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Every living thing derives from another living thing. The future dynamics of an ecosystem can only be understood in the light of its past history. Synthetic … 13 Feb 2023 10:00 to 11:00 Series Single cell movements Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics Lecture These lectures show how soft matter theory in general, and active matter theory in particular, enable a quantitative description of biological systems from cell to tissue. This year's lecture will be given in parallel with Thomas Lecuit's lecture on the … 08 Nov 2021 → 13 Dec 2021 Series Immigration in debate : rhetoric and arguments, disputes and polemics François Héran, chair Migrations and Societies Seminar 08 Nov 2021 → 14 Mar 2022 Series New research on the Black Death (II). Biological history of the epidemic and funerary archaeology Patrick Boucheron, chair History of power in Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth century Symposium Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Redemption , c. 1338, Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale. Colloquium co-organized by Patrick Boucheron , History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th to 16th Centuries Chair (Collège de France), and Etienne Anheim (EHESS). The … 06 Oct 2021 Event Pedro Arrojo-Agudo Water commoditization and the human right to drinking water and sanitation Seminar Abstract Although water is essential to life, it is often regarded as an economic good that must be managed according to the logic of the market. This commodification of water carries risks and impacts on respect for human rights to drinking water and … 10 Feb 2023 11:00 to 12:00 Event Véronique Izard Cognitive foundations of mathematics Seminar 10 Feb 2023 11:00 to 12:30 Event Stéphane Mischler Constructive Krein-Rutman theorem and applications Seminar Abstract In this talk, I will present results concerning a constructive approach to the Krein-Rutman theorem motivated by the asymptotic analysis of evolution PDEs. These results have been obtained in a recent work carried out in collaboration with … 10 Feb 2023 11:15 to 12:30 Event Laurence Boisson de Chazournes Water and economic uses : the relationship between market and non-market values Lecture Abstract Water is used for many economic purposes, from river transport to irrigation methods and industrial activities. They have all left their mark on the principles and rules applicable in this field. The question of the economic value of water has … 10 Feb 2023 10:00 to 11:00 Event Stanislas Dehaene The vector representation of language : how do you represent a sentence ? Lecture Can a sentence be represented by a vector ? The problem of " compositionality " consists in finding a code that combines individual word representations while also managing to encode their composition, i.e. their syntactic and semantic organization. We … 10 Feb 2023 09:30 to 11:00 Series Exploring the interface between men and gods in ancient Greece Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, chair Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World Guest lecturer Athens, National Museum, inv. 1338: photo by Lorenz E. Baumer. Presentation This series of three lectures explores the multiple fields of interaction between men and gods in ancient Greek society. Conceived with the power to manifest themselves in human … 07 Mar 2022 → 21 Mar 2022 Event Frantz Grenet Prestige silver in Central Asia (continued) : Homer, Alexander. Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (4) Lecture A look at eastern Iran : Kuh-e Khwâjah (Sistân), in the light of comparison with Bandiyân (Khurâsân). … 9 Feb 2023 15:30 to 16:30 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Hesiodic genealogies Lecture In Hesiod's Theogony , Demeter is a goddess of the generation of Zeus : daughter of Rhea and Kronos, granddaughter of Gaia and Ouranos. In accordance with the genealogical principle that divine children specialize the functions of their parents, the … 9 Feb 2023 11:00 to 12:00 Event Andrew Wilson The contribution of archaeology to Roman economics. General conclusions Lecture Abstract The aim of this conference is to organize the thoughts generated by the presentation of the data in such a way as to stimulate a real debate on the Roman economy, based on the most up-to-date research. Emphasis is placed on the nature and … 9 Feb 2023 10:00 to 11:30 Event Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo Thinking differently about life Opening lecture Abstract Feeling the warmth of the sun's rays on your skin. Following a flock of birds in the distance. While our senses enable us to apprehend the world around us and act accordingly, they also introduce biases into our understanding of biodiversity and … 9 Feb 2023 18:00 to 19:00 Event Giulio Biroli Entropy, statistical physics and computer science Seminar Abstract The concept of entropy is fundamental to physics and theoretical computer science. Recent advances have shown that it plays a very important role in many other scientific fields. In this