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Innovation and the triangle between market, state and civil society
Philippe Aghion, chair Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth
Lecture
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Magic triangle: Firms/Market - State - Civil Society (Bowles and Carlin) …
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Hugues de Thé
Exploring therapeutic response in vivo (2)
Lecture
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2:30 - 4:00pm

Henry Laurens
The origins of the 1967 war (the year 1966)
Lecture
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The lecture is recorded in audio format only. …
10:00am - 12:00pm

Laurent Coulon
Sources for an anthropology of the Osirian image (3)
Seminar
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Knowledge of ancient Egyptian essential. …
11:00am - 12:30pm

The philosophy of mathematical practice
Timothy Gowers, chair Combinatorics
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Quadratic additive Combinatorics
Timothy Gowers, chair Combinatorics
Lecture
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Champollion 1822 exhibition. Public lectures and readings
Exhibitions and European Heritage Days
Seminar
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Actor Nicolas Bouchaud will read Jean-François Champollion's opening lecture in public at a special evening event on September 22 at 19 h. This will be followed by a series of lectures on the theme of the exhibition : September 27 and October 4, 11, 19 …
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Laurent Coulon
Osiris in his territories : geography of the afterlife and places of worship
Lecture
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Abstract The question explored here is that of access to Osiris within the confines of a non-funerary sanctuary. It considers both the spatial dimension of the link between the world of the living and the afterlife through access to the douat , the …
11:00am - 12:30pm

Entanglement in Disordered Systems
Bernard Derrida, chair Statistical physics
Guest lecturer
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Leonid Pastur is invited by the Collège de France Assembly, at the suggestion of Professor Bernard Derrida. Leonid Pastur Series of four lectures in English. Entanglement is a fundamental intrinsic property of quantum systems manifesting strong non-local …
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Olivier Massin
The Pure Commodity Theory of Money
Symposium
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Abstract "The paper defends the view that money is any continuant used as a medium of exchange, a view dubbed the pure commodity theory of money. By contrast to the standard commodity theory , which equates money with a material commodity which …
11:30am - 12:45pm

Manuel Garcia-Carpintero
On the Mood for Fiction
Symposium
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Abstract How should we think of the utterances that convey (literary) fictions? Searle (1974/5) (and before him MacDonald (1954), with better arguments) influentially argues that they are (non-deceptive) mere pretense - the simulation of acts like …
10:00 - 11:15am

Kathrin Koslicki
Artifact Kinds, Functions, and Capacities
Symposium
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Abstract In the case of some artifacts, the connection between the kind to which the artifact belongs, its function, and its capacities appears to be quite straightforward. For example, a well-functioning can-opener belongs to the artifact-kind, …
4:30 - 5:45pm

Indrek Reiland
What Is It to Accept a Rule?
Symposium
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Abstract Regulative rules like social and legal rules and constitutive rules of games and language are in force contingently, and due to human activity. On standard views like Reinach's or Hart's, for rules to be in force is either for a legislative …
3:00 - 4:15pm

Aesthetic properties
Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge
Symposium
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Nicolas de StaëI, Chromatic Landscape , circa 1954. We like to call certain things graceful, sad, harmonious, beautiful or elegant. The question that immediately arises for the philosopher is how such assertions are to be understood. For the aesthetic …
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François Déroche
The Mecca Koran (2)
Lecture
Event
10:00 - 11:00am

Justine Lacroix
Authoritarian liberalism or the identification of opposites
Guest lecturer
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Abstract In recent times, the European Union has come to be known in many academic and activist circles as : authoritarian liberalism, as embodied in the neo-liberal or ordo-liberal software of the European treaties. The term's origins date back to the …
5:30 - 6:30pm

Anne Cheng
Readings from Ge Hong's Baopuzi (1)
Seminar
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4:30 - 6:00pm

Hugo Parlier
Curves, Surfaces and Intersection
Seminar
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Abstract Understanding curves on surfaces has become a primary tool for understanding their hyperbolic structures and associated moduli spaces. This talk will be on understanding curves through their intersection with other curves and themselves. For …
3:30 - 4:30pm

Nalini Anantharaman
Graph and surface spectra (1)
Lecture
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Abstract The 2023-2024 lecture will focus on the spectral theory of negative curvature surfaces and certain discrete graphs. Topics will include trace formulas, dynamical zeta functions, geodesic flow resonances, quantum ergodicity... The focus will be on …
2:00 - 3:15pm

François Héran
Slavery, indentured labour, forced labour
Lecture
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Abstract Taking stock of the slave trade The aftermath of the 1848 abolition : Republican racism ? Haiti : a costly revolution The question of reparations : legal and ethical …
10:30am - 12:30pm

Nicolas Vauchelet
Mathematical modeling of arbovirosis control techniques
Seminar
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Abstract In the fight against mosquito-borne diseases, several innovative strategies have been developed to reduce mosquito populations or block their vectorial capacity. Mathematical modeling plays an important role in predicting mosquito population …
11:15am - 12:30pm

Anne Cheng
Clash of civilizations and war of antiquities
Lecture
Event
11:00am - 12:00pm

Pierre-Louis Lions
Large random matrices and PDEs - II : control and large deviations (3)
Lecture
Event
9:00 - 11:00am

Justine Lacroix
A democracy without freedoms ? Reflections on the notion of illiberal democracy
Guest lecturer
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Abstract Over the past decade, the rise of both elective and authoritarian political regimes has given credence to the idea that the rule of law and respect for freedoms are merely forms of liberal limitation of democracy. This postulate, shared by …
5:30 - 6:30pm