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The third lesson dealt with the analysis of interference experiments in quantum optics. It began with a description of the linear splitter blades that are essential ingredients in these experiments. It is these blades that separate and recombine the …

The second lesson recalled the principles of quantum optics. It is indeed in this field that coherent mesoscopic superpositions have been most convincingly studied and prepared, and it is therefore very useful to understand the general concepts of quantum …

The incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is increasing in the United States (US) population USRDS, and the prevalence of chronic kidney disease also appears to be increasing, in parallel with increased surveillance, routine reporting of estimated …

Abstract This talk summarizes our recent attempts to integrate action and perception within a single optimization framework. We start with a statistical formulation of Helmholtz's ideas about neural energy to furnish a model of perceptual inference and …

Abstract The first lesson presented a general overview of mesoscopic state superpositions in quantum optics. It showed how these superpositions can be generated, either with photons or with atoms. The link with quantum computing was also clarified, by …

Abstract We present a variational treatment of dynamic models that furnishes the time-dependent conditional densities of a system's states and the time-independent densities of its parameters. These obtain by maximising the variational free energy of the …

Abstract Value-learning and perceptual learning have been an important focus over the past decade, attracting the concerted attention of experimental psychologists, neurobiologists and the machine learning community. Despite some formal connections; e.g. …

The destinies of the Indian and Iranian communities followed distinct readings: for the Parsis, the 19th century was a time of emancipation and wealth. For the Mazdeans of Iran, the 19th century was a time of repression and loss. So the Parsis set about …

There are few texts that, like Quixote , have aroused such an intense and frequent impulse among visual artists towards the desire or necessity of illustration. In the West, perhaps only the Bible and the Divine Comedy could compare with Quixote in the …

The Arab conquests of the Sassanid empire had, in one fell swoop, robbed the Mazdeans of Iran of all profane power. The success of these conquests is seen in Muslim tradition (and historiography) as proof of the superiority of Islam. For the Mazdeans, …

For Aby Warburg, a Pathosformel is a set of representative and meaningful forms, historically determined at the moment of their first synthesis, which reinforces the understanding of the meaning of what is represented by mobilizing the affective field …