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Balanced binary tree. The efficiency of software depends very much on the way it organizes the data it manipulates into algorithmically efficient structures. Most data structures known today are transient : updates to the structure are made by …
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15:30 to 16:30
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Abstract Why did Yhwh decide to destroy his creation, and how did he go about it  ? The intertwining of two   different accounts of the flood in Gn   6-7 provides several answers to these questions. Documents and media Download …
14:00 to 15:00
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Abstract This lecture will review two concepts that now feature prominently in environmental histories of the modern world and in global change science: The Great Acceleration and the Anthropocene. It will present evidence, drawn mainly from …
11:15 to 12:15
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Abstract The physical climate is a complex system. Because of the feedbacks that can stabilize or destabilize the climate, change is not linear. Human societies are also complex systems, and history can help us describe the possible tipping points that …
10:00 to 11:00
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Aqueduct, Rome. The seminar will focus on Ulpian's De officio proconsulis (On the Duties of the Proconsul ), a kind of guidebook that envisaged the Roman governor's mandate from his arrival in the province to his departure. Reading Ulpian's treatise …
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Aqueduct, Rome. Cicero observed that " by the work of our hands, we try to create, in nature, like a second nature  ". Drawing on the legal, literary and philosophical history of Antiquity, this year's lecture explores the resources and limits of the …
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Lecture plan 2.3. and the papyri  Exercises delivered by monasteries (continued) 2.3.2. The case of the Epiphanius monastery 2.3.2.1. A teacher in …
11:00 to 12:00
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Abstract To tackle a legal problem, you first need concepts to make it manageable, then solve it in the light of value criteria deemed preferable. The jurist P. Alfenus Varus, consul in 39 BC and a leading figure on the Roman political and cultural scene, …
14:30 to 15:30
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Abstract In the foreword to his Histoire de la Révolution française , Michelet evokes this "   singular trait of France   ", whose people would only have understood politics "   as devotion and love   ". As late as the end of the 20th   century, the …
11:00 to 12:00
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The Fall of Man (detail), Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, 1592. …
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Abstract The third and fourth lectures will focus on the role of activity in the construction of cortical circuits, from the maturation and migration of different populations of neurons, the roles of transient neurons and circuits, to the integration and …
16:00 to 18:00
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14:00 to 16:00
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09:30 to 11:00
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Abstract Examples of environmental impacts on the plant kingdom. Documents and media Download support …
10:00 to 12:30
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Prof. Lluis Quintana-Murci's 2022-2023 lecture "   The history of mankind as seen through the lens of paleogenomics   " aims to show how advances in paleogenomics - the study of DNA from fossils, are helping us to understand the migratory history of our …
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Abstract The magic papyri of Late Antiquity preserve few traces of their social context. Yet careful study can reveal valuable information about the individuals who composed and copied them. In this seminar, we propose to discuss accounts of the education …
15:30 to 17:00
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Symposium organized by Antoine Compagnon and Matthieu Vernet. …
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Abstract We study the existence of relaxed equilibria for finite-horizon deterministic mean-field games. These relaxed equilibria are probability measures on trajectories. Closed-graph properties play a major role in proving their existence. Two   cases …
11:15 to 12:30