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Synthetic … 13 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00 Series Biodiversity dynamics and evolution : species formation, domestication and adaptation Tatiana Giraud, chair Biodiversity and ecosystems Opening lecture 17 Feb 2022 Series The Arab world in French-language comics Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World Symposium In the twentieth century , the images of the contemporary Arab world conveyed by French-language comics were aimed at a young audience and created a whole imaginary world. Today, they are aimed more at adults, expressing the conflicts, exile and dual … 18 Feb 2022 Event Pedro Arrojo-Agudo Water commoditization and the human right to drinking water and sanitation Seminar Abstract Although water is essential to life, it is often regarded as an economic good that must be managed according to the logic of the market. This commodification of water carries risks and impacts on respect for human rights to drinking water and … 10 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00 Series Competing victims, 25 years later Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World Guest lecturer Jean-Michel Chaumont is invited by the Professors' Assembly, at the suggestion of Prof. Henry Laurens, holder of the Contemporary History of the Arab World chair. Jean-Michel … 05 Jan 2022 → 12 Jan 2022 Event Véronique Izard Cognitive foundations of mathematics Seminar 10 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:30 Event Stéphane Mischler Constructive Krein-Rutman theorem and applications Seminar Abstract In this talk, I will present results concerning a constructive approach to the Krein-Rutman theorem motivated by the asymptotic analysis of evolution PDEs. These results have been obtained in a recent work carried out in collaboration with … 10 Feb 2023 11:15 - 12:30 Event Laurence Boisson de Chazournes Water and economic uses : the relationship between market and non-market values Lecture Abstract Water is used for many economic purposes, from river transport to irrigation methods and industrial activities. They have all left their mark on the principles and rules applicable in this field. The question of the economic value of water has … 10 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00 Event Stanislas Dehaene The vector representation of language : how do you represent a sentence ? Lecture Can a sentence be represented by a vector ? The problem of " compositionality " consists in finding a code that combines individual word representations while also managing to encode their composition, i.e. their syntactic and semantic organization. We … 10 Feb 2023 09:30 - 11:00 Event Frantz Grenet Prestige silver in Central Asia (continued) : Homer, Alexander. Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (4) Lecture A look at eastern Iran : Kuh-e Khwâjah (Sistân), in the light of comparison with Bandiyân (Khurâsân). … 9 Feb 2023 15:30 - 16:30 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Hesiodic genealogies Lecture In Hesiod's Theogony , Demeter is a goddess of the generation of Zeus : daughter of Rhea and Kronos, granddaughter of Gaia and Ouranos. In accordance with the genealogical principle that divine children specialize the functions of their parents, the … 9 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00 Event Andrew Wilson The contribution of archaeology to Roman economics. General conclusions Lecture Abstract The aim of this conference is to organize the thoughts generated by the presentation of the data in such a way as to stimulate a real debate on the Roman economy, based on the most up-to-date research. Emphasis is placed on the nature and … 9 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:30 Event Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo Thinking differently about life Opening lecture Abstract Feeling the warmth of the sun's rays on your skin. Following a flock of birds in the distance. While our senses enable us to apprehend the world around us and act accordingly, they also introduce biases into our understanding of biodiversity and … 9 Feb 2023 18:00 - 19:00 Series Images of fossil man Jean-Jacques Hublin, chair Paleoanthropology Symposium From the outset, research into human evolution and prehistory has served a dual function. On the one hand, they developed as new scientific disciplines, at the frontier between biology and the humanities. On the other hand, in the West at least, they … 17 Jun 2022 Event Giulio Biroli Entropy, statistical physics and computer science Seminar Abstract The concept of entropy is fundamental to physics and theoretical computer science. Recent advances have shown that it plays a very important role in many other scientific fields. In this talk, Giulio Biroli presents the multidisciplinary and … 8 Feb 2023 11:15 - 12:30 Event Stéphane Mallat Mutual dependence and information Lecture Abstract Typical