Because of the sanitary context, SOLEIL’s participation to the Science Fair 2020 is maintained, but in a different way. SOLEIL has been participating to the “Village des sciences Paris-Saclay” for many years now. The event is organized by the Île de Science association and brings together 21 scientific partners from the Saclay Plateau. This year, it will exceptionally be virtual!
The “Village des sciences Paris-Saclay” will take place exclusively online, from October 2 to 12. From October 2, visit https://le-village-des-sciences-paris-saclay.fr to attend workshops, demonstrations and mini-conferences, and watch videos made available by participants, in French only.
But you still can enjoy the program of SOLEIL Synchrotron for the Science Fair 2020 even if you don’t speak French, watching four series of videos dubbed or subtitled in English:
- Our three animated presentations of SOLEIL (dubbed in English)
- The first two episodes of our video series "Julie's PhD thesis" (subtitled in English) which follows the peregrinations of Julie Gordon, PhD student on the DIFFABS beamline and whose thesis subject relates to ancient materials (alteration, conservation, etc.):
- SOLEIL as if you were there (dubbed in English):
- Six videos about applications of SOLEIL: short documentary films (subtitled in English) presenting experiments carried out by teams of users on various research themes:
- Drought means stress (Environment / Plant Biology)
- Bronze beauty is only skin deep (Materials / Heritage Science)
- Water, air… clean fuels (Environment / Energy)
- Shedding light on tumor cells (Health)
- Legacy phosphorus (Environment)
- When lightning gets into a ball (Energy).
Social networks will not be left out: alongside the virtual “Village des sciences Paris-Saclay”, the Synchrotron SOLEIL has prepared a competition offering you to caption a “mysterious” photo in an offbeat, funny and original way – caution: you have to write in French. See you on Friday October 2, 2020 on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SynchrotronSOLEIL