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Abstract Since the publication of H. von Prott and L. Ziehen's Leges graecorum sacrae at the beginning of the 20th  century, prescriptive epigraphic texts dealing with the affairs of the gods have been referred to as " sacred laws ". At the beginning of …

Abstract Whether verified dynamically (at runtime) or statically (by prior analysis), typing is an essential aspect of high-level programming languages. In this lecture, we will study the contributions of typing to software security, from the basic …

Christian Sandor Dr. Christian Sandor has very recently been appointed Professor at Paris-Saclay University. Since the year 2000, his foremost research interest has been Augmented Reality (AR), as he believes that it will have a profound impact on the …

In its maritime section, the symposium held in Aspiran in 2013 and published in 2020 (Nouvelles recherches sur les dolia. L'exemple de la Méditerranée nord-occidentale à l'époque romaine ( Ier s. avant. J.-C.- IIIe s. ap. J.-C.) , edited by Charlotte …

As human beings, we use "everyday physics" to interact with the world around us. Augmented reality builds on this understanding by dynamically "enriching" physical objects with information, and by mixing physical and digital objects. Virtual reality, …

Abstract In my second talk I consider the importance of fiction. Why do we care about people who never existed and events that never occurred? How can their stories shed light on our own lives? I argue that the key to answering these questions is to …

Cléo Bertelsmeier 2013 PhD at Université Paris-Sud ("Impact of climate change on ant invasions") ; 2014 Postdoc at the University of Adelaide, Australia ("Predicting geographical distributions of birds in relation to climate change"); 2015-2018 Postdoc at …

This lecture will focus on the current biodiversity crisis, with recent studies documenting the sharp and rapid decline in biodiversity and its consequences for human beings. In particular, we'll look at the threats to biodiversity posed by invasive …

Abstract In certain cases, the feeling of loss can be the cause of the loss itself, such as an idealized situation whose non-realization gives rise to a lack, and where the present invents a loss in relation to an ideal it has invented for itself. The …

Abstract We saw four of the nine categories of lost works in the previous lesson. The last five are : 5. Unrealized works : Jean-Jacques Rousseau provides an exalted testimony to these works composed in the mind, but never put to paper, when he evokes, in …

Abstract Whether in the context of ancient memory studies, or stemming from an interest in local histories, recent scholarship has emphasised the significance of Greek sanctuaries as crucial memory media. They were anchors of collective experience and …

What kind of power prepares the defeated time of the Black Death? Taking up the analysis of the paradigms of leprosy exclusion and plague discipline, the lecture describes the differences between the two, taking into account biological, urban and …

John Krakauer Dr. Krakauer is currently John C. Malone Professor, Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Director of the Brain, Learning, Animation, and Movement Lab (www.BLAM-lab.org) at the Johns Hopkins …

Abstract The opening lecture will provide a chronological overview of the risks that have weighed or are still weighing on human health, from the epidemic-war-famine trilogy, which has gradually and partially faded away to make way for so-called lifestyle …

Abstract The Tan's contact is related to two-body interactions in quantum gases with short-range interactions. It is an ubiquitous quantity, determining eg the interaction energy, the two-body correlation function at zero distance, the tails of the …