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In this regard, electrochemistry, which enjoy a renewal, … 14 May 2025 14:30 - 15:20 Event Erica Benedetti Synthesis and Applications of Chiral Luminescent [2.2]Paracyclophanes Symposium Abstract Originally discovered via vapor-phase pyrolysis of p-xylene , 1 [2.2]paracyclophanes (pCps) have garnered significant attention due to their unique three-dimensional architecture2 and inherent planar chirality. 3 Despite their promising … 14 May 2025 15:20 - 16:10 Event Armido Studer Radical Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions to Unactivated p-Systems Symposium Abstract We demonstrate water activation by a photocatalytic phosphine-mediated radical process, generating a PR3-H2O radical cation intermediate, where both hydrogen atoms are used in the following chemical transformation through sequential cleavage of … 14 May 2025 16:30 - 17:20 Event Guy Bertrand Carbenes in SET Processes Symposium Abstract Over the last three decades, the highly tunable properties of NHCs and other stable singlet carbenes have led to a variety of applications. We will discuss a novel facet of carbenes, i.e., their reductive properties, which allows carbenes to … 14 May 2025 17:20 - 18:10 Series Quantum gravity and the Wheeler-DeWitt equation Marc Henneaux, chair Fields, Strings and Gravity Seminar Reconciling the principles of quantum mechanics with Einsteinian gravitation is one of the major challenges of modern physics. The Wheeler-DeWitt equation, introduced in the late 1960s, plays a central role in the canonical approach to the problem of … 21 May 2025 → 18 Jun 2025 Event Louis Fensterbank Discussions & Conclusions Symposium 14 May 2025 18:10 - 19:00 Event Sara Fani Strategies of the Early Modern International Book Trade: Acquisition and Sales by Diplomats, Scholars, and Booksellers in the Islamicate World Symposium Abstract The early modern period was a pivotal moment in European engagement with the diverse literary traditions of the Islamicate world, and the languages transmitting them. Scholars, collectors, and printers actively sought after manuscripts from these … 16 May 2025 09:30 - 10:00 Event Christoph Rauch Data-Supported Collection History – Provenance Information in the Qalamos Portal Using the Example of the Berlin Collection Symposium Abstract With the launch of the Qalamos portal, the descriptions of more than 40,000 Islamic manuscripts from around 45 institutions in Germany have been made accessible. Supported by the systematic integration of accession data, manuscript annotations … 16 May 2025 11:00 - 11:30 Event Serpil Bağcı Revising the Iskendernāme: Akkoyunlu and Safavid Turkmen Manuscripts of Ottoman Legendary History Symposium Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and … 16 May 2025 11:30 - 12:00 Event Annabel Gallop Qur'anic art in Southeast Asia: Localising the Sulawesi Diaspora Geometric Style Symposium Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and … 16 May 2025 14:00 - 14:30 Event Boris Liebrenz The Manṭiq al-waḥš and the Early Arabic Illustrated Book Symposium Abstract An illustrated page preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has equally attracted and puzzled a number of art historical attempts at interpreting the texts and images found on them. It has been identified as the fragment of an … 16 May 2025 14:30 - 15:00 Event Lucia Raggetti Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Zuhr, His Library, and the 'Galenic Book Club': Bibliophilia, Indirect Tradition, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Islamicate Scholarship Symposium Abstract The Andalusian family of the Banū Zuhr astounded the Mediaeval world with a lineage of physicians spanning several generations. The family library served as the foundation for erudite medical research, and the manuscript tradition of the Kitāb … 16 May 2025 15:30 - 16:00 Event Henning Sievert Traces of Lost Books. What Did High-Level Bureaucrats Read Before 1840? Symposium Abstract The Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Europe underwent profound changes during the late 18 th and early 19 th centuries, before the Ottoman Empire reinvented and rebuilt itself between 1840 and 1880. Contrary to earlier assumptions, this … 16 May 2025 16:00 - 16:30 Event François Déroche Conclusions Symposium 16 May 2025 16:30 - 17:00 Event Naama Friedmann Naama Friedmann (2) Guest lecturer 3 Jun 2025 17:30 - 19:00 Event Shiwei Zhang Ushering a New Era of Synergy Between Computational Quantum Physics and Cold Atoms Experiment Seminar Abstract Computational quantum physics has recently seen a dramatic increase in its capabilities, precision, and predictive