Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 23960 results Filters Content type Content type (-) Lessons (23960) News (1720) People (1359) Chair (359) Editions (357) Page (230) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Active filters Lessons Series The microbiome : the hidden face of the planet microbe-human Philippe Sansonetti, chair Microbiology and infectious diseases Lecture " There are more animals living in the deposits that accumulate on the teeth in everyone's mouth than there are human beings in an entire kingdom, especially among those who never brush their teeth. " Antonie van Leeuwenhoek … 11 Dec 2013 → 29 Jan 2014 Event Touatia Amraoui Urban crafts in ancient North Africa (1) Seminar Abstract In the course of archaeological excavations in Algeria's ancient cities, vestiges of economic life have been uncovered and sometimes observed, but never systematically, nor with sufficient care and interest to enable us to draw coherent readings … 25 Oct 2016 10:00 to 11:00 Event Alain Prochiantz Neurogenesis and cortical surface Lecture The size of the cortex depends to a large extent on the number of neural stem cells and their divisions prior to differentiation into neurons. The lecture therefore focused on the cellular and genetic mechanisms involved in amplifying the number of … 24 Oct 2016 17:00 to 18:30 Series What is the name of the poet ? (continued) Michel Zink, chair Literatures of medieval France Lecture The 2013-2014 lecture continued on from the previous year, using examples to explore in greater depth the answer to the question posed: "What is the poet's name?". We began by recalling the meaning of this question and the approach taken to answer it. The … 11 Dec 2013 → 19 Feb 2014 Event Robert Lazarsfeld Measures of Irrationality for Hypersurfaces of Large Degree Symposium Given an n-dimensional smooth hypersurface X of degree d in projective space, it is elementary that X is irrational when d > n+1, but it is interesting to ask "how irrational" such a hypersurface can be. We discuss various measures of irrationality, and … 5 Oct 2016 15:15 to 16:15 Event Olivier Debarre Unexpected Isomorphisms Between Hyperkähler Fourfolds Symposium Using Verbitsky's Torelli theorem, we show the existence of various isomorphisms between certain hyperkähler fourfolds. … 5 Oct 2016 14:00 to 15:00 Event Enrico Arbarello Polarized Halphen Surfaces and du Val Curves Symposium A genus-g du Val curve is a degree-3g plane curve having 8 points of multiplicity g, one point of multiplicity g-1, and no other singularity. In a joint work with A. Bruno, G. Farkas and G. Saccà, we prove that a general du Val curve is … 5 Oct 2016 11:30 to 12:30 Event Giulia Saccà Intermediate Jacobians and Hyperkahler Manifolds Symposium In recent years, there have been an increasing number of connections between cubic 4folds and hyperkahler manifolds. The first instance of this was noticed by Beauville- Donagi, who showed that the Fano varieties of lines on a cubic 4folds X is … 4 Oct 2016 16:30 to 17:30 Event Rahul Pandharipande Tautological Classes on the Moduli Space of K3 Surfaces Symposium I will discuss kappa classes on the moduli space of quasi-polarized K3 surfaces and relations obtained from the moduli spaces of stable maps to the universal family. I will explain the proof of the generation of the tautological ring by Noether-Lefschetz … 4 Oct 2016 15:00 to 16:00 Event Jean-Pierre Demailly Extension of Holomorphic Functions Defined on Non Reduced Analytic Subvarieties Symposium The goal of the talk will be to discuss L" extension properties of holomorphic sections of vector bundles satisfying weak semi-positivity properties. Using techniques borrowed from recent proofs of the Ohsawa-Takegoshi extension theorem, we obtain several … 4 Oct 2016 10:00 to 11:00 Event Daniel Huybrechts The Global Torelli Theorem for Cubic Fourfolds via the Jacobi Ring and the Derived Global Torelli Theorem for K3 Surfaces Symposium I will report on an approach to the GT for cubic fourfolds that uses the relation beween Kuznetsov's K3 category associated with any cubic fourfold and K3 … 3 Oct 2016 16:30 to 17:30 Event John Parkington Symptoms of Modernity: behavioural innovations in the South African Middle Stone Age Seminar In his seminar, John Parkington (University of Cape Town) detailed the accumulation of innovations that characterized the late Middle Stone Age in South Africa. These innovations concerned both the technical and symbolic spheres. They brought the … 18 Oct 2016 18:00 to 19:00 Event Jean-Jacques Hublin The first " modern men Lecture The earliest forms considered to be close to "anatomically modern man" are known from East Africa, from 200,000 years before present. In reality, neither paleontological data nor the coalescence point of present-day genomes allow us to rigorously … 18 Oct 2016 17:00 to 18:00 Series Thinking the world in the 17th century : an imperfect history Sanjay Subrahmanyam, chair A global history of early modernity Lecture Appointed by presidential decree dated April 19, 2013, I delivered my opening lecture on November 28, entitled At the Origins of Global History . In this lecture, after a quick overview of historiographical trends over the long term, I proposed that the … 02 Dec 2013 → 16 Jun 2014 Event Kieran