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Nicolas Pettiaux

Nicolas Pettiaux (né le 8 avril 1966 à Bruxelles) est un docteur en physique belge. Il s'intéresse au partage libre de la connaissance au bénéfice de la société, sous toutes ses formes (Open Access, OpenStreetMap, Science ouverte...). Il est notamment un spécialiste belge des logiciels libres et des licences Creative Commons. Cet intérêt se manifeste dans son travail d'enseignant, ainsi que dans les conférences qu'il organise et dont il fait la promotion.

Il enseigne la physique, les mathématiques et l'informatique dans des écoles secondaires et est collaborateur scientifique à l'Université libre de Bruxelles.

Nicolas Pettiaux (born April 8, 1966 in Brussels) is a Belgian PhD physicist. Nicolas has taught at primary, secondary and university levels for more than 30 years. He has an experience in the private sector as consultant and IT manager. He is interested in free culture for the benefit of society, in all its forms (Open Access, OpenStreetMap, Open Science...). He knows a Belgian specialist in Free Software and Creative Commons licenses. This interest manifests itself in his work as a teacher, as well as in the conferences he organizes and promotes.

He teaches physics, mathematics and computer science in secondary schools and is a scientific collaborator at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

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In 1988, he graduated from the Free University of Brussels with a degree in physics, with a graduation work on lasers and at the same time obtained the aggregation of upper secondary education. He then pursued a doctorate in sciences, section physical sciences, for a thesis on non-linear optics, lasers and quantum optics also carried out at the Free University of Brussels under the supervision of Paul Mandel Warning: Page using Template: Link with unknown parameter "lang" (this message is shown only in preview).

[1], in collaboration with Claude Fabre of the École normale supérieure (Paris) and Thomas Erneux then at Northwestern University. During his PhD he collaborated with Irina Veretennicoff [2] of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Luigi Lugiato of Politecnico di Torino. His thesis in operational research was under the direction of Bertrand Mareschal. He has published scientific articles among others on lasers, quantum optics and the measurement of physiological parameters [3]

In 1990, Nicolas Pettiaux participated in the Houches School of Physics, devoted to quantum optics, non-linear optics and atomic cooling [4].

In 1991, he was one of the secretaries of the Solvay Congress devoted to quantum optics [5]

From 1993 to 1997, he was assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Free University of Brussels for the first year physics course. Between 1998 and 2003, he was an internal consultant at Fortis Bank, ICT Manager at the Ministry of the Brussels-Capital Region, and ICT Manager at the French Community Commission (Cocof).

In 2003, he returned to teaching career as a professor of physics in secondary education. He organized an exhibition on nanotechnology [6].

In parallel with this work in secondary education, Nicolas Pettiaux was assistant in charge of exercises for several first and second year courses at the Polytechnic School of Brussels within the Free University of Brussels [1]

Since 2011, Nicolas Pettiaux is assistant professor at the École Supérieure d'Informatique (Brussels) [7]. He is also a scientific collaborator of the LISA laboratory (image analysis, signal analysis and acoustic analysis) at École Polytechnique de Bruxelles [8].

Since 2000, he has been a promoter of free software, open standards and Free access in Belgium. He has been a board member of APRIL [9] and AFUL [10] · [11]. Taking the example of a similar campaign initiated in France, he launched the Candidats.be website to promote free software to candidates in regional (2009), then federal (2010) and finally municipal (2012) elections. He extended this previous campaign to related topics of Open Data and free internet, giving birth to the site. The content of the commitments proposed to the candidates is visible on jesigne.lepacte.be. These two initiatives have been signed by many personalities, including several ministers [12].

Références

I am an active proponent of the share and exchange of knowledge.

Elements of CV

Belgian, I have a PhD in physics and a degree in management.

I have done research in statistical physics, nonlinear optics, mathematical physics, biomedical physics.

I have taught at the Free University of Brussels and worked as project manager in the private companies, before joining public administrations as ICT manager.

I have then quitted to go back to what I really prefer and enjoy: teaching and transmitting knowledge and consulting and some research.

I teach physics to secondary school students, do some consulting about free software, especially project management and education (mainly Plone and OpenOffice.org and other educational free softwares).

See also in French, http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Npettiaux

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Pages to look to

• tide
• tsunami
• earthquake
• Seismic_wave
• Elementary physics formulae

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

• http://myeurope.eun.org/ww/en/pub/myeurope/home/news/headlines/dec26.htm +++ références sur le tsunamis

• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/tsunami/index.html ++ explication et animation sur la création de tsunamis
• http://www.fema.gov/kids/tsunami/ + explication en anglais pour les enfants
• http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0412/flash.tsunami.explainer/frameset.exclude.html + explication chez CNN
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/4126809.stm# + comment les tremblements de terre apparaissent (en)

• http://fr.wikipedia.org/Tremblement_de_terre_du_26_décembre_2004
• http://fr.wikipedia.org/tremblement_de_terre

Intérêt

http://eost.u-strasbg.fr/pedago/Accueil.html information sur la sismologie

See also

http://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Npettiaux

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Npettiaux

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Npettiaux

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Npettiaux

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:JasonPettiaux

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Nicolas Pettiaux
Nationality	Belgian
Awards	Received the Belgian and American Educational Foundation (BAEF) grant in 1993 and invited to the Nobel Prize award ceremony in 1987
Scientific career
Fields	Physics / Computing

Nicolas Pettiaux is a French-speaking Belgian physicist born on April 8, 1966 in Brussels, Belgium.

Nicolas Pettiaux teaches at the École supérieure d'informatique à Bruxelles and is a scientific fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He is also a specialist of free software, Open Access and the free share of knowledge which he advocates.

In 1987, then student, active with the Jeunesses Scientifiques de Belgique, the Belgian youth science movement, Nicolas Pettiaux has been invited to attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony, with about 50 other students from other countries invited in Stockholm.

He holds a master in physics and a doctorate in sciences, speciality physics. His thesis was about nonlinear optics, lasers and quantum optics presented at the Université libre de Bruxelles under the supervision of Paul Mandel, in collaboration with Claude Fabre of Ecole normale supérieure and Thomas Erneux then at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

During his thesis, he worked with professor Irina Veretennicoff of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). His annex thesis was in the field of operational research under the supervision of Bertrand Mareschal.

During his studies, Nicolas Pettiaux studied quantum physics with future Nobel Prize laureate François Englert and statistical physics with Franqui Prize laureate Radu Balescu.

In 1991, Nicolas Pettiaux was one of the secretaries of the Congrès Solvay about quantum optics.

From 1993 till 1997, Nicolas Pettiaux has been teacher assistant at the Faculty of Medecine of Université libre de Bruxelles for the course of physics in the first year. He was an internal consultant at Fortis Banque, ICT manager at the Ministry of the Brussels Region, ICT manager at the Commission communautaire française (Cocof), teacher of physics at some secondary schools, teaching assistant for the courses in first and second years at the Faculty of engineering of Université libre de Bruxelles.

As a secondary school teacher, he was an active physics teacher. Since 2011, Nicolas Pettiaux has been senior lecturer at the l'École supérieure d'informatique (Bruxelles)

Since 1998, Nicolas Pettiaux has been an active promoter of free software, open standards (see frwiki:Standards ouverts et logiciels libres en Belgique), open access. He has been a board member of APRIL, of AFUL