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Séminaire PMMH - François Graner (Laboratoire MSC & Université Paris-Cité))
Should we forbid scientific research ?
Economic growth is not sustainable. Research, which is one of the pillars of economic growth, contributes to current environmental disasters and social inequalities. Conversely, research is often presented as part of the solution : many institutions and actors call for more funding of research to fuel so-called "green growth". We will argue that this attitude combines a headlong rush similar to the coyote who does not notice the absence of firm ground under his feet, and an ostrich-like denial like burying one's head in the sand.
In fact, green growth' minor version promises to simultaneously pursue growth and decrease carbon emissions. It is short-sighted, and we will propose tools to analyze its "false good ideas". Conversely, the major version promises to pursue growth while decreasing the overall consumption of energy and matter resources as well as environmental impact. This is naive, and faces obstacles linked with thermodynamics principles.
We will examine alternative suggestions based on accepting limits, and giving up the race for power. We will discuss the definition, conditions and consequences of "degrowth". The obstacles it faces are hard but not impossible to overcome, since they originate from humans rather than from thermodynamics.
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Recent seminars (9)
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Séminaire PMMH – Joseph Ackerman (Lab. Jean Perrin, Sorbonne Université)
Vendredi 20 décembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH – Joseph Ackerman (Lab. Jean Perrin, Sorbonne Université)
Vendredi 20 décembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH - Hughes Chaté (CEA Saclay)
Vendredi 13 décembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Modeling suspensions of swarming bacteria with wet Vicsek models
Hugues Chaté SPEC, CEA - Saclay & Beijing CSRC, China After a brief introduction to active matter and some remarks about the development of the field, I will first focus on aligning dry active matter, and in particular on Vicsek-style models, the emblematic models in this class. In a second part, I will show that (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Xanthippi Markenscoff (University of California San Diego)
Vendredi 6 décembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Instabilities of nucleation and growth of a phase change defect
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0411 Abstract A defect of phase change in density and moduli modeled as a self-similarly expanding Eshelby ellipsoidal inclusion can nucleate and grow under a critical loading. The ellipsoid possesses the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Xanthippi Markenscoff (University of California San Diego)
Vendredi 6 décembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Instabilities of nucleation and growth of a phase change defect
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0411 Abstract A defect of phase change in density and moduli modeled as a self-similarly expanding Eshelby ellipsoidal inclusion can nucleate and grow under a critical loading. The ellipsoid possesses the (...) -
Séminaire PMMH - Denis Dumont (IUSTI Marseille)
Vendredi 29 novembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Rheology of sticky grains
In many powder technology processes, coating is applied to fine particles to control their properties or functionalize them. We investigated the role of a polymer coating made of PBS on silica beads. This material has been originally designed as a model cohesive granular material, whose cohesion can be finely (...) -
Séminaire PMMH – Scott Waitukaitis (IST Austria)
Vendredi 22 novembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH – Scott Waitukaitis (IST Austria)
Vendredi 22 novembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
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Séminaire PMMH - Hannah Allen (LSCE, CEA Saclay)
Vendredi 15 novembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1
Monitoring atmospheric fossil fuel emissions using radiocarbon and global atmospheric simulations with a transport and inverse modeling system
Independent monitoring and apportioning of CO2 emissions is crucial for the verification of greenhouse gas reductions targeted by international agreements designed for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Radiocarbon (14C), found as a fractional isotope of CO2, can be used as a key tracer for fossil-derived (...)
The audience is composed of people with rather heterogeneous backgrounds including specialists in solids, fluids, granular flows, statistical physics... so the idea is to keep your talk understandable by people not necessarily working in your field... The seminar time slot runs from 11am to noon so the best is to make the talk last around 45 minutes to leave some time for discussion.
- Séminaires ESPCI-ENS de biophysique
- Séminaires du Département de Physique de l’ENS
- Séminaires du Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique de l’X
- Séminaire de Mécanique d’Orsay (page web FAST)
- Séminaire de Mécanique d’Orsay (page web LIMSI)
- Séminaire de Mécanique des Fluides de l’Institut Jean le Rond d’Alembert
- Séminaires du laboratoire MSC, Paris VII
- Séminaires Gulliver
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