sets and the asymptotic equipartition theorem are extended to the case of independent variables with continuous values. The properties of conditional entropy and Kullback-Liebler divergence are studied, as well as mutual information and … 8 Feb 2023 09:30 - 11:00 Event Élisabeth Charlaix Hydrodynamics of Confined Liquids Seminar Abstract Hydrodynamics at the solid interface is a fundamental property of fluids, as important as their constitutive equation, in determining their flow. Historically, experimental evidence has been decisive in identifying the hydrodynamic boundary … 8 Feb 2023 15:30 - 17:00 Event Lydéric Bocquet Nanofluidics, the science of molecular flows Lecture Over the last ten years or so, nanofluidics has taken an enormous leap forward. It is now possible to fabricate and study nano-channels as small as a few nanometers, or even a few angstroms. Advances in measurement techniques now make it possible to … 8 Feb 2023 14:00 - 15:30 Event Marc Escola A poetics of possible texts Seminar Abstract According to Paul Valéry, art presupposes several ways of doing . This imposes a choice in the genetics of the text, which will separate the work between an origin and an end, which are not necessarily identical. For example, among the possible … 7 Feb 2023 18:00 - 19:00 Event William Marx " But I don't care about poetry " Lecture Abstract At the same time as Valéry was expounding the idea of a pure poetry, based on the model of music, which provoked heated debate in the years 1920, he also considered that poetry was dead (along with the generation that had died on the battlefields … 7 Feb 2023 17:00 - 18:00 Event François-Xavier Fauvelle To Ethiopia with Cosmas (6th c.), Benjamin (12th c.), Marco (13th c.) (3) Lecture 7 Feb 2023 10:30 - 12:00 Event Kamel Doraï Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Syrian refugees in Jordan : a comparison Seminar 7 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00 Event Philippe Barboux Circular economy for batteries and recycling Seminar Download support … 6 Feb 2023 17:00 - 18:00 Event Jean-Marie Tarascon Advantages and disadvantages of switching from 2-D to 3-D insertion materials, illustrated by spinel compounds LiMn2O4 and its partially substituted derivatives (Ni for Mn) Lecture 6 Feb 2023 16:00 - 17:00 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 153 Page 154 Page 155 Page 156 Current page 157 Page 158 Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 … Next page Last page
Event Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo The living world is embedded in a historical process Lecture The machine metaphor does not apply well to living elements. Every cell derives from a cell. Every living thing derives from another living thing. The future dynamics of an ecosystem can only be understood in the light of its past history. Synthetic … 13 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00
Series Biodiversity dynamics and evolution : species formation, domestication and adaptation Tatiana Giraud, chair Biodiversity and ecosystems Opening lecture 17 Feb 2022
Series The Arab world in French-language comics Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World Symposium In the twentieth century , the images of the contemporary Arab world conveyed by French-language comics were aimed at a young audience and created a whole imaginary world. Today, they are aimed more at adults, expressing the conflicts, exile and dual … 18 Feb 2022
Event Pedro Arrojo-Agudo Water commoditization and the human right to drinking water and sanitation Seminar Abstract Although water is essential to life, it is often regarded as an economic good that must be managed according to the logic of the market. This commodification of water carries risks and impacts on respect for human rights to drinking water and … 10 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00
Series Competing victims, 25 years later Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World Guest lecturer Jean-Michel Chaumont is invited by the Professors' Assembly, at the suggestion of Prof. Henry Laurens, holder of the Contemporary History of the Arab World chair. Jean-Michel … 05 Jan 2022 → 12 Jan 2022
Event Stéphane Mischler Constructive Krein-Rutman theorem and applications Seminar Abstract In this talk, I will present results concerning a constructive approach to the Krein-Rutman theorem motivated by the asymptotic analysis of evolution PDEs. These results have been obtained in a recent work carried out in collaboration with … 10 Feb 2023 11:15 - 12:30
Event Laurence Boisson de Chazournes Water and economic uses : the relationship between market and non-market values Lecture Abstract Water is used for many economic purposes, from river transport to irrigation methods and industrial activities. They have all left their mark on the principles and rules applicable in this field. The question of the economic value of water has … 10 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00
