Gautier Depambour

Biography

An alumnus of École Centrale-Supélec, Gautier Depambour is currently studying for a Master 2 in the history and philosophy of science at Paris VII. During a gap year, he had the opportunity to work for five months at the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the ATLAS detector communications group; in parallel, he carried out a machine learning project applied to particle physics. He also spent six months with the cavity quantum electrodynamics group at the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, Collège de France, as part of his Master 2 in nanophysics. Finally, keen to bring science to as many people as possible, he is involved in a number of projects to popularize science: in particular, he created the website of the philosopher of science Etienne Klein, and wrote a book about his experience at CERN, entitled Une journée au CERN.

Conference: Does going faster really save time?

Our daily lives seem to revolve around ubiquitous accelerations. Automated transport, automatic proofreaders, search engines, notifications… We’re used to finding out the result of a crucial election in real time, or logging on so as not to miss the next live goal in a thriller. Access to information is so fast that the distance between us and events in the present seems to be fading, and the time between us and events in the near future seems to be shrinking. Digital technology even proposes to speed up our private lives by organizing romantic encounters at the click of a button! But does going faster really save us time? This is the question that six students will take time to discuss during this round table. Their aim will be to highlight the relationship *millenials* have with today’s society and the pace it imposes on itself.