Entre le chercheur de l’IRCCyN, Jean-Jacques Loiseau et les \u00e9l\u00e8ves du Lyc\u00e9e Livet une correspondance est n\u00e9e depuis la rentr\u00e9e 2013 o\u00f9 les mots \u00e9chang\u00e9s sont en anglais sur fond de quotidiens, d’exp\u00e9riences et de sciences. Voici l’une des lettres, une sorte d’introduction \u00e0 toutes celles qui ont suivi.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Lettre des \u00e9l\u00e8ves.<\/strong><\/p>\n Nantes, lyc\u00e9e Livet, Wednesday, October, 2nd<\/p>\n \u00a0Hello M. Loiseau<\/p>\n Let’s introduce ourselves :<\/p>\n Our group is composed of 28 students (with only 1 girl) and we are 15, 16, or 17 years old.\u00a0We study in Livet highschool in premi\u00e8re STI 1 and 2 in group SIN. STI\u00a0 means\u00a0 industrial sciences and technology. We\u00a0 study engineering, electronics, computing (programming). For example, we are fixing a protoshield on an arduino card. A\u00a0 new specificity has arrived : the STIDD <\/b>and DD means sustainable development.\u00a0Most of us live in Nantes and around, the pupils who live far from Nantes are boarders.<\/p>\n We would like to learn more about you and your work :<\/p>\n What does IRRCYN stand for ? What is your job ?\u00a0What do you like in your job ?\u00a0How much time did you study ? Where were you when you were our age ? Did you already know, when you were 16, that you wanted to become a scientist ?\u00a0And the more curious would like to know : what are your hobbies ?\u00a0In our class, a lot of boys like handball. We support the HBCN team. We also enjoy music : some of us play the drums.<\/p>\n \u00a0We have met a man from the \u00ab\u00a0Athenor\u00a0\u00bb theatre. He is called Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric B\u00e9chet. He explained what we will see on Friday October 11th.\u00a0We are going to the theatre to watch a play written by Pierre Meunier. This artistic creation is going to mix art and science. The actor will talk about his experience : living 20 seconds without gravity.\u00a0Would you like to come to the play ?<\/p>\n Looking forward to hearing from you,<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n 1\u00e8re STI\u00a0 1and 2, group SIN, lyc\u00e9e Livet.<\/p>\n La r\u00e9ponse de M. Loiseau recue le 10 octobre\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Hello everybody,<\/p>\n I am very glad to hear from you. Since this is the first time for us to exchange, this is a great event\u00a0that we considered some weeks ago with your prof. Mrs. Amanda Crim\u00e9.\u00a0I plan indeed to attend the spectacle \u00ab\u00a0Chute libre\u00a0\u00bb, friday\u00a0evening. I am curious to see the real\u00a0orientation of that performance, it is announced to be\u00a0behind the aim of\u00a0mixing Art and Science,\u00a0and this is a large program me and a difficult task,\u00a0and frankly I have no idea of the result, and\u00a0am quite interested of watching the result, and in particular trying from that to identify what the\u00a0the artists think about science and the mix of art and science. I know their imagination is free\u00a0and I hope they will give me some good ideas on this subject.\u00a0I am going to answer your direct questions.<\/p>\n \u00a0IRCCyN means `Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybern\u00e9tique de Nantes’.\u00a0It is a common laboratory of the CNRS (the `Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique’, as we\u00a0say in French), the University of Nantes (UN), the Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN), and the Ecole\u00a0des Mines\u00a0de Nantes (EMN). It means that the laboratory researchers are either from the CNRS\u00a0(it is my case), or\u00a0professors at the UN, the ECN, or the EMN. Actually, the permanent researchers\u00a0of the lab are in these situations. The lab also includes engineers, technicians and administrative\u00a0workers, and non-permanent researchers, in particular a lot of PhD students, who are preparing\u00a0a doctoral thesis for 3 years, and postdoctoral fellows who are there for one year in general.\u00a0Cybernetics is a old term which meaning isn’t very clear; in our mind it is the science of automatized\u00a0systems. There are ten different research teams in the lab, that are involved in automatic control,\u00a0production systems, real-time and embedded systems, robotics, signal and image processing,\u00a0as well as cognitive psychology, to study the semi-automatized systems, when an operator remains\u00a0present in the loop.<\/p>\n My job is that of a CNRS researcher. I conduct researches in the general them of automatized systems.