power. The advances have been driven by method and code development, benchmark, and collaboration. Together with exciting recent … 14 May 2025 14:00 - 15:00 Event Stephen Quake Understanding the Mysteries of the Cell: How Do Many Cell Types Arise From One Genome? Guest lecturer Abstract Although the genome is often called the blueprint of an organism, it is perhaps more accurate to describe it as a parts list composed of the various genes that may or may not be used in the different cell types of a multicellular organism. … 12 May 2025 17:00 - 18:00 Event Jean-Philippe Brantut Ultra-Cold Fermi Gases with All-to-All Interactions Seminar Abstract In this talk, I will describe experiments where an ultracold Fermi gas is strongly coupled to light in optical resonators. In such a system, virtual photon exchanges between atoms yield a long-range, all-to-all interaction leading to a number of … 7 May 2025 11:30 - 12:45 Event Stéphane Mallat Introduction Special events 5 May 2025 09:00 - 09:10 Event Antoine Georges Cold fermions and quantum simulation (2) Lecture 7 May 2025 09:30 - 11:15 Event François-Marie Bréon Geoengineering. Why - how - why not Symposium Abstract François-Marie Bréon will introduce the conference by recalling the context of ongoing climate change and the need to limit warming to less than 2 degrees. He will describe the concept of geo-engineering, distinguishing between techniques aimed … 15 May 2025 09:30 - 10:00 Event Francis Albarède Évaluation de la géo-ingénierie à l’Académie des sciences Symposium Résumé This presentation explores geoengineering – a set of ideas aimed at cooling the planet if cutting greenhouse gas emissions isn’t enough to stop climate change. It looks at two main strategies: Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide … 15 May 2025 10:00 - 10:20 Event Éric Lambin Changes in solar radiation : risks, uncertainties and governance Symposium Abstract A commonly discussed form of geoengineering is the modification of solar radiation. A number of technologies could be used to reduce solar radiation incident on the Earth in order, in theory, to counteract global warming. In 2024, the European … 15 May 2025 10:20 - 11:10 Pagination First page Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Last page
Series Boulez: the power of invention? The years 1975-1995 Pierre-Michel Menger, chair Sociology of Creative Work Symposium Colloquium organized for the centenary of Pierre Boulez's birth by Pr Pierre-Michel Menger, Sociology of Creative Work Chair, and Nicolas Donin , Professor of Musicology at the University of Geneva. With the support of the Collège de France Foundation and … 22 May 2025 → 23 May 2025
Event Thomas Poisson Electrooxidative Functionalization of Alkenes and Alkynes Symposium Abstract As part of the organic chemistry, radical chemistry is an important research area as the one electron reactivity is complementary to the ones of the two electrons and polar manifolds. In this regard, electrochemistry, which enjoy a renewal, … 14 May 2025 14:30 - 15:20
Event Erica Benedetti Synthesis and Applications of Chiral Luminescent [2.2]Paracyclophanes Symposium Abstract Originally discovered via vapor-phase pyrolysis of p-xylene , 1 [2.2]paracyclophanes (pCps) have garnered significant attention due to their unique three-dimensional architecture2 and inherent planar chirality. 3 Despite their promising … 14 May 2025 15:20 - 16:10
Event Armido Studer Radical Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions to Unactivated p-Systems Symposium Abstract We demonstrate water activation by a photocatalytic phosphine-mediated radical process, generating a PR3-H2O radical cation intermediate, where both hydrogen atoms are used in the following chemical transformation through sequential cleavage of … 14 May 2025 16:30 - 17:20
Event Guy Bertrand Carbenes in SET Processes Symposium Abstract Over the last three decades, the highly tunable properties of NHCs and other stable singlet carbenes have led to a variety of applications. We will discuss a novel facet of carbenes, i.e., their reductive properties, which allows carbenes to … 14 May 2025 17:20 - 18:10
Series Quantum gravity and the Wheeler-DeWitt equation Marc Henneaux, chair Fields, Strings and Gravity Seminar Reconciling the principles of quantum mechanics with Einsteinian gravitation is one of the major challenges of modern physics. The Wheeler-DeWitt equation, introduced in the late 1960s, plays a central role in the canonical approach to the problem of … 21 May 2025 → 18 Jun 2025
