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Quantum diffraction : art and science in dialogue
Jean Dalibard, Pierre-Michel Menger

Symposium

Story-Worlds
Neil Price

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Guest lecturer
The Norse Imaginary: Otherworlds in the Viking Age
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Forms of intelligence
Opening symposia

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The Collège de France's opening symposium 2025 explores forms of intelligence, including AI, knowledge and learning.…

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Forms of intelligence
Opening symposia

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Symposium

The Collège de France's opening symposium 2025 explores forms of intelligence, including AI, knowledge and learning.…

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Shearer's lemma and Brégman's theorem
Timothy Gowers

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Lecture
Entropy and Combinatorics
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The pharaonic court and the internationalized context of the New Kingdom
Laurent Coulon

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Lecture
Courtiers and diplomats in New Kingdom Egypt
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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In search of a " culture compatible with our times " : modern mathematics in France, the GDR and the FRG
Frederike Lieven

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Seminar
The philosophy of mathematical practice
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The role of institutions in kick-starting growth
Philippe Aghion

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Lecture
Innovation and growth through history
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Neil Shubin (2)
Neil Shubin

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Guest lecturer
Our Ancestors the fish
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The asteroid belt
Alessandro Morbidelli

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Lecture
Asteroids and their samples : meteorites - witnesses to the first phases of planetary formation
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The Invisible Population
Neil Price

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Guest lecturer
The Norse Imaginary: Otherworlds in the Viking Age
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Why we evolved to be physically active but not to exercise
Daniel Lieberman

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Guest lecturer
How We Evolved to Die Healthy
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The conjecture of stable families by union
Timothy Gowers

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Lecture
Entropy and Combinatorics
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Portraits of courtiers (18th-20th dynasty)
Laurent Coulon

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Lecture
Courtiers and diplomats in New Kingdom Egypt
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The fifth Busy Beaver number
Tristan Stérin

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Seminar
The philosophy of mathematical practice
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Technology waves
Philippe Aghion

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Lecture
Innovation and growth through history
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Crisis in the East, the year 1970, the Palestine question from 2001 (1)
Henry Laurens

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Lecture
Crisis in the East, 1970, the Palestine question from 2001 onwards
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Non-anthropomorphic Osirian images
Laurent Coulon

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Seminar
Sources for an anthropology of the Osirian image (continued) : Modes of representation and designation of divine images
Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Neil Shubin (3)
Neil Shubin

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Guest lecturer
Our Ancestors the fish
Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Meteorites and where they come from
Alessandro Morbidelli

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Lecture
Asteroids and their samples : meteorites - witnesses to the first phases of planetary formation
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The End, and After
Neil Price

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Not recorded
Guest lecturer
The Norse Imaginary: Otherworlds in the Viking Age
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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An evolutionary perspective on obesity (and what to do about it)
Daniel Lieberman

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Guest lecturer
How We Evolved to Die Healthy
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Entropy and additive combinatorics
Timothy Gowers

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Lecture
Entropy and Combinatorics
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Court hearings : spatial and ceremonial arrangements
Laurent Coulon

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Lecture
Courtiers and diplomats in New Kingdom Egypt
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Mathematics as an Essentially Written Activity
Karine Chemla

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Seminar
The philosophy of mathematical practice
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Adversity as a lever for innovation
Philippe Aghion

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Lecture
Innovation and growth through history
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Refractory inclusions
Alessandro Morbidelli

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Lecture
Asteroids and their samples : meteorites - witnesses to the first phases of planetary formation
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The Paradoxes of Equality: The Story of an Elusive Ideal
Darrin McMahon

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Guest lecturer
Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Formation of protoplanetary disks and CAI transport mechanisms
Adnan Ahmad

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Seminar
Asteroids and their samples: meteorites - Witnesses to the first phases of planetary formation
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Notions of geometric and spectral convergence I
Nalini Anantharaman

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Lecture
Spectrum convergence and fundamental notes
Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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