talk, Giulio Biroli presents the multidisciplinary and … 8 Feb 2023 11:15 to 12:30 Series Revisiting the biological basis of anticancer activity Hugues de Thé, chair Cellular and Molecular Oncology Lecture 03 Nov 2021 → 24 Nov 2021 Event Stéphane Mallat Mutual dependence and information Lecture Abstract Typical sets and the asymptotic equipartition theorem are extended to the case of independent variables with continuous values. The properties of conditional entropy and Kullback-Liebler divergence are studied, as well as mutual information and … 8 Feb 2023 09:30 to 11:00 Publication Patrick Boucheron Ce que peut l'histoire « Nous avons besoin d'histoire car il nous faut du repos. Une halte pour reposer la conscience, pour que demeure la possibilité d’une conscience – non pas seulement le siège d'une pensée, mais d'une raison pratique, donnant toute latitude d'agir. Sauver … 2 September 2024 Publication Timothy Gowers Combinatoire En combinatoire, ce ne sont pas tant les problèmes et les résultats qui ont un intérêt, mais plutôt les méthodes et les techniques qu’il faut développer pour les résoudre. Certains problèmes sont simples à énoncer alors que les solutions sont complexes ; … 2 September 2024 Publication Samantha Besson Reconstruire l'ordre institutionnel international Les États n’agissent plus seuls sur la scène internationale. Interviennent désormais à leurs côtés, voire parfois à leur place, d’autres institutions comme les organisations internationales, les entreprises multinationales, les organisations non … 2 September 2024 Publication Laurence Boisson de Chazournes L'eau en droit international : entre singularité et pluralité Essentielle à la vie et à l’activité humaine, l’eau douce devient une préoccupation en droit international. Sa réglementation, d’abord consacrée aux fleuves partagés entre plusieurs États, s’est peu à peu infléchie vers d’autres sources d’eau. … 2 September 2024 Publication Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Le polythéisme grec comme objet d'histoire Le polythéisme grec n’est pas une simple juxtaposition de divinités, mais il est fait de leurs interactions à différentes échelles – locale, régionale, panhellénique. 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Series Motility of single cells Thomas Lecuit, chair Dynamics of Living Systems Lecture 09 Nov 2021 → 14 Dec 2021
Event Sylvain Charlat The emergence of Darwinian individuality : towards a meta-evolutionary perspective Seminar Abstract From intragenomic conflicts to mutualistic symbioses, biological interactions invite us to question the foundations of a rarely-explained concept that is nonetheless essential to Darwinian reasoning : the individual. The individual as " level of … 13 Feb 2023 11:00 to 12:00
Event Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo The living world is embedded in a historical process Lecture The machine metaphor does not apply well to living elements. Every cell derives from a cell. Every living thing derives from another living thing. The future dynamics of an ecosystem can only be understood in the light of its past history. Synthetic … 13 Feb 2023 10:00 to 11:00
Series Single cell movements Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics Lecture These lectures show how soft matter theory in general, and active matter theory in particular, enable a quantitative description of biological systems from cell to tissue. This year's lecture will be given in parallel with Thomas Lecuit's lecture on the … 08 Nov 2021 → 13 Dec 2021
Series Immigration in debate : rhetoric and arguments, disputes and polemics François Héran, chair Migrations and Societies Seminar 08 Nov 2021 → 14 Mar 2022
Series New research on the Black Death (II). Biological history of the epidemic and funerary archaeology Patrick Boucheron, chair History of power in Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth century Symposium Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Redemption , c. 1338, Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale. Colloquium co-organized by Patrick Boucheron , History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th to 16th Centuries Chair (Collège de France), and Etienne Anheim (EHESS). The … 06 Oct 2021
Event Pedro Arrojo-Agudo Water commoditization and the human right to drinking water and sanitation Seminar Abstract Although water is essential to life, it is often regarded as an economic good that must be managed according to the logic of the market. This commodification of water carries risks and impacts on respect for human rights to drinking water and … 10 Feb 2023 11:00 to 12:00
Event Stéphane Mischler Constructive Krein-Rutman theorem and applications Seminar Abstract In this talk, I will present results concerning a constructive approach to the Krein-Rutman theorem motivated by the asymptotic analysis of evolution PDEs. These results have been obtained in a recent work carried out in collaboration with … 10 Feb 2023 11:15 to 12:30
