5:00 - 6:00pm
Symposium

Life and the mathematization of the world

Alain Prochiantz
The life of shapes
5:00 - 6:00pm
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Alain Prochiantz

    Professor at the Collège de France, Director of the Collège de France (2015 to 2019)

    Events

    Symposium
    9:00 - 10:00am
    Pierre Corvol et Jean-Pierre Changeux

    Opening
    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:30am
    Anne Fagot-Largeault

    Form in Plato & Aristotle
    Symposium
    10:15 - 11:15am
    Alain Connes

    Duality between forms and spectra
    Symposium
    11:15am - 12:15pm
    Stanislas Dehaene

    Geometric shapes and the universality of mathematical intuitions
    Symposium
    12:00 - 1:00pm
    Pierre Fayet

    Matter in all its forms
    Symposium
    1:45 - 2:30pm
    Jean-Claude Pecker

    Forms in the Universe and form of the Universe
    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:30pm
    Jacques Reisse

    The first forms of life
    Symposium
    3:15 - 4:15pm
    Philippe Janvier

    A paleontological history of living forms : the first vertebrates as we imagine them
    Symposium
    4:15 - 5:15pm
    Denis Duboule

    Genetics and the architecture of life
    Symposium
    5:00 - 6:00pm
    Alain Prochiantz

    Life and the mathematization of the world
    Symposium
    5:45 - 6:45pm
    Claude Debru

    Anatomical shapes and physiological functions from Claude Bernard to the present day
    Symposium
    9:00 - 10:00am
    Jean-François Mangin

    The shape of the brain
    Symposium
    9:45 - 10:45am
    Pieter Roelfsema

    Brain Mechanisms that Integrate Features for the Perception of Visual Shape
    Symposium
    10:45 - 11:45am
    Marc Smith

    The shapes of the Latin alphabet, between writing and reading
    Symposium
    11:30am - 12:30pm
    Jean-Jacques Hublin

    Neanderthal and early symbolic behavior
    Symposium
    12:15 - 1:15pm
    Philippe Descola

    Natural forms and symbolic classifications
    Symposium
    2:00 - 3:00pm
    Marcel Hénaff

    Form of built space, form of thought : from the Bororo village to the network city
    Symposium
    2:45 - 3:45pm
    John Scheid

    Metamorphosis in Greco-Roman antiquity. Around Ovid's Metamorphoses
    Symposium
    3:30 - 4:30pm
    Mireille Delmas-Marty

    Forms, standards and dogmas
    Symposium
    4:30 - 5:30pm
    Antoine Compagnon

    Literary form
    Symposium
    5:15 - 6:15pm
    François-Bernard Mâche

    The life of Musical Forms
    Symposium
    6:00 - 7:00pm
    Michel Hochmann

    Fables, Formes, Figures - tribute to André Chastel

    See also

    Opening symposia
    The life of shapes