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François-Xavier Fauvelle presents his lecture of the year in the series les courTs du Collège de France Both present to the world through its continental massiveness and perceived as an obstacle to the establishment of direct links between West and East, …

This series of five lectures focused on seismic imaging methods, as developed over the last forty years or so to study the global deep structure of the Earth's mantle. The principle is similar to that of medical imaging : how can we obtain an image of the …

Walter Fontana presents his lecture in the series les courTs du Collège de France The 2019-2020 Computer Sciences chair at the Collège de France aims to highlight computational biology. The term is often understood as " bioinformatics " - a practice of …

The aim of the Chair's lectures is to identify and model the cellular mechanisms involved in the response to various anti-cancer agents. Following on from the lectures on anti-hormones, cell differentiation and p53 as a common final pathway, we have …

The history of Empires has been the subject of a recent craze, leading to the emergence of a specific field, "imperiology". On the other hand, the question of "imperialism", i.e. the Empire as a horizon of possibilities, has not benefited from a …

Opening symposium 2019-2020 Innovation confers functional value on some of the radically original discoveries made possible by fundamental research, and the resulting incremental progress, for markets, companies and our societies. In these activities, …

Conference coordinated by Alexandre Declos . Time has always fascinated philosophers. The intimate consciousness, perception and experience we have of it, as well as the phenomenological description we can give of it. The 20th century saw a renewed …