Frédéric Worms, Director of the École normale supérieure-PSL, and Stéphane Israël, President of the Fondation de l’École normale supérieure, are pleased to join CNES, GIFAS and Eutelsat, as sponsors, in inviting you to the launch of the Space Chair at the École normale supérieure-PSL.
Thursday 1 February 2024 at 6.30pm in the historical room of the Bibliothèque des Lettres at ENS-PSL, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris
6pm – Welcome
18:30 – Introduction by Frédéric Worms, Stéphane Israël and Guillaume Faury, Executive Chairman of Airbus and Chairman of GIFAS
7.00 pm – Presentation of the Chair by Stéphanie Ruphy (ENS-PSL), Scientific Director of the Chair, followed by three presentations of research work:
Athéna Coustenis (Paris Observatory): Exploration of habitable worlds in the Solar System
Guillaume Schlumberger and Lise Dubois (Ministère des Armées, Centre Interdisciplinaire sur les Enjeux Stratégiques de l’ENS): Space, a strategic competition issue
Laurent Bopp (Director of the Geosciences Department at the ENS): What contribution can space make to our knowledge of the climate and the oceans?
20:00 – Conclusion by Philippe Baptiste, President of CNES, Hervé Derrey, Chairman and CEO of Thales Alenia Space and Chairman of the GIFAS Space Commission and Jean-Hubert Lenotte, Director of Strategy and Resources, Eutelsat Group.
A cocktail reception will be served after the discussion.
The ENS Space Chair is supported by the Groupement des Industries françaises aéronautiques et spatiales (GIFAS), Airbus, Air Liquide, ArianeGroup, CNES, Eutelsat, Safran, Sodern and Thales Alenia Space.
