Jean-Marie Frère

Ordinary Professor,
Research Director FNRS

Email: frere@ulb.ac.be
Phone: +32-2-650 5571
Fax: +32-2-650 5951.
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english version here

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TREKKING pages (SWEDEN, ARGENTERA)
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Director of  Theory  Group,
Service de Physique Théorique, CP 225
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Boulevard du Triomphe  (Campus plaine)
B-1050 Brussels - Belgium


 PHYSICS


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this group coordinates the
Inter University Attraction Pole
"Fundamental Interactions"
FREE TIME





Non-Technical articles / Outreach
(mostly in French for now --
contact me if you need an english translation -- and have a look at the pictures!)

Le  Temps Microscopique :

Microscopic Time : a non-mathematical introduction to irreversibility of fundamental interactions

Energy : from children's cubes to Particle Physics

(in french from now, inspired and expanded from Feynman's lectures presentation.
an introduction for a wide public, also part of the "Energie" files available on the ULB site
 

3 pedagogical presentations:

symétries brisées,   ("broken symmetries" future research in particle physics)
 élastique.ppt , (rubber band : a short presentation on the essence of physical laws,
----only figures for the time being   ---
 temps.ppt   (matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe)

also in PDF format :     
symétries brisées (pdf) ,
élastique,
temps    

Status of Particle  Physics:

simplified summaries of the Rencontres de Moriond

1999 , 2000 , 2006 , 2007, 2008 (in english),


 Theoretical Physics teaching
 ( master  and advanced level)
mostly in French, but see similar material in
Advanced courses and Summer Schools
Cours Première Licence
(intro théorie quantique relativiste)
Introduction à la violation de CP: (format pdf)
Cours à l' "Ecole de Gif", Ecole Polytechnique


General Physics and Associated Laboratories
(general physics and labs)

A simple Spreadsheet
to fit beginner's labs data,

and criticism of
Excel automatic fit,

     
 The same spreadsheet, data modified to exhibit striking
 (how to reverse the sign of gravity !!!)



Light Polarisation;

an easy and cheap experiment
to demonstrate fundamental properties
(and a Quantum Mechanics Analogy)

Click HERE to access a full description,
and typical data
full equipment
AND
Inverse-Square Law

(or meter calibration)
  Click HERE to access a full description of a very simple measurement with the same meter as above
Suggested Personal work projects
(Bachelor level)
Ici, la lettre A, montrant
 plus de 10 harmoniques




  • Invitation to develop new experiments or demonstrations
(get in touch)


Demonstration experiments realized by students from
"Agrégation Sciences Physiques  ULB" 		lorentz force
Lorentz  (by Khalid Benyaich, Juin 2008)


Canon Gaussien (par Didier Vanderveken, Sept 2008)

barre résonante
Barre Résonante (par François Gonze, Juin 2009)


Construction et mesure d'une self
(par Ndamira Nzabanita, sept 2009)



link to web page
Oërsted et Galvanomètre rudimentaire
  (par  Isabelle Jonas, juin 2010)

clidk on link to see expt
Détermination du champ magnétique terrestre (composante horizontale)
(par NassibaTabti , sept 2010)


Advanced Courses (SUMMER SCHOOLS)
 in french or english
Vide et Particules (Ecole de Gif, Marseille , sept 2005) talk (pdf) (part1, part2)
Baryo- and Leptogenesis :  talk (pdf) (ppt)
                                                         Proceedings (format pdf)
 Course given at the ITEP Winter School 2005
Introduction à la Baryogénèse :  (format pdf)
Cours à l'  "Ecole de Gif ", Strasbourg, sept 2002
Introduction à la violation de CP: (format pdf)
Cours à l' "Ecole de Gif", Ecole Polytechnique

RESEARCH PAPERS  -- CONFERENCES
The simplest way to find an (almost complete) list of my research papers:
spires (frere)
 current interests: fundamental interactions, weak interactions, CP violation, beyond the Standard model, extra dimensions, dark matter, IceCube,...
I organize each year the theory part of the RENCONTRES DE MORIOND -- contact me if interested ! (the link also gives access to slides and proceedings)



and a few  pictures
(click on the thumbnails to get the print quality  JPEG version)




Bois e la Cambre Winter Sun


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A COOL summer 2003

 



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Updated: oct 8th, 2006