LOUIS TAILLEFER


OUTREACH

  • January 2012 — French site The scientists of the year at Radio-Canada — A 25 years' tradition

  • November 2011 — Bar of Sciences in French "What places for the boldness in scientific research? The debate held at Agora Hydro-Québec on November 17th and was animated by Luc Dupont. Speakers : Luc Brassard, Yves Gingras, Claude Hillaire-Marcel and Louis Taillefer.

  • June 2011 — Superconductivity century, a Sophie-Andrée Blondin's report at the French CBC radio broadcast « Les Années lumière » of June 5th 2011. See also « One hundred years of superconductivity – let’s celebrate! »

  • April 2011 — Guest Editor (with André-Marie Tremblay), A Hundred Years of Superconductivity, Physics in Canada.

  • June 2010 — Advocate for « Can we create superconductors that work at room temperature? », one of the three questions debated in the last event of CIFAR's « Next Big Question » tour across Canada.

  • June 2010 — 12 events that will change everything - room temperature superconductors » June Issue of the Scientific American. Click on the upper right icon, 2 interviews.

  • January 2010 — Interview in French with Yannick Villedieu, about the discovery of a new force on electrons in superconductors, in radio programme « Les Années lumière » on January 31st.

  • January 2010 — Supraconductivité (Superconductivity) — Le code Chastenay episode 49 (2nd report) — Television program of Télé-Québec broadcasted on Tuesday January 26th at 7 pm.

  • March 2009 — Public french conference presented at Musée de la civilisation of Quebec City on March 26 (an ACFAS Conference)
    Jusqu'où la supraconductivité peut-elle nous amener? (To where can the superconducvity can bring us?)

  • February 2008 — Quebec Science — One of the ten discoveries of the year (french)
    Quebec's researchers solved one the great enigma in superconductivity

  • January 2008 — New scientific magazine at Télé-Québec (french)
    Louis Taillefer at Code Chastenay (number 3) january 21st

  • December 2007 — Two physic's teachers make their marks (french)
    Double publication in Nature and Science in the same day

  • November 2007 — The highest academic mark in Canada
    Professor Louis Taillefer appointed at the rank of Fellow at the Royal Society of Canada (page 31)

  • May 2007 — Media advisory (National Post, "Quirks & Quarks" CBC Radio, CNW Group, Power Line news, canoe.ca, Altra Trade Financial Network, The Record, Science Daily, The Star) Major discovery in superconductivity.

  • 2005 - Physics World Year, interview in French with Yannick Villedieu in radio programme "Les Années lumière" on January 9th 2005 at Radio-Canada.

  • Louis Taillefer - one of the ten year discoveries according to Québec Science (January 2004)

  • Magazine Les Débrouillards (French magazine for young scientist), January 2004 (story report)

  • World Forum : « Science and Society »

  • To be crazy about crazy electrons, interview in French with Chantal Srivastava in radio programme "Les Années lumière" on October 20th 2003 at Radio-Canada

  • Public Conference, « Voyage au coeur de la matière: le monde fascinant des électrons » (Travelling to the Heart of the Matter : the Fascinating Electron World), at Sherbrooke College, Sherbrooke (QC), October 20th 2003

  • Interview in French with Chantal Srivastava in radio programme "Les Années lumière" on October 12th 2003 at Radio-Canada about the Physic's Nobel Price 2003

  • Public Conference, « Voyage au coeur de la matière: le monde fascinant des électrons » (Travelling to the Heart of the Matter : the Fascinating Electron World), Musée de la Nature et des Sciences (Nature and Science Museum), Sherbrooke (QC), January 31th 2003

  • Interview in French with Yannick Villedieu in radio programme "Les Années lumière" on January 29th 2003 at Radio-Canada

  • TV Report at French programme, Découverte, Radio-Canada, January 29th 2003

  • Conference, Vision20*20, CIAR, Victoria (BC), June 14th 2002

  • Scientific popularization paper, « Voyage au coeur de la matière » (Travelling to the Heart of the Matter), February 2002



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    by G. Vachon (Gilbert.Vachon@USherbrooke.ca).