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Conference « Neutrinos. How understanding these elusive, tiny particles has big implications »
Jeudi 21 octobre 2025, 16h15 à l’Enssat (amphithéâtre 138 C), LannionAs part of the International week of Enssat and Photonics program lectures, the Foton Institute invites you to attend a public seminar presented by Simon Peeters, Director of Enssat.

In this lecture I will explain what a neutrino is and how they already changed our fundamental understanding of matter. I will discuss some of the fantastic experiments involved in studying neutrinos, and I will explain how this opens a way that could possibly explain some of our most fundamental questions about our Universe and our own existance.
Bio : I have an engineering degree working on molecular fluorine lasers. This technology is now used by ASML to manufacture the machines that produce the most advanced electronic chips – without them, no new AI chips.
I then wrote my doctoral thesis on silicon detectors for the ATLAS experiment at CERN and how these could be used for the discovery of the Higgs boson.
Next, I turned to neutrino physics, for which I received a share of the international "Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics" in 2016.
Throughout my career in fundamental quantum physics, I have worked extensively on the development, commissioning, and exploitation detectors systems and its data analysis – areas directly related to the research being conducted here.
Before joining ENSSAT in June of this year, I was head of a physics department in the UK.

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Les s. 11 et d. 12 octobre 2025 - salle des Ursulines à Lannion
Conference « Neutrinos. How understanding these elusive, tiny particles has big implications »
Jeudi 21 octobre 2025, 16h15 à l’Enssat (amphithéâtre 138 C), Lannion
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