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Nevertheless, humans today occupy a special place on Earth : they have a strong impact on ecosystems, and it is the first time in … 27 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00 Series Software security : what role can programming languages play? Xavier Leroy, chair Software Science Lecture How can software resist attacks and malicious use ? The lecture will look at software security from the angle of programming languages and their typing, static analysis and deductive verification techniques. We will attempt to characterize the … 10 Mar 2022 → 21 Apr 2022 Series Read the works of the jurists : Ulpian's De officio proconsulis (On the duties of the governor) Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome Seminar The seminar will focus on Ulpian's De officio proconsulis (On the Duties of the Proconsul), a kind of guidebook that envisaged the mandate of the Roman governor from his arrival in the province to his departure. Reading Ulpian's treatise allows us to see … 09 Mar 2022 → 25 May 2022 Series Olive trees and olive oil in Antiquity (2) Jean-Pierre Brun, chair Techniques and Economies in the Ancient Mediterranean Lecture Olives and olive oil were among the most important agricultural products of antiquity. They were the subject of domestic or artisanal production, commercial trade, tribute levies and public distribution. Following on from the lectures given in 2017-2018, … 07 Mar 2022 → 23 May 2022 Series Neuroimmune interactions in the emergence of brain circuits and neurodevelopmental pathologies Sonia Garel, chair Neurobiology and the Immune System Lecture Microglia mat … 07 Mar 2022 → 11 Apr 2022 Event Ximena Fuentes Water protection and management at the heart of a state's foreign relations Seminar Abstract The conduct of a state's external relations includes the management of transboundary natural resources, including international rivers and groundwater. Promoting respect for the law enables riparian states to seek stability and cooperation in the … 24 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00 Event Edouard Bard Accelerated retreat of continental caps (1) Lecture 24 Feb 2023 15:00 - 16:30 Event Laurence Boisson de Chazournes Water at the heart of international crises and disputes Lecture Abstract Disputes may arise over the distribution of water resources or over the increasing scarcity of access to these resources. It is important to prevent tensions and conflicts from arising in these areas. Various diplomatic and judicial mechanisms … 24 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00 Event Nathan Carlig The " Empedocles of Cairo " : new verses from the Physica in a Greek papyrus from the end of the 1st century CE Seminar Abstract Preserved at the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, the papyrus presented here contains the hitherto unknown remains of thirty verses by the pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles of Agrigento ( 5th century BC), and is … 23 Feb 2023 15:30 - 17:00 Series Why Did Christians Part From Judaism? A Fresh Look on the Relationship of Jews and Christians in the First Two Centuries CE? Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Guest lecturer 08 Jun 2022 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Singing Demeter : theHomeric Hymn (2) Lecture The analysis of the theogonic components of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter continues with the figure of Demophon, the young child of the rulers of Eleusis whom the goddess undertakes to immortalize. The episode depicts the first consequence of Demeter's … 23 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00 Event Samantha Besson The common law of international representation Lecture 23 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:30 Series Myth as a metaphor for identity Alberto Manguel, chair The invention of Europe through languages and cultures Seminar 02 Mar 2022 → 20 Apr 2022 Series Myth as a metaphor for identity Alberto Manguel, chair The invention of Europe through languages and cultures Lecture Myths are transformed, modified and revised according to the needs of time and place, but in essence a myth remains unchanged, for it is not the fruit of a pure elucubration of the human imagination, but a concrete manifestation of certain primordial … 02 Mar 2022 → 20 Apr 2022 Event Jean-Luc Fournet Introduction : School is everywhere... you just have to find it ! (2) Lecture Abstract School documentation : its biases and limitations (2) The biggest hurdle facing anyone wishing to work on schooling from papyri is whether or not they are dealing with a school text. This brings us to a review of the criteria for