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Transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, it circulates endemically in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, and appears to be … 11 Mar 2019 17:00 - 18:00 Event Jean-Marie Tarascon Non-invasive detection and self-repair techniques for tomorrow's smart batteries : some approaches Lecture Abstract In this final lecture, we look at the importance of electrochemistry in harnessing blue energy, i.e. the energy derived from the mixing of liquids with different salt concentrations, such as freshwater and seawater via the phenomenon of osmosis. … 11 Mar 2019 16:30 - 17:30 Event Alain de Libera Deconstruction and reconstruction (end). Rewriting the history of medieval philosophy (6) Lecture Documents and media Download support … 11 Mar 2019 17:00 - 19:00 Event Nicolas Grimal The oldest book in the world (9) Seminar 11 Mar 2019 15:00 - 16:00 Event Jean-François Joanny Active gel theory Lecture Abstract The fourth lecture was devoted to the derivation of the theory of active gels that we have made with Frank Jülicher, Jacques Prost and other collaborators. This theory describes the behavior of active matter when momentum is conserved. It is a … 11 Mar 2019 15:30 - 17:00 Event Nicolas Grimal Calamus and stone (continued) (9) Lecture 11 Mar 2019 14:00 - 15:00 Series Free Will and Causation Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Symposium The symposium is in English. One major challenge philosophers face in order to understand human free will is to locate it within the realm of natural causes: is free agency compatible or incompatible with the fabric of causal relations? Does free will … 22 Sep 2016 → 23 Sep 2016 Event Edouard Bard Extreme climates and current analogues : from the last millennia to the Holocene optimum (3) Lecture Abstract China's climate is dominated by the monsoon phenomenon, characterized by a marked seasonality of wind and rain. In summer, humid air masses from the Indian Ocean and eastern Pacific generate intense rainfall in the south and east of the country. … 8 Mar 2019 15:00 - 16:00 Event Bénédicte Savoy To each his own universal Lecture Abstract Although the term " musée universel " does not appear in 19th-century sources , the idea that the Louvre, then Napoleon's museum, is the most beautiful museum in the world is found in numerous texts published at the time, notably in the writings … 8 Mar 2019 11:00 - 12:00 Event Pierre-Michel Menger " Less is more : uncertainty, learning Lecture 8 Mar 2019 10:00 - 12:00 Event Korshi Dosoo Christianity and magic papyri Seminar Abstract Korshi Dosoo has proposed three different ways of conceiving the Christianization of magical practices through the papyri: transformation, reinvention and replacement. To analyze these three dynamics, he first attempted a definition of " magic " … 7 Mar 2019 15:30 - 17:00 Event Jean-Luc Fournet Introduction Symposium 7 Dec 2018 10:00 - 10:05 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Daimōn in the Homeric epic Lecture Abstract The Odyssey does not offer the context of blood and fury that characterizes the Iliad when a daimōn seizes a warrior on the battlefield, but the contexts in which it intervenes nevertheless overlap with the conclusions reached in the analysis of … 7 Mar 2019 11:00 - 12:00 Event Anne-Christine Taylor " Sauvagement individualistes " - The making of singularity in the Jivaro world Seminar 7 Mar 2019 10:00 - 12:00 Event Patricia Oster Stierle Ungaretti and his reception in Germany Seminar 7 Mar 2019 10:00 - 12:00 Event Carlo Ossola In praise of description (9) Lecture 6 Mar 2019 17:00 - 18:00 Event Dario Mantovani " In everything, the beginning is the most powerful part " : the legal past of the Romans as seen by themselves Lecture Abstract In the 2nd century AD, the jurist Gaius wrote (D. , 1, 2, 1) : " I note in all things that what is perfect is that which is composed of all its parts ; and, certainly, the most powerful part is the beginning ". Gaius was thinking about the role … 6 Mar 2019 14:30 - 15:30 Event Philippe Descola What is ? (6) Lecture 6 Mar 2019 14:00 - 15:00 Event Jean-Luc Fournet Introductory lecture (4) : the Christianization of Egypt (continued) Lecture Abstract While documentary papyri are a priori the most reliable source for studying the pace of Christianization of the population, a broad statistical basis has yet to be established for assessing changes in the numerical ratio between Christians and … 6 Mar 2019 11:00 - 12:00 Event Jean-Noël Robert Genji at the convent Lecture Documents and media Download support … 5 Mar 2019 10:30 - 11:30 Event Hubert Girault Hybrid storage and conversion systems Seminar Abstract The need for energy distribution infrastructure for mobility is set to change dramatically in the near future. We have shown the advantages that stationary batteries bring to the design of filling stations for electric vehicles, before going on … 4 Mar 2019 17:30 - 18:30 Event Ramin Golestanian Phoretic Active Matter Seminar Abstract Ramin Golestanian's seminar reviewed theories on colloidal particles whose motion and hence activity are due to phoretic effects (thermophoresis, diffusiophoresis, etc.). A particularly interesting result is that, in many cases, if the … 4 Mar 2019 17:15 - 18:15 Event Arnaud Fontanet Hepatitis C in Egypt : elimination, at what price ? Lecture Abstract Egypt is the country with the world's largest hepatitis epidemic C. This epidemic is attributable to the transmission of the hepatitis virus C during campaigns to treat bilharzia with intravenous injections of antimony salts in the 1960s and … 4 Mar 2019 17:00 - 18:00 Event Jean-Marie Tarascon Electrochemistry for the storage and recovery of chemical elements through new and original concepts (blue energy and others) Lecture Abstract A derivative of the aqueous Zn-ion batteries described in the previous lecture is the polymer version, which relies on the use of stretchable polymer gels based on gelatin and polyacrylonitrile, or on hydrogels, which are hydrophilic networks … 4 Mar 2019 16:30 - 17:30 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 402 Page 403 Page 404 Page 405 Page 406 Page 407 Page 408 Page 409 Page 410 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Arnaud Fontanet Zika : the pact between mosquito and virus Lecture Abstract The Zika virus, named after the Ugandan forest where it was first identified in 1947, has long remained an exotic curiosity. Transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, it circulates endemically in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, and appears to be … 11 Mar 2019 17:00 - 18:00
