Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 24424 results Filters Content type Content type (-) Lessons (24424) News (1651) People (1341) Chair (359) Editions (351) Page (230) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Active filters Lessons Event Jacques Livage Light and color Special events 9 Feb 2009 19:00 - 20:00 Series Transnational history of museums in Europe Bénédicte Savoy, chair Cultural history of art heritage in Europe, 18th-20th centuries Lecture 14 Feb 2018 → 11 Apr 2018 Series Babel on the Nile : multilingualism and multiculturalism in Late Antique Egypt (3) Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Lecture After last year's focus on the emergence of a new written form of Egyptian, Coptic, in the 3rd century A.D., and an examination of the environments in which it developed and the ways in which it was disseminated, this year's lectures examine the way in … 14 Feb 2018 → 11 Apr 2018 Event Edouard Bard Extreme climates and analogues : the Holocene optimum (4) Lecture 13 Mar 2020 15:00 - 16:30 Event Lluis Quintana-Murci Natural selection and man's adaptation to his environment Lecture Analysis of the extent of natural selection in the human genome has proved crucial in identifying the genes responsible for the morphological and physiological diversity of populations, and has led to a better understanding of the nature of adaptive … 13 Mar 2020 14:00 - 15:30 Event John Toner Birth, Death, and Flight: The Hydrodynamics of Malthusian Flocks Guest lecturer I'll present the hydrodynamic theory of "Malthusian Flocks": moving aggregates of self-propelled entities (e.g., organisms, cytoskeletal actin, microtubules in mitotic spindles) that reproduce and die. Long-ranged order is possible in these systems, even … 16 Dec 2019 15:00 - 16:00 Event Bénédicte Savoy Army and museums Lecture This lecture, cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was recorded in Berlin by Pr Bénédicte Savoy with the help of cameraman and editor Timur El Rafie. The first measures to put an end to the culture of booty, intimately linked to the practice of war, … 13 Mar 2020 11:00 - 12:00 Event François Recanati Descriptivism and anti-descriptivism Lecture In the Frege-inspired " descriptivist " conception, in order to be able to refer to an object, the subject must possess an identifying description of that object, or a globally identifying set of information (a mental file). However, it seems that we can … 12 Mar 2020 15:30 - 17:00 Event François-Xavier Fauvelle Reflections in a ball of gold (1) Lecture Sultan Mûsâ of Mâli is depicted on the Catalan Atlas (1375) : examine his royal insignia. What is the significance of the golden ball he holds in his hand and presents to the world ? Text and translation of the legend into Catalan. Investigation of the … 12 Dec 2019 15:00 - 16:15 Event Claire Voisin Study of Jacobian rings : the symmetrization lemma and applications. Generic Torelli theorem for hypersurfaces ; study of the Abel-Jacobi application, I Lecture 12 Mar 2020 10:00 - 12:00 Event Korshi Dosoo Towards a history of magic libraries Seminar 12 Mar 2020 15:30 - 17:00 Event Thomas Römer What the Bible owes to the Levant and Mesopotamia Lecture The Fertile Crescent This geographical area (water-rich, fertile territories stretching from Mesopotamia to Egypt, including the area around the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, as well as the Levant) is the meeting place of the different cultures that gave … 12 Mar 2020 14:00 - 15:00 Series Applied electrochemistry : role of electrolytes and interfaces for storage and conversion devices Jean-Marie Tarascon, chair Chemistry of Materials and Energy Seminar 12 Feb 2018 → 19 Mar 2018 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge The status of heroes : poetic definitions (2) Lecture Abstract We have seen that, in Hesiod, men of the golden species received, after their death, a royal geras by becoming " daimones on the earth ", while men of silver received a timē as " blessed mortals under the earth ". After a brief semantic study of … 12 Mar 2020 11:00 - 12:00 Series Applied electrochemistry : the role of electrolytes and interfaces for storage and conversion devices Jean-Marie Tarascon, chair Chemistry of Materials and Energy Lecture In today's energy context, electrochemical energy storage plays a key role in facilitating electric mobility and the development of renewable energies. This sector is in a constant state of emulation, with notable advances being made time and again. I've … 12 Feb 2018 → 19 Mar 2018 Event Philippe Roussin The Bibliothèque de la Pléiade Seminar Abstract The Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, one