belonging to … 22 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00 Event Valentin De Bortoli Maximum entropy image synthesis Seminar Abstract Recent years have seen a boom in neural network-based techniques for image synthesis. These methods are most often based on the minimization of a function, for which the minimizers are assumed to be the solutions of the synthesis problem. In this … 22 Feb 2023 11:15 - 12:30 Event Stéphane Mallat Entropy increase and macrocanonical assemblies Lecture Abstract The entropy rate of a Markov chain is calculated as a function of its transition matrix. It is shown that the Kullback-Liebler distance (relative entropy) always decreases for two probability distributions evolving along a Markov chain. If the … 22 Feb 2023 09:30 - 11:00 Event Benoit Coasne Adsorption and fluid transport in nanoporous materials Seminar Abstract Due to their nanometric porosity and high specific surface area, nanoporous materials are at the heart of fundamental research aimed at studying the role of nanoconfinement and surface forces on thermodynamics and fluid dynamics. Moreover, by … 22 Feb 2023 15:30 - 17:00 Event Lydéric Bocquet Fluctuations at nanoscales : transport and fluctuating surfaces Lecture As Feynman remarked, " Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms ". At nanometric scales, fluctuations become predominant. How do they affect transport, and can we take advantage of them for … 22 Feb 2023 14:00 - 15:30 Series Evolution of humans and microbes : dangerous liaisons Lluis Quintana-Murci, chair Human Genomics and Evolution Lecture 04 Mar 2022 → 25 Mar 2022 Series Merit and " meritocracy ". Motivating equality or inequality ? Pierre-Michel Menger, chair Sociology of Creative Work Lecture Wordcloud illustration of meritocracy … 04 Mar 2022 → 08 Apr 2022 Event Emeline Zougbede Unaccompanied minors or the right to protection Seminar 10 Jan 2023 11:00 - 12:00 Event François-Xavier Fauvelle To Ethiopia with Cosmas (6th c.), Benjamin (12th c.), Marco (13th c.) (4) Lecture 21 Feb 2023 10:30 - 12:00 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 165 Page 166 Page 167 Page 168 Current page 169 Page 170 Page 171 Page 172 Page 173 … Next page Last page
Event Bruno David At the dawn of the sixth extinction Seminar Abstract Everyone is familiar with the term " biodiversity ". But what does this apparently simple term actually mean? We hear it over and over again: " biodiversity is in crisis ". Are we on the verge of a sixth extinction, with ourselves as the cause ? … 27 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00
Event Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo Functionalization and hierarchization of living organisms Lecture Humans occupy a place like any other in the tree of life. Every species alive today is endowed with remarkable properties. Nevertheless, humans today occupy a special place on Earth : they have a strong impact on ecosystems, and it is the first time in … 27 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00
Series Software security : what role can programming languages play? Xavier Leroy, chair Software Science Lecture How can software resist attacks and malicious use ? The lecture will look at software security from the angle of programming languages and their typing, static analysis and deductive verification techniques. We will attempt to characterize the … 10 Mar 2022 → 21 Apr 2022
Series Read the works of the jurists : Ulpian's De officio proconsulis (On the duties of the governor) Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome Seminar The seminar will focus on Ulpian's De officio proconsulis (On the Duties of the Proconsul), a kind of guidebook that envisaged the mandate of the Roman governor from his arrival in the province to his departure. Reading Ulpian's treatise allows us to see … 09 Mar 2022 → 25 May 2022
Series Olive trees and olive oil in Antiquity (2) Jean-Pierre Brun, chair Techniques and Economies in the Ancient Mediterranean Lecture Olives and olive oil were among the most important agricultural products of antiquity. They were the subject of domestic or artisanal production, commercial trade, tribute levies and public distribution. Following on from the lectures given in 2017-2018, … 07 Mar 2022 → 23 May 2022
Series Neuroimmune interactions in the emergence of brain circuits and neurodevelopmental pathologies Sonia Garel, chair Neurobiology and the Immune System Lecture Microglia mat … 07 Mar 2022 → 11 Apr 2022
Event Ximena Fuentes Water protection and management at the heart of a state's foreign relations Seminar Abstract The conduct of a state's external relations includes the management of transboundary natural resources, including international rivers and groundwater. Promoting respect for the law enables riparian states to seek stability and cooperation in the … 24 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00
