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Coordination and Introduction Symposium 18 Oct 2013 09:00 to 09:10 Event Anne-Yvonne le Dain Media, scientific and political taboos... a strange era Symposium Member of Parliament for Hérault since 2012, Anne-Yvonne Le Dain is a member of the Commission des Lois and vice-president of the Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques. She is also a member of the French group of the … 17 Oct 2013 11:30 to 12:00 Event Bernard Tardieu Comparing exploration and production worldwide Symposium Bernard Tardieu is Chairman of the "Energy and Climate Change" Commission of the Académie des Technologies. He is an international expert in hydroelectricity, dams, canals and civil engineering for nuclear power plants. Until February 2008, he was … 17 Oct 2013 11:00 to 11:30 Event Serge Haroche Science and democracy - Opening Symposium Extract from the introduction (transcript) I'd like to start with a few words of introduction to tell you what I think about the often conflicting relations between science and society. The idea for this colloquium came from the observation that science, … 17 Oct 2013 09:00 to 09:20 Event Steven Chu Energy and Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities: Dr Chu Goes to Washington. A review of the experience of a former US Secretary of Energy. Symposium Simultaneous translation … 17 Oct 2013 09:20 to 10:30 Series The correspondence of the Hellenistic ruler Denis Knoepfler, chair Epigraphy and history of Greek cities Guest lecturer Article in Lettre du Collège de France n° 25. … 14 Nov 2008 → 04 Dec 2008 Series Affine interval exchanges Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, chair Differential equations and dynamic systems Lecture 12 Nov 2008 → 17 Dec 2008 Event Jean-Pierre Brun The road to Myos Hormos (1) Lecture 15 Oct 2013 10:00 to 11:00 Event Barbara Romanowicz Thermal and mechanical considerations - Different definitions of the boundary between lithosphere and asthenosphere Lecture Experimental stresses. Consequences for the Earth's plate tectonic regime. We began by taking stock of the different sources of internal heat in the Earth and the main modes of heat release: conduction and convection. We introduced boundary layer theory … 14 Oct 2013 14:30 to 16:00 Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (2) Lecture 14 Oct 2013 16:15 to 18:15 Event Alain Prochiantz Genome disorders and their repair Lecture Before resuming, I'd like to emphasize that the attitude of not seeing pathology or aging as the result of permanent degradation from an ideal point, which is still the dominant view, but of seeing it as an imbalance between destruction and construction, … 14 Oct 2013 17:00 to 18:30 Event Helmut Müller Hellenistic and Roman Pergamon : five centuries of history illuminated by inscriptions (1) Guest lecturer The beginnings of a Greek city in western Asia Minor. … 9 Oct 2013 10:00 to 11:00 Event Oded Lipschits Excavating paradise : the Persian garden and the answer to " the enigma of Ramat Rahel " Guest lecturer 8 Oct 2013 17:00 to 18:00 Event Albert James Hudspeth How the Ear's Works Work: The Operation of the Inner Ear Guest lecturer Human hearing is extraordinary in its technical specifications. We can perceive frequencies as great as 20 kHz and discriminate between different tones with a precision of 0.2%. At the acoustical threshold, the inner ear responds to vibrations of only ± … 8 Oct 2013 11:00 to 12:00 Series Composer. Music, Paradox, Flow Pascal Dusapin, chair Artistic creation Opening lecture 01 Feb 2007 Series The Palestine question from 1969 onwards Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World Lecture The lecture was devoted to the continuation of the history of the Palestine question, this time between October 1969 and October 1973, i.e. the period from the war of attrition to the eve of the October 1973 war. Following the methodology used previously, … 05 Nov 2008 → 17 Dec 2008 Series Arab political autobiography Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World Seminar The seminar, devoted to political autobiography in the contemporary Arab world, focused on a series of Palestinian political autobiographies in conjunction with the lecture: Bahjat Abu Gharbieh, Fî khidam al-nidâl al-'arabî al-filastînî, mudhakkirât … 05 Nov 2008 → 17 Dec 2008 Event Alain Prochiantz The different players in longevity Lecture To set the scene for this year's lectures, I'll start with a very comprehensive review by Lopez-Otin and colleagues (Cell 153: 1194-1217, 2013) which attempts to define the marks of aging, the less smiling face of longevity, not just cerebral, but … 7 Oct 2013 17:00 to 18:30 Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (1) Lecture 7 Oct 2013 16:15 to 18:15 Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture The importance of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, or LAB for short, in understanding how plate tectonics works. Basics: Different definitions of LAB depending on the type of measurement: petrological, geochemical, thermal, seismic (velocity and … 7 Oct 2013 14:30 to 16:00 Event Albert James Hudspeth Senses and Sensivity: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Perception Guest lecturer In addition to possessing the classical senses of vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, humans respond to a variety of other stimuli. For example, the vestibular apparatus of the internal ear provides continuous feedback about linear and angular … 1 Oct 2013 11:00 to 12:00 Series The medieval image Roland Recht, chair History of medieval and modern European art Lecture 31 Oct 2008 → 19 Dec 2008 Event Glen W. Bowersock Pagan angels of late antiquity Guest lecturer The Byzantine world before Islam knew a host of paganisms, both polytheistic and from time to time, because of the hierarchy of their gods, quasi-monotheistic. 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Event Albert James Hudspeth Making an Effort to Listen: The Active Process of the Cochlea Guest lecturer Uniquely among sensory receptors the hair cell is not a passive recipient of stimuli, but instead uses an active process to enhance its inputs. The active process amplifies mechanical stimuli by as much as a thousandfold, thus greatly increasing our … 15 Oct 2013 11:00 to 12:00
