Watch the video of Michael Doser’s talk here.
If apples fall down, do anti-apples fall up?
Michael Doser is a particle physicist working at CERN. He has been working with antimatter since 1983, using it both as a tool and as an object of study, with the goal of understanding the first moments of the Universe. In 2002, he was part of the team that made cold atoms of antihydrogen for the first time, and – after bringing together its international and interdisciplinary team – currently leads the AEGIS experiment that will measure how antimatter falls.”
More about Michael Doser at aegis.web.cern.ch and cern.ch
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François-Xavier Tanguy and Arnaud Dubois, 35 and 32 years old, a former financial auditor and a consultant in information systems, decided in 2005 to leave behind their well-established lives and begin a new adventure: 7 months, 25,000 km through 20 countries, from Phnom Penh Cambodia to Paris on their motorcycles, to gather over 300 people’s dreams.
Back to France in 2007, they publish a book: “Des rêves plein le monde” (”A World All About Dreams”) about their encounters, and they start weaving a network to arouse and facilitate the completion of small and ambitious projects. A year later they launch DreamShake, a social network platform that boosts real material help, such as skills to share, and users who connect through very specific fields : entrepreneurship, culture, arts, humanitarian work, sustainable development, professional change, travel…
More about François-Xavier Tanguy and Arnaud Dubois at dreamshake.com
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François Bugnion, Master of Arts and Doctor of Political Science (Public International Law), is an independent consultant in humanitarian law and humanitarian action.
He joined the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1970 and served as a delegate in Israel and the occupied territories (1970-1972), Bangladesh (1973-1974), Turkey and Cyprus (1974), and then as head of mission in Chad (1978), Vietnam and Cambodia (1979).
From 1989 to 1996, he was Deputy Director for Principles and Law at the ICRC; from 1996 to 1998 General Delegate for Eastern Europe and Central Asia; from 1998 to 1999, Diplomatic Adviser of the Directorate and from January 2000 to June 2006, Director for International Law and Cooperation within the Movement at the ICRC as well as a member of the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent.
He published more than fifty articles on international humanitarian law or Red Cross history and a reference work on the ICRC: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Protection of War Victims, MacMillan, Oxford, 2003, lxviii & 1161 pages (original French : Le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge et la protection des victimes de la guerre, second edition, ICRC, Geneva, 2000, LV & 1444 pages).
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