Event Sara Fani Strategies of the Early Modern International Book Trade: Acquisition and Sales by Diplomats, Scholars, and Booksellers in the Islamicate World Symposium Abstract The early modern period was a pivotal moment in European engagement with the diverse literary traditions of the Islamicate world, and the languages transmitting them. Scholars, collectors, and printers actively sought after manuscripts from these … 16 May 2025 09:30 - 10:00
Event Christoph Rauch Data-Supported Collection History – Provenance Information in the Qalamos Portal Using the Example of the Berlin Collection Symposium Abstract With the launch of the Qalamos portal, the descriptions of more than 40,000 Islamic manuscripts from around 45 institutions in Germany have been made accessible. Supported by the systematic integration of accession data, manuscript annotations … 16 May 2025 11:00 - 11:30
Event Serpil Bağcı Revising the Iskendernāme: Akkoyunlu and Safavid Turkmen Manuscripts of Ottoman Legendary History Symposium Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and … 16 May 2025 11:30 - 12:00
Event Annabel Gallop Qur'anic art in Southeast Asia: Localising the Sulawesi Diaspora Geometric Style Symposium Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and … 16 May 2025 14:00 - 14:30
Event Boris Liebrenz The Manṭiq al-waḥš and the Early Arabic Illustrated Book Symposium Abstract An illustrated page preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has equally attracted and puzzled a number of art historical attempts at interpreting the texts and images found on them. It has been identified as the fragment of an … 16 May 2025 14:30 - 15:00
Event Lucia Raggetti Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Zuhr, His Library, and the 'Galenic Book Club': Bibliophilia, Indirect Tradition, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Islamicate Scholarship Symposium Abstract The Andalusian family of the Banū Zuhr astounded the Mediaeval world with a lineage of physicians spanning several generations. The family library served as the foundation for erudite medical research, and the manuscript tradition of the Kitāb … 16 May 2025 15:30 - 16:00
Event Henning Sievert Traces of Lost Books. What Did High-Level Bureaucrats Read Before 1840? Symposium Abstract The Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Europe underwent profound changes during the late 18 th and early 19 th centuries, before the Ottoman Empire reinvented and rebuilt itself between 1840 and 1880. Contrary to earlier assumptions, this … 16 May 2025 16:00 - 16:30
Event Shiwei Zhang Ushering a New Era of Synergy Between Computational Quantum Physics and Cold Atoms Experiment Seminar Abstract Computational quantum physics has recently seen a dramatic increase in its capabilities, precision, and predictive power. The advances have been driven by method and code development, benchmark, and collaboration. Together with exciting recent … 14 May 2025 14:00 - 15:00
Event Stephen Quake Understanding the Mysteries of the Cell: How Do Many Cell Types Arise From One Genome? Guest lecturer Abstract Although the genome is often called the blueprint of an organism, it is perhaps more accurate to describe it as a parts list composed of the various genes that may or may not be used in the different cell types of a multicellular organism. … 12 May 2025 17:00 - 18:00
Event Jean-Philippe Brantut Ultra-Cold Fermi Gases with All-to-All Interactions Seminar Abstract In this talk, I will describe experiments where an ultracold Fermi gas is strongly coupled to light in optical resonators. In such a system, virtual photon exchanges between atoms yield a long-range, all-to-all interaction leading to a number of … 7 May 2025 11:30 - 12:45
Event François-Marie Bréon Geoengineering. Why - how - why not Symposium Abstract François-Marie Bréon will introduce the conference by recalling the context of ongoing climate change and the need to limit warming to less than 2 degrees. He will describe the concept of geo-engineering, distinguishing between techniques aimed … 15 May 2025 09:30 - 10:00
Event Francis Albarède Évaluation de la géo-ingénierie à l’Académie des sciences Symposium Résumé This presentation explores geoengineering – a set of ideas aimed at cooling the planet if cutting greenhouse gas emissions isn’t enough to stop climate change. It looks at two main strategies: Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide … 15 May 2025 10:00 - 10:20
Event Éric Lambin Changes in solar radiation : risks, uncertainties and governance Symposium Abstract A commonly discussed form of geoengineering is the modification of solar radiation. A number of technologies could be used to reduce solar radiation incident on the Earth in order, in theory, to counteract global warming. In 2024, the European … 15 May 2025 10:20 - 11:10
