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This year I gave my lecture at the Newton Institute in Cambridge as part of a six-month program on noncommutative geometry. Most of my mathematical activity has consisted in completing the book written with Matilde Marcolli and entitled : " Noncommutative …

The lecture follows on from the 2006-2007 course on "Disinterest". Taken together, they constitute a critique of the homo economicus model in the social sciences. The standard model of rational choice will first be outlined, followed by an examination of …

In my lecture this year, I gave the solution to a problem I formulated a few years ago, which gives a spectral characterization of Riemannian …

After tackling the problems of production (2001-2002) and the economic aspects of consumption (2000-2001), the lecture then turned its attention to markets, successively reviewing labor and insurance markets (2002-2003), goods markets and oligopolistic …

For the second year running, the lecture focused on Proust's work, but, after "Proust: Memory of Literature" in 2006-2007, on a new and completely different subject, "Proust's Morals", a risky subject from both sides: on the moral side, as morality has …

The remarkable ability to generate an embryo from a single fertilized oocyte, to periodically replace dying cells within tissues and to repair tissues damaged during injury, is a direct consequence of stem cells, nature's gift to multicellular …