Event Jean-Marie Tarascon Non-invasive detection and self-repair techniques for tomorrow's smart batteries : some approaches Lecture Abstract In this final lecture, we look at the importance of electrochemistry in harnessing blue energy, i.e. the energy derived from the mixing of liquids with different salt concentrations, such as freshwater and seawater via the phenomenon of osmosis. … 11 Mar 2019 16:30 - 17:30
Event Alain de Libera Deconstruction and reconstruction (end). Rewriting the history of medieval philosophy (6) Lecture Documents and media Download support … 11 Mar 2019 17:00 - 19:00
Event Jean-François Joanny Active gel theory Lecture Abstract The fourth lecture was devoted to the derivation of the theory of active gels that we have made with Frank Jülicher, Jacques Prost and other collaborators. This theory describes the behavior of active matter when momentum is conserved. It is a … 11 Mar 2019 15:30 - 17:00
Series Free Will and Causation Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Symposium The symposium is in English. One major challenge philosophers face in order to understand human free will is to locate it within the realm of natural causes: is free agency compatible or incompatible with the fabric of causal relations? Does free will … 22 Sep 2016 → 23 Sep 2016
Event Edouard Bard Extreme climates and current analogues : from the last millennia to the Holocene optimum (3) Lecture Abstract China's climate is dominated by the monsoon phenomenon, characterized by a marked seasonality of wind and rain. In summer, humid air masses from the Indian Ocean and eastern Pacific generate intense rainfall in the south and east of the country. … 8 Mar 2019 15:00 - 16:00
Event Bénédicte Savoy To each his own universal Lecture Abstract Although the term " musée universel " does not appear in 19th-century sources , the idea that the Louvre, then Napoleon's museum, is the most beautiful museum in the world is found in numerous texts published at the time, notably in the writings … 8 Mar 2019 11:00 - 12:00
Event Korshi Dosoo Christianity and magic papyri Seminar Abstract Korshi Dosoo has proposed three different ways of conceiving the Christianization of magical practices through the papyri: transformation, reinvention and replacement. To analyze these three dynamics, he first attempted a definition of " magic " … 7 Mar 2019 15:30 - 17:00
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Daimōn in the Homeric epic Lecture Abstract The Odyssey does not offer the context of blood and fury that characterizes the Iliad when a daimōn seizes a warrior on the battlefield, but the contexts in which it intervenes nevertheless overlap with the conclusions reached in the analysis of … 7 Mar 2019 11:00 - 12:00
Event Anne-Christine Taylor " Sauvagement individualistes " - The making of singularity in the Jivaro world Seminar 7 Mar 2019 10:00 - 12:00
Event Dario Mantovani " In everything, the beginning is the most powerful part " : the legal past of the Romans as seen by themselves Lecture Abstract In the 2nd century AD, the jurist Gaius wrote (D. , 1, 2, 1) : " I note in all things that what is perfect is that which is composed of all its parts ; and, certainly, the most powerful part is the beginning ". Gaius was thinking about the role … 6 Mar 2019 14:30 - 15:30
Event Jean-Luc Fournet Introductory lecture (4) : the Christianization of Egypt (continued) Lecture Abstract While documentary papyri are a priori the most reliable source for studying the pace of Christianization of the population, a broad statistical basis has yet to be established for assessing changes in the numerical ratio between Christians and … 6 Mar 2019 11:00 - 12:00
Event Jean-Noël Robert Genji at the convent Lecture Documents and media Download support … 5 Mar 2019 10:30 - 11:30
Event Hubert Girault Hybrid storage and conversion systems Seminar Abstract The need for energy distribution infrastructure for mobility is set to change dramatically in the near future. We have shown the advantages that stationary batteries bring to the design of filling stations for electric vehicles, before going on … 4 Mar 2019 17:30 - 18:30
Event Ramin Golestanian Phoretic Active Matter Seminar Abstract Ramin Golestanian's seminar reviewed theories on colloidal particles whose motion and hence activity are due to phoretic effects (thermophoresis, diffusiophoresis, etc.). A particularly interesting result is that, in many cases, if the … 4 Mar 2019 17:15 - 18:15
Event Arnaud Fontanet Hepatitis C in Egypt : elimination, at what price ? Lecture Abstract Egypt is the country with the world's largest hepatitis epidemic C. This epidemic is attributable to the transmission of the hepatitis virus C during campaigns to treat bilharzia with intravenous injections of antimony salts in the 1960s and … 4 Mar 2019 17:00 - 18:00
Event Jean-Marie Tarascon Electrochemistry for the storage and recovery of chemical elements through new and original concepts (blue energy and others) Lecture Abstract A derivative of the aqueous Zn-ion batteries described in the previous lecture is the polymer version, which relies on the use of stretchable polymer gels based on gelatin and polyacrylonitrile, or on hydrogels, which are hydrophilic networks … 4 Mar 2019 16:30 - 17:30
