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Documents and media Download support Abstract The 1 st book of Samuel contains various accounts of the origins of kingship, in which the prophet Samuel and Saul play an important role. Some of these stories present kingship in a positive light, while …

Abstract Five seminar sessions will be devoted entirely to an exceptional unpublished Greek text spanning 255 verses and preserved in the first six columns of the recto of a large roll of Greek magic papyrus (III rd -IV th  century AD), unearthed in …

Documents and media Download support Abstract The core of citizen status in Greece is belonging to a polis , a city, and the citizen's name derives from this: he is a politēs . Being a politēs implies both the conditions that make this status possible and …

Abstract The relevance of the critical method to the critique of capitalism lies in its ability to articulate reason and history to analyze contemporary social structures. Drawing on Kant and Marx, this approach examines the foundations of modern …

Abstract The fight against medical quackery in the XVIIIᵉ century inherited an ancient critical tradition, but it was part of a new context, that of the rise of a health policy at the crossroads of " noso-politics " (Michel Foucault) and the medical …

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Abstract In the past few years the notion of “strong convergence” of multi-matrix models has found applications across pure mathematics including to random graphs, operator algebras (in several ways), spectral theory of hyperbolic manifolds, and the …

Abstract It is well-known that the Betti numbers of nonpositively-curved manifolds are (under normalization of curvature and some additional assumptions) linearly bounded by their volume. In a joint work with M. Frączyk and S. Hurtado we showed that for …

Abstract In the 1990s, Voiculescu developed the theory of non-commutative entropy. For a single non-commutative variable, this entropy reduces to the rate function of the empirical measure of the eigenvalues of a Gaussian matrix. For several …

Abstract No experiment today provides evidence that gravity requires a quantum description. The quantum optical control of solid-state mechanical devices, quantum optomechanics, may change that situation -- by enabling experiments that directly probe the …

Abstract The spectral gap (or bass note) of a closed hyperbolic surface is the smallest non-zero eigenvalue of its Laplacian. This invariant plays an important role in many parts of hyperbolic geometry. The talk will start with a brief introduction to the …

Abstract Throughout this talk, we will discuss tunneling in the context of the Schrödinger equation with a magnetic field. First, we'll look at the work of Helffer and Sjöstrand in the eighties in the case of electric potentials, and their relatively …

Abstract Since Plutarch, political literature has been teaching princes how to choose between offering and withdrawing, between public exposure and the shadow of secrecy. Places of power, in their very architecture, put these dilemmas to the test. Such is …

Abstract In this talk, we focus on an infinite-dimensional model of repulsively interacting Brownian motions: Dyson Brownian motion (DBM) at soft-edge scaling. It is known that its stationary process is the Airy line ensemble, a collection of …

Documents and media Download support Abstract The vibrations of a single atom, or of a multitude of atoms in a solid, are both a source of decoherence that must be overcome, and a fully-fledged quantum system that can be manipulated. This lecture will …

Exceptionally, the lecture will take place on Monday from 5pm to 6.30pm. …

Abstract This final lecture will explore the role of sleep as a privileged state of dialogue between body and brain. It will show how sleep modifies the activity of cerebral and systemic immune cells, with consequences for the stabilization of neural …