O'Grady Git Versus BB Compactification for the Moduli Space of Quartic Surfaces Symposium This is a report on joint work with Radu Laza. The period map from the GIT moduli space of quartic surfaces to the Baily-Borel compactification of the period space is birational but far from regular. New birational models of locally symmetric varieties of … 3 Oct 2016 15:00 to 16:00 Event Gavril Farkas K3 Surfaces Of Genus 14 via Cubic Fourfolds Symposium In a celebrated series of papers, Mukai established structure theorems for polarized K3 surfaces of all genera g21, with the exception of the case g=14. Using Hassett's identification between the moduli space of polarized K3 surfaces of genus 14 and the … 3 Oct 2016 11:45 to 12:45 Event Enrico Arbarello On Hyperplane Sections of k3 Surfaces (1) Guest lecturer 6 Oct 2016 14:00 to 15:00 Event Pierre-Louis Lions HJB equations and extensions of classical stochastic control theory (1) Lecture 21 Oct 2016 09:00 to 10:00 Event Claire Voisin Topology of algebraic varieties (5) Lecture 20 Oct 2016 10:00 to 11:00 Series Causation: New Prospects Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Symposium Air movements encountering an inclined curved surface . Chronophotography on a fixed plate, Etienne-Jules Marey, 1901 In the last forty years, the philosophy of causality has undergone considerable development, although it is not certain that this has … 05 Dec 2013 → 06 Dec 2013 Series A global history of early modernity Sanjay Subrahmanyam, chair A global history of early modernity Opening lecture 28 Nov 2013 Series Readings from the Treatise on Rites (Liji) Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Seminar A good knowledge of classical Chinese is required for the seminar. In direct connection with the lecture, this new seminar, conducted with the participation of Mr. Marc Kalinowski, Director of Studies at the EPHE, 5th section, and Mr. Stéphane Feuillas, … 05 Dec 2013 → 13 Feb 2014 Series Readings from Su Shi's Commentary on the Zhouyi (continued) Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Seminar A good knowledge of classical Chinese is required for the seminar. The seminar, conducted jointly with Mr. Stéphane Feuillas, lecturer at the University of Paris 7-Denis Diderot, continued to read the Classic of Change in the commentary devoted to it by … 05 Dec 2013 → 13 Feb 2014 Series Is Confucianism a humanism ? Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Lecture In our previous attempts to "revisit" and then "resurrect" Confucius, we have noted that the text of the Talks ( Lunyu in Chinese) usually associated with him is currently being dismantled piece by piece, to the point where the unity, coherence and … 05 Dec 2013 → 13 Feb 2014 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 523 Page 524 Page 525 Page 526 Page 527 Page 528 Page 529 Page 530 Page 531 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Series The microbiome : the hidden face of the planet microbe-human Philippe Sansonetti, chair Microbiology and infectious diseases Lecture " There are more animals living in the deposits that accumulate on the teeth in everyone's mouth than there are human beings in an entire kingdom, especially among those who never brush their teeth. " Antonie van Leeuwenhoek … 11 Dec 2013 → 29 Jan 2014
Event Touatia Amraoui Urban crafts in ancient North Africa (1) Seminar Abstract In the course of archaeological excavations in Algeria's ancient cities, vestiges of economic life have been uncovered and sometimes observed, but never systematically, nor with sufficient care and interest to enable us to draw coherent readings … 25 Oct 2016 10:00 to 11:00
Event Alain Prochiantz Neurogenesis and cortical surface Lecture The size of the cortex depends to a large extent on the number of neural stem cells and their divisions prior to differentiation into neurons. The lecture therefore focused on the cellular and genetic mechanisms involved in amplifying the number of … 24 Oct 2016 17:00 to 18:30
Series What is the name of the poet ? (continued) Michel Zink, chair Literatures of medieval France Lecture The 2013-2014 lecture continued on from the previous year, using examples to explore in greater depth the answer to the question posed: "What is the poet's name?". We began by recalling the meaning of this question and the approach taken to answer it. The … 11 Dec 2013 → 19 Feb 2014
Event Robert Lazarsfeld Measures of Irrationality for Hypersurfaces of Large Degree Symposium Given an n-dimensional smooth hypersurface X of degree d in projective space, it is elementary that X is irrational when d > n+1, but it is interesting to ask "how irrational" such a hypersurface can be. We discuss various measures of irrationality, and … 5 Oct 2016 15:15 to 16:15
Event Olivier Debarre Unexpected Isomorphisms Between Hyperkähler Fourfolds Symposium Using Verbitsky's Torelli theorem, we show the existence of various isomorphisms between certain hyperkähler fourfolds. … 5 Oct 2016 14:00 to 15:00
Event Enrico Arbarello Polarized Halphen Surfaces and du Val Curves Symposium A genus-g du Val curve is a degree-3g plane curve having 8 points of multiplicity g, one point of multiplicity g-1, and no other singularity. In a joint work with A. Bruno, G. Farkas and G. Saccà, we prove that a general du Val curve is … 5 Oct 2016 11:30 to 12:30
