Date: Friday, 18th October 2019 | 4pm

Venue: Dasheri Auditorium, NCBS

This talk will examine the link between fundamental research, inventions and innovations. For this we will discuss the history of innovations in digital that will take us from Pascal's calculating machine to the modern era of digital: that's the great story.

It will also be illustrated by the personal experience of the author in his life as a researcher in statistical physics of complex fluids: that's the little story. From these examples, we will draw conclusions about the richness and synergies between understanding fundamental science and economic development.

About the speaker-

Didier Roux was born in 1955, former student of the ENS de Saint-Cloud, he was a member of the CNRS from 1980 to 2005. He is a recipient of numerous awards and honors. He holds the silver and the Innovation medal of the CNRS. He created two start-ups in 1994 and 1998, he was Deputy Scientific Director of Rhone Poulenc and Rhodia between 1997 and 2005. He was the Vice President of R & D and Innovation of Saint Gobain (2005-2017). He is a member of the Institut de France (French Académie des Sciences) and member of the National Academy of Technologies of France. He was a professor at College de France (2016-2017).