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Coordination and Introduction Symposium 18 Oct 2013 09:00 to 09:10 Series Around the work of Michel Butor Carlo Ossola, chair Modern literature of Neolatin Europe Symposium 17 Nov 2008 Event Anne-Yvonne le Dain Media, scientific and political taboos... a strange era Symposium Member of Parliament for Hérault since 2012, Anne-Yvonne Le Dain is a member of the Commission des Lois and vice-president of the Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques. She is also a member of the French group of the … 17 Oct 2013 11:30 to 12:00 Event Serge Haroche Science and democracy - Opening Symposium Extract from the introduction (transcript) I'd like to start with a few words of introduction to tell you what I think about the often conflicting relations between science and society. The idea for this colloquium came from the observation that science, … 17 Oct 2013 09:00 to 09:20 Event Steven Chu Energy and Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities: Dr Chu Goes to Washington. A review of the experience of a former US Secretary of Energy. Symposium Simultaneous translation … 17 Oct 2013 09:20 to 10:30 Event Bernard Tardieu Comparing exploration and production worldwide Symposium Bernard Tardieu is Chairman of the "Energy and Climate Change" Commission of the Académie des Technologies. He is an international expert in hydroelectricity, dams, canals and civil engineering for nuclear power plants. Until February 2008, he was … 17 Oct 2013 11:00 to 11:30 Event Jean-Pierre Brun The road to Myos Hormos (1) Lecture 15 Oct 2013 10:00 to 11:00 Event Alain Prochiantz Genome disorders and their repair Lecture Before resuming, I'd like to emphasize that the attitude of not seeing pathology or aging as the result of permanent degradation from an ideal point, which is still the dominant view, but of seeing it as an imbalance between destruction and construction, … 14 Oct 2013 17:00 to 18:30 Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (2) Lecture 14 Oct 2013 16:15 to 18:15 Event Barbara Romanowicz Thermal and mechanical considerations - Different definitions of the boundary between lithosphere and asthenosphere Lecture Experimental stresses. Consequences for the Earth's plate tectonic regime. We began by taking stock of the different sources of internal heat in the Earth and the main modes of heat release: conduction and convection. We introduced boundary layer theory … 14 Oct 2013 14:30 to 16:00 Event Helmut Müller Hellenistic and Roman Pergamon : five centuries of history illuminated by inscriptions (1) Guest lecturer The beginnings of a Greek city in western Asia Minor. … 9 Oct 2013 10:00 to 11:00 Series Does China think ? Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Opening lecture 11 Dec 2008 Event Oded Lipschits Excavating paradise : the Persian garden and the answer to " the enigma of Ramat Rahel " Guest lecturer 8 Oct 2013 17:00 to 18:00 Series Cochlear physiology : latest news Christine Petit, chair Genetics and cell physiology Seminar 11 Dec 2008 → 22 Jan 2009 Event Albert James Hudspeth How the Ear's Works Work: The Operation of the Inner Ear Guest lecturer Human hearing is extraordinary in its technical specifications. We can perceive frequencies as great as 20 kHz and discriminate between different tones with a precision of 0.2%. At the acoustical threshold, the inner ear responds to vibrations of only ± … 8 Oct 2013 11:00 to 12:00 Series Sound source localization : binaural signal processing Christine Petit, chair Genetics and cell physiology Lecture 11 Dec 2008 → 22 Jan 2009 Series The God Assur/Goddess Ishtar Jean-Marie Durand, chair Assyriology Guest lecturer 09 Dec 2008 → 16 Dec 2008 Event Alain Prochiantz The different players in longevity Lecture To set the scene for this year's lectures, I'll start with a very comprehensive review by Lopez-Otin and colleagues (Cell 153: 1194-1217, 2013) which attempts to define the marks of aging, the less smiling face of longevity, not just cerebral, but … 7 Oct 2013 17:00 to 18:30 Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (1) Lecture 7 Oct 2013 16:15 to 18:15 Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture The importance of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, or LAB for short, in understanding how plate tectonics works. Basics: Different definitions of LAB depending on the type of measurement: petrological, geochemical, thermal, seismic (velocity and … 7 Oct 2013 14:30 to 16:00 Series Non pedum passibus, sed desideriis quaeritur Deus (Saint Bernard). What were the Grail seekers looking for ? Michel Zink, chair Literatures of medieval France Seminar 04 Dec 2008 → 12 Feb 2009 Series Non pedum passibus, sed desideriis quaeritur Deus (Saint Bernard). What were the Grail seekers looking for ? Michel Zink, chair Literatures of medieval France Lecture St. Bernard's phrase from his Sermon 84 on the Song of Songs, which appears in the title of the lecture and cannot be translated without weakening its deliberate roughness and rhythm ("it is not by the movement of the feet, but by desires, it is not by … 04 Dec 2008 → 19 Feb 2009 Event Albert James Hudspeth Senses and Sensivity: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Perception Guest lecturer In addition to possessing the classical senses of vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, humans respond to a variety of other stimuli. For example, the vestibular apparatus of the internal ear provides continuous feedback about linear and angular … 1 Oct 2013 11:00 to 12:00 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 703 Page 704 Page 705 Page 706 Page 707 Page 708 Page 709 Page 710 Page 711 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Albert James Hudspeth Making an Effort to Listen: The Active Process of the Cochlea Guest lecturer Uniquely among sensory receptors the hair cell is not a passive recipient of stimuli, but instead uses an active process to enhance its inputs. The active process amplifies mechanical stimuli by as much as a thousandfold, thus greatly increasing our … 15 Oct 2013 11:00 to 12:00
