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Jean-Marie Chevalier
From logical to metaphysical forms : abstraction or deduction ?
Symposium
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Introduction by Claudine Tiercelin. …
14:00 to 15:00

Composer : Music. Paradox. Flux.
Pascal Dusapin, chair Artistic creation
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Immanuel Bloch
Probing and Controlling Quantum Matter Using Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases
Seminar
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11:00 to 12:00

Serge Haroche
Controlling isolated quantum particles (4)
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Summary The fourth lesson described non-destructive photon counting (QND) experiments. They are based on the measurement of light energy shifts induced on Rydberg atoms passing through the cavity one by one. These experiments, which require a cavity with …
09:30 to 10:30

Carnap, Cassirer and Heidegger: the Davos Disputation and twentieth-century Philosophy
Jacques Bouveresse, chair Philosophy of language and knowledge
Guest lecturer
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Introduction to mesoscopic physics : electrons and photons
Michel Devoret, chair Mesoscopic physics
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This introductory lecture on mesoscopic physics comprised two lessons given on June 7 and 14 2007. Its aim was to discuss a selection of basic concepts in this field and compare their treatment with approaches used in atomic …
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Alain Supiot
Judging : from prudence to calculation
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14:30 to 15:30

Democratic universalism in question : a new paradigm
Pierre Rosanvallon, chair Modern and contemporary history of politics
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Anny Cazenave
The Earth and its environment seen from space
Opening lecture
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Abstract In recent decades, observation of the Earth from space has profoundly changed the way we look at our planet and its environment. While providing a better understanding of the various components of the "Earth system" (solid globe, oceans, …
18:00 to 19:00

Jean-Louis Mandel
Lecture 2 - Genetic diseases and parental genomic imprinting (1)
Lecture
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16:00 to 17:00

Hubert Balique
Reducing maternal mortality : a prospect within reach for Sub-Saharan African countries
Seminar
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Abstract Events in northern Mali during 2012 have led to a triple human tragedy: over 1 million people remaining in the occupied zone have been cut off from contact with the national healthcare system for 8 months; almost 200,000 people have fled the …
12:00 to 13:00

Dominique Kerouedan
Comparative geopolitics of bilateral health aid in Africa
Lecture
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Documents and media Download support Growth of International Health - An Analysis and History Reforming Development Assistance - Lessons from the UK Experience Health and Development - Fifty Years of French Cooperation in Africa Health and development: …
11:00 to 12:00

Jean-David Benamou
A method for numerically solving the " second " boundary problem associated with the Monge-Ampère equation
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11:15 to 12:30

Roger Chartier
Connected textual histories. Geography of works, geography of books. Case studies (11)
Lecture
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10:00 to 12:00

Thomas Römer
Friendship, love, sexuality (part2)
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In biblical Hebrew, the semantic field of 'ahab covers love, sexuality, friendship and loyalty. In many creation stories, the sexual union of the gods is the origin of life on earth. In Sumer, the god Enlil, who separates heaven and earth, gives birth to …
14:00 to 15:00

Reading Sanskrit inscriptions from the Gupta period
Gérard Fussman, chair History of the Indian world
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Andrew J. Hamilton
Scale and the Inca Landscape
Seminar
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10:00 to 12:00

Pierre Kervella
Innovative techniques for calibrating Cepheid distance scales
Seminar
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17:00 to 18:00

Claudia Senik
Growth and well-being
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17:30 to 18:30

Carlo Ossola
Erasmus and Europe : from Johan Huizinga to Marcel Bataillon (11)
Lecture
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17:00 to 18:00

Antoine Labeyrie
Lost planets as gravitational lenses : observability of diffractive focusing
Lecture
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16:00 to 17:00

Roger Guesnerie
Does GDP make people happy? (1)
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16:30 to 17:30

Claudine Tiercelin
Metaphysics of natural species (8)
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Abstract The eighth lesson first examined attempts to rescue Kripkean analysis, aiming to treat EN terms as predicates rather than common nouns, and theoretical identities as universally quantified conditionals and biconditionals (Soames [1] ), or to say …
14:30 to 16:00

Kamran Behnia
Thermoelectricity as a sensitive probe of the electronic structure of solids
Seminar
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Under the effect of a thermal gradient, the electrons in a solid produce an electric field. In the presence of a magnetic field, this electric field has a transverse component. These two effects, Seebeck and Nernst, are a valuable source of information on …
11:15 to 12:15