of the most prestigious collections in French publishing, was launched in 1931 by Jacques Schiffrin, with a volume devoted to Charles Baudelaire. To date, it counts 227 authors and 750 titles, and plays an … 11 Mar 2020 15:00 - 16:00 Event William Marx Solitude, reef, star Lecture Abstract If we take up the thread of reflection on libraries, the question is this : how do we give presence to the library ? How can we materialize the forces that move it, how can we make visible the textual spaces that the library houses ? For the … 11 Mar 2020 14:00 - 15:00 Event Shihab Shamma Physiological models of hearing Seminar Abstract This seminar presents the signal processing procedures that appear in the cochlea and in the first auditory areas of the cortical system. This system takes a one-dimensional sound wave as input and transforms it at various levels into … 11 Mar 2020 11:00 - 12:30 Event Stéphane Mallat Wavelets for images Lecture Abstract The wavelet transform is extended in two dimensions to images by defining several wavelets that are rotated, expanded and translated. The wavelet coefficients are calculated using convolutions. This representation is again shown to be stable and … 11 Mar 2020 09:30 - 11:00 Event Dario Mantovani Equity : being in the same boat Lecture Only the first lecture was able to take place, due to health restrictions linked to the pandemic. The word equity has always been a way of expressing the desire for justice. But how can we agree on its content, if the desire for justice arises precisely … 11 Mar 2020 15:00 - 16:00 Event Tommy Kirchhausen Imaging Subcellular Dynamics from Molecules to Multicellular Organisms Seminar 24 Jan 2020 14:00 - 15:00 Event Jean-Luc Fournet Home libraries (2) Lecture Private libraries (2) The Aurelia Ptolemaïs family library This library is thought to have been built up in the 3rd century , before being discarded in the 4th century . Following an investigation based on two documents, it was possible to reconstruct … 11 Mar 2020 11:00 - 12:00 Event Nathalie Heinich The ends of literary production in a vocational context Seminar 10 Mar 2020 17:45 - 18:45 Event Antoine Compagnon " Nothing is more " Lecture Our examination of the ends of literature led us first to reflect on the cessation of activity : when and how does one stop ? The swan song is a metaphor for the end of an individual's career, but also for the end of an entire art form, the end of art : … 10 Mar 2020 16:30 - 17:30 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 337 Page 338 Page 339 Page 340 Page 341 Page 342 Page 343 Page 344 Page 345 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Series Transnational history of museums in Europe Bénédicte Savoy, chair Cultural history of art heritage in Europe, 18th-20th centuries Lecture 14 Feb 2018 → 11 Apr 2018
Series Babel on the Nile : multilingualism and multiculturalism in Late Antique Egypt (3) Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Lecture After last year's focus on the emergence of a new written form of Egyptian, Coptic, in the 3rd century A.D., and an examination of the environments in which it developed and the ways in which it was disseminated, this year's lectures examine the way in … 14 Feb 2018 → 11 Apr 2018
Event Edouard Bard Extreme climates and analogues : the Holocene optimum (4) Lecture 13 Mar 2020 15:00 - 16:30
Event Lluis Quintana-Murci Natural selection and man's adaptation to his environment Lecture Analysis of the extent of natural selection in the human genome has proved crucial in identifying the genes responsible for the morphological and physiological diversity of populations, and has led to a better understanding of the nature of adaptive … 13 Mar 2020 14:00 - 15:30
Event John Toner Birth, Death, and Flight: The Hydrodynamics of Malthusian Flocks Guest lecturer I'll present the hydrodynamic theory of "Malthusian Flocks": moving aggregates of self-propelled entities (e.g., organisms, cytoskeletal actin, microtubules in mitotic spindles) that reproduce and die. Long-ranged order is possible in these systems, even … 16 Dec 2019 15:00 - 16:00
Event Bénédicte Savoy Army and museums Lecture This lecture, cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was recorded in Berlin by Pr Bénédicte Savoy with the help of cameraman and editor Timur El Rafie. The first measures to put an end to the culture of booty, intimately linked to the practice of war, … 13 Mar 2020 11:00 - 12:00
Event François Recanati Descriptivism and anti-descriptivism Lecture In the Frege-inspired " descriptivist " conception, in order to be able to refer to an object, the subject must possess an identifying description of that object, or a globally identifying set of information (a mental file). However, it seems that we can … 12 Mar 2020 15:30 - 17:00