Event Stanislas Dehaene The vector representation of language : how do you represent a sentence ? Lecture Can a sentence be represented by a vector ? The problem of " compositionality " consists in finding a code that combines individual word representations while also managing to encode their composition, i.e. their syntactic and semantic organization. We … 10 Feb 2023 09:30 - 11:00
Event Frantz Grenet Prestige silver in Central Asia (continued) : Homer, Alexander. Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (4) Lecture A look at eastern Iran : Kuh-e Khwâjah (Sistân), in the light of comparison with Bandiyân (Khurâsân). … 9 Feb 2023 15:30 - 16:30
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Hesiodic genealogies Lecture In Hesiod's Theogony , Demeter is a goddess of the generation of Zeus : daughter of Rhea and Kronos, granddaughter of Gaia and Ouranos. In accordance with the genealogical principle that divine children specialize the functions of their parents, the … 9 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00
Event Andrew Wilson The contribution of archaeology to Roman economics. General conclusions Lecture Abstract The aim of this conference is to organize the thoughts generated by the presentation of the data in such a way as to stimulate a real debate on the Roman economy, based on the most up-to-date research. Emphasis is placed on the nature and … 9 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:30
Event Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo Thinking differently about life Opening lecture Abstract Feeling the warmth of the sun's rays on your skin. Following a flock of birds in the distance. While our senses enable us to apprehend the world around us and act accordingly, they also introduce biases into our understanding of biodiversity and … 9 Feb 2023 18:00 - 19:00
Series Images of fossil man Jean-Jacques Hublin, chair Paleoanthropology Symposium From the outset, research into human evolution and prehistory has served a dual function. On the one hand, they developed as new scientific disciplines, at the frontier between biology and the humanities. On the other hand, in the West at least, they … 17 Jun 2022
Event Giulio Biroli Entropy, statistical physics and computer science Seminar Abstract The concept of entropy is fundamental to physics and theoretical computer science. Recent advances have shown that it plays a very important role in many other scientific fields. In this talk, Giulio Biroli presents the multidisciplinary and … 8 Feb 2023 11:15 - 12:30
Event Stéphane Mallat Mutual dependence and information Lecture Abstract Typical sets and the asymptotic equipartition theorem are extended to the case of independent variables with continuous values. The properties of conditional entropy and Kullback-Liebler divergence are studied, as well as mutual information and … 8 Feb 2023 09:30 - 11:00
Event Élisabeth Charlaix Hydrodynamics of Confined Liquids Seminar Abstract Hydrodynamics at the solid interface is a fundamental property of fluids, as important as their constitutive equation, in determining their flow. Historically, experimental evidence has been decisive in identifying the hydrodynamic boundary … 8 Feb 2023 15:30 - 17:00
Event Lydéric Bocquet Nanofluidics, the science of molecular flows Lecture Over the last ten years or so, nanofluidics has taken an enormous leap forward. It is now possible to fabricate and study nano-channels as small as a few nanometers, or even a few angstroms. Advances in measurement techniques now make it possible to … 8 Feb 2023 14:00 - 15:30
Event Marc Escola A poetics of possible texts Seminar Abstract According to Paul Valéry, art presupposes several ways of doing . This imposes a choice in the genetics of the text, which will separate the work between an origin and an end, which are not necessarily identical. For example, among the possible … 7 Feb 2023 18:00 - 19:00
Event William Marx " But I don't care about poetry " Lecture Abstract At the same time as Valéry was expounding the idea of a pure poetry, based on the model of music, which provoked heated debate in the years 1920, he also considered that poetry was dead (along with the generation that had died on the battlefields … 7 Feb 2023 17:00 - 18:00
Event François-Xavier Fauvelle To Ethiopia with Cosmas (6th c.), Benjamin (12th c.), Marco (13th c.) (3) Lecture 7 Feb 2023 10:30 - 12:00
Event Kamel Doraï Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Syrian refugees in Jordan : a comparison Seminar 7 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00
Event Philippe Barboux Circular economy for batteries and recycling Seminar Download support … 6 Feb 2023 17:00 - 18:00
Event Jean-Marie Tarascon Advantages and disadvantages of switching from 2-D to 3-D insertion materials, illustrated by spinel compounds LiMn2O4 and its partially substituted derivatives (Ni for Mn) Lecture 6 Feb 2023 16:00 - 17:00
