Thursday 15 October 2015 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot Open to all, subject to availability 09:30 - 09:45 Skip youtube video player Listen to audio Download audio Audio recording Speaker(s) Alain Prochiantz Professor at the Collège de France, Director of the Collège de France (2015 to 2019) Events Previous Symposium 15 Oct 2015 9:30 - 9:45am Alain Prochiantz Opening Symposium 15 Oct 2015 9:45 - 10:00am Jean Dalibard Presentation Symposium 15 Oct 2015 10:00 - 10:45am Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Light : a tool for manipulating atoms Symposium 15 Oct 2015 10:45 - 11:30am Serge Haroche Space, time and quanta : how questions about light revolutionized our view of the world Symposium 15 Oct 2015 11:30am - 12:15pm Anne-Marie Lagrange Planets in the spotlight Symposium 15 Oct 2015 12:15 - 1:00pm Alain de Libera Light, consciousness and perception : the optical metaphor Symposium 15 Oct 2015 2:30 - 3:15pm Claire Wyart Illuminating the neural circuits underlying movement Symposium 15 Oct 2015 3:15 - 4:00pm José-Alain Sahel Light, disappearances, appearances... Symposium 15 Oct 2015 4:00 - 4:45pm Jean-Pierre Changeux Light in the Age of Enlightenment and today, from the biology of vision to a new conception of the w… Symposium 16 Oct 2015 9:30 - 10:15am Marc Fontecave Artificial photosynthesis : turning sunlight into fuel Symposium 16 Oct 2015 10:15 - 11:00am William E. Moerner Light and individual molecules : the inside of a cell as you've never seen it before th… Symposium 16 Oct 2015 11:00 - 11:45am Jean-Noël Robert Buddha light and world dust in medieval Japanese poetry Symposium 16 Oct 2015 11:45am - 12:30pm Pascale Hémery Light : a vibration in the painter's eye Symposium 16 Oct 2015 2:30 - 3:15pm Dominique Charpin Law and light, from Sumer to the present day Symposium 16 Oct 2015 3:15 - 4:00pm Philippe Walter Light in the picture Symposium 16 Oct 2015 4:00 - 4:45pm Daniel Roche Enlightenment, society and science in the eighteenth century Symposium 16 Oct 2015 4:45 - 5:00pm John Scheid General conclusions Next See also Opening symposia Lights, lights