Conferences
Geographically
situated at the crossroads
of Europe and the Mediterranean,
the Sophia Antipolis technological
park wanted, from the beginning,
to situate itself at the
intersection of technology,
art, philosophy and ethics.
The cultural policy of the
Foundation is shown in the
determination of making
Sophia Antipolis an area
of encounters and comparisons
between the sciences, techniques
and arts. For this reason
it organises numerous encounters
in the way of conferences
around various themes and
current happenings.
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SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES AT
THE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS FOUNDATION
The Sophia Antipolis Foundation
continue their activities
of scientific animation
by launching a new conference
cycle. These conferences
are open to all, and organised
to allow the active members
of the technopolis to understand
and master the current scientific
evolutions and also inform
the young public of the
vocations in scientific
research. We have invited
the Academics of the Academy
of Sciences and the Academy
of Technology, who accepted
our invitation.
“Life
and death of the dinosaurs”
by Philippe Taquet, Professor
at the Museum of Natural
History and President for
the International Commission
for Geological History –
Scientific Academy.
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CONFERENCES
AND REPORTS ON SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
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THE
VALLEY OF WONDERS IN THE
HONOUR OF THE FOUNDATION
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS
On
the 1st of December 2006
at 18 h 15, Professor Henri
de Lumley gave a conference
on the Valley of Wonders,
one of the largest cave
carving sites in the world
that is situated in the
valley of the Massif de
Mercantour in the Alpes
where more than 40 000 protohistoric
carvings, of which most
of them date back to the
Bronze age, have been found.
Henri
de Lumley, director of the
Human Palaeontology Institute,
President of the departmental
laboratory of the prehistory
of Lazaret is one of the
biggest specialists of the
Valley of Wonders, and is
very well known for the
creation of scientific films
and his research for which
he has obtained numerous
prizes.
Following
the conference, was the
presentation of the book
“ Mountains and Wonders”,
of which the author, André
Verdet, poet, author, painter,
artist left us only two
years ago. Born in 1913,
André Verdet was
influenced by the big artists
of the period, Giono, Prévert,
Cocteau, Picasso, Braque,
Matisse. Eric Mélis,
comedian told the extracted
texts from the book.
Exhibition
of the photographs from
the book. Projection of
a documentary on the life
of André Verdet.
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FESTIVAL OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION
The Foundation Sophia Antipolis
organised the Festival of
the Fourth Dimension, a
festival dedicated to the
fusion of Art, Science and
Technology.
World renowned artistes,
scientists, and philosophers
were reunited in Sophia
Antipolis in order to synthesize
a vision of a creation beyond
all tradition. Concerts,
conferences, exhibitions,
film projections and other
demonstrations are planned
in Nice in the surroundings
of the university, at Valrose
and in several areas of
Sophia Antipolis also present
a common point : a dialogue
of the highest level between
art, technology and science
in their latest advancements.
(June 2006)
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BREAKFAST MORNING: “THE
THEATRE OF LIFE”
Why
do companies, engineers,
financers, and decision
makers need to understand
the techniques or oral and
physical expression? Why
not a theatre school in
Sophia?
Guests:
Mr Jean Christophe Barbaud,
Civil engineer of mines,
Dr of science, Theatre Group
Manager.
Following the high demand
of this breakfast morning,
the Foundation Sophia Antipolis
put into place an improvisation
workshop for people working
within the park (once a
week on a Monday night).
19th May 2006
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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE
WOMAN
In
order to celebrate the
day, the Foundation
Sophia Antipolis gave
the stage to women representing
different domains such
as science, politics,
health, sport, management,
fire brigade, driver,
woodworker…
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SUPPORT FOR JOURNALISTS
THAT ARE DETAINED IN IRAK
In
cooperation with the
village of Antibes Juan-les-Pins,
the Foundation Sophia
Antipolis invited the
Sophipolitans to gather
together on the place
Sophie Laffitte to show
their support for the
journalists detained
in Iraq : Florence Aubenas,
journalist from the
Liberation and her interpreter
Hussein Hanoun Al Saadi
have been missing since
the 5th of January as
well as the journalist,
Giuliana Sgrena, journalist
from the newspaper “II
Manifesto” who
was taken on the 4th
of February. This gathering
took place on Friday
the 25th of February
2005, in the presence
of Patrick Sabatier
joint director of the
“Libération”,
deputies from the towns
of Sophia Antipolis,
company directors and
students from Sophia
and the Alpes-Maritimes.
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INTERNATIONAL ARTS?
TECHNOLOGY AND COMPANY
CONFERENCE
What
cultural development
models for Europe?
This international
conference brings
together important
workers from the
university sphere,
of art and creation,
in the world of
businesses and industry,
regional communities
and other experts,
in order to widen
the debate and the
thinking on the
industrial and cultural
development of Europe
with an optimistic
view of synergies
between art, companies
and technology.
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HENRI POINCARE CONFERENCE
Lanched
as an initiative
from the Foundation
Sophia Antipolis,
this international
conference,
that was dedicated
to Henri Poincare
“ Science
and Thinking”,
was organised
under the sponsorship
of the Academy
of Science.
It gave place
to high level
exchanges between
experts in the
matter, universities,
mathmaticiens,
researches and
the public.
Participants
: Edouard Brezin,
president of
the Academy
of Science ;
Peter Galison,
professor of
the history
of science and
physics at the
university of
Harvard ; also
present was
M. Francois
Poincaré,
grandson of
Henri Poincaré
who came to
present the
genealogy of
Poincaré.
A commemorative
plaque ( the
road “Henri
Poincaré)
in tribute to
the French mathematician
and physician
was inaugurated
in the middle
of the day by
M. Xavier Boucand,
mayor of Biot,
and M. Pierre
Laffitte, president
of the Foundation
Sophia Antipolis.