Event François-Xavier Fauvelle Reflections in a ball of gold (1) Lecture Sultan Mûsâ of Mâli is depicted on the Catalan Atlas (1375) : examine his royal insignia. What is the significance of the golden ball he holds in his hand and presents to the world ? Text and translation of the legend into Catalan. Investigation of the … 12 Dec 2019 15:00 - 16:15
Event Claire Voisin Study of Jacobian rings : the symmetrization lemma and applications. Generic Torelli theorem for hypersurfaces ; study of the Abel-Jacobi application, I Lecture 12 Mar 2020 10:00 - 12:00
Event Thomas Römer What the Bible owes to the Levant and Mesopotamia Lecture The Fertile Crescent This geographical area (water-rich, fertile territories stretching from Mesopotamia to Egypt, including the area around the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, as well as the Levant) is the meeting place of the different cultures that gave … 12 Mar 2020 14:00 - 15:00
Series Applied electrochemistry : role of electrolytes and interfaces for storage and conversion devices Jean-Marie Tarascon, chair Chemistry of Materials and Energy Seminar 12 Feb 2018 → 19 Mar 2018
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge The status of heroes : poetic definitions (2) Lecture Abstract We have seen that, in Hesiod, men of the golden species received, after their death, a royal geras by becoming " daimones on the earth ", while men of silver received a timē as " blessed mortals under the earth ". After a brief semantic study of … 12 Mar 2020 11:00 - 12:00
Series Applied electrochemistry : the role of electrolytes and interfaces for storage and conversion devices Jean-Marie Tarascon, chair Chemistry of Materials and Energy Lecture In today's energy context, electrochemical energy storage plays a key role in facilitating electric mobility and the development of renewable energies. This sector is in a constant state of emulation, with notable advances being made time and again. I've … 12 Feb 2018 → 19 Mar 2018
Event Philippe Roussin The Bibliothèque de la Pléiade Seminar Abstract The Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, one of the most prestigious collections in French publishing, was launched in 1931 by Jacques Schiffrin, with a volume devoted to Charles Baudelaire. To date, it counts 227 authors and 750 titles, and plays an … 11 Mar 2020 15:00 - 16:00
Event William Marx Solitude, reef, star Lecture Abstract If we take up the thread of reflection on libraries, the question is this : how do we give presence to the library ? How can we materialize the forces that move it, how can we make visible the textual spaces that the library houses ? For the … 11 Mar 2020 14:00 - 15:00
Event Shihab Shamma Physiological models of hearing Seminar Abstract This seminar presents the signal processing procedures that appear in the cochlea and in the first auditory areas of the cortical system. This system takes a one-dimensional sound wave as input and transforms it at various levels into … 11 Mar 2020 11:00 - 12:30
Event Stéphane Mallat Wavelets for images Lecture Abstract The wavelet transform is extended in two dimensions to images by defining several wavelets that are rotated, expanded and translated. The wavelet coefficients are calculated using convolutions. This representation is again shown to be stable and … 11 Mar 2020 09:30 - 11:00
Event Dario Mantovani Equity : being in the same boat Lecture Only the first lecture was able to take place, due to health restrictions linked to the pandemic. The word equity has always been a way of expressing the desire for justice. But how can we agree on its content, if the desire for justice arises precisely … 11 Mar 2020 15:00 - 16:00
Event Tommy Kirchhausen Imaging Subcellular Dynamics from Molecules to Multicellular Organisms Seminar 24 Jan 2020 14:00 - 15:00
Event Jean-Luc Fournet Home libraries (2) Lecture Private libraries (2) The Aurelia Ptolemaïs family library This library is thought to have been built up in the 3rd century , before being discarded in the 4th century . Following an investigation based on two documents, it was possible to reconstruct … 11 Mar 2020 11:00 - 12:00
Event Nathalie Heinich The ends of literary production in a vocational context Seminar 10 Mar 2020 17:45 - 18:45
Event Antoine Compagnon " Nothing is more " Lecture Our examination of the ends of literature led us first to reflect on the cessation of activity : when and how does one stop ? The swan song is a metaphor for the end of an individual's career, but also for the end of an entire art form, the end of art : … 10 Mar 2020 16:30 - 17:30