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The non-human primate, which does not have our language, displays a multitude of behaviors whose complexity suggests the existence of … 19 Oct 2018 11:10 to 11:50 Event Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Giving the same name to two different things Symposium Biography Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician with a particular interest in differential geometry, especially as it relates to partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He is particularly interested in Ricci curvature, both in … 19 Oct 2018 10:10 to 10:50 Event François Recanati Thinking with language Symposium Verbal thinking is a specific form of thinking, based on a mechanism of "deference" and parasitic in relation to language. Acknowledging the existence of such thought means recognizing that language not only serves to express thoughts formed independently … 19 Oct 2018 09:30 to 10:10 Event General discussion Symposium 18 Oct 2018 17:30 to 18:00 Event Marwan Rashed Greek, the language of being ? Arab answers Symposium Modern philosophers have argued about the nature of Aristotle's "Categories": categories of language or categories of thought? This debate is reminiscent of another, almost as famous and much older one: the one that pitted Philosophers in 10th-century … 18 Oct 2018 16:50 to 17:30 Event Elizabeth Spelke The role of language in the development of the child's knowledge core Symposium Young children display the highest degree of general intelligence of any entity on earth. In a few short years, they master their society's language, object categories and functions (plants, animals, artifacts), social networks, customs, conventions, … 18 Oct 2018 15:10 to 15:50 Event Luigi Rizzi Syntactic complexity and language acquisition Symposium Grammars for natural languages need to specify at least two types of procedure: word combination procedures, which build hierarchically organized structures, and procedures that establish dependencies between structural positions, for example by … 18 Oct 2018 14:30 to 15:10 Event Gérard Berry Computer languages : from thought to automatic execution Symposium 18 Oct 2018 12:20 to 12:50 Event Stanislas Dehaene The nature of mathematical language : explorations in brain imaging Symposium Stanislas Dehaene … 18 Oct 2018 10:40 to 11:20 Event Gérard Huet Understanding Sanskrit : from Pānini's grammar to Eilenberg's machines Symposium Sanskrit is the learned language of Indian civilization. It was fixed as early as the 4th century B.C. by an exact formal grammar due to the scholar Pāṇini, who was not only a genius linguist but also a pioneering computer scientist. Computer processing … 18 Oct 2018 11:40 to 12:20 Event Alain Connes Mathematical language Symposium 18 Oct 2018 10:00 to 10:40 Event Alain Prochiantz Introduction Symposium 18 Oct 2018 09:30 to 10:00 Event Antonio Lazcano Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origins of Life: a Reassessment of the Miller Experiment Guest lecturer Antonio Lazcano is invited by the Collège de France assembly, at the suggestion of Prof. Marc Fontecave. Abstract The heterotrophic origin of life proposed by Oparin and Haldane in the 1920's was part of a Darwinian framework that assumed that living … 9 Oct 2018 11:00 to 12:00 Event Amos Gitai The camera is a kind of fetish - Filming in the Middle East Opening lecture Abstract "At a time when we are bombarded with images, on television or the Internet, whether news or entertainment programs, and when the technology and industry of image production are constantly advancing and becoming more sophisticated, it is … 16 Oct 2018 18:00 to 19:00 Event Philippe Aghion General purpose technologies Lecture General purpose technologies : historical development (Jovanovic-Rousseau) General purpose technologies : examples (Paul David) Artificial intelligence and economic growth Documents and media Download … 16 Oct 2018 14:00 to 16:00 Series Imagery of Divine Suckling in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Guest lecturer 15 Apr 2016 Event Dominique Charpin Introduction Lecture Abstract Samsu-iluna has often been portrayed as the successor unable to preserve the great kingdom formed by Hammu-rabi. Thus, his reign was defined by Gadd in Cambridge Ancient History in 1973 as " not much shorter, but less remarkable than that of his … 15 Oct 2018 11:00 to 12:00 Event Jean-Noël Robert Introduction by Chairman Jean-Noël Robert Symposium 6 Sep 2018 14:00 to 14:05 Event Frantz Grenet Introduction by Chairman Frantz Grenet Symposium 6 Sep 2018 09:45 to 09:50 Series Autoimmunity, self-inflammation: when the immune system is mistakenly targeting ! Alain Fischer, chair Experimental medicine Seminar 12 Apr 2016 → 31 May 2016 Event Philippe Aghion Lift-off Lecture Historical trends : growth from 1 300 to 1 800 in Europe Malthus and the take-off Mokyr and the take-off The importance of institutions Documents and media Download … 9 Oct 2018 14:00 to 16:00 Event Molly Przeworski Evolutionary origins of genetic variation Opening lecture Abstract The first draft of the genome provided the roadmap for the last fifteen years of human genetics research. The era of Big Data , combined with a very substantial reduction in the cost of sequencing, has encouraged the establishment of global … 3 Oct 2018 18:00 to 19:00 Event Jean-Maurice Monnoyer The reason for the foundation Symposium 3 Oct 2018 09:00 to 09:50 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 422 Page 423 Page 424 Page 425 Page 426 Page 427 Page 428 Page 429 Page 430 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Guy Theraulaz The collective intelligence of animal societies Symposium Numerous animal species display collective behaviors that are often spectacular. Starlings, for example, gather in their tens of thousands at dusk to perform astonishing aerial choreographies. On another scale, social insects (ants, termites, certain … 19 Oct 2018 11:50 to 12:30
