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Where … 3 Oct 2019 16:35 to 17:35 Event Nikk Effingham The Wave Theory of Time Symposium Abstract This paper presents a new temporal ontology, to compete with presentism, eternalism, etc. Like moving spotlight theory, wave theory says (i) that there exist four-dimensional hunks of matter and (ii) the world is fundamentally tensed. However, … 3 Oct 2019 14:35 to 15:45 Event Baptiste Le Bihan String theory, loop quantum gravity and eternalism Symposium Abstract Eternalism, the thesis that past and future entities exist in the same way as present ones, is a natural philosophical interpretation of special relativity and general relativity. However, these two theories are not fundamental, and several … 3 Oct 2019 13:45 to 14:35 Event Vincent Grandjean Towards a redefinition of theories of time Symposium Abstract The metaphysical Growing Block Theory seems particularly well-suited to account for some of our fundamental intuitions about time: time has a direction, our present extends to the whole universe, the past is closed while the future is open, and … 3 Oct 2019 11:15 to 12:05 Event Jiri Benovsky Theory A of time, passage of time, endurantism, and metaphysical insights Symposium Abstract Intuitions about the passage of time or the idea that objects persist through time by being numerically identical and fully localized at different instants play an important role in some arguments in favor of the A theory of time or endurantism. … 3 Oct 2019 10:05 to 10:55 Event Robin Le Poidevin Memory, McTaggart and the Descriptive Metaphysics of Time Symposium Abstract When the "new" B-theory of time emerged in the 1980s, its proponents typically conceded that our ordinary conceptual scheme represents the presentness of events as non-perspectival, while insisting that in reality presentness is purely … 3 Oct 2019 09:15 to 10:05 Event Jacques Glowinski Neuropharmacology : implications for psychiatry and neurology Special events 17 Nov 2008 19:00 to 20:00 Event Michel Butor The utopian worlds of Jules Verne Special events 9 Jun 2008 19:00 to 20:00 Event Eric Deeds The Evolution of Cellular Individuality Seminar Prof. Deeds performed his undergraduate work at Case Western Reserve University and graduated with degrees in Biochemistry and English Literature. He pursued his Ph.D. studies in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard under the … 8 Nov 2019 14:00 to 15:00 Event Pierre-Louis Lions HJB, MFG and others (continued) (1) Lecture 8 Nov 2019 09:00 to 11:00 Event François-Xavier Fauvelle How Africa went undiscovered (2) Lecture Le Périple de la mer Erythrée : les voyages en Inde et en Afrique orientale (suite). The question of Rhapta, the last emporion on the east coast of Africa. Libyan voyages (Phoenician, Egyptian, Persian). Hannon's journey . The circumnavigations of … 7 Nov 2019 14:00 to 15:30 Event Daniel Fabre From Isaac Strauss to Claude Lévi-Strauss : Judaism as culture Symposium 27 Nov 2008 18:00 to 20:00 Event Barbara Romanowicz Teleseismic travel time tomography ( Travel time tomography ) Lecture Continuing in the second lecture, we progressively established the essential elements for building tomographic models of the Earth's mantle : types of data, level of approximation of wave propagation theory, physical and geometric parameterization of the … 5 Nov 2019 16:00 to 18:00 Event Carlo Ossola Rabelais Special events 19 May 2008 19:00 to 20:00 Event Philippe Aghion Counterpowers (2) Lecture 5 Nov 2019 14:00 to 16:00 Event Walter Fontana Inheriting biological information : transmission limits Lecture The second unit of the lecture focused on the evolutionary propagation of information, as seen through the classical model of Manfred Eigen, in which sequences reproduce with errors in a flow reactor. The model gives rise to a system of differential … 5 Nov 2019 14:00 to 15:30 Event Pierre Corvol Risks, predictions, prevention in medicine Special events 6 Oct 2008 19:00 to 20:00 Event Hugues de Thé Senescence and therapeutic response (2) Lecture 4 Nov 2019 14:00 to 15:30 Event Edith Heard Research and innovation : a European researcher's perspective Symposium Edith Heard is Professor at the Collège de France. Trained as a geneticist, she heads the Genetics and Developmental Biology Unit and the Mammalian Epigenesis and Development team at the Institut Curie. For several years, she has been studying epigenetic … 11 Oct 2019 16:05 to 16:50 Event François-Xavier Fauvelle How Africa went undiscovered (1) Lecture The African continent : some problems of representation and naming. How the " imago " of Africa is constructed : medieval European maps. The representation of Africa in planispheres from the Ptolemaic tradition to the Renaissance. The words " Africa " and … 31 Oct 2019 14:00 to 15:30 Event Luciano Canfora Classic utopias Special events 7 Apr 2008 19:00 to 20:00 Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture The first lecture provided a brief reminder of the wave equation and its solutions in an isotropic or anisotropic elastic medium, as well as the different types of seismic waves, and grape theory, which makes it possible to follow the path of … 29 Oct 2019 16:00 to 18:00 Event Jean-Jacques Hublin In search of Dénisoviens Lecture 29 Oct 2019 17:00 to 18:30 Event Walter Fontana Representing biological information : statistical aspects of mapping sequences to structures ; the case of RNA Lecture The first unit of the lecture dealt with the evolutionary problem of phenotypic innovation, i.e. trying to understand why the consequences of random genetic mutations are not random. 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Event Philippe Huneman Moderate pluralism for time in the natural sciences : irreversibility, time scales and model dependence Symposium Abstract Philosophical tradition often opposes the time of consciousness or the subject, and the time of nature or the world, thus drawing a division between the great philosophers of time - Kant, Augustine or Husserl vs. Aristotle, Newton, Bergson. Where … 3 Oct 2019 16:35 to 17:35
