Maths. For some, a stimulating discipline, an exciting mental game, for others, a complex, opaque and difficult world. But whatever our perception or view might be, mathematics is fascinating. As a fundamental discipline at the interface…
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Public talks
Chaos: unpredictable but understandable
2 November 2020 - 18:30
Etienne Ghys
Research Director at CNRS,
Professor at the École normale supérieure in Lyon
Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Science of France
Disorder, chance and large numbers
3 November 2020 - 18:30
Laure Saint-Raymond
Professor at the École normale supérieure in Lyon
Bôcher Memorial Prize in 2020
A mathematical journey From the infinitely small to the infinitely large
4 November 2020 - 18:30
Martin Hairer
Professor of mathematics at Imperial College London
Fields Medal in 2014 (obtained for research conducted at UNIGE)
The music of shapes
5 November 2020 - 18:30
Alain Connes
Professor at the Collège de France,
at the Institut des hautes études scientifiques at the University of Paris-Saclay
and at Ohio State University, Columbus
Fields medal in 1982
Numbers, knots and ratings
6 November 2020 - 18:30
Vaughan Jones
Professor at Vanderbilt University at Nashville
Fields medal in 1990 (obtained for research conducted at UNIGE)
MODERATION
OLIVIER DESSIBOURG
Scientific journalist, physicist, mathematician
Director of Science Communication at the Fondation Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator.
Younger public
Wednesday 4 November
Young people will have the opportunity to meet the colloquium speakers, all internationally renowned scientists, in an informal gathering….
Read moreSound and light show
28 oct – 22 NOV 2020
Parc des bastions
18H . 19H . 20H30 (20 MIN PERFORMANCES)
As is now traditional, a sound and light show in the Parc des Bastions will accompany this year’s Wright Colloquium. Each evening…
Read morePrevious editions
2018
Gravity, l'attraction universelle
2016
La révolution génomique
2014
Les secrets du soleil
2012
Architecture moléculaire
2010
La révolution quantique
2008
Grandes épidémies: le retour ?
2006