2:30 - 3:30pm
Symposium

The first forms of life

Jacques Reisse
The life of shapes
2:30 - 3:30pm
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Jacques Reisse

    Free University of Brussels

    Events

    Opening
    Pierre Corvol et Jean-Pierre Changeux

    Symposium
    9:00 - 10:00am

    Form in Plato & Aristotle
    Anne Fagot-Largeault

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:30am

    Duality between forms and spectra
    Alain Connes

    Symposium
    10:15 - 11:15am

    Geometric shapes and the universality of mathematical intuitions
    Stanislas Dehaene

    Symposium
    11:15am - 12:15pm

    Matter in all its forms
    Pierre Fayet

    Symposium
    12:00 - 1:00pm

    Forms in the Universe and form of the Universe
    Jean-Claude Pecker

    Symposium
    1:45 - 2:30pm

    The first forms of life
    Jacques Reisse

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:30pm

    A paleontological history of living forms : the first vertebrates as we imagine them
    Philippe Janvier

    Symposium
    3:15 - 4:15pm

    Genetics and the architecture of life
    Denis Duboule

    Symposium
    4:15 - 5:15pm

    Life and the mathematization of the world
    Alain Prochiantz

    Symposium
    5:00 - 6:00pm

    Anatomical shapes and physiological functions from Claude Bernard to the present day
    Claude Debru

    Symposium
    5:45 - 6:45pm

    The shape of the brain
    Jean-François Mangin

    Symposium
    9:00 - 10:00am

    Brain Mechanisms that Integrate Features for the Perception of Visual Shape
    Pieter Roelfsema

    Symposium
    9:45 - 10:45am

    The shapes of the Latin alphabet, between writing and reading
    Marc Smith

    Symposium
    10:45 - 11:45am

    Neanderthal and early symbolic behavior
    Jean-Jacques Hublin

    Symposium
    11:30am - 12:30pm

    Natural forms and symbolic classifications
    Philippe Descola

    Symposium
    12:15 - 1:15pm

    Form of built space, form of thought : from the Bororo village to the network city
    Marcel Hénaff

    Symposium
    2:00 - 3:00pm

    Metamorphosis in Greco-Roman antiquity. Around Ovid's Metamorphoses
    John Scheid

    Symposium
    2:45 - 3:45pm

    Forms, standards and dogmas
    Mireille Delmas-Marty

    Symposium
    3:30 - 4:30pm

    Literary form
    Antoine Compagnon

    Symposium
    4:30 - 5:30pm

    The life of Musical Forms
    François-Bernard Mâche

    Symposium
    5:15 - 6:15pm

    Fables, Formes, Figures - tribute to André Chastel
    Michel Hochmann

    Symposium
    6:00 - 7:00pm

    See also

    Opening symposia
    The life of shapes