Sylvain Gigan
@sylvaingigan.bsky.social
Prof. Sorbonne Université / @comedialkb.bsky.social / @lkblab.bsky.social | ENS Paris | Interested in Physics, but also imaging, computing, quantum optics and in the beauty and applications of light in general | proud dad & Husband | he/him
I was deeply honored to receive yesterday the Cecile DeWitt Morette Prize / Ecole des Houches / CFM foundation prize from the french @academiesciences.bsky.social, crowning a lot of hard work, creativity and fun with my team @comedialkb.bsky.social. Thank you!
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I was deeply honored to receive yesterday the Cecile DeWitt Morette Prize / Ecole des Houches / CFM foundation prize from the french @academiesciences.bsky.social, crowning a lot of hard work, creativity and fun with my team @comedialkb.bsky.social. Thank you!
It was nice visiting Willem Vos's COPS group last week ! thanks for the warm welcome and great science discussion !
October 14, 2025 at 5:58 AM
It was nice visiting Willem Vos's COPS group last week ! thanks for the warm welcome and great science discussion !
Reposted by Sylvain Gigan
📣 Venez visiter le Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, un des acteurs majeurs de la physique quantique, sur le campus Pierre et Marie Curie !
👉 RDV les 11 et 12 octobre à la Fête de la Science de Sorbonne Université : https://swll.to/nhwZkg6
#FDS2025
👉 RDV les 11 et 12 octobre à la Fête de la Science de Sorbonne Université : https://swll.to/nhwZkg6
#FDS2025
October 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
📣 Venez visiter le Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, un des acteurs majeurs de la physique quantique, sur le campus Pierre et Marie Curie !
👉 RDV les 11 et 12 octobre à la Fête de la Science de Sorbonne Université : https://swll.to/nhwZkg6
#FDS2025
👉 RDV les 11 et 12 octobre à la Fête de la Science de Sorbonne Université : https://swll.to/nhwZkg6
#FDS2025
Back home after a great 3-day trip to the NL, for the NNV-AMO meeting, and visiting COPS in Twente and Allard Mosk's group at U. Utrecht. No cheese this time, but I couldn't come back with a collection of great PhD thesis :-).
(why do we do A4 format in France? this is soooo much better!)
(why do we do A4 format in France? this is soooo much better!)
October 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Back home after a great 3-day trip to the NL, for the NNV-AMO meeting, and visiting COPS in Twente and Allard Mosk's group at U. Utrecht. No cheese this time, but I couldn't come back with a collection of great PhD thesis :-).
(why do we do A4 format in France? this is soooo much better!)
(why do we do A4 format in France? this is soooo much better!)
Reposted by Sylvain Gigan
Check out this upcoming symposium organized by hugo Defienne's team and us. Register here : quantumcomplex.sciencesconf.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Check out this upcoming symposium organized by hugo Defienne's team and us. Register here : quantumcomplex.sciencesconf.org
une fois de plus, le Gorafi tue le game.
Panini annonce la sortie de l'album des Premiers ministres sous Emmanuel Macron https://www.legorafi.fr/2025/10/08/panini-annonce-la-sortie-de-lalbum-des-premiers-ministres-sous-emmanuel-macron/
Panini annonce la sortie de l'album des Premiers ministres sous Emmanuel Macron
Toute l'information selon des sources contradictoires.
www.legorafi.fr
October 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
une fois de plus, le Gorafi tue le game.
A strong quality for a good researcher is the ability to sometimes ignore small details, and sometimes delves into them with the greatest care, and more importantly to being able to switch wisely between the two modes.
October 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A strong quality for a good researcher is the ability to sometimes ignore small details, and sometimes delves into them with the greatest care, and more importantly to being able to switch wisely between the two modes.
very honored to give the opening lecture tomorrow at the NNV AMO meeting in Egmond aan Zee (NL). Very curious to see what happen if -probably- the Physics prize is announced during my lecture (probably nobody will pay attention to the second half of my lecture).
October 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
very honored to give the opening lecture tomorrow at the NNV AMO meeting in Egmond aan Zee (NL). Very curious to see what happen if -probably- the Physics prize is announced during my lecture (probably nobody will pay attention to the second half of my lecture).
a national treasure of french science!
🔬For 22 years, we have been organizing #Mifobio "Functional Microscopy for Biology" the @cnrs.fr thematic school.
🎓 Courses, Seminars, Round Tables, Workshops. The overall theme concerns #biological_imaging in its most interdisciplinary aspects.
👉 Program: imabio-cnrs.fr
#GDRImaBio #Mifobio2025
🎓 Courses, Seminars, Round Tables, Workshops. The overall theme concerns #biological_imaging in its most interdisciplinary aspects.
👉 Program: imabio-cnrs.fr
#GDRImaBio #Mifobio2025
October 6, 2025 at 7:28 AM
a national treasure of french science!
Very happy about this one, a great work by Baptiste Courme, and an old dream coming true : we can demonstrate a violation a Bell inequality just by sampling random polarization states from speckle field.
#NewPreprint #Quantum
"Harnessing Optical Disorder for Bell Inequalities violation"
a joint work with Hugo Defienne's team.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.21052
In short : a speckle essentially has a random polarization state at any position, we exploit this to show we can violate a BI.
"Harnessing Optical Disorder for Bell Inequalities violation"
a joint work with Hugo Defienne's team.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.21052
In short : a speckle essentially has a random polarization state at any position, we exploit this to show we can violate a BI.
September 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Very happy about this one, a great work by Baptiste Courme, and an old dream coming true : we can demonstrate a violation a Bell inequality just by sampling random polarization states from speckle field.
