Fête de la Science

In a universe that is at once scientific, poetic and aesthetic, the exhibition invites visitors to discover the astonishing workings of plant machinery. Through sculptures evoking the world of plants, this exhibition takes us to the heart of these living beings, revealing their inner workings.

For further information, visit the Galerie Eurêka website.

Attend the inauguration of the 2023-2024 Amphis Pour Tous season from 5pm, followed by a talk by LIBM's Ms Hinzty from 6pm.

About the conference :

Cycling performance is multifactorial. It encompasses muscular, energetic and psychological qualities, as well as technical mastery (movement strategy, equipment used).

Equipment plays an important and growing role in sports performance, as it benefits from scientific advances in fields as varied as materials science, simulation and biomechanics. But is it so important that it outweighs the influence of the rider's physical qualities on performance? To the point of endangering the cyclist?

In short, is it the bike that makes the performance or the rider?

Young researchers from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes come to meet high school students. What do they have in common? They all study "sport". The young researchers will share their daily lives and experiences. Participants will discover what goes on behind the scenes of research in various fields (biology, sociology, geography...) and its impact on performance, athletes' health, our daily lives...

This event is reserved for students and high school pupils.

Course :

• 2:00 pm: Welcome by Jean-Yves Maugendre and Pascale Balland
• 2.10pm: Duo introduction of the regional ambassadors, by Cécile Ottogalli and Vincent Boury.
• 2:50 pm: 6 minutes with a doctoral student. Mini-conferences by 7 doctoral students from the AURA region, followed by questions and answers.
• 4:00 pm: Snack and convivial conclusion

• Antonin Van der Straeten from the Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM) laboratory will talk about "The Tour de France and its territorial effects". " What interest do local authorities have in hosting the Tour de France? In what strategies do they include it? That's what interests me. I'm looking to understand how the Tour takes possession of space and how it helps to create places. In other words, I'm interested in portions of space that become the subject of unique appropriations and discourses thanks to the Tour," explains the doctoral student in geography.
• Noémie Bailly, from the Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM) laboratory , will discuss the subject of her thesis on "Encounters between hikers and shepherds in the mountains". " Following the return of the wolf, shepherds herding sheep in the mountains must protect their animals from predation. On the other hand, more and more people are discovering the joys of hiking and the sense of freedom it brings. All might be well if everyone had their own "corner of the mountains", but they are constantly coming across each other on the trails, and conflicts arise from these encounters. The use of herd protection dogs, or "patous", to protect the herds is problematic today. I'm trying to understand why encounters with these dogs go wrong, and what this point of conflict reveals ", explains the doctoral student in sociology.
• Jérémie Bouvier from the Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité (LIBM) will discuss his thesis topic, post-training muscle soreness and recovery in female athletes. " Women and men have different bodies in many ways, and for this reason they react differently to physical exercise. For example, it has been observed that women are more enduring in certain types of effort than men, and may suffer less post-exercise soreness! In my thesis, I'm trying to better understand how the menstrual cycle and the contraceptive pill affect muscle recovery after physical effort in female athletes ", explains the sports science doctoral student.
• Hervé Di Domenico, from the Interuniversity Laboratory of Motor Biology (LIBM), will discuss the subject of his thesis: "Improving the training of military personnel by exercising in the heat and at altitude". " Our soldiers deployed in hot countries are not sufficiently prepared to endure intense physical activity. The very sharp rise in their body temperature will generate a great deal of physical and cognitive fatigue, making their health and safety more fragile. My mission is to understand this fatigue and adjust their training by adjusting their oxygen intake, in order to find strategies for adapting to the heat, which is all the more necessary in today's climate ", explains the teacher-researcher who has just defended his thesis.
• Maëlle Bracco, from Lyon 1's Laboratory on Vulnerabilities and Innovation in Sport (L-Vis), will discuss her thesis on "Managing emotions and attention in fencers": "How do fencers manage their emotions (anger, stress, joy) during matches? That's what interests me! What are they thinking (strategy, technique, score...)? What do they see in their opponent? To better understand what's going on in their heads, my team organized a competition between the fencers on the French team. After their match, each athlete met up with a researcher for an "interview". The athlete would watch his/her match on video, and the researcher would ask him/her questions about what he/she had thought, done... My job is to analyze these interviews," explains the doctoral student in sports psychology.
• Alix Parfait from Lyon 1's Laboratory for Vulnerability and Innovation in Sport (L-Vis) will address the question: "Who are the female leaders of English boxing in France? "It's this question that drives my thesis! My aim is to profile female boxing managers and trainers. How did they get to these positions? What's it like for them? I sent a questionnaire to several of them, asking them about their work, but also more personal questions. Do they have children? Do they box themselves? I'm also going to conduct interviews. I hope to gain a better understanding of their profiles and motivations," explains the doctoral student in sociology.
• Lisa Maj from UGA's Sport et Environnement Social (SENS) laboratory will discuss her thesis topic: "How can an athlete's perceptions of the behaviors of his coach, parents and teammates influence his well-being and performance?". " My day-to-day work involves interviewing athletes aged 14-19 who play competitive team sports, using questionnaires or a Dictaphone. I want to understand how athletes "react" when they perceive different or contradictory behavior from those around them. Can the perception of positive behavior "compensate" for negative behavior and maintain high levels of well-being in the athlete? The aim is to help athletes maximise their levels of well-being and performance," explains the doctoral student in sports psychology.

