User:Npettiaux

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= A diverse presentation of Nicolas Pettiaux =

Biography
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.

With more details
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