Outreach

I often give lectures for the general public, and occasionally interviews on Swiss newspapers, radio or TV. The recordings of some of them are still available:

• An interview on Leman Bleu (11/2/2016) on the detection of gravitational waves (in french).
  
  
• An interview on the journal de 19h30 de la RTS (12/2/2016) on the detection of gravitational waves (in french).
  On the same web page, a 10 min interview at the RTS radio emission CQFD (12/2/2016).
  
  
• An interview on the radio emission CQFD of the RTS (4/10/2017) commenting the 2017 Nobel Prize for gravitational waves (in french).
  
  
• A video of a public conference Les mystères de la cosmologie moderne: énergie sombre et matière noire, Université de Genève, UniDufour, 25 Nov. 2015 (in french).
  
  
• A video of a public conference on Dark energy and dark matter at the Institut National Genevois, April 2019 (in french).
  
  
• A 1 hour podcast at PodcastScience.fm on gravitational waves, 15/5/2016 (in french).
  
  
• A 50 min podcast at Radio Saussure , the radio of the Collège de Saussure, 19/12/2022 (in french).

I have created the Athéna program , a program that allows students in the last two years of High School (''College'') in the Geneva Canton to follow some courses at the University level at the Physics Section or at the Mathematics Section of Geneva University, with the help of a tutor. This allows college students to discover the studies at the University and test the studies in physics and in mathematics.

Started in 2015, the program is very succesful, with 50-80 students attending the program each year; several of them even successfully take a full university-level exam at the end; in that case, if they eventually enroll at Geneva University, the corresponding credits will be automatically delivered. The program is now a recognized flagship of Geneva University.

After having created the Athéna program and put in place its structure and organization, I have coordinated it for a number of years. The program is now coordinated by prof. Camille Bonvin.