Month: March 2025
Two postions of Junior Professor soon available (at LKB – LAC – LPL laboratories)
Two postions of Junior Professor will soon be available:
– PRECISION – Precision Measurements for Fundamental Physics (at LAC or LKB or LPL)
– Quantum Sciences and Technologies (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel – LKB)
The PRECISION chair is available at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB), Laboratoire Aimé Cotton (LAC) and Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers (LPL)
You can find vacancies on the LKB website via the following link: https://www.lkb.fr/en/jobs/
Les Houches cold atoms school: “Quantum metrology: from optomechanics to tests of fundamental physics”. October 20th-31st, 2025
Les Houches cold atoms school “Quantum metrology: from Optomechanics to tests of fundamental physics”, will take place in Les Houches, France, from Oct 20 to Oct 31, 2025.
The deadline to apply is July 15, 2025. Please pre-register on the website: https://leshouches2025-metrology.quantumoptics.fr/
2nd PCQT Workshop on April 4, 2025
Paris Centre for Quantum Technologies (PCQT) organizes its second workshop on April 4, 2025, from 2 pm to 6 pm. It will once again bring together the community of researchers of the main research teams in Quantum Technologies in Paris Centre.
Conference: De l’astronomie aux horloges atomiques, une fabuleuse épopée de la mesure du temps – May 15th 2025, 6pm – LNE – Paris
Conference on measurements and time
The LNE is continuing its “Les mesures et…” series of conferences, with the fifth “Les mesures et le temps : quel futur ?” conference on May 15, 2025. “.
De l’astronomie aux horloges atomiques, une fabuleuse épopée de la mesure du temps
[conference in French]
Since ancient Egypt, humans have deployed remarkable techniques and strategies to push back the limits of precision in time measurement.
In this lecture, you’ll discover how, in the mid-twentieth century, quantum physics supplanted astronomy to produce time measurements with atomic clocks whose current accuracies reach 18 digits, corresponding to a drift of just one second over 15 billion years. This precision is not ultimate, and will have to be further improved to meet the major challenges of science and society, with a necessary change in the definition of the unit of time, the second, planned for the next decade.
Program and speakers
Moderator:
Maguelonne Chambon (LNE Research Director)
Speakers :
Noël Dimarcq (Research Director, CNRS)
Marie-Christine Angonin (Professor at Sorbonne University, Observatoire de Paris)
Practical information
Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
Venue: LNE, 1 rue Gaston Boissier, Paris 15th (Salle des conférences)
Free conference upon registration
This conference is part of the cycle of conferences organized throughout 2025 by the LNE to mark the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Metre Convention.
Société Française de Physique – Demi-journée scientifique : Aperçu des potentialités offertes par la révolution quantique – March 22nd 2025
This half-day event will follow the General Meeting of the Société Française de Physique, to be held on Saturday March 22 at ENS Paris, starting at 10:30 am. It is organized as part of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
[conference in French]
Program: