On wednesday February 26 at 4pm, Bertrand Duplantier, a physicist at the IPhT, will talk on Brownian motion in La Science CQFD, with to Bernard Derrida of the Collège de France .
In May 1905, Albert Einstein sent an eminent article on Brownian motion to the journal Annalen der Physik. What is this physical phenomenon, which has been observed since the early 19th century? How does Einstein explain its origin? How does Brownian motion validate the existence of atoms?
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Bernard Derrida Theoretical physicist, Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France, where he held the Chair of Statistical Physics between 2015 and 2023.
Bertrand Duplantier Statistical physicist, research director at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Paris-Saclay, attached to the CEA and the CNRS.