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Jean Dalibard
Fourth session. Scientific debates and political decisions : the case of climate change. Coordination and Introduction
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9:00 - 9:10am

Anne-Yvonne le Dain
Media, scientific and political taboos... a strange era
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Member of Parliament for Hérault since 2012, Anne-Yvonne Le Dain is a member of the Commission des Lois and vice-president of the Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques. She is also a member of the French group of the …
11:30am - 12:00pm

Bernard Tardieu
Comparing exploration and production worldwide
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Bernard Tardieu is Chairman of the "Energy and Climate Change" Commission of the Académie des Technologies. He is an international expert in hydroelectricity, dams, canals and civil engineering for nuclear power plants. Until February 2008, he was …
11:00 - 11:30am

Serge Haroche
Science and democracy - Opening
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Extract from the introduction (transcript) I'd like to start with a few words of introduction to tell you what I think about the often conflicting relations between science and society. The idea for this colloquium came from the observation that science, …
9:00 - 9:20am

Steven Chu
Energy and Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities: Dr Chu Goes to Washington. A review of the experience of a former US Secretary of Energy.
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Simultaneous translation …
9:20 - 10:30am

Jean-Pierre Brun
The road to Myos Hormos (1)
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10:00 - 11:00am

Bernard Halpern Symposium on Immunology
Philippe Kourilsky, chair Molecular immunology
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Don Zagier
Modular forms and representations of finite groups (2)
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4:15 - 6:15pm

Alain Prochiantz
Genome disorders and their repair
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Before resuming, I'd like to emphasize that the attitude of not seeing pathology or aging as the result of permanent degradation from an ideal point, which is still the dominant view, but of seeing it as an imbalance between destruction and construction, …
5:00 - 6:30pm

Barbara Romanowicz
Thermal and mechanical considerations - Different definitions of the boundary between lithosphere and asthenosphere
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Experimental stresses. Consequences for the Earth's plate tectonic regime. We began by taking stock of the different sources of internal heat in the Earth and the main modes of heat release: conduction and convection. We introduced boundary layer theory …
2:30 - 4:00pm

Théodore Aubanel's "Les Filles d'Avignon" and Picasso's "Sum of Destructions"
Roland Recht, chair History of medieval and modern European art
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Helmut Müller
Hellenistic and Roman Pergamon : five centuries of history illuminated by inscriptions (1)
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The beginnings of a Greek city in western Asia Minor. …
10:00 - 11:00am

Oded Lipschits
Excavating paradise : the Persian garden and the answer to " the enigma of Ramat Rahel "
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5:00 - 6:00pm

Albert James Hudspeth
How the Ear's Works Work: The Operation of the Inner Ear
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Human hearing is extraordinary in its technical specifications. We can perceive frequencies as great as 20 kHz and discriminate between different tones with a precision of 0.2%. At the acoustical threshold, the inner ear responds to vibrations of only ± …
11:00am - 12:00pm

I is the other ? On the trail of the double in ancient culture
Carlo Ossola, chair Modern literature of Neolatin Europe
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From its very beginnings, Western culture has expressed a kind of fascination with a mythical nucleus, the story of which it reproduces, sometimes even just the outline, the fear or the dream : the story of a man who finds himself face to face with …
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Evolution of the nervous system : robustness and plasticity
Alain Prochiantz, chair Morphogenetic processes
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Gaul in the aftermath of the Caesarian conquest (continued)
Christian Goudineau, chair National Antiques
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Topology, Combinatorics and Modular Forms
Don Zagier, chair Number theory
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The aim of this year's lecture (and its planned extension for next year) was, as the name suggests, to make the links between rather heterogeneous mathematical disciplines involving Combinatorics properties of some kind. These links often appear in …
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Alain Prochiantz
The different players in longevity
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To set the scene for this year's lectures, I'll start with a very comprehensive review by Lopez-Otin and colleagues (Cell 153: 1194-1217, 2013) which attempts to define the marks of aging, the less smiling face of longevity, not just cerebral, but …
5:00 - 6:30pm

Barbara Romanowicz
Introduction
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The importance of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, or LAB for short, in understanding how plate tectonics works. Basics: Different definitions of LAB depending on the type of measurement: petrological, geochemical, thermal, seismic (velocity and …
2:30 - 4:00pm

Don Zagier
Modular forms and representations of finite groups (1)
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4:15 - 6:15pm

Albert James Hudspeth
Senses and Sensivity: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Perception
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In addition to possessing the classical senses of vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, humans respond to a variety of other stimuli. For example, the vestibular apparatus of the internal ear provides continuous feedback about linear and angular …
11:00am - 12:00pm

Glen W. Bowersock
Pagan angels of late antiquity
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The Byzantine world before Islam knew a host of paganisms, both polytheistic and from time to time, because of the hierarchy of their gods, quasi-monotheistic. In the Koran, the Prophet Muhammad referred to those who shared their gods as mushrikūn and …
5:00 - 6:00pm

Taking pleasure : the aesthetic aspects of rituals
John Scheid, chair Religion, institutions and society in ancient Rome
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