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Abstract Large random matrices tend to exhibit universal spectral fluctuations. Besides overviewing the well-known Wigner-Dyson and Tracy-Widom universality for Hermitian Wigner matrices, we present new analogous results for non-Hermitian matrices. In …

" A definition of myself is like asking for the definition of infinity... There is an inner infinity and an inner infinity... For you I am a finite thing, but for me I am infinite... I am the mirror of the outer infinity. " Pasolini, 1966 Hervé …

Abstract In continuity with the previous lecture. The lecture discusses liquid phase transitions in the presence of chemical reactions, following the approach proposed by F. Julicher's group. Emphasis is placed on non-equilibrium chemical reactions and …

Abstract The philosophical literature on so-called first-person thinking or se thinking is based on a battery of examples that contrast two types of case. Reflexivity occurs in both cases because the subject thinks of himself and attributes a certain …

Abstract Brecht Evens loves polyphonic narratives, disjointed narratives in which voices and points of view intermingle in a seemingly chaotic way, where we follow numerous characters without the boundary between " main " and "secondary " being really …

" Gags are born of accidents with the pencil ", Hergé once declared. And Baudoin said it in other words : " The black lines that my brush draws on white paper send me messages that I have to answer, questions I hadn't anticipated, unexpected answers. " …

Fiction as sociological invention : a 19th-century novel and a 21st-century film hold a conversation in which authorial intent and chronology are suspended. More relevant is the socio-ideological aspect that Flaubert invented or predicted, and which …

Abstract The dimer model represents the distribution of di-atomic molecules on the surface of a crystal. This is modeled by perfect couplings of a planar graph chosen according to the Boltzmann measure. When the graph is periodic, Kenyon, Okounkov and …