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Abstract Clean hydrogen, as an energy vector and a sustainable chemical feedstock, is a pillar of the energy transition and key contributor to meeting the targets for net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and thereby to building a climate-resilient …

Abstract Conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons (methane, ethylene) and alcohols (ethanol, propanol) using renewable electricity as an energy source is an attractive strategy for storing renewable energies (solar and wind energy) into the form of …

Abstract this presentation will provide a long perspective on the importance of energy transitions in human history and underscore the role of ingenuity, innovation, and adaptation in the past - and future - success of our species. Kyle Harper Kyle Harper …

Abstract I will begin by talking about the nature of scientific thought, contrasted with the experience of working in a complex "enterprise." Then I will note some of the reasons (personal, cultural, economic, political or other) that explain why people …

Abstract The first lecture is aimed at a general math audience and will be an introduction to the representation theory of p-adic groups and its relation to other areas. It will include an overview of the construction of representations of p-adic groups …

Abstract From western Thebes during the 7th   century survives the largest body of material connected with Coptic education from any region in Egypt. This seminar will present the material and its distribution, addressing where education took place and …

Abstract Light-matter interactions are playing an increasingly crucial role in the understanding and engineering of new states of matter with relevance to the fields of quantum optics, solid state physics, chemistry and materials science. Experiments have …

Abstract The inaugural speech develops the idea that, until further notice, there can be no common political identity for the inhabitants of Europe and the European Union, because they are still mostly socialized in their traditional national identities. …

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Abstract How does the flood come to an end, and what does it lead to  ? Here again, the text, Gn   8 ,1-9,17, offers more than one answer to these questions. Documents and media Download …

Lecture plan 2.3. and the papyri  Exercises delivered by monasteries (continued) 2.3.2. The case of the Epiphanius monastery (continued) 2.3.2.1. A teacher in Cellule B (continued) 2.3.2.2. A teacher in Cellule A (continued) …

Exceptionally, the last seminar will take place on a Friday. Abstract In sub-Saharan Africa, authors' rights were granted to " invented subject ", in colonial times, according to the European Romantic standard of the 19th  century. We have progressively …

Abstract There are many ways to define an object, in this case a ship. This lecture explores the approaches of a Latin declamator (Cicero, De l'invention , 2.153), a jurist (Alfenus, Digest, 21.2.44), a scholar (Aulu-Gelle, Nuits attiques, 10.25.5), the …

This conference is only available in audio. Abstract In Roman times, ivory was a highly prized luxury material. Its uses ranged from small, everyday instruments to decorations and even furniture and votive objects. The same was true of bone, a material …

Abstract Can the political love of the late Middle Ages only be understood in opposition to the disenchantment of modernity  ? This final   session focuses on the figure of Marguerite de Navarre, based on Lucien Febvre's Amour sacré, amour profane (1944). …