Event Laurence Boisson de Chazournes Water and economic uses : the relationship between market and non-market values Lecture Abstract Water is used for many economic purposes, from river transport to irrigation methods and industrial activities. They have all left their mark on the principles and rules applicable in this field. The question of the economic value of water has … 10 Feb 2023 10:00 to 11:00
Event Stanislas Dehaene The vector representation of language : how do you represent a sentence ? Lecture Can a sentence be represented by a vector ? The problem of " compositionality " consists in finding a code that combines individual word representations while also managing to encode their composition, i.e. their syntactic and semantic organization. We … 10 Feb 2023 09:30 to 11:00
Series Exploring the interface between men and gods in ancient Greece Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, chair Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World Guest lecturer Athens, National Museum, inv. 1338: photo by Lorenz E. Baumer. Presentation This series of three lectures explores the multiple fields of interaction between men and gods in ancient Greek society. Conceived with the power to manifest themselves in human … 07 Mar 2022 → 21 Mar 2022
Event Frantz Grenet Prestige silver in Central Asia (continued) : Homer, Alexander. Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (4) Lecture A look at eastern Iran : Kuh-e Khwâjah (Sistân), in the light of comparison with Bandiyân (Khurâsân). … 9 Feb 2023 15:30 to 16:30
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Hesiodic genealogies Lecture In Hesiod's Theogony , Demeter is a goddess of the generation of Zeus : daughter of Rhea and Kronos, granddaughter of Gaia and Ouranos. In accordance with the genealogical principle that divine children specialize the functions of their parents, the … 9 Feb 2023 11:00 to 12:00
Event Andrew Wilson The contribution of archaeology to Roman economics. General conclusions Lecture Abstract The aim of this conference is to organize the thoughts generated by the presentation of the data in such a way as to stimulate a real debate on the Roman economy, based on the most up-to-date research. Emphasis is placed on the nature and … 9 Feb 2023 10:00 to 11:30
Event Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo Thinking differently about life Opening lecture Abstract Feeling the warmth of the sun's rays on your skin. Following a flock of birds in the distance. While our senses enable us to apprehend the world around us and act accordingly, they also introduce biases into our understanding of biodiversity and … 9 Feb 2023 18:00 to 19:00
Event Giulio Biroli Entropy, statistical physics and computer science Seminar Abstract The concept of entropy is fundamental to physics and theoretical computer science. Recent advances have shown that it plays a very important role in many other scientific fields. In this talk, Giulio Biroli presents the multidisciplinary and … 8 Feb 2023 11:15 to 12:30
Series Revisiting the biological basis of anticancer activity Hugues de Thé, chair Cellular and Molecular Oncology Lecture 03 Nov 2021 → 24 Nov 2021
Event Stéphane Mallat Mutual dependence and information Lecture Abstract Typical sets and the asymptotic equipartition theorem are extended to the case of independent variables with continuous values. The properties of conditional entropy and Kullback-Liebler divergence are studied, as well as mutual information and … 8 Feb 2023 09:30 to 11:00
Publication Patrick Boucheron Ce que peut l'histoire « Nous avons besoin d'histoire car il nous faut du repos. Une halte pour reposer la conscience, pour que demeure la possibilité d’une conscience – non pas seulement le siège d'une pensée, mais d'une raison pratique, donnant toute latitude d'agir. Sauver … 2 September 2024
Publication Timothy Gowers Combinatoire En combinatoire, ce ne sont pas tant les problèmes et les résultats qui ont un intérêt, mais plutôt les méthodes et les techniques qu’il faut développer pour les résoudre. Certains problèmes sont simples à énoncer alors que les solutions sont complexes ; … 2 September 2024
Publication Samantha Besson Reconstruire l'ordre institutionnel international Les États n’agissent plus seuls sur la scène internationale. Interviennent désormais à leurs côtés, voire parfois à leur place, d’autres institutions comme les organisations internationales, les entreprises multinationales, les organisations non … 2 September 2024
Publication Laurence Boisson de Chazournes L'eau en droit international : entre singularité et pluralité Essentielle à la vie et à l’activité humaine, l’eau douce devient une préoccupation en droit international. Sa réglementation, d’abord consacrée aux fleuves partagés entre plusieurs États, s’est peu à peu infléchie vers d’autres sources d’eau. … 2 September 2024
Publication Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Le polythéisme grec comme objet d'histoire Le polythéisme grec n’est pas une simple juxtaposition de divinités, mais il est fait de leurs interactions à différentes échelles – locale, régionale, panhellénique. De précieuses moissons documentaires – combinant sources littéraires, épigraphiques, … 2 September 2024
