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Abstract The writing of law, particularly in the 2nd millennium B.C., took different forms depending on the type of source, both in terms of modes of expression and the content of the rules used. This diversity reflects the varied purposes of legal …

Abstract No experiment today provides evidence that gravity requires a quantum description. The quantum optical control of solid-state mechanical devices, quantum optomechanics, may change that situation -- by enabling experiments that directly probe the …

Abstract Since Plutarch, political literature has been teaching princes how to choose between offering and withdrawing, between public exposure and the shadow of secrecy. Places of power, in their very architecture, put these dilemmas to the test. Such is …

Documents and media Download support Abstract The vibrations of a single atom, or of a multitude of atoms in a solid, are both a source of decoherence that must be overcome, and a fully-fledged quantum system that can be manipulated. This lecture will …

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Abstract This final lecture will explore the role of sleep as a privileged state of dialogue between body and brain. It will show how sleep modifies the activity of cerebral and systemic immune cells, with consequences for the stabilization of neural …

Documents and media Download support Download lecture notes References Altmann, R. (1894). Die Elementarorganismen und ihre Beziehungen zu den Zellen . deGruyter. Guven, J. (2013). 1. Stacked endoplasmic reticulum sheets are connected by helicoidal …

Abstract Nitrogen is the fourth most common element found in FDA approved drugs, appearing in 84% of structures. Given its importance, methods to install this functionality with concomitant control of stereochemistry are highly desirable. With the wide …

Conversation between Sonia Wieder-Atherton , cellist, and William Marx , Professor of Comparative Literatures at the Collège de France. Moderator: Chloë Cambreling Abstract Sonia Wieder-Atherton is known for bringing to the stage proposals that go beyond …

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Abstract In the past few years the notion of “strong convergence” of multi-matrix models has found applications across pure mathematics including to random graphs, operator algebras (in several ways), spectral theory of hyperbolic manifolds, and the …

Abstract It is well-known that the Betti numbers of nonpositively-curved manifolds are (under normalization of curvature and some additional assumptions) linearly bounded by their volume. In a joint work with M. Frączyk and S. Hurtado we showed that for …

Abstract In the 1990s, Voiculescu developed the theory of non-commutative entropy. For a single non-commutative variable, this entropy reduces to the rate function of the empirical measure of the eigenvalues of a Gaussian matrix. For several …

Abstract What is moral socialism ? " If we seek an answer to those who hesitate and ask us whether they should be socialists or not " wrote Austro-Marxist Otto Bauer over a century ago, " we still need Kant's ethics ". In this opening lecture, Lea Ypi …