Event Laurence Boisson de Chazournes Water at the heart of international crises and disputes Lecture Abstract Disputes may arise over the distribution of water resources or over the increasing scarcity of access to these resources. It is important to prevent tensions and conflicts from arising in these areas. Various diplomatic and judicial mechanisms … 24 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00
Event Nathan Carlig The " Empedocles of Cairo " : new verses from the Physica in a Greek papyrus from the end of the 1st century CE Seminar Abstract Preserved at the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, the papyrus presented here contains the hitherto unknown remains of thirty verses by the pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles of Agrigento ( 5th century BC), and is … 23 Feb 2023 15:30 - 17:00
Series Why Did Christians Part From Judaism? A Fresh Look on the Relationship of Jews and Christians in the First Two Centuries CE? Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Guest lecturer 08 Jun 2022
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Singing Demeter : theHomeric Hymn (2) Lecture The analysis of the theogonic components of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter continues with the figure of Demophon, the young child of the rulers of Eleusis whom the goddess undertakes to immortalize. The episode depicts the first consequence of Demeter's … 23 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00
Event Samantha Besson The common law of international representation Lecture 23 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:30
Series Myth as a metaphor for identity Alberto Manguel, chair The invention of Europe through languages and cultures Seminar 02 Mar 2022 → 20 Apr 2022
Series Myth as a metaphor for identity Alberto Manguel, chair The invention of Europe through languages and cultures Lecture Myths are transformed, modified and revised according to the needs of time and place, but in essence a myth remains unchanged, for it is not the fruit of a pure elucubration of the human imagination, but a concrete manifestation of certain primordial … 02 Mar 2022 → 20 Apr 2022
Event Jean-Luc Fournet Introduction : School is everywhere... you just have to find it ! (2) Lecture Abstract School documentation : its biases and limitations (2) The biggest hurdle facing anyone wishing to work on schooling from papyri is whether or not they are dealing with a school text. This brings us to a review of the criteria for belonging to … 22 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00
Event Valentin De Bortoli Maximum entropy image synthesis Seminar Abstract Recent years have seen a boom in neural network-based techniques for image synthesis. These methods are most often based on the minimization of a function, for which the minimizers are assumed to be the solutions of the synthesis problem. In this … 22 Feb 2023 11:15 - 12:30
Event Stéphane Mallat Entropy increase and macrocanonical assemblies Lecture Abstract The entropy rate of a Markov chain is calculated as a function of its transition matrix. It is shown that the Kullback-Liebler distance (relative entropy) always decreases for two probability distributions evolving along a Markov chain. If the … 22 Feb 2023 09:30 - 11:00
Event Benoit Coasne Adsorption and fluid transport in nanoporous materials Seminar Abstract Due to their nanometric porosity and high specific surface area, nanoporous materials are at the heart of fundamental research aimed at studying the role of nanoconfinement and surface forces on thermodynamics and fluid dynamics. Moreover, by … 22 Feb 2023 15:30 - 17:00
Event Lydéric Bocquet Fluctuations at nanoscales : transport and fluctuating surfaces Lecture As Feynman remarked, " Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms ". At nanometric scales, fluctuations become predominant. How do they affect transport, and can we take advantage of them for … 22 Feb 2023 14:00 - 15:30
Series Evolution of humans and microbes : dangerous liaisons Lluis Quintana-Murci, chair Human Genomics and Evolution Lecture 04 Mar 2022 → 25 Mar 2022
Series Merit and " meritocracy ". Motivating equality or inequality ? Pierre-Michel Menger, chair Sociology of Creative Work Lecture Wordcloud illustration of meritocracy … 04 Mar 2022 → 08 Apr 2022
Event Emeline Zougbede Unaccompanied minors or the right to protection Seminar 10 Jan 2023 11:00 - 12:00
Event François-Xavier Fauvelle To Ethiopia with Cosmas (6th c.), Benjamin (12th c.), Marco (13th c.) (4) Lecture 21 Feb 2023 10:30 - 12:00
