Given by each new professor at the College de France, the Inaugural Lecture is both a statement of the state of the discipline, and the presentation of a research programme.
Astronomer at the Paris Observatory, and CNRS silver medallist, Françoise Combes will give her inaugural lecture at the Collège de France on Thursday, the 18th of December, before beginning her lecture course on dark matter in the Universe, in January 2015.
Her research is devoted to the evolution of galaxies in a cosmological context. This covers, in the first instance, the dynamics of galaxies, their spiral or barred structure and interactions between galaxies, as revealed by multi-wavelength observations and numerical simulations.
Her work also includes the study of the interstallar medium in galaxies, and in particular the molecular gas from which stars are born, be it in nearby galaxies like the Andromeda nebular or galaxies at the edge of the Universe 13 billion years ago.
Lecture Programme
Wednesday 7th of January
Lecture : The problem of dark matter : spiral galaxies
Seminar : The missing mass in neighbouring galaxies, Rodrigo Ibata, Stras bourg Observatory
Wednesday, 14th of Januray
Lecture : The problem of dark matter : elliptical and dwarf galalxies
Seminar : Missing matter in clusters of galaxies, Florence Durret, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris
Wednesday, 21st of January
Lecture : The physics of galaxies in modified gravity
Seminar : Dark matter and its alternatives, Luc Blanchet, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris
Wednesday, 28th of January
Lecture : The various models of dark matter
Seminar : The detection of dark matter, Gabriel Chardin, Astroparticules, CNRS, Paris
Wednesday, 4th of February
Lecture : Cosmological simulations of dark matter
Seminar : Dark matter and marticles, Gianfranco Bertone, GRAPPA, Amsterdam University
Wednesday, 11th of February
Lecture : The essential problems of the standard model
Seminar : Dark matter and gravitational lensing, Yannick Mellier, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris
Wednesday, 18th of February
Lecture : Dark matter in galaxy formation
Seminar : Dark matter and cosmology, Joseph Silk, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris and Oxford University
Wednesday 25th of February
Lecture : Possible solutions : future instrumentation
Seminar : Dark matter and modified gravity, Benoit Famaey, Observatoire de Strasbourg
The lectures take place on Wednesdays, at 16h30. (open on 7 of january 2015).
Each is followed by a siminar at 17h30
- Collège de France
- Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs
- 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75005 Paris
The entrance is limited to the number of available seats