Come and discover the comic strip created by LIBM researchers entitled "Muscle talks, science listens: When research takes us to new heights", featuring Léon, the laboratory's guinea pig. LIBM researchers will introduce you to the story, showing you the sports experiments involved. You'll also be able to use the measuring tools that helped Léon become an athlete!

Doctoral students from the EDYTEM laboratory invite you to visit their exhibition of animal photos, some of good quality, some not so good, some sharp, some blurred, some more relevant than others... These photos, in all their diversity, show the fascination scientists have for the natural environment they work in as part of their research, to the point of stopping for a few seconds to take an animal photo.

Against a backdrop of climate transition, LOCIE researchers will be presenting some of the latest innovations in the building and urban sectors that they are working on to improve our quality of life while taking climate transition into account.

With the help of flags and interactive games, discover which minority languages are still spoken in Europe!

Far from being reduced to a comparison between languages, intercomprehension involves the learner more in terms of socialization in diverse contexts.

In line with the competency-based approach developed atuniversité Savoie Mont Blanc, this multilingual academics focuses on developing the most appropriate strategies for exploring, negotiating and pushing back one's own linguistic and cultural limits.

You've heard of the raclette, but have you heard of the RACLET? The Rampe Above Critical Exercise Test is a quick and easy physical test! No need to run, pedal or sweat, you simply clench your fist around a sensor, more or less hard, following a target on the screen, and we determine your strength and endurance capacities without going all the way! What's more, you'll be able to plot your performance against the world's population, represented by a Gausse curve. And what's more, you'll be taking part in a real study, as your performance will enrich this curve representing the population!

Engineering students from Polytech Annecy-Chambéry share their passion for robotics with their humanoid robot Nao.

Come and discover the comic strip created by LIBM researchers entitled "Muscle talks, science listens: When research takes us to new heights", featuring Léon, the laboratory's guinea pig. LIBM researchers will introduce you to the story, showing you the sports experiments involved. You'll also be able to use the measuring tools that helped Léon become an athlete!

This stand enables you to understand the brain-muscle link, the neuromuscular pathway of nerve messages and the different players involved in muscle contraction.

Participants will be able to experiment with recording their movement using sensors to control a robotic arm, and then record the muscular activity of their forearm using electrodes to control the robotic arm and even the forearm muscles of one of the researchers present!

Purely as a consequence of the basic principles of mechanics, the gyroscope can be used for recreational purposes, in aircraft, when piloting motorcycles or for scientific purposes.

Come and find out more about them by meeting the researchers from the SYMME laboratory!

Come and play with our 4.0 sandbox. How does augmented reality work? With an augmented reality sandbox, you can create lakes and rivers while raising awareness of new technologies. This instrumented sandbox will allow young and old alike to find themselves immersed in a world that's both fun and instructive.

Engineering students from Polytech Annecy-Chambéry share their passion for robotics with their humanoid robot Nao.

Come and see the model of a sensational merry-go-round designed by Maxime Levasseur, a student at Polytech Annecy Mécanique-Matériaux.

The LAPP, LAPTh and ULISSE will be holding open days on October 7 and 8, 2023, as part of the Fête de la Science.

Come and meet the men and women who work every day to better understand our world.

On the program: workshops, visits, discussions, conferences, games... Click here for the weekend program, and here for a detailed list of events.

Cycling performance is multifactorial. It encompasses muscular, energetic and psychological qualities, as well as technical mastery (movement strategy, equipment used).

What? Ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of theuniversité Savoie Mont Blanc computer science laboratory. After a warm welcome, attend three mini-conferences on Artificial Intelligence and the presentation of some recent theses, the tour in the company of LISTIC doctoral students and PhDs.

Where: Amphi B014, Polytech Annecy-Chambéry, Annecy campus, 5 chemin de Bellevue