Event Jean Dalibard Fourth session. Scientific debates and political decisions : the case of climate change. Coordination and Introduction Symposium 18 Oct 2013 09:00 to 09:10
Event Anne-Yvonne le Dain Media, scientific and political taboos... a strange era Symposium Member of Parliament for Hérault since 2012, Anne-Yvonne Le Dain is a member of the Commission des Lois and vice-president of the Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques. She is also a member of the French group of the … 17 Oct 2013 11:30 to 12:00
Event Bernard Tardieu Comparing exploration and production worldwide Symposium Bernard Tardieu is Chairman of the "Energy and Climate Change" Commission of the Académie des Technologies. He is an international expert in hydroelectricity, dams, canals and civil engineering for nuclear power plants. Until February 2008, he was … 17 Oct 2013 11:00 to 11:30
Event Serge Haroche Science and democracy - Opening Symposium Extract from the introduction (transcript) I'd like to start with a few words of introduction to tell you what I think about the often conflicting relations between science and society. The idea for this colloquium came from the observation that science, … 17 Oct 2013 09:00 to 09:20
Event Steven Chu Energy and Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities: Dr Chu Goes to Washington. A review of the experience of a former US Secretary of Energy. Symposium Simultaneous translation … 17 Oct 2013 09:20 to 10:30
Series The correspondence of the Hellenistic ruler Denis Knoepfler, chair Epigraphy and history of Greek cities Guest lecturer Article in Lettre du Collège de France n° 25. … 14 Nov 2008 → 04 Dec 2008
Series Affine interval exchanges Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, chair Differential equations and dynamic systems Lecture 12 Nov 2008 → 17 Dec 2008
Event Barbara Romanowicz Thermal and mechanical considerations - Different definitions of the boundary between lithosphere and asthenosphere Lecture Experimental stresses. Consequences for the Earth's plate tectonic regime. We began by taking stock of the different sources of internal heat in the Earth and the main modes of heat release: conduction and convection. We introduced boundary layer theory … 14 Oct 2013 14:30 to 16:00
Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (2) Lecture 14 Oct 2013 16:15 to 18:15
Event Alain Prochiantz Genome disorders and their repair Lecture Before resuming, I'd like to emphasize that the attitude of not seeing pathology or aging as the result of permanent degradation from an ideal point, which is still the dominant view, but of seeing it as an imbalance between destruction and construction, … 14 Oct 2013 17:00 to 18:30
Event Helmut Müller Hellenistic and Roman Pergamon : five centuries of history illuminated by inscriptions (1) Guest lecturer The beginnings of a Greek city in western Asia Minor. … 9 Oct 2013 10:00 to 11:00
Event Oded Lipschits Excavating paradise : the Persian garden and the answer to " the enigma of Ramat Rahel " Guest lecturer 8 Oct 2013 17:00 to 18:00
Event Albert James Hudspeth How the Ear's Works Work: The Operation of the Inner Ear Guest lecturer Human hearing is extraordinary in its technical specifications. We can perceive frequencies as great as 20 kHz and discriminate between different tones with a precision of 0.2%. At the acoustical threshold, the inner ear responds to vibrations of only ± … 8 Oct 2013 11:00 to 12:00
Series Composer. Music, Paradox, Flow Pascal Dusapin, chair Artistic creation Opening lecture 01 Feb 2007
Series The Palestine question from 1969 onwards Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World Lecture The lecture was devoted to the continuation of the history of the Palestine question, this time between October 1969 and October 1973, i.e. the period from the war of attrition to the eve of the October 1973 war. Following the methodology used previously, … 05 Nov 2008 → 17 Dec 2008
Series Arab political autobiography Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World Seminar The seminar, devoted to political autobiography in the contemporary Arab world, focused on a series of Palestinian political autobiographies in conjunction with the lecture: Bahjat Abu Gharbieh, Fî khidam al-nidâl al-'arabî al-filastînî, mudhakkirât … 05 Nov 2008 → 17 Dec 2008
Event Alain Prochiantz The different players in longevity Lecture To set the scene for this year's lectures, I'll start with a very comprehensive review by Lopez-Otin and colleagues (Cell 153: 1194-1217, 2013) which attempts to define the marks of aging, the less smiling face of longevity, not just cerebral, but … 7 Oct 2013 17:00 to 18:30
Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (1) Lecture 7 Oct 2013 16:15 to 18:15
Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture The importance of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, or LAB for short, in understanding how plate tectonics works. Basics: Different definitions of LAB depending on the type of measurement: petrological, geochemical, thermal, seismic (velocity and … 7 Oct 2013 14:30 to 16:00
Event Albert James Hudspeth Senses and Sensivity: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Perception Guest lecturer In addition to possessing the classical senses of vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, humans respond to a variety of other stimuli. For example, the vestibular apparatus of the internal ear provides continuous feedback about linear and angular … 1 Oct 2013 11:00 to 12:00
Series The medieval image Roland Recht, chair History of medieval and modern European art Lecture 31 Oct 2008 → 19 Dec 2008
Event Glen W. Bowersock Pagan angels of late antiquity Guest lecturer The Byzantine world before Islam knew a host of paganisms, both polytheistic and from time to time, because of the hierarchy of their gods, quasi-monotheistic. In the Koran, the Prophet Muhammad referred to those who shared their gods as mushrikūn and … 30 Sep 2013 17:00 to 18:00
