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Abstract The snowpack that accumulates in the mountains every year is a precious natural water reservoir for humans, retaining winter precipitation and releasing it in spring at the right time to irrigate crops. What's more, the snowpack is a powerful …

Abstract Earth observation by satellite began a few years after the launch of the first artificial satellites. The first   instruments aboard these satellites were designed for imaging purposes, mainly to visualize cloud systems. Soon, more sophisticated …

Abstract This session explores the question of the universality of science. Even more than natural law or the language of civilization, isn't science at the heart of conceptions of the universal developed in the 18th century    ? To understand what is at …

Abstract We begin by demonstrating that, for a random hyperbolic surface of large genus, the spectral hole is close to 1/4, with probability tending towards 1. The "trace method" consists in controlling the spectral hole by the number of large periodic …

Abstract Context and vocalization make Hebrew one of the most polysemous languages. Readers of the Bible are constantly forced to make trade-offs: they have to accept misunderstandings, or rather misreadings , and the impossibility of a faithful, reliable …

Abstract In a world that has never seemed so dangerous, why read literature ? Many would say, including Pope Francis : to better understand this world, to better penetrate its reality. This is particularly true when we place ourselves under the realist …

Abstract Can the sociological and anthropological concept of patriarchy, which has become a fighting name in contemporary feminist struggles, be applied to the Middle Ages? You'd think so, given that the concept of paternitas semantically configures all …