The 2024 Hubert Curien Memorial Lecture: From Time-Reversal Physics to Innovation
Event Details:
- Date: Thursday, 30 May 2024
- Time: Starts 18:00
- Venue: This is a hybrid event. Join us in-person at John Ioannides Auditorium, Fresnel Building, Athalassa Campus, The Cyprus Institute
or online at The Cyprus Institute’s YouTube Channel and The Cyprus Institute Facebook page - Speaker: Prof. Mathias Fink, George Charpak Professor at ESPCI Paris, Member of the French Academy of Sciences
The 2024 Hubert Curien Memorial Lecture
From Time-Reversal Physics to Innovation
Prof. Mathias Fink
George Charpak Professor at Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, France
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
30 May 2024, 18:00
The Cyprus Institute
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A reception will follow the lecture
Abstract
Can we make a wave relive its past life? The development of "time reversal mirrors" for different types of waves: sound, ultrasonic, electromagnetic, light and even water waves has made it possible to experimentally test time reversibility in varied propagation environments and regimes. These instruments not only shed new light on the problem of the irreversibility of time, they also provide original solutions to wave control in complex environments and to imaging of these environments.
The objective of this talk is to review the basic principles of Time Reversal and to show how this concept can be turned into a huge source of innovations and start-up creation with applications in medical imaging, telecommunication, sensing and human-machine interface.
About the speaker
Mathias Fink is the George Charpak Professor at the Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI Paris) where he founded in 1990 the Laboratory “Ondes et Acoustique” that became in 2009 the Langevin Institute. He is member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Technologies of France. In 2008, he was elected at the College de France on the Chair of Technological Innovation. He has received several scientific awards as the Silver Medal of CNRS, the CNRS Medal of innovation, the High Prize Yves Rocard and the Louis Neel Prize of the French Physical Society, the Helmholtz-Rayleigh Award of the Acoustical Society of America, the Rayleigh Award of the IEEE Ultrasonics Society and the Edwin H. Land Medal of the Optical Society of America
Mathias Fink’s area of research is concerned with the propagation of waves in complex media. His current research interests include wave control in complex media, time-reversal in physics, ultrasound medical imaging, multi-wave imaging, wireless communications, metamaterials, time-varying medium, super-resolution. With his colleagues, he pioneered different inventions in medical imaging (ultrafast ultrasonic imaging, matrix Imaging, transient elastography, shear wave elastography, supersonic shear imaging) and in the field of telecommunications (Time-reversal processing and Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces). 7 start-up companies with more than 500 employees have been created from his research (Echosens, Sensitive Object, Supersonic Imagine, Time Reversal Communications, CardiaWave, Austral DX and GreenerWave).
The Hubert Curien Memorial Lectures
The Cyprus Institute founded the Hubert Curien Memorial Lectures Series, in honor of the late Prof. Hubert Curien (1924-2005), a Trustee of CREF and founding Chair of its International Council. Prof. Hubert Curien, a physicist, is regarded as one of the most influential scientists and science policy makers of the 20th century. After an involvement in the French resistance at the end of World War II, Hubert Curien graduated from the École Normale Supérieure. His scientific work was devoted to crystallography and he became an Assistant Professor at Paris University at the age of 27 and Professor five years later.
He worked at CNRS as the Head of Physical Sciences Division and soon after as Director General. He served as Minister for Research (in several governments under the presidency of F. Mitterrand), but he never stopped teaching during all those years. He assumed a number of leading positions within European Science: President of the European Science Foundation, President of the European Space Agency, President of the Academia Europaea, President of CERN Council, as well as in France, where he had been President of Académié des Sciences de France and in numerous science boards.
He was highly respected for his devotion to science, his openness and his generosity to people. His contribution in the planning and realization of The Cyprus Institute was pivotal and profound.
Previous Hubert Curien Memorial Lectures
2022 Prof. Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, École Normale Supérieure, Paris & Founder and Chairman of Capital Fund Management (CFM)
2020 Prof. Marc Mézard, Director of Ecole Normale Supérieure
2019 Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Commissioner of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Development, and Member of The Cyprus Institute Board of Trustees
2018 Dr Janez Potočnik, Former EU Commissioner for Environment & Member of The Cyprus Institute Board of Trustees
2016 Prof. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President of the European Research Council (ERC)
2015 Prof. Daniel Cohen, Professor of Economics at the École Normale Supérieure, at the Université de Paris-I and at the École d'économie de Paris, France
2014 Carlo Rubbia, Nobel Prize in Physics, Scientific Director IASS Potsdam, Former Director General of CERN
2012-2013 Edouard Brézin, former President of the French Academy of Sciences, Chairman of Board of Trustees of The Cyprus Institute, and Herwig Schopper, former Director General of CERN, Emeritus Trustee of The Cyprus Institute
2011 Anastasios P. Leventis, Director of the Leventis Group International Companies and Chairman of the A.G. Leventis Foundation
2010 Richard N. Cooper, Professor of International Economics, Harvard University, USA
2009 Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, USA
2008 Paul Crutzen (on his behalf Jos Lelieveld), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Emeritus Director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Division of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, and Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California at San Diego, USA
2007 Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize in Medicine, Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
2006 José Mariano Gago, Minister of Science and Higher Education, Portugal
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Additional Info
- Date: Thursday, 30 May 2024
- Time: Lecture starts: 18:00
- Speaker: Prof. Mathias Fink
- Speaker Position: George Charpak Professor at ESPCI Paris, Member of the French Academy of Sciences