\u00a0In practice, I have plenty of different activities. I pass night and days thinking in my research problems,\u00a0that look like mathematical problems for almost everybody. Actually, I am interesting in the modeling\u00a0of systems and how to use mathematical models to conceive automatic systems and the controllers\u00a0that make them behave like is prescribed. It applies to plenty of fields, like in robotics and others, but\u00a0personally, I am rather interested into theoretical concepts. Basically, when I studied a question and\u00a0solved a problem, using original ideas, I wrote a report on the question, that is published in scientific\u00a0journal, or I participate to international scientific conferences, where I will explain the obtained results\u00a0to my colleagues. I can also prepare some projects with partners who can be researchers or industrials.\u00a0I give also lectures to master classes, on subjects that within my specialitie (namely\u00a0discrete-event\u00a0systems and time-delay systems). I supervise the work of some Ph-D students, actually\u00a0it consists in working with them on some precise research subject. I also head a research team of\u00a0IRCCyN. It means both some scientific animation of the team, and some administrative work for the\u00a0team (from accounting to represent it in meetings at IRCCyN, or elsewhere). I pass also many time as\u00a0a scientific editor, reading and evaluating scientific reports that are submitted by scientists to\u00a0journals or conferences. I also participate to some administrative commissions, that evaluate\u00a0the quality of research projects, or evaluate the activity of research groups. I have also in charge\u00a0the external communication of IRCCyN, which, one thing leading to another, is at the origin of\u00a0our discussion. I hope that it will help us to better explain what we do.<\/p>\n \u00a0I like my job mainly because I am entirely free. I define myself what I do, and how I do it. The CNRS\u00a0hired me because it was interested by my researches, I am not working there to obey to anybody.\u00a0In addition, I have plenty of occasions to travel worldwide, I have very nice colleagues and am not\u00a0obliged to respect horaries. Of course, I also have some horrible colleagues, but well I try to remain\u00a0polite with them, it is easy since not any of them has a real power on my life. Even when I pass\u00a0the night\u00a0working\u00a0to finish an article or a research report, or prepare a conference, of course I could regret\u00a0not having\u00a0horaries, but in some other sense, I organize myself like I want, working when I want,\u00a0on what I want, and this is extremely satisfacting.<\/p>\n \u00a0I was born in Lorient, but live in Nantes since the age of six. A part of my family were originating from\u00a0Nantes. I did my studies at the school Jean Jaur\u00e8s, the junior high school Victor Hugo, and the\u00a0high school Jules Verne. At your age, I was there, in Jules Verne, to prepare the baccalaur\u00e9at.\u00a0I passed the section D (that was oriented to sciences, including natural sciences), and then\u00a0continued at the university, studying physics and mathematics. After two years at the university,\u00a0I decided to try to enter an engineering school, and passed the so-called ENSI exam, which\u00a0permitted me to enter at the Ecole Centrale de Nantes. Three years later, I got the engineering\u00a0diploma, and a master in mechanics and automatic control. During the preparation of the master,\u00a0I got a first experience of research. I was very enthusiast, and decided to continue a doctoral\u00a0thesis. It takes three years more, and is indispensable to find a job as a researcher or professor\u00a0at university. Personally, I was not much interested in teaching, so that I worked during 5 years in\u00a0industry, before reaching the CNRS.<\/p>\n \u00a0When I was 16 of course I dare not dreaming to become a\u00a0scientist. Even when I was at bac +2,\u00a0I was not sure to be able to do such studies. Actually the\u00a0problem is not to be able, I learnt meanwhile\u00a0that when you work, you can obtain the results\u00a0you want or dream. The main thing is to do exactly\u00a0what you want to do, to have the energy to work enough, the difficult point is to choose the right\u00a0orientation.<\/p>\n \u00a0My hobbies are sport (I practice gymnastics up to 10 years ago, and now I practice cycling), lecture\u00a0and my family life. I practiced photography but actually do not practice anymore. I like watching the\u00a0TV, and working manually at home, which is most relaxing with my job.<\/p>\n See you on friday !<\/p>\n JJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Entre le chercheur de l’IRCCyN, Jean-Jacques Loiseau et les \u00e9l\u00e8ves du Lyc\u00e9e Livet une correspondance est n\u00e9e depuis la rentr\u00e9e 2013 o\u00f9 les mots \u00e9chang\u00e9s sont en anglais sur fond de quotidiens, d’exp\u00e9riences et de sciences. Voici l’une des lettres, une sorte d’introduction \u00e0 toutes celles qui ont suivi. \u00a0Lettre des \u00e9l\u00e8ves. Nantes, lyc\u00e9e Livet, … Continuer la lecture de Les correspondances scientifiques et anglaises de Livet<\/span><\/span>