[Midisciences 2024] Discover the full programme

We are delighted to announce that Midisciences will resume from 1ᵉʳ February 2024.
The Midisciences are short popular science lectures designed to convey the essentials of science and share questions and thoughts on emerging knowledge through discussion.

Find out all about the new topics and immerse yourself in the captivating discussions led by passionate researchers!

>> Conferences broadcast live on V-AU
>> Conferences available for replay on Canal U

Campus Hannah Arendt, 1pm to 2pm, room 2E01

• 1ᵉʳ FEBRUARY : Julie Deramonda lecturer in Information and Communication Science and holder of a doctorate in contemporary history (CNE), and Pauline Grisonpart-time associate lecturer (MAST) at Avignon University (CNE)
  • Exploring an exhibition on the research project "The olive tree, our tree".
• 8 FEBRUARY : Benoit Rossignol - Professor of Ancient History at the HISOMA Laboratory, History and Sources of Ancient Worlds (Avignon Université CNRS, Lyon 2,3, St Etienne, ENS Lyon).
  • What role did volcanoes play in Roman history? A study in environmental history.
• 15 FEBRUARY: Iñaki Garcia de Cortazar Atauri - Research engineer, Director of the INRAE AgroClim service unit.
  • Climate change and viticulture: recent developments, expected impacts and adaptation strategies.
• 22 FEBRUARY : Moritz Hunsmann - CNRS research fellow in sociology, Centre Norbert Elias. Co-director of the Groupement d'intérêt scientifique sur les cancers d'origine professionnelle et environnementale dans le Vaucluse (GISCOPE 84).
  • How can we break the invisibility of cancers of occupational and environmental origin? A multidisciplinary action-research project (GISCOPE 84).
• 14 MARCH : Johnny Douvinet - Professor of Geography (UMR ESPACE/Avignon University).
  • Environmental change and territories.

Campus Jean-Henri Fabre, 1 to 2 p.m., CERI, amphi Ada Lovelace

• 21 MARCH : Charlie Teurnier - Research engineer, INRAE short-lived Mediterranean forests research unit using EPR spectrometry.
  • Comparison of canopy structure between mixed and monospecific forests using terrestrial LiDAR.
• 28 MARCH (Environment Week) : Iñaki Garcia de Cortazar Atauri - Research engineer, Director of the INRAE AgroClim service unit.
  • Climate change and agriculture: recent developments, expected impacts and strategies for adaptation and mitigation.
• 4 APRIL : Béatrice Tuccio-Larricella - Professor of Chemistry at Aix-Marseille University. Specialist in the detection of short-lived radical intermediates by EPR spectrometry.
  • Spin trapping: the hunt for free radicals.
• 11 APRIL : Clémentine Mutillod - Doctoral student at the Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE / Avignon University).
  • Is the grass always greener elsewhere? The effects of the return of wild horses to the Mongolian steppe.
• 18 APRIL: Gilles Perez - Chemical engineer at Danone packaging.
  • The end of plastic? What next?