{"id":45408,"date":"2024-07-10T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/?p=45408"},"modified":"2025-03-28T14:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:59:42","slug":"ihes-returned-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/?p=45408","title":{"rendered":"IHES returned to London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IHES closed out 2022 with two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihes.fr\/en\/events-london\/\">events<\/a> in London, bringing together many friends of the Institute and science lovers. In July 2023, the Institute returned to the British capital with a rich agenda of events and meetings.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday July 4<sup>th<\/sup>, the Institut Fran\u00e7ais du Royaume-Uni hosted a scientific breakfast organized by IHES in collaboration with the Higher Education, Research and Innovation Department of the French Embassy in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>After an introduction by Emmanuel Ullmo, director of IHES, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihes.fr\/en\/professeur\/thibault-damour-2\/\">Thibault Damour<\/a>, theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at IHES, gave a talk entitled &#8220;Proust and Einstein: In Search of Time&#8221;. Friends of IHES, scientists and French science and literature lovers gathered together to discover the similarities between the idea of Time illustrated in Marcel Proust&#8217;s &#8220;<em>\u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu<\/em>&#8221; and the conception of Time suggested by Albert Einstein&#8217;s theories of relativity.<\/p>\n<p>The French bookshop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.librairielapage.com\/\">La Page<\/a> joined the event organized by the Institute with the support of the Embassy, and offered participants the chance to purchase a signed book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dargaud.com\/bd\/le-mystere-du-monde-quantique-bda5133660\">Mysteries of the Quantum Universe<\/a>&#8221; by Mathieu Burniat and Thibault Damour.<\/p>\n<p>This stay also allowed IHES to greet several of its London-based friends. It was concluded with the signing of a new sponsorship agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qube-rt.com\/\">Qube Research &amp; Technologies<\/a> at the company\u2019s London office. On this occasion, Thibault Damour gave a lecture on gravitational waves and black holes (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihes.fr\/en\/qrt-renews-its-support-to-ihes\/\">find out more<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IHES closed out 2022 with two events in London, bringing together many friends of the Institute and science lovers. In July 2023, the Institute returned to the British capital with a rich agenda of events and meetings. On Tuesday July 4th, the Institut Fran\u00e7ais du Royaume-Uni hosted a scientific breakfast organized by IHES in collaboration&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-45408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ihes","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45410,"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45408\/revisions\/45410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihestrustuk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}