Event Jean Dalibard Fourth session. Scientific debates and political decisions : the case of climate change. Coordination and Introduction Symposium 18 Oct 2013 09:00 to 09:10
Series Around the work of Michel Butor Carlo Ossola, chair Modern literature of Neolatin Europe Symposium 17 Nov 2008
Event Anne-Yvonne le Dain Media, scientific and political taboos... a strange era Symposium Member of Parliament for Hérault since 2012, Anne-Yvonne Le Dain is a member of the Commission des Lois and vice-president of the Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques. She is also a member of the French group of the … 17 Oct 2013 11:30 to 12:00
Event Serge Haroche Science and democracy - Opening Symposium Extract from the introduction (transcript) I'd like to start with a few words of introduction to tell you what I think about the often conflicting relations between science and society. The idea for this colloquium came from the observation that science, … 17 Oct 2013 09:00 to 09:20
Event Steven Chu Energy and Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities: Dr Chu Goes to Washington. A review of the experience of a former US Secretary of Energy. Symposium Simultaneous translation … 17 Oct 2013 09:20 to 10:30
Event Bernard Tardieu Comparing exploration and production worldwide Symposium Bernard Tardieu is Chairman of the "Energy and Climate Change" Commission of the Académie des Technologies. He is an international expert in hydroelectricity, dams, canals and civil engineering for nuclear power plants. Until February 2008, he was … 17 Oct 2013 11:00 to 11:30
Event Alain Prochiantz Genome disorders and their repair Lecture Before resuming, I'd like to emphasize that the attitude of not seeing pathology or aging as the result of permanent degradation from an ideal point, which is still the dominant view, but of seeing it as an imbalance between destruction and construction, … 14 Oct 2013 17:00 to 18:30
Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (2) Lecture 14 Oct 2013 16:15 to 18:15
Event Barbara Romanowicz Thermal and mechanical considerations - Different definitions of the boundary between lithosphere and asthenosphere Lecture Experimental stresses. Consequences for the Earth's plate tectonic regime. We began by taking stock of the different sources of internal heat in the Earth and the main modes of heat release: conduction and convection. We introduced boundary layer theory … 14 Oct 2013 14:30 to 16:00
Event Helmut Müller Hellenistic and Roman Pergamon : five centuries of history illuminated by inscriptions (1) Guest lecturer The beginnings of a Greek city in western Asia Minor. … 9 Oct 2013 10:00 to 11:00
Event Oded Lipschits Excavating paradise : the Persian garden and the answer to " the enigma of Ramat Rahel " Guest lecturer 8 Oct 2013 17:00 to 18:00
Series Cochlear physiology : latest news Christine Petit, chair Genetics and cell physiology Seminar 11 Dec 2008 → 22 Jan 2009
Event Albert James Hudspeth How the Ear's Works Work: The Operation of the Inner Ear Guest lecturer Human hearing is extraordinary in its technical specifications. We can perceive frequencies as great as 20 kHz and discriminate between different tones with a precision of 0.2%. At the acoustical threshold, the inner ear responds to vibrations of only ± … 8 Oct 2013 11:00 to 12:00
Series Sound source localization : binaural signal processing Christine Petit, chair Genetics and cell physiology Lecture 11 Dec 2008 → 22 Jan 2009
Series The God Assur/Goddess Ishtar Jean-Marie Durand, chair Assyriology Guest lecturer 09 Dec 2008 → 16 Dec 2008
Event Alain Prochiantz The different players in longevity Lecture To set the scene for this year's lectures, I'll start with a very comprehensive review by Lopez-Otin and colleagues (Cell 153: 1194-1217, 2013) which attempts to define the marks of aging, the less smiling face of longevity, not just cerebral, but … 7 Oct 2013 17:00 to 18:30
Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (1) Lecture 7 Oct 2013 16:15 to 18:15
Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture The importance of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, or LAB for short, in understanding how plate tectonics works. Basics: Different definitions of LAB depending on the type of measurement: petrological, geochemical, thermal, seismic (velocity and … 7 Oct 2013 14:30 to 16:00
Series Non pedum passibus, sed desideriis quaeritur Deus (Saint Bernard). What were the Grail seekers looking for ? Michel Zink, chair Literatures of medieval France Seminar 04 Dec 2008 → 12 Feb 2009
Series Non pedum passibus, sed desideriis quaeritur Deus (Saint Bernard). What were the Grail seekers looking for ? Michel Zink, chair Literatures of medieval France Lecture St. Bernard's phrase from his Sermon 84 on the Song of Songs, which appears in the title of the lecture and cannot be translated without weakening its deliberate roughness and rhythm ("it is not by the movement of the feet, but by desires, it is not by … 04 Dec 2008 → 19 Feb 2009
Event Albert James Hudspeth Senses and Sensivity: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Perception Guest lecturer In addition to possessing the classical senses of vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, humans respond to a variety of other stimuli. For example, the vestibular apparatus of the internal ear provides continuous feedback about linear and angular … 1 Oct 2013 11:00 to 12:00
