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Abstract From the dolce stil nuovo envisaged as the collective exercise of a poetry of knowledge to the metaphysics of love deployed in the Commedia, Dante never ceased to "   think amorously   ". This conjunction between the experience of love and the …
11:00 to 12:00
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Abstract Denoising diffusion models have led to impressive generative models in many domains. These algorithms learn from data a probability distribution in high dimension. They invert a stochastic differential which maps the probability distribution to a …
11:15 to 12:30
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The state of the art for generating complex data such as images, sounds or complex physical fields is the diffusion score algorithm. The score diffusion algorithm samples a probability distribution by transporting white Gaussian noise to the distribution …
09:30 to 11:00
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Abstract In 1943, the encyclical Divinante Afflante Spiritu marked the abandonment of fundamentalist reading and called for a critical reading of the Bible. From this moment onwards, a reflection on the ways in which the divine word can be interpreted …
18:00 to 19:00
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Documents and media Download support Abstract With Marcel Proust, a theory and experience of reading become a theory and motor of writing. Such would be the fundamental intuition of his literary system, to use the words of Henri Bergson, according to whom …
17:00 to 18:00
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Abstract This first lecture will present the historical background to the study of neural activity and experience. It will also present methods for measuring neuronal activity and their recent evolution, which have made it possible to highlight early …
16:00 to 18:00
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Abstract The law on parity, passed in 2000 and requiring political parties to field 50 % female candidates in all elections, gave rise to fierce debate throughout the years 1990, revealing major disagreements among feminist intellectuals. It was against …
14:30 to 15:30
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Abstract How do cells control their size and couple the various ongoing cellular processes? Over the last decade, techniques were developed for extracting information pertinent to this question from correlations between key cell cycle variables, such as …
16:15 to 17:15
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Documents and media Download support Download lecture notes References Riccardo Rao and Massimiliano Esposito, "Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Chemical Reaction Networks: Wisdom from Stochastic Thermodynamics", Phys. Rev. X , 6, 041064 (2016). Xingbo …
14:30 to 16:00
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Abstract The "   metafictions   " betray their own fictionality in a certain sense that needs to be explained. The term is often associated with so-called "   postmodern   " fictions , but the phenomenon has existed as long as there has been fiction, and …
11:30 to 13:00
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Notes from an elementary school pupil (Roman period) and a lecture room in Alexandria (5th-6th centuries). What better observatory of a society's cultural options than its school ? It's the school that concentrates, schematizes and adapts them, while …
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Abstract According to situation theory, every judgment relates to a situation that it " concerns " and in relation to which it can be evaluated as true or false. This situation acts as an external theme. The externality of situational theme to content can …
10:00 to 11:30
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Abstract I will discuss genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic technologies for detecting epigenetic changes, as well as genotype x environment interactions. Documents and media Download …
10:00 to 12:30
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Abstract from Rémi Bastien 's talk Is the hypermobility of our modern world possible without fossil fuels ? The domestication of coal and, above all, oil has accelerated the movement of goods and people exponentially. Mobility is not a consequence of …
17:00 to 18:00
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Abstract Since the process of planetary formation tends to produce several planets, it is essential to take into account the interactions between them. Migration leads to the formation of resonance chains, sometimes observed in exoplanetary systems. …
16:45 to 18:45
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Abstract The P.Mon.Epiph.   II  621 , a 7th century papyrus fragment edited in 1926 by H. Evelyn-White, contains a list of Greek bird names and traces of Coptic words. Our re-examination will have a threefold objective   : to establish the text as …
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Seminars following the lectures will be given by researchers in biology, sociology of science and philosophy. They will focus on aspects of the living world not covered in detail during the lectures. While remaining accessible to the general public, they …
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Mosquito , Olivier Leblois, watercolor, 2022. The living world is fascinating. Its complexity surpasses that of the most sophisticated machines invented by humans and that of physical material objects. Faced with the major challenges of the 21st century, …