Event Nikk Effingham The Wave Theory of Time Symposium Abstract This paper presents a new temporal ontology, to compete with presentism, eternalism, etc. Like moving spotlight theory, wave theory says (i) that there exist four-dimensional hunks of matter and (ii) the world is fundamentally tensed. However, … 3 Oct 2019 14:35 to 15:45
Event Baptiste Le Bihan String theory, loop quantum gravity and eternalism Symposium Abstract Eternalism, the thesis that past and future entities exist in the same way as present ones, is a natural philosophical interpretation of special relativity and general relativity. However, these two theories are not fundamental, and several … 3 Oct 2019 13:45 to 14:35
Event Vincent Grandjean Towards a redefinition of theories of time Symposium Abstract The metaphysical Growing Block Theory seems particularly well-suited to account for some of our fundamental intuitions about time: time has a direction, our present extends to the whole universe, the past is closed while the future is open, and … 3 Oct 2019 11:15 to 12:05
Event Jiri Benovsky Theory A of time, passage of time, endurantism, and metaphysical insights Symposium Abstract Intuitions about the passage of time or the idea that objects persist through time by being numerically identical and fully localized at different instants play an important role in some arguments in favor of the A theory of time or endurantism. … 3 Oct 2019 10:05 to 10:55
Event Robin Le Poidevin Memory, McTaggart and the Descriptive Metaphysics of Time Symposium Abstract When the "new" B-theory of time emerged in the 1980s, its proponents typically conceded that our ordinary conceptual scheme represents the presentness of events as non-perspectival, while insisting that in reality presentness is purely … 3 Oct 2019 09:15 to 10:05
Event Jacques Glowinski Neuropharmacology : implications for psychiatry and neurology Special events 17 Nov 2008 19:00 to 20:00
Event Eric Deeds The Evolution of Cellular Individuality Seminar Prof. Deeds performed his undergraduate work at Case Western Reserve University and graduated with degrees in Biochemistry and English Literature. He pursued his Ph.D. studies in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard under the … 8 Nov 2019 14:00 to 15:00
Event François-Xavier Fauvelle How Africa went undiscovered (2) Lecture Le Périple de la mer Erythrée : les voyages en Inde et en Afrique orientale (suite). The question of Rhapta, the last emporion on the east coast of Africa. Libyan voyages (Phoenician, Egyptian, Persian). Hannon's journey . The circumnavigations of … 7 Nov 2019 14:00 to 15:30
Event Daniel Fabre From Isaac Strauss to Claude Lévi-Strauss : Judaism as culture Symposium 27 Nov 2008 18:00 to 20:00
Event Barbara Romanowicz Teleseismic travel time tomography ( Travel time tomography ) Lecture Continuing in the second lecture, we progressively established the essential elements for building tomographic models of the Earth's mantle : types of data, level of approximation of wave propagation theory, physical and geometric parameterization of the … 5 Nov 2019 16:00 to 18:00
Event Walter Fontana Inheriting biological information : transmission limits Lecture The second unit of the lecture focused on the evolutionary propagation of information, as seen through the classical model of Manfred Eigen, in which sequences reproduce with errors in a flow reactor. The model gives rise to a system of differential … 5 Nov 2019 14:00 to 15:30
Event Pierre Corvol Risks, predictions, prevention in medicine Special events 6 Oct 2008 19:00 to 20:00
Event Edith Heard Research and innovation : a European researcher's perspective Symposium Edith Heard is Professor at the Collège de France. Trained as a geneticist, she heads the Genetics and Developmental Biology Unit and the Mammalian Epigenesis and Development team at the Institut Curie. For several years, she has been studying epigenetic … 11 Oct 2019 16:05 to 16:50
Event François-Xavier Fauvelle How Africa went undiscovered (1) Lecture The African continent : some problems of representation and naming. How the " imago " of Africa is constructed : medieval European maps. The representation of Africa in planispheres from the Ptolemaic tradition to the Renaissance. The words " Africa " and … 31 Oct 2019 14:00 to 15:30
Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture The first lecture provided a brief reminder of the wave equation and its solutions in an isotropic or anisotropic elastic medium, as well as the different types of seismic waves, and grape theory, which makes it possible to follow the path of … 29 Oct 2019 16:00 to 18:00
Event Walter Fontana Representing biological information : statistical aspects of mapping sequences to structures ; the case of RNA Lecture The first unit of the lecture dealt with the evolutionary problem of phenotypic innovation, i.e. trying to understand why the consequences of random genetic mutations are not random. One answer is that the modification of a phenotype is made possible by … 29 Oct 2019 14:00 to 15:30
