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Marc Fontecave
Introduction : the non-electrical share of energy and the role of biomass in the energy transition
Lecture
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10:00 - 11:00am

Patrick Boucheron
Love after the plague
Lecture
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Abstract From epidemics to lovesickness, both without remedy, the same imaginary of contamination and fascination circulates. This first introductory session is devoted to studying the doctrines and languages of medieval love, placing the object of study …
11:00am - 12:00pm

Pierre Assouline
Profession : reader
Seminar
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Abstract After recalling the ambiguous powers of literature -   which can arouse the emotions as well as spread evil   - Pierre Assouline looks back at how he reads the books he receives in the summer for the Académie Goncourt prize. First, he describes …
6:00 - 7:00pm

William Marx
Read : a utopian task
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Documents and media Download support Abstract In his Cours de poétique , Paul Valéry explained that aesthetic feeling is what remains when everything around us has collapsed. It's a kind of aesthetic cogito, Descartes-style : not " je pense, donc je …
5:00 - 6:00pm

Collège de France
Colloquium to honor the memory of Jacques Tits - 2nd day
Symposium
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Program 09:30 → 10:20 - Character values Speaker : Jean-Pierre SERRE Jean-Pierre SERRE : Character values 10:30 → 11:20 - Compactifications of character varieties and actions on affine buildings Speaker : Anne PARREAU Anne PARREAU : Compactifications of …
9:30am - 5:00pm

Fighting poverty : from science to public policy
Esther Duflo, chair Poverty and Public Policy
Lecture
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Illustration by Cheyenne Olivier, taken from the book Neso et Najy. Don't be afraid of the big city ! …
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Collège de France
Symposium to honor the memory of Jacques Tits - 1st day
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Program 13:00 → 13:20 - Welcoming remarks Michel BROUÉ : Welcoming remarks 13:30 → 14:20 - Abelian Tits Sets A Tits set is a pair (G,X) consisting of a group G and a conjugacy class X of subgroups satisfying certain conditions. It is called Abelian if the …
1:00 - 6:00pm

Benoît Mosser
Asteroseismology
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Abstract Over the past fifteen years, various ultra-precise photometric space missions have enriched stellar physics through asteroseismology. Listening carefully to stellar vibrations has proved to be a rich and acute tool, making it possible to …
5:45 - 6:45pm

Antoine Lilti
L'Universel at the Bourse
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Abstract In the sixth of his Lettres philosophiques (1734), Voltaire offers an apology for the tolerance that reigns at the London Stock Exchange, where different faiths coexist peacefully : " There, the Jew, the Mohammedan and the Christian treat each …
2:30 - 3:30pm

Françoise Combes
Evolution on the main sequence, metal synthesis
Lecture
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Abstract The peaks in elemental abundance observed in the solar system correspond to magic numbers and increased core stability. Apart from the light elements formed in the Big Bang, the elements are all formed in stars, most of them off the main …
4:45 - 5:45pm

François-Xavier Fauvelle, Philippe Descola, Yves Coppens
The Great African Rift at the crossroads of time - 2nd day
Symposium
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Exploitation of rift resources in time and space Authors  : Lamya Khalidi (CNRS), Joséphine Lesur (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle), Virginie Tallio (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), Jacques Varet (SARL Géo2D), Doris Barboni (CNRS), Cécile Doubre …
9:00am - 6:00pm

François-Xavier Fauvelle, Philippe Descola, Yves Coppens
The Great African Rift at the crossroads of time - 1st day
Symposium
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Inauguration and presentation Collège de France , Arnaud Roffignon, Directeur général des services : welcome address CNRS , representatives of the Institute of Ecology & Environment (Agathe Euzen, Deputy Director of the Institute), the Institute of Human …
9:00am - 6:30pm

Collège de France
Young researchers : what's the point of research today ?
Special events
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Public round table at the Collège de France November 14   2023 6 pm     30 - 8 pm   h   30 Seven   young researchers, winners of the 2023 Collège de France science prizes, will take part in the round table discussion "   Young researchers   : what is the …
6:30 - 8:30pm

Experience, science and the fight against poverty (almost) fifteen years on
Esther Duflo, chair Poverty and Public Policy
Opening lecture
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Migrants' rights
François Héran, chair Migrations and Societies
Seminar
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Archives of the Paris Prefecture 1930. …
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Ergodicity and thermalization of eigenfunctions
Nalini Anantharaman, chair Spectral Geometry
Seminar
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Natural mode of vibration of a stadium-shaped cavity. …
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Ergodicity and thermalization of eigenfunctions
Nalini Anantharaman, chair Spectral Geometry
Lecture
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Natural mode of vibration of a stadium-shaped cavity. …
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Applied mathematics
Pierre-Louis Lions, chair Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Seminar
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Large random matrices and PDEs
Pierre-Louis Lions, chair Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Lecture
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Zhuangzi readings (continued)
Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History
Seminar
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The seminar on January 19 2023 is cancelled. An additional session will be held on Thursday, February 2 (usual times and room). …
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The Qur'an, time, history and chronology
François Déroche, chair History of the Koran. Text and transmission
Lecture
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Is China (still) a civilization ? (continued)
Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History
Lecture
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Collective cell motility
Thomas Lecuit, chair Dynamics of Living Systems
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The prophet Haggai and the rebuilding of Jerusalem's Temple in Persian times
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
Guest lecturer
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An extract from the Book of Haggai in Cod. Bodmer 21 from 13th-century Spain . …
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