Event Giulia Saccà Intermediate Jacobians and Hyperkahler Manifolds Symposium In recent years, there have been an increasing number of connections between cubic 4folds and hyperkahler manifolds. The first instance of this was noticed by Beauville- Donagi, who showed that the Fano varieties of lines on a cubic 4folds X is … 4 Oct 2016 16:30 to 17:30
Event Rahul Pandharipande Tautological Classes on the Moduli Space of K3 Surfaces Symposium I will discuss kappa classes on the moduli space of quasi-polarized K3 surfaces and relations obtained from the moduli spaces of stable maps to the universal family. I will explain the proof of the generation of the tautological ring by Noether-Lefschetz … 4 Oct 2016 15:00 to 16:00
Event Jean-Pierre Demailly Extension of Holomorphic Functions Defined on Non Reduced Analytic Subvarieties Symposium The goal of the talk will be to discuss L" extension properties of holomorphic sections of vector bundles satisfying weak semi-positivity properties. Using techniques borrowed from recent proofs of the Ohsawa-Takegoshi extension theorem, we obtain several … 4 Oct 2016 10:00 to 11:00
Event Daniel Huybrechts The Global Torelli Theorem for Cubic Fourfolds via the Jacobi Ring and the Derived Global Torelli Theorem for K3 Surfaces Symposium I will report on an approach to the GT for cubic fourfolds that uses the relation beween Kuznetsov's K3 category associated with any cubic fourfold and K3 … 3 Oct 2016 16:30 to 17:30
Event John Parkington Symptoms of Modernity: behavioural innovations in the South African Middle Stone Age Seminar In his seminar, John Parkington (University of Cape Town) detailed the accumulation of innovations that characterized the late Middle Stone Age in South Africa. These innovations concerned both the technical and symbolic spheres. They brought the … 18 Oct 2016 18:00 to 19:00
Event Jean-Jacques Hublin The first " modern men Lecture The earliest forms considered to be close to "anatomically modern man" are known from East Africa, from 200,000 years before present. In reality, neither paleontological data nor the coalescence point of present-day genomes allow us to rigorously … 18 Oct 2016 17:00 to 18:00
Series Thinking the world in the 17th century : an imperfect history Sanjay Subrahmanyam, chair A global history of early modernity Lecture Appointed by presidential decree dated April 19, 2013, I delivered my opening lecture on November 28, entitled At the Origins of Global History . In this lecture, after a quick overview of historiographical trends over the long term, I proposed that the … 02 Dec 2013 → 16 Jun 2014
Event Kieran O'Grady Git Versus BB Compactification for the Moduli Space of Quartic Surfaces Symposium This is a report on joint work with Radu Laza. The period map from the GIT moduli space of quartic surfaces to the Baily-Borel compactification of the period space is birational but far from regular. New birational models of locally symmetric varieties of … 3 Oct 2016 15:00 to 16:00
Event Gavril Farkas K3 Surfaces Of Genus 14 via Cubic Fourfolds Symposium In a celebrated series of papers, Mukai established structure theorems for polarized K3 surfaces of all genera g21, with the exception of the case g=14. Using Hassett's identification between the moduli space of polarized K3 surfaces of genus 14 and the … 3 Oct 2016 11:45 to 12:45
Event Enrico Arbarello On Hyperplane Sections of k3 Surfaces (1) Guest lecturer 6 Oct 2016 14:00 to 15:00
Event Pierre-Louis Lions HJB equations and extensions of classical stochastic control theory (1) Lecture 21 Oct 2016 09:00 to 10:00
Series Causation: New Prospects Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Symposium Air movements encountering an inclined curved surface . Chronophotography on a fixed plate, Etienne-Jules Marey, 1901 In the last forty years, the philosophy of causality has undergone considerable development, although it is not certain that this has … 05 Dec 2013 → 06 Dec 2013
Series A global history of early modernity Sanjay Subrahmanyam, chair A global history of early modernity Opening lecture 28 Nov 2013
Series Readings from the Treatise on Rites (Liji) Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Seminar A good knowledge of classical Chinese is required for the seminar. In direct connection with the lecture, this new seminar, conducted with the participation of Mr. Marc Kalinowski, Director of Studies at the EPHE, 5th section, and Mr. Stéphane Feuillas, … 05 Dec 2013 → 13 Feb 2014
Series Readings from Su Shi's Commentary on the Zhouyi (continued) Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Seminar A good knowledge of classical Chinese is required for the seminar. The seminar, conducted jointly with Mr. Stéphane Feuillas, lecturer at the University of Paris 7-Denis Diderot, continued to read the Classic of Change in the commentary devoted to it by … 05 Dec 2013 → 13 Feb 2014
Series Is Confucianism a humanism ? Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Lecture In our previous attempts to "revisit" and then "resurrect" Confucius, we have noted that the text of the Talks ( Lunyu in Chinese) usually associated with him is currently being dismantled piece by piece, to the point where the unity, coherence and … 05 Dec 2013 → 13 Feb 2014
