Participants
3 April 2024
15:25 – 16:10
Amphi 4
Stéphane Durand
Stéphane Durand completed doctoral and post-doctoral studies in theoretical physics in Montreal and Paris. He is professor of physics at Collège Édouard-Montpetit and a member of the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) at Université de Montréal. He has also taught quantum mechanics and relativity at Université de Montréal’s physics department and at École polytechnique de Montréal. He received the Prix du Ministre de l’éducation du Québec for his book La relativité animée : Comprendre Einstein en animant soi-même l’espace-temps (3rd edition, Belin, 2014). He received a Teaching Excellence Award from the Physics Department of the Université de Montréal, as well as First Prize in the European Mathematical Society’s International Poster Competition for the World Year of Mathematics (posters used and adapted in a dozen countries). He has also published the book Les hérésies scientifiques du professeur Durand (Flammarion, 2015), inspired by his 150 radio columns on Radio-Canada’s Années-lumière over 4 seasons. Recently, he designed a mini-exhibition on “Time according to relativity”, an integral part of the exhibition Éternité : rêve humain et réalités de la science presented at the Musée du Fjord du Saguenay in 2017.