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Christian Sandor Dr. Christian Sandor has very recently been appointed Professor at Paris-Saclay University. Since the year 2000, his foremost research interest has been Augmented Reality (AR), as he believes that it will have a profound impact on the …

Abstract Whether verified dynamically (at runtime) or statically (by prior analysis), typing is an essential aspect of high-level programming languages. The lecture explored the contributions of typing to software security, from the basic guarantees …

As human beings, we use "everyday physics" to interact with the world around us. Augmented reality builds on this understanding by dynamically "enriching" physical objects with information, and by mixing physical and digital objects. Virtual reality, …

Abstract In a lawsuit, the legal dimension of the conflict is often coupled with a social dimension. Financial resources and the network of relationships that enabled support from a patronus or important advocati could influence the outcome. However, …

Cléo Bertelsmeier 2013 PhD at Université Paris-Sud ("Impact of climate change on ant invasions") ; 2014 Postdoc at the University of Adelaide, Australia ("Predicting geographical distributions of birds in relation to climate change"); 2015-2018 Postdoc at …

Abstract This lecture is devoted to the current biodiversity crisis. It presents recent studies documenting the sharp and rapid decline in biodiversity and its consequences for human beings in terms of ecosystem services (recycling of organic matter, soil …

Abstract In certain cases, the feeling of loss can be the cause of the loss itself, such as an idealized situation whose non-realization gives rise to a lack, and where the present invents a loss in relation to an ideal it has invented for itself. The …

Abstract We saw four of the nine categories of lost works in the previous lesson. The last five are : 5. Unrealized works : Jean-Jacques Rousseau provides an exalted testimony to these works composed in the mind, but never put to paper, when he evokes, in …

Abstract Whether in the context of ancient memory studies, or stemming from an interest in local histories, recent scholarship has emphasised the significance of Greek sanctuaries as crucial memory media. They were anchors of collective experience and …

What kind of power prepares the defeated time of the Black Death? Taking up the analysis of the paradigms of leprosy exclusion and plague discipline, the lecture describes the differences between the two, taking into account biological, urban and …

John Krakauer Dr. Krakauer is currently John C. Malone Professor, Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Director of the Brain, Learning, Animation, and Movement Lab (www.BLAM-lab.org) at the Johns Hopkins …

Abstract The contrast between the genres of fiction and nonfiction-between, for example, novels, short stories and fiction films on the one hand, and histories, biographies and documentaries on the other-is often reduced to a distinction between fiction …

Abstract The opening lecture provided a chronological overview of the risks that have weighed or are still weighing on human health, from the epidemic-war-famine trilogy, which has gradually and partially faded away, to the so-called " lifestyle factors " …

Circulation of concepts in the media and social networks " If the cultural battle is possible " - how the radical right contaminates public debate Today's media agenda seems to be dictated by themes dear to the radical right: security, immigration, …

Abstract Climate modeling of an AMOC tilt equivalent to the Heinrich 1 event indicates a characteristic spatial distribution of surface temperature changes, with cooling centered on the North Atlantic and widespread, albeit moderate, warming in the middle …

Abstract The Tan's contact is related to two-body interactions in quantum gases with short-range interactions. It is an ubiquitous quantity, determining eg the interaction energy, the two-body correlation function at zero distance, the tails of the …

Mathematics, equal opportunities and excellence (1). From top to bottom and from research to education. …

Abstract This lecture began with a description of experimental measurements of the Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) energy in dilute atomic gases. We then moved on to measurements of the excitation spectrum, with the now-classic results obtained at the Weizmann …

Knowledge of Biblical Hebrew essential. …