🚨Registrations are open for the upcoming "Image Science" Gordon research conference , to take place in Italy, April 26-May 1, 2026. Check out the amazing program, tell your friends and share, APPLY! 🚨
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September 25, 2025 at 6:31 AM
🚨Registrations are open for the upcoming "Image Science" Gordon research conference , to take place in Italy, April 26-May 1, 2026. Check out the amazing program, tell your friends and share, APPLY! 🚨
www.grc.org/image-scienc...
www.grc.org/image-scienc...
This is the end of a short visit to ETH Zurich, I was very intimidated to visit the math department (as an experimentalist) but it turned out great, thanks to my host Habib Ammari. Also great to (re)connect to colleagues in Physics, Mechanics & engineering, and enjoy a nice Picasso exhibition.🇨🇭🧀🍫
September 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is the end of a short visit to ETH Zurich, I was very intimidated to visit the math department (as an experimentalist) but it turned out great, thanks to my host Habib Ammari. Also great to (re)connect to colleagues in Physics, Mechanics & engineering, and enjoy a nice Picasso exhibition.🇨🇭🧀🍫
Well hidden in a small corner of the main building of ETH Zurich, they have made a mini museum for Einstein in his former locker 😍
September 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Well hidden in a small corner of the main building of ETH Zurich, they have made a mini museum for Einstein in his former locker 😍
I am a family-friendly scientist:
✅ I have published with brothers (several pairs, joint papers)
✅ I have published with father and son (separate papers)
✅ I have published with husband and wife (separate papers)
not sure what's next 🤣
✅ I have published with brothers (several pairs, joint papers)
✅ I have published with father and son (separate papers)
✅ I have published with husband and wife (separate papers)
not sure what's next 🤣
September 16, 2025 at 5:31 AM
I am a family-friendly scientist:
✅ I have published with brothers (several pairs, joint papers)
✅ I have published with father and son (separate papers)
✅ I have published with husband and wife (separate papers)
not sure what's next 🤣
✅ I have published with brothers (several pairs, joint papers)
✅ I have published with father and son (separate papers)
✅ I have published with husband and wife (separate papers)
not sure what's next 🤣
#PetPeeves incremental papers in high-impact journal that cites the really novel work they are based on (usually published in a solid but more obscure journal), but in such a convoluted and obscure way that the editor and reviewer's don't realize it's incremental.
September 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
#PetPeeves incremental papers in high-impact journal that cites the really novel work they are based on (usually published in a solid but more obscure journal), but in such a convoluted and obscure way that the editor and reviewer's don't realize it's incremental.
Reposted by Sylvain Gigan
#NewPaper on the blend of computational microscopy with chemical imaging: enabling high-speed quantitative CARS imaging via a new compressive Raman framework.
Kudos @spzhao0724.bsky.social
A collaboration between @lkblab.bsky.social and @ukmlv.bsky.social from Washington Uni St.Louis rdcu.be/eCjLz
Kudos @spzhao0724.bsky.social
A collaboration between @lkblab.bsky.social and @ukmlv.bsky.social from Washington Uni St.Louis rdcu.be/eCjLz
Computational field-resolved coherent chemical imaging
Nature Communications - A vibrational spectral phase retrieval approach to broadband CARS spectroscopy is presented, therefore enabling supervised compressive CARS microspectroscopy for...
rdcu.be
August 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
#NewPaper on the blend of computational microscopy with chemical imaging: enabling high-speed quantitative CARS imaging via a new compressive Raman framework.
Kudos @spzhao0724.bsky.social
A collaboration between @lkblab.bsky.social and @ukmlv.bsky.social from Washington Uni St.Louis rdcu.be/eCjLz
Kudos @spzhao0724.bsky.social
A collaboration between @lkblab.bsky.social and @ukmlv.bsky.social from Washington Uni St.Louis rdcu.be/eCjLz
and... our program for the upcoming IMAGE SCIENCE🔬 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) is 🎯LIVE🎯. It will take place April 26, 2026 in beautiful tuscany, italy 🇮🇹 🍕 🤌
Please check our stellar line-up, share, and register!
www.grc.org/image-scienc...
Please check our stellar line-up, share, and register!
www.grc.org/image-scienc...
2026 Image Science Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Image Science will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
August 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
and... our program for the upcoming IMAGE SCIENCE🔬 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) is 🎯LIVE🎯. It will take place April 26, 2026 in beautiful tuscany, italy 🇮🇹 🍕 🤌
Please check our stellar line-up, share, and register!
www.grc.org/image-scienc...
Please check our stellar line-up, share, and register!
www.grc.org/image-scienc...
Tinguely’s cyclop 😲 in the Fontainebleau forest.
August 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Tinguely’s cyclop 😲 in the Fontainebleau forest.
#PhysicsTrivia what is the link between these two pictures ? ⚛️
August 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#PhysicsTrivia what is the link between these two pictures ? ⚛️
Reposted by Sylvain Gigan
#NewPaper #OpticalComputing
"Optical Next generation reservoir computing" by Hao Wang et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Optical Next generation reservoir computing" by Hao Wang et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Optical next generation reservoir computing - Light: Science & Applications
Light: Science & Applications - Optical next generation reservoir computing
www.nature.com
July 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
#NewPaper #OpticalComputing
"Optical Next generation reservoir computing" by Hao Wang et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Optical Next generation reservoir computing" by Hao Wang et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PhysicsTrivia what is the link between these two pictures ? ⚛️
July 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
#PhysicsTrivia what is the link between these two pictures ? ⚛️
#PhysicsTrivia what is the link between these two pictures?
July 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
#PhysicsTrivia what is the link between these two pictures?
#PhysicsTrivia what is the link between these two pictures?
July 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
#PhysicsTrivia what is the link between these two pictures?
#PhysicsTrivia what is the link between these two pictures?
July 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
#PhysicsTrivia what is the link between these two pictures?