Event Joël Fagot Thinking without language: an experimental approach in baboons Symposium Animal research is a privileged way of approaching the question of the relationship between thought and language. The non-human primate, which does not have our language, displays a multitude of behaviors whose complexity suggests the existence of … 19 Oct 2018 11:10 to 11:50
Event Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Giving the same name to two different things Symposium Biography Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician with a particular interest in differential geometry, especially as it relates to partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He is particularly interested in Ricci curvature, both in … 19 Oct 2018 10:10 to 10:50
Event François Recanati Thinking with language Symposium Verbal thinking is a specific form of thinking, based on a mechanism of "deference" and parasitic in relation to language. Acknowledging the existence of such thought means recognizing that language not only serves to express thoughts formed independently … 19 Oct 2018 09:30 to 10:10
Event Marwan Rashed Greek, the language of being ? Arab answers Symposium Modern philosophers have argued about the nature of Aristotle's "Categories": categories of language or categories of thought? This debate is reminiscent of another, almost as famous and much older one: the one that pitted Philosophers in 10th-century … 18 Oct 2018 16:50 to 17:30
Event Elizabeth Spelke The role of language in the development of the child's knowledge core Symposium Young children display the highest degree of general intelligence of any entity on earth. In a few short years, they master their society's language, object categories and functions (plants, animals, artifacts), social networks, customs, conventions, … 18 Oct 2018 15:10 to 15:50
Event Luigi Rizzi Syntactic complexity and language acquisition Symposium Grammars for natural languages need to specify at least two types of procedure: word combination procedures, which build hierarchically organized structures, and procedures that establish dependencies between structural positions, for example by … 18 Oct 2018 14:30 to 15:10
Event Gérard Berry Computer languages : from thought to automatic execution Symposium 18 Oct 2018 12:20 to 12:50
Event Stanislas Dehaene The nature of mathematical language : explorations in brain imaging Symposium Stanislas Dehaene … 18 Oct 2018 10:40 to 11:20
Event Gérard Huet Understanding Sanskrit : from Pānini's grammar to Eilenberg's machines Symposium Sanskrit is the learned language of Indian civilization. It was fixed as early as the 4th century B.C. by an exact formal grammar due to the scholar Pāṇini, who was not only a genius linguist but also a pioneering computer scientist. Computer processing … 18 Oct 2018 11:40 to 12:20
Event Antonio Lazcano Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origins of Life: a Reassessment of the Miller Experiment Guest lecturer Antonio Lazcano is invited by the Collège de France assembly, at the suggestion of Prof. Marc Fontecave. Abstract The heterotrophic origin of life proposed by Oparin and Haldane in the 1920's was part of a Darwinian framework that assumed that living … 9 Oct 2018 11:00 to 12:00
Event Amos Gitai The camera is a kind of fetish - Filming in the Middle East Opening lecture Abstract "At a time when we are bombarded with images, on television or the Internet, whether news or entertainment programs, and when the technology and industry of image production are constantly advancing and becoming more sophisticated, it is … 16 Oct 2018 18:00 to 19:00
Event Philippe Aghion General purpose technologies Lecture General purpose technologies : historical development (Jovanovic-Rousseau) General purpose technologies : examples (Paul David) Artificial intelligence and economic growth Documents and media Download … 16 Oct 2018 14:00 to 16:00
Series Imagery of Divine Suckling in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Guest lecturer 15 Apr 2016
Event Dominique Charpin Introduction Lecture Abstract Samsu-iluna has often been portrayed as the successor unable to preserve the great kingdom formed by Hammu-rabi. Thus, his reign was defined by Gadd in Cambridge Ancient History in 1973 as " not much shorter, but less remarkable than that of his … 15 Oct 2018 11:00 to 12:00
Series Autoimmunity, self-inflammation: when the immune system is mistakenly targeting ! Alain Fischer, chair Experimental medicine Seminar 12 Apr 2016 → 31 May 2016
Event Philippe Aghion Lift-off Lecture Historical trends : growth from 1 300 to 1 800 in Europe Malthus and the take-off Mokyr and the take-off The importance of institutions Documents and media Download … 9 Oct 2018 14:00 to 16:00
Event Molly Przeworski Evolutionary origins of genetic variation Opening lecture Abstract The first draft of the genome provided the roadmap for the last fifteen years of human genetics research. The era of Big Data , combined with a very substantial reduction in the cost of sequencing, has encouraged the establishment of global … 3 Oct 2018 18:00 to 19:00