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This lecture will look at how the genetic and genomic study of non-human primates, such as chimpanzees or macaques, can provide us with essential information on the genes and immune pathways involved in host defense against pathogens, providing knowledge …

Abstract In these two lectures (March 18 and 25, 2022), we describe a powerful method for treating the case of an interacting Bose gas, the Bogoliubov approach. This approach makes it possible to describe the gas's ground state as well as its low-energy …

Meritocracy, education and employment. From Max Weber and Durkheim to the present day. …

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Abstract In the register of piety as a norm, the family of hosiē, hosios, hosiotēs occupies an important place. The various occurrences of the noun hosiē in the Odyssey and Homeric Hymns are closely linked to the honors that men must pay to the superhuman …

Abstract Differential Privacy (DP) is one of the best known approaches to protecting personal data while extracting useful statistical information. The central idea is to add random noise to published data, in quantities carefully chosen to preserve both …

Géry Casiez Géry Casiez is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Lille and a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His research focuses on human-computer interaction, in particular the design of new peripherals and …

Natural sciences such as physics and biology rely on the scientific method to explore and understand natural phenomena. However, computer science is what Herbert Simon calls a science of the artificial, where researchers create the phenomena they study. …

Abstract Software isolation mechanisms aim to execute potentially malicious software by preventing it from attacking other software running in the same environment, or from compromising the essential security mechanisms of the operating system and …

Abstract The enactment of laws to curb the corruption of morals reveals the presence of vice. It is also interpreted in opposition to a bygone era when harmony and virtue were such that laws were unnecessary. The number of laws grows in proportion to the …

Hélène Morlon After a training in mathematics, I did my Masters and PhD in ecology in France. I then spent 5 ½ years as a postdoctoral researcher in ecology and evolution at UC Merced, the UO Eugene, UPenn and UC Berkeley. I am now a CNRS research …

Abstract This lecture is devoted to the study of diversification processes in living organisms, from the origin of life (RNA world, primitive soup, LUCA, the last common ancestor of all species currently living on Earth), to the most recent species …

Abstract Éric Turquin explains his career path, showing how one becomes an expert, the importance of Bruno de Bayser, one of the leading drawing experts in Paris, his training with English experts, and the Hôtel Drouot, a place for sales and exhibitions, …

Abstract The forces of loss always prevail, and the preservation of a work is always provisional. As a result, the lost manuscript is the object of a veritable " fantasy ", particularly in the history of the novel : from Don Quixote to Walpole, via Laclos …

Abstract In Western culture, "authority" is a concept closely linked on the one hand to the Roman auctoritas and on the other to the written tradition with its set of "authors" and "canonical texts". It is therefore not surprising that modern scholars …