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Didier Devauchelle
Deciphering hieroglyphics : is the Rosetta Stone really the key to the enigma?
Didier Devauchelle
Deciphering hieroglyphics : is the Rosetta Stone really the key to the enigma?
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The discovery of the Rosetta Stone in July 1789 and the subsequent translation of the Greek part, followed by the distribution of copies of its inscriptions, are signs of the importance of this trilingual decree in the history of hieroglyphic …
18:00 to 19:00
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Jonathan Culler Jonathan Culler was Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in France before taking up a chair in English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, USA. A specialist in literary theory, he has published books …
15:00 to 16:00
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In these two common nouns, the preposition " inter- " functions in different ways. In interdisciplinarity, it establishes contact while accepting and respecting the different traditions of the disciplines involved. The noun " internationalité " is not …
14:00 to 15:00
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10:30 to 12:30
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Abstract Mathematician Akshay Venkatesh recently wrote an essay on the possible effect on mathematical practice of advances in automatic theorem proving, and in particular on our value judgments about theorems. I will argue that if computers become …
14:00 to 15:00
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Abstract At a time when the long-awaited images from the James-Webb Space Telescope are being analyzed, I'll summarize some of the discoveries made over the last few decades about the invisible Universe, as observed in the infrared. We'll discuss how this …
17:45 to 18:45
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Abstract The techniques used to identify distant galaxies will be described : Lyman break, fall in blue flux due to absorption on the line of sight. Our current knowledge of primordial galaxies comes from the Hubble Space Telescope and ALMA. We will show …
16:45 to 17:45
Leonid Pastur
Entanglement Entropy of Disordered Fermions
Leonid Pastur
Entanglement Entropy of Disordered Fermions
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10:30 to 12:00
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Conferences in English. Dominique Weis is invited by the Collège de France assembly, on the proposal of Pr Barbara Romanowicz. Dr. Dominique Weis has been honoured as a 2021 University Killam Professor. Dr. Weis holds a Tier I Canada Research Chair and is …
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The Egyptian language coexisted with Greek from the time of Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt (332 BC). This cohabitation had a decisive impact on the use of Egyptian scripts (hieroglyphics and their cursive versions, hieratic and demotic), leading …
18:00 to 19:00
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Abstract Screening of the film It's About Time! Reflections on Urgency (31 minutes), spoken in Polish, followed by a short lecture on the characters of Cassandra and Aeneas at the mythical birth of Europe, the concepts of the semiosphere, fiction and …
15:00 to 16:00
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The concept of the semiosphere establishes the principle of this first lecture. As a demonstration, I will discuss the minimal signs in the European semiosphere that enable understanding without knowledge of the languages concerned, as well as the …
14:00 to 15:00
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10:30 to 12:30
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14:00 to 16:00
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Abstract How can we study the economy of the Roman Empire, the largest empire in the premodern world ? This lecture introduces a series of presentations and aims to identify the most recent conceptual and theoretical contributions of history as a social …
10:00 to 11:30
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17:00 to 17:50
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16:00 to 16:50
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Abstract Husserlian phenomenology has played an important role in French mathematical philosophy (Cavaillès, Desanti ; Vuillemin at the Collège de France). However, the phenomenological method is only partially compatible with the French epistemological …
14:00 to 15:00