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Antoine Lilti

Fanfaron and impostor : the Greek origins of the charlatan
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Abstract Were the sophists, as Condorcet thought, the ancestors of modern charlatans, skilled rhetors who were enemies of the truth ? Or was Socrates himself, as Voltaire claimed, a bit of a charlatan ? To better understand the importance of the Greek …
14:30 to 15:30
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Nalini Anantharaman

Haagerup-Thorbjørnsen's work on strong spectral convergence of Gaussian matrices II
Lecture
Abstract We demonstrate that the Stieltjes transform of Hermitian random matrices NxN is the fixed point of a certain transformation (to within N^{-2}). The study is completed using a method inspired by Froese-Hasler-Spitzer : we show that the …
10:00 to 11:30
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Mete Atatüre

Shedding Light on a Central Spin System: How Quantum Optics Can Tame a Noisy Nuclear Spin Ensemble
Seminar
Documents and media Download support Abstract Optically active spins in solids are strong candidates for scalable devices towards quantum networks. Semiconductor quantum dots set the state-of-the-art as single-photon sources with high level tuneability, …
15:45 to 16:45
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Patrick Boucheron

Can beauty save the world ?
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Abstract In search of an archaeology of Dostoyevskian belief in the saving power of aesthetic emotion, we propose to focus on a " text " of the political mystique of beautifying places of power in the XV th   century: leon Battista Alberti's De re …
14:00 to 15:00
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Pascale Senellart

Introduction to decoherence
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Documents and media Download support Abstract Quantum superposition, the cornerstone of the second quantum revolution, is a very fragile property : it disappears as soon as the system is exposed to external disturbances, such as fluctuating magnetic or …
14:00 to 15:30
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Dominique Charpin

Tuttul and Emar
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11:00 to 12:00
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Fabienne El-Khoury

Violence against girls and women: the continuum and its effects on mental health
Seminar
Documents and Download support Résumé En Europe, une femme sur trois subit des violences physiques ou sexuelles au cours de sa vie. Une femme sur huit subit des violences sexuelles. Ces violences s’inscrivent dans un continuum, de l’enfance à l’âge …
11:15 to 12:15
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Maria Melchior

Violence: multiple and lasting psychological scars
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Documents and media Download support Abstract Experiencing violence—verbal, physical, sexual—particularly during childhood, has short, medium and long-term effects on the psychological make-up of individuals, as well as on their risk of psychiatric …
10:00 to 11:00
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Pascal Dusapin, Netia Jones & Carlo Ossola

Scenes and sources of music
Special events
Round-table discussion with Pascal Dusapin , composer ; Netia Jones , director, set designer and video artist, and Carlo Ossola , Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France, holder of the Modern Literatures of Neolatin Europe chair. Moderator : Chloë …
18:30 to 19:30
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Applied mathematics

Pierre-Louis Lions, chair Partial Differential Equations and Applications
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Secure calculation: calculating on encrypted or private data

Xavier Leroy, chair Software Science
Lecture
NEDAP ESF1 voting machine. Cryptography (encryption, signatures, etc.) is used to guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of data at rest (stored in files and databases) or in transit (during communications over networks). However, to compute on this …
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Energy transition: today and tomorrow (3)

Marc Fontecave, chair Chemistry of Biological Processes
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collège de France. …
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Energy transition: today and tomorrow (3)

Marc Fontecave, chair Chemistry of Biological Processes
Lecture
collège de France. …
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Oxidative stress and anti-tumor therapies

Hugues de Thé, chair Cellular and Molecular Oncology
Lecture
Signaling pathway regulating ferroptosis …
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Spectrum convergence and fundamental notes

Nalini Anantharaman, chair Spectral Geometry
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Presentation If two geometric objects look alike, can their vibration spectra be compared? This subtle question requires us to first ask what it means for spectra to "resemble" and "compare". The first lectures will review the various notions of …
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Asteroids and their samples: meteorites - Witnesses to the first phases of planetary formation

Alessandro Morbidelli, chair Planetary Formation: from Earth to Exoplanets
Seminar
Presentation This series of lectures and seminars will explore the early phases of the formation of the inner solar system, for which a great deal of information is available through asteroids and their fragments, which from time to time reach the Earth …
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François Déroche

The Medinese Koran (6)
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10:00 to 11:00
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Pierre-Michel Menger

Introduction: What sociology, economics, history and law have taught me about the arts. A personal itinerary.
Lecture
10:00 to 12:00
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Anne Cheng

The Xinmin shuo (Discourse on the new citizen)
Lecture
11:00 to 12:00
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Jean-Jacques Hublin

Sapiens replaces Neandertal (2)
Lecture
17:00 to 18:30
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Antoine Lilti

Every state has its charlatans
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Abstract In the previous session, we hypothesized that the figure of the charlatan, in Enlightenment thought and culture, served to reflect changes in public space and scholarly authority. Today, we continue with a study of dictionaries and encyclopedias …
14:30 to 15:30
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Nalini Anantharaman

Haagerup-Thorbjørnsen's work on strong spectral convergence of Gaussian matrices
Lecture
Abstract The last two lectures go back to the source of the notion of " strong spectral convergence ", and discuss the spectrum of large random Hermitian matrices of size NxN, drawn according to a Gaussian distribution (GUE model). The seminal work of …
10:00 to 11:30
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Marc Fontecave

Living with a changing climate: adaptation issues and prospects - Home
Symposium
09:00 to 09:15
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Food sovereignty and agro-ecological transition in Europe

Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions
Guest lecturer
Olivier de Schutter has been invited by the assembly of the Collège de France, at the suggestion of Pr Samantha Besson, Chair of International Law of Institutions . Olivier De Schutter This series of four   lectures by Olivier de Schutter is part of the …
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