Lecture "Le rayon T: de la science-fiction à l'étude du monde du vivant" Les jeudis de l'UM

Thursday, April 26, 2018 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Botany Institute - University of Montpellier
Streetcar line 1 - Albert 1er stop

Lecture given by Kenneth Maussang, PhD in physical sciences, researcher at l'Université de Paris.Institute of Electronics and Systems (IES)lecturer at the University of Montpellier.
Seeing through opaque objects is a fantasy that has long been the stuff of science fiction, like Superman and his X-ray vision. While X-rays are used for this purpose, for example at airport security checkpoints, the future star is the T-ray (or terahertz radiation).
For over a century, it had been lurking between visible light and radio waves, patiently waiting for technical progress to bring it into the limelight. The advent of nanotechnologies has led to the development of T-ray sources in numerous research groups, including those at the University of Montpellier, renowned the world over for their expertise and know-how, and to the valorization of their research through the creation of T-waves start-ups. Fabrics and plastics are transparent to T-rays, unlike metals, water and skin, which block them. Thus, the indecent T-ray camera makes it possible to "see" the human body through clothing. Now that it has reached maturity, the T-ray is set to illuminate other scientific fields: medical imaging, pollutant detection, security checks...
At this conference, Kenneth Maussang will present this terahertz radiation and its recent applications in the scientific and socio-economic world. He will also present the new themes developed at the University of Montpellier, offering new perspectives in fundamental physics, agronomy and biology, to better understand the mechanisms of living organisms...

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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.