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Mark Bowick
Facets of Order
Guest lecturer
Event
Abstract Sharp structures can occur as minimizers of very regular problems. This means symmetry can lead us badly astray and the resultant symmetry breaking may lead to highly counter-intuitive structures. I will illustrate in a discrete example and then …
14:00 to 15:00

Hervé Reculeau
Hydraulics and societies : water control in Mesopotamia and its social implications
Guest lecturer
Event
Abstract The control of irrigation by a bureaucratic apparatus linked to religious and/or state power is at the heart of social theories that have marked the history of ideas over the last one hundred and fifty years. Although largely discredited, they …
11:00 to 12:00

Claude Bardos
Final word
Symposium
Event
15:40 to 16:00

Jeffrey Rauch
Observations on Observation of Waves
Symposium
Event
15:00 to 15:40

C. David Levermore
Fluid Dynamics beyond Navier-Stokes
Symposium
Event
14:20 to 15:00

Olivier Pironneau
The Mathematics of the Earth's Greenhouse Effect
Symposium
Event
12:00 to 12:40

Norbert J. Mauser
Quantum Claude
Symposium
Event
11:30 to 12:00

Pierre-Louis Lions
Remarks on High Dimensions
Symposium
Event
10:15 to 11:00

Origins and evolution of the outer solar system
Alessandro Morbidelli, chair Planetary Formation: from Earth to Exoplanets
Lecture
Series
This series of lectures will explore the current structure of the outer Solar System, including the giant planets, their satellites, the Trojans, the trans-Neptunian population, the Oort cloud and comets. We'll also look at models relating to its origin, …
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The blasphemous bible - the reception of the bible in some of Lars von Trier's films
Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
Guest lecturer
Series
Mikael Larsson est invité par l'assemblée du Collège de France sur proposition du Pr Thomas Römer. Mikael Larsson …

François Golse
Kinetic Claude
Symposium
Event
09:45 to 10:15

Hervé Reculeau
Making clay speak : in search of the ghost landscapes of Mesopotamia
Guest lecturer
Event
Abstract In geology, archaeology and epigraphy, reconstructing the past begins with the present. In this first conference, we will focus on data and methods for reconstructing ancient Mesopotamian environments, using geology, paleoclimatology, site and …
11:00 to 12:00

Frantz Grenet
Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress (2)
Symposium
Event
The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). Program Pre-Islamic Late Antiquity (200 - 750 CE) 9.00am - 9.30am: "Preliminary Results of the Study …
09:00 to 18:00

Patrick Boucheron, Louise Gentil & Salomé Tissolong
For an epistemology of inquiry into pre-industrial socio-agrosystems
Special events
Event
Pastoral landscape, Giuseppe Zais, Italy Veneto Venice. Louvre Museum. Project under the direction of : Patrick Boucheron, History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th to 16th century chair and François-Xavier Fauvelle, History and Archaeology of African …
18:00 to 19:00

Cyril Letrouit
Generalizations, applications, and measurement transport in machine learning
Guest lecturer
Event
10:00 to 12:00

Frantz Grenet
Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress (1)
Symposium
Event
The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). Program Final Bronze - Earliest Iron Age 9.00am - 9.30am: "Connecting the Dots: the site of …
09:00 to 18:00

Gender and Science
Opening symposia
Symposium
Series
Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue #2 , 1916. Brooklin Museum. Opening symposium 2024-2025 Gender and Science The opening symposium 2024 of the Collège de France aims to explore the relationship between Gender and Science from two   different and complementary …
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The philosophy of mathematical practice
Timothy Gowers, chair Combinatorics
Seminar
Series
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Complexity theory (II)
Timothy Gowers, chair Combinatorics
Lecture
Series
Example Boolean circuit. The nodes are AND gates, the nodes are OR gates, and the nodes are NOT gates (CC BY-SA 4.0). …
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Loïc Fel
The science of invasions and culture
Seminar
Event
Documents and media Download support Abstract The humanities and social sciences provide a means of examining the political, semiological, functional and representational implications of the perception and management of biological invasions. Whether in …
11:15 to 12:15

Franck Courchamp
Mathematics to the rescue of foxes: when equations help the ecologist
Lecture
Event
Abstract This lecture series ends with a more positive conclusion, highlighting a successful example of the fight against biological invasions and the rescue of a species unique to a small Pacific archipelago, a dwarf fox whose numbers were decimated in a …
10:00 to 11:00

Driving new growth : AI and green innovation
Philippe Aghion, chair Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth
Lecture
Series
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up , J. M. W. Turner, 1838. The aim of this lecture is to analyze the foundations and effects of breakthrough innovation. How can R&D policy be designed to generate breakthrough innovations  ? …
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Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
Tragic sacrifices (1)
Lecture
Event
Abstract When it comes to exploring Greek poetic material to study the role of the gods in sacrificial contexts, tragedy is a prime example. Indeed, the association between tragedy and sacrifice is one of the most historiographically charged ever, for at …
10:00 to 11:00

Ailton Krenak
For a florescidade and a florestania : inhabiting the Earth in the Anthropocene
Guest lecturer
Event
French version of the video. Other versions of the conference Watch the video in its original version (Portuguese and French) Watch the video in Portuguese Abstract I'd like to talk about metropolises and their civilizational effects from the perspective …
17:30 to 18:30