December 13, 2016 at 6:30pm | Institut Henri Poincaré
Even the greatest scientists have made some serious blunders. "Brilliant Blunders" concerns the evolution of life on Earth, of the Earth itself, of stars, and of the universe as a whole.
In this talk, Mario Livio will concentrate on and analyze major errors committed by such luminaries as Charles Darwin, Linus Pauling, and Albert Einstein. He will scrutinize the various types of blunders and attempt to explain their causes.
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Call for applications: Lagrange Fellowships
Applications for the 6th class of Lagrange Fellowships are now open. The ILP invites applications from scientists with recent PhDs for Fellowships beginning in 2017.
Kumiko Kotera, researcher at the IAP and recipient in 2016 of the CNRS bronze medal, talks about her research in high (or even very high) energy astrophysics [see the video in French]
"A mechanism that destabilizes the primordial universe"
Physicists from the CNRS and the University of Warsaw unveiled an instability at play in the primordial universe that modifies the theoretical interpretation of the cosmic microwave background observations, and which enables one to severely constrain scenarios of inflation built in fundamental physics. This work is published in Physical Review Letters.
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schematic representation of the instability of inflationary trajectories
