Every two years, the Pop'Sciences Festival, organised by the University of Lyon and all its establishments, takes place in the heart of the city, offering to bring together a wide public around science's answers to the questions and issues facing society.
During these two days, knowledge is disseminated, science is debated and meetings take place between the world of research and the inhabitants in formats that favour exchange and discussion.
This event is free and open to all.
POP SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2023 : A WORLD IN TRANSITION
Co-organised with the city of Villeurbanne, the Pop'Sciences festival was held on 12, 13 and 14 May 2023, at the Raphaël De Barros sports complex, the Maison du Livre, de l'Image et du Son (MLIS) and the Centre Culturel et de la Vie Associative
Once again this year, LabEx CeLyA took part in the Festival through various workshops offered to students from schools in the region and to the general public.
Find the program
POP SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2021 : THE PERPETUAL FLOW...
The last Pop'Sciences Festival took place on Friday 9, Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 July 2021 on the site of the Gallo-Roman Museum of Saint-Romain-en-Gal, as well as in various places in the city of Vienne.
180 exhibitors - 3,500 visitors
On this occasion, the LabEx CeLyA proposed various activities :
COURT OF THE KING BOSON -Vienna
WORKSHOP: Journey to the centre of the musical brain
Using a mannequin-tablet device and musical instruments, the workshop participants discover hearing and the brain mechanisms that allow us to perceive music.
Nicolas Grimault and Fabien Perrin, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre - LabEx CeLyA
Etienne Parizet, Acoustic Vibration Laboratory - LabEx CeLyA
DEDICATION in partnership with the Librairie Luciole
Signing of the book "Les animaux parlent, sachons les écouter" by its author Nicolas Mathevon
Sensory Neuro-Ethology Team - Lyon Neurosciences Research Centre - LabEx CeLyA
CONFERENCE: Animals speak, let's listen to them !
Nicolas Mathevon, Sensory Neuro-Ethology Team - Lyon Neurosciences Research Centre - LabEx CeLyAConference organised by Biophonia
MEDIATHEQUE LE TRENTE -Vienna
WORKSHOP : Draw your sound
Several interactive experiments will allow us to discover the applications of Fourier analysis developed more than two centuries ago. We will use the "Spectroid" application on a digital tablet to analyse the composition of a wide variety of sounds.Didier Vray and Emmanuel Roux, Centre de Recherche en Acquisition et Traitement de l'Image pour la Santé - LabEx CeLyA
MUSEUM AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF SAINT-ROMAIN-EN-GAL
WORKSHOP: the mechanics of gears
We'll be doing some mechanical work at the festival! The shapes of gears, movements, mechanical forces, everything to know through demonstrators and a model gearbox.Pascal Fossat, and the doctoral students of the Laboratory of Tribology and Systems Dynamics, LabEx CelyA
GARDEN OF THE FESTIVAL HOUSE
POP SCIENCE CONFERENCES - Jazz à Vienne - The terrace of the Maison du Festival
Mechanics, acoustics and instrument making of the pianoDiscover the scientific research carried out in recent years at the LVA (INSA Lyon), the LMS (École Polytechnique), the Navier laboratory (Ecole des ponts) and the IMSIA (ENSTA) on the vibro-acoustic behaviour of the piano soundboard. In a second part, the work carried out in collaboration with the piano maker Stephen Paulello will be presented, with the aim of considering the replacement of spruce soundboards by composite structures.
Kerem Ege, Vibrations Acoustics Laboratory, INSA Lyon, LabEx CeLyA
Pierre Margerit, Navier Laboratory, Ecole des ponts
All information on the website Pop'Sciences
POP SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2019: IT WAS BETTER BEFORE!? IT WILL BE BETTER TOMORROW !?
The Pop'Sciences 2019 Festival Pop'Sciences took place on 17 and 18 May in the heart of La Duchère, on the market square. The district became the time of these 2 days, a real open-air research laboratory!
With 1,800 visitors for the 2019 edition, the challenge of bringing science closer to the citizens has been met.
Visitors were able to meet researchers, experiment, play and debate on scientific advances and science's responses to societal challenges. 150 researchers, as well as 80 mediators and associative and educational players, took over the district to debate with the public about the choices that our societies have to make for the future between what is possible and what is desirable.
BACK TO THE 2019 EDITION
Pop'Sciences Mag
Pop'Sciences Mag #10 - March 2022 - Under the influence of emotions
In animals, too, sounds and emotions go hand in hand. In his book On the Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, Charles Darwin already foresaw the coding of emotions through sound.And indeed, if you listen carefully, nature offers real soundscapes full of information. It is the work of bioacoustics to decipher them. ......
You can read the interview with Nicolas Mathevon, researcher at the ENES/CRNL Laboratory in Saint-Etienne, about emotions and music in animals in Pop'Sciences Mag #10 of March 2022
Pop'Sciences Mag #6 - June 2020 - Ocean, a dive into the invisible
In a lapidary formula, "The World of Silence", a 1955 film by Captain Cousteau, froze our collective imagination of the ocean in a universe of liquid calm that no noise ever disturbed.But the reality is quite different! In the water, sounds propagate, and quickly. In particular, the low frequencies emitted by large cetaceans can travel several thousand kilometres.
In addition to these animal sounds, there is also the almost constant noise of human marine activities, as well as the natural sounds of wind and rain on the water surface. Together, they form the acoustic landscapes of the ocean in which more and more researchers are taking an interest, as they help us to better understand and protect marine environments.
Find the interview of Frédéric Sturm, lecturer at INSA Lyon and researcher in underwater acoustics at the LMFA Ecole Centrale de Lyon as well as other researchers whose field of study covers this subject in Pop'Sciences Mag#6 - June 2020