Conference "What lies behind synchronization: from neurons to individuals, between performance and pathology" Les jeudis de l'UM

Thursday, April 05, 2018 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Botany Institute - University of Montpellier
Streetcar line 1 - Albert 1er stop
Free admission

Conference moderated by Julien Lagarde, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Technology of Physical and Sports Activities (STAPS) - Euromov Laboratory - University of Montpellier.
When a dance ballet reaches this exquisite harmony, the movements seem to merge into a single wave and the dancers disappear. When the wave breaks, the individuals resume their courses and diverge, perhaps to better reunite later. Here, spatial and temporal relationships come and go, discussing that famous duality between things and the relationships between things.
At the heart of this story is synchronization, which designates a temporal order (chronos: the god of time), its appearance and disappearance, and a whole spectrum of rich variations. Synchronization is a constantly renewed object of curiosity. Physicists, chemists, biologists, urban planners and architects regularly come across it in their research. Mathematicians have isolated its fundamental ingredients. The latest result of this research has been named "chimera", again from Greek mythology, designating a complex state half-synchronization half-electron-free.
This conference will present synchronization in many states, in human movement science and in other fields. In particular, the question of the benefits and limits of synchronization for good health will be discussed.

UM Thursdays": a new lecture series

The University of Montpellier, with its eight Faculties, two Schools and 6 Institutes, is bursting at the seams with teachers and researchers in a wide variety of fields. It wanted to highlight them and make them accessible to as many people as possible by offering a new cycle of lectures at the rate of one appointment per month from October 2017 to May 2018.