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Claude Desplan
From the visual system to the cortex: Stochastic lineages in invertebrates and mammals
Claude Desplan
From the visual system to the cortex: Stochastic lineages in invertebrates and mammals
Guest lecturer
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Abstract The mammalian cortex develops from stem cells that divide to sequentially produce the six cortical layers, starting with the deepest layers. However, each layer contains numerous neuronal types. Using a simple model (the Drosophila visual …
16:00 to 17:00
Gwendal Fève
Electron Optics Experiments in Quantum Hall Conductors: from Single Electrons to Anyons
Gwendal Fève
Electron Optics Experiments in Quantum Hall Conductors: from Single Electrons to Anyons
Seminar
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11:30 to 12:45
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Abstract In this first talk we give an introduction of the theory of p-adic modular forms and to the completed cohomology groups of the modular curve. We recall the theory of Lue Pan of locally analytic vectors in completed cohomology and the relevance of …
10:00 to 12:00
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Abstract This presentation will outline three socialist criticisms of liberalism. It will explain why the first lost force, resulting in many socialists to adopt the second more fruitful line of critique. It will then argue that there is a third line of …
10:00 to 11:00
Tomislav Rovis
Redshifting Photoredox Catalysis
Tomislav Rovis
Redshifting Photoredox Catalysis
Guest lecturer
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Abstract The use of visible light to drive organic reactions has revolutionized synthetic chemistry. The field is dominated by catalysts that absorb in the 400-450 nm range, wavelengths that correspond to 63- 70 kcal/mol. Such high energy light is not …
11:00 to 12:00
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Session 4: Cosmopolitan sciences …
09:30 to 10:00
Gilles Bransbourg
The Plague and the end of the ancient world: not so simple. A view from Egypt
Gilles Bransbourg
The Plague and the end of the ancient world: not so simple. A view from Egypt
Guest lecturer
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Left: P.Oxy. LXXXIV 5458. Account of Grain Received, dating from the middle of the 6th century CE. duke Databank of Documentary Papyri. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Right: Fresco depicting the Isis Geminiana being loaded, from the columbarium 31 of the …
10:00 to 11:30
Anneliese Depoux & Franck Ramus
Communicating science
Anneliese Depoux & Franck Ramus
Communicating science
Special events
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Abstract Hardly a day goes by without hearing about climate change in the media. Alarmist rhetoric, even if based on factual elements, paradoxically provokes doubts and challenges to scientific messages. The political world, for its part, has no …
18:30 to 20:00
Catherine Schwab
Prehistory, from science to fiction : 150 years of stories and images
Catherine Schwab
Prehistory, from science to fiction : 150 years of stories and images
Special events
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Abstract The middle of the XIX th century saw the emergence of a new and innovative science : prehistoric archaeology. From 1860 onwards, the beginnings of mankind were presented in museums and at world's fairs. Popular works, illustrated with beautiful …
18:00 to 19:00
Touraj Daryaee
History and Memory: In Search of Lost Time
Touraj Daryaee
History and Memory: In Search of Lost Time
Guest lecturer
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Abstract Memory of past does not reveal itself to all people in the same manner. For the Sasanians in Late Antiquity (200-651 CE), what they came to profess was their ancient past and for the people they were ruling over, was drastically different from …
17:00 to 18:30
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Colloquium organized with the support of The Hugot Foundation of Collège de France. MS-Celeb-1M According to André Leroi-Gourhan's profound anthropological observation, " humanity changes species a little every time it changes both tools and …
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Résumé Les juristes pensent souvent le droit comme s’il était doté de propriétés physiques et mécaniques : il peut être rigide ou souple, lourd ou léger, étroit ou large. Le mot même de « droit » porte cette logique imaginaire : il évoque la ligne droite, …
14:30 to 15:30
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Documents and media Download support …
11:30 to 12:45