on the corner of a table, at a science fair, a meeting, or a conference.
They pave the way for new forms of science narratives. Want to use them? It’s possible and free, in French or in English.

This course offers an introduction to communication and popularization of science to undergraduate physics students. Each year, some twenty students have been able to develop their own outreach projects around an aspect of fundamental physics for five days. These projects are accompanied by various exercises and courses on science communication. All the projects are presented at the end of the workshop by the students themselves during a public session at the University in front of a large audience.

Show donné en mai 2017 par les étudiants de l’option vulgarisation du magistère de physique d’Orsay (Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay).

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2018, Défis de physique.

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2017, HeartScience, un jeu de carte qui apprend la physique sans s’en rendre compte !

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2017, La physique dans les films.

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2017, End-tropy : Une bande annonce imagine un monde où le second principe de l’entropie serait violé !

Un des projets réalisé dans le cadre de l’option vulgarisation 2017, Où va l’énergie ?

With the science illustrator Julie Sistenich, we have developpe a new way to show scientific articles. The article is magnified and presented through small pop-ups which display the underlying physics. Two discoveries were used as examples : the invention of the tunneling microscope (STM) and its use in nanoscience, and the invention of super-resolved microscopies (STED) and its use in biology. (Sorry but the contents are in french)

Nine students in science illustration were asked to explain four types of modern microscopes in new means. They ended up into four new formats : panorama, augmented reality, hands-on cubes or vintage computer. For each, you can downlad a Do-It-Yourself version that you can print and build.

Lou, Mathilde and Marianne have created six cubes that, assembled in different ways, tell the story of tunneling microscopy: its discovery, what it consists of, what it can measure or even manufacture …
It is a new system of science communication that makes it possible to invent a new form of scientific narrative.

You can watch the video that shows how it works, but also download and print the cubes and use them yourself.