LATTS celebrates its 40th anniversary – Scientific Days

LATTS is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, we would like to encourage an open discussion on some of the major scientific and socio-political issues at the heart of the laboratory’s work, and on the prospects for the next (forty?!) years.

To this end, we are jointly organising two days of informal discussions on Thursday 5 November at the Académie du Climat and on Friday 6 November at the CNRS headquarters, focusing on the digital and ecological transitions in question (on Thursday afternoon), science in society (on Friday morning) and engagement (on Friday afternoon).

On the agenda for these days: guest lectures, round-table discussions, an exhibition, film screenings followed by debates, and more informal opportunities for discussion over lunch and in the late afternoon.

The programme

Thursday 5 November 2026 (in the afternoon, at the Climate Academy)

• 1pm Coffee
• 1:45pm Introduction – Daniel Florentin et Olivier Coutard
• 2pm-3:30 Digital transitions in public administrations. Speakers: Antoine Courmont (Latts), Lorenzo Bouel (Latts),  Anne Debar (Ministère de l’Ecologie), Animation : Gilles Jeannot (Latts)
• 3:30-4pm Coffee break
• 4pm-5:30 Technical worlds and terrestrial habitability. Speakers: Charles Claron (Latts), Béatrice Cointe (CSI), Caroline Gallez (LVMT), Bruno Turnheim (LISIS). Animation : Nathalie Roseau (Latts)

Friday 6 November 2026 (all day, at the CNRS headquarters in the Auditorium)

• 9am Coffee
• 9-10:45 Lattian sciences in society. Speakers: Pauline Gabillet (Eau du Grand Lyon); Zélia Hampikian (IDFM); Marie Krier (Paris Sud Aménagement). Animation : Daniel Florentin (Latts)
• 10:45-11:15 Coffee break
• 11:15-11:45 The Latts as seen by its funders. Speaker: François Ménard, former permanent secretary of the PUCA
• 11:45-12:15 The Latts as seen by its supervisory bodies. Speakers from the CNRS, the ENPC and UGE (to be confirmed)

• 12:15-1:30 Lunch (buffet)

• 1:30-2:45 Commitments by stakeholders; commitments by researchers. Speakers: Antoine Esnos (Latts), Emmanuel Munch (LVMT) (à confirmer), Maïder Olivier (Fondation pour le Logement). Animation : Niklas Gerst (Latts)
• 2:45-3:15 Science communication and science outreach for the general public, Latts-style. Speaker: Martine Drozdz (Latts)
• 3:15-3:45 Coffee break
• 3:45-5:15 Screening of Latts productions. The Great Together, a documentary by Rocio Calzado Lopez (Latts). Commented excerpts from Elsa Vivant’s documentary on the management of the opioid crisis in the United States
• 5:15 Cocktail

Informations pratiques

Registration is compulsory (and free)

The LATTS community would be delighted to welcome you to these events.

Daniel Florentin and Ludovic Halbert,
on behalf of all the staff at LATTS