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Jean-François COLONNA
www.lactamme.polytechnique.fr
jean-francois.colonna@polytechnique.edu
CMAP (Centre de Mathématiques APpliquées) UMR CNRS 7641, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- 2837 different people were visiting this site on 09/28/2004.
- See A Virtual Space-Time Travel Machine in the 1997 March-April
issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
(About the Cover, The Art of Science, page 4-5, Volume 17, Number 2).
- See the picture
on the cover of 1998 issues of
The Visual Computer.
- See the gigantic -40mx20m- Lorenz attractor
at
La Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris in order to celebrate
the Year 2000 (currently, the biggest painting in Paris?). Unfortunately,
it was dismantled in late 2001 (see the original picture
).
- See the following pictures in the new Images exhibition at La Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris (inaugurated on 06/28/2001):
- See the following pictures in the Le Paris du Futur exhibition at La Galerie de l'ADAC in Paris (inaugurated on 03/21/2002):
- See the following pictures in the exhibition at Le Centre Culturel Rene Cassin in Dourdan (inaugurated on 06/01/2002):
- See the following pictures in the exhibition -with Denis Fadier- at UNESCO on the occasion of the celebration of World Science Day for Peace and Development in Paris (inaugurated on 11/12/2002):
- See the following pictures in the exhibition at ENST Bretagne in Brest (inaugurated on 04/02/2003):
- See the following pictures in the exhibition at the Library of the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau (inaugurated on 06/10/2004):
- 2004: the eightyth birthday of Benoît Mandelbrot:
- A private collection in Paris:
- See the following pictures in the exhibition at the Institut Henri Poincare in Paris (inaugurated on 01/22/2005):
- World Year of Physics 2005, see the following pictures in two exhibitions at the Ecole Polytechnique inaugurated
on 05/11/2005
and
on 10/07/2005:
- See the following pictures in the Auguste Detœuf Room at the Ecole Polytechnique (inaugurated on 09/15/2005):
- See my pictures on the Bruxelles City Hall during the "Math En Rue" festival on 10/16/2009:
- See the following pictures in the exhibition at the Atelier Z (fondation Peugeot) in Paris (inaugurated on 10/22/2009):
- See my pictures (as well as the Patrice Jeener's ones) in an exhibition at the Ecole Polytechnique on september 2010:
- See my pictures during the tribute to Benoit Mandelbrot (03/17-18/2011):
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