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Abstract In his seminar, Jens Elgeti reviewed his work on numerical tissue simulations. He presented his simulation method where cells are idealized by points, and showed numerous results on homeostatic pressure, the effect of adhesion between cells and …

Abstract Tissue growth is due to cell division and death within the tissue. A first approach is to study cell division and death as processes of cell population dynamics. Cell division and death rates are then introduced, and a Fokker-Planck equation can …

This lecture is devoted to a particular region to the west of the Babylonian kingdom, stretching along what is known as the Middle Euphrates. It is currently cut by the Syrian-Iraqi border at Abu Kemal; it has suffered enormously in recent years, but had …

The fifth lecture began by describing some models of evolution with and without selection. In the neutral case, as in the Wright Fisher model, the stochastic evolution of the proportion of a population carrying an allele is given by the Kimura equation. …

Documents and media Download support Irrespective of the debate over the origins and inspiration of the Tanzimat edict, it is clear that this event marked a decisive turning point in the way the Ottoman Empire envisaged its future and its relations with …

The "   Fido  "-Fido theory, advocated by Bertrand Russell, identifies the meaning (content) of an expression and the entity it represents (its reference, understood in the realistic sense and not in the sense of an intentional object). The content of the …

Summary Lluis Quintana-Murci, born in 1970, is Director of Research at the CNRS and Professor at the Institut Pasteur, where he heads the "Evolutionary Genomics, Modeling and Health" unit. Author of over 200 publications, Lluis Quintana-Murci is …

Abstract Continuing the theme of scaling mechanized semantics, the sixth seminar described recent work on formalizing the Rust language. After recalling the basic concepts of the Rust type system, in particular the temporary possession and borrowing of …

Abstract A file of dedications from Thespia in Boeotia enriches the perspectives opened up by Athenian documents. Agathos daimōn has been the subject of dedication since at least the end of the Classical period, and these dedications were part of a …

Abstract After six lectures devoted to imperative languages, where the basic operation is the modification of a state, the seventh lecture has changed paradigm and turned the spotlight on functional languages, where the basic operations are the …

Abstract This paper explores Goethe's Faust  I ( 1808) by analyzing certain material versions of this canonical text : the circulation of monumental Fausts between 1850 and 1870. The first copies of these monumental books - more specifically, the German …

Abstract The session begins with a tribute to George Steiner, who died on February 3 2020 in the UK : a genuinely European scholar who, fleeing anti-Semitism, settled in France, the USA, England and Switzerland. He represents the continuity of a line of …

Challenges 2019 results In the first part, some of the winners of the 2019 Challenges present their algorithms and results: Christophe Leroux, present winner of the challenges (i) "Prediction of daily stock movements on the US market" proposed by Capital …

Abstract The lecture took up the optimization problem in the special case of neural networks. It described the phenomenon of over-parameterization, which seems to help generalization, as observed with " double descents " curves as the number of parameters …

This year's lecture will focus on reconstructing the libraries of Late Antiquity, in an attempt to bring their readers back to life by exploring the link between them and their books . Beyond the literary testimonies often used, we'll be looking at the …