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Exoplanets et cinema : a new playground for the scientists at the Observatory and the students at La Fémis !"

PSL | press release

Paris, June 30th 2016 - La Fémis and the Paris Observatory have decided to establish a number of first ever collaborations between students and researchers. Mmembers of "Paris Sciences et Lettres", these two institutions - inspired by a mutual desire to improve themselves by exploring hitherto distant domains - are an eloquent illustration of what can be achieved through intelligent collaboration by joining a group such as the PSL.

For this first collaborative effort, the Fémis students, whose task was to imagine the appearance of an exoplanet, taking into account its known physical parameters, were helped by scientists from the Paris Observatory.

Thus, each student created «his» own personal planet, imagining at each scale the landscape, the relief, the material, the structures, the textures, the colours, the illumination, the liquid flows etc.

The work is on display Friday, July 1st, from 15h to 17h at la Fémis - 6 rue Francoeur 75018 Paris (a rendez-vous is required) in the following form:

  • four models, realistic exoplanet displays, including discoveries,
    scenography, and illumination,
  • scale visual displays showing exoplanet terrains (Concept Art),
  • research files (information on exoplanet parameters: mineralogy,
    terrain, atmospheres, gravity …),
  • photographs of the models on panels.

About the PSL

PSL is a world class research university. Its activity is centred on innovation and creativity. It is made up, in the very heart of Paris, of 26 outstanding establishments, caters for 19000 students and involves over 5000 researcher-lecturers, as well as 178 research laboratories and over 80 libraries and museums. A unique combination of the sciences, the arts as well as the human and social sciences, PSL furnishes to the most talented the means to meet, to improve themselves and to create the future. A junction where all the disciplines can meet, PSL has en exceptional research potential and is at the heart of the most audacious projects, via partnerships with economic and social consequences.

The member institutions of the PSL

Chimie ParisTech, Collège de France, Conservatoire national supérieur d’Art dramatique, Conservatoire national supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, École française d’Extrême-Orient, École nationale des chartes, École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, École normale supérieure, École Pratique des Hautes Études, ESPCI Paris, Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la recherche, IBPC-Fondation Edmond de Rothschild, Institut Curie, Institut Louis Bachelier, La Fémis, Lycée Henri IV, MINES ParisTech, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris-Dauphine, Association Art et Recherche, CNRS, INRIA, INSERM, Institut Pasteur.

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