Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 24617 results Filters Content type Content type (-) Lessons (24248) News (1808) People (1402) (-) Editions (369) Chair (360) Page (230) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Active filters Lessons Editions Event Carlo Ossola Opening Symposium 10 Oct 2025 10:00 to 10:10 Series Exegesis of sacrifice as a unitary principle of the Avesta Jean Kellens, chair Indo-Iranian languages and religions Closing lecture The Avesta in our possession is not a book whose contents have been haphazardly pruned by the passage of time, as Karl Hoffmann's approach may have suggested, but the direct and complete culmination of a liturgy of variable composition and, in all its … 14 Feb 2014 Event Neil Price The End, and After Guest lecturer Abstract The Norse afterlife, with its famous destinations such as Valhöll (Vallhalla), Hel, and many others, is also almost unique in world history in that it has a finite end. At the battle of the Ragnarök, every being in the universe – living and dead, … 29 Oct 2025 17:00 to 18:00 Series The future of immunology and its applications Philippe Kourilsky, chair Molecular immunology Closing lecture 13 Feb 2012 Event Alessandro Morbidelli Meteorites and where they come from Lecture Documents and media Download support … 29 Oct 2025 16:45 to 18:45 Event Laurent Coulon Non-anthropomorphic Osirian images Seminar Knowledge of ancient Egyptian essential. Abstract The image of Osiris omnipresent in Egyptian monuments takes on a human appearance. However, there are many exceptions to this Osirian anthropomorphism. On the one hand, cult pillars such as the Abydenian … 29 Oct 2025 11:00 to 12:30 Event Henry Laurens Crisis in the East, the year 1970, the Palestine question from 2001 (1) Lecture 29 Oct 2025 10:00 to 12:00 Series Energy storage and conversion: summary and outlook Jean-Marie Tarascon, chair Sustainable development - Environment, energy and society Closing lecture The Chair's closing lecture focused on the problematic aspects of energy storage and conversion, and above all on a synthetic analysis of i) the intrinsic problems linked to the efficiency of the various energy chains, ii) the scientific approaches and … 23 Mar 2011 Event Philippe Aghion Technology waves Lecture Documents and media Download support … 28 Oct 2025 14:00 to 16:00 Event Renata Landgráfová A Ritual of Purification and Protection from the tomb of Iufaa at Abusir: aspects of text tradition and production in the Late Period Guest lecturer Lecture for Egyptologists audience. Abstract The shaft tomb of Iufaa, located in the Saite-Persian cemetery at Abusir, presents one of the most complex and singular examples of late Egyptian funerary text traditions. We will explore the extensive corpus … 15 Oct 2025 10:30 to 12:00 Event Neil Shubin Neil Shubin (1) Guest lecturer Résumé This lecture will explore the deep history of our bodies, one that extends billions of years. As we uncover new fossils, understand the patterns and mechanisms that form diverse animal bodies, and compare the anatomy of organ systems of creatures … 15 Oct 2025 11:00 to 12:00 Event Renata Landgráfová Snakes and Demons: Guardians of the Afterlife in the Saite-Persian Tombs at Abusir Guest lecturer Conference for the general public. Abstract In the shadow of the pyramids of the 5 th Dynasty in northwest Abusir lies a Saite-period shaft tomb necropolis whose tombs challenge conventional funerary expectations. The richly decorated tomb of Iufaa, in … 14 Oct 2025 17:00 to 18:00 Event Claude Grison Biotechnologies for ecosystem remediation and restoration Special events Résumé Depuis le début de l’ère industrielle, les activités humaines ont particulièrement dégradé les écosystèmes : pollution des sols par les métaux lourds et par des plastiques, contamination des eaux par les substances chimiques, destruction des … 14 Oct 2025 17:30 to 19:00 Event Laurent Coulon Portraits of courtiers (18th-20th dynasty) Lecture 27 Oct 2025 11:00 to 12:30 Event Tristan Stérin The fifth Busy Beaver number Seminar Abstract We're calculating the fifth value of a function... that can't be calculated. This function, called Busy Beaver and proposed by Tibor Radó in 1962, measures the maximum number of operations a program can perform before stopping, as a function of … 27 Oct 2025 14:00 to 15:00 Event Timothy Gowers The conjecture of stable families by union Lecture 27 Oct 2025 10:00 to 12:00 Event Daniel Lieberman Why we evolved to be physically active but not to exercise Guest lecturer Abstract The third conference will focus on physical activity. How and why did humans go from being very sedentary apes to being so physically active ? Why, if we've evolved to be physically active, do so many people dislike exercising ? And above all, … 24 Oct 2025 14:30 to 15:30 Event Stanislas Dehaene Concluding Remarks Symposium 3 Oct 2025 16:20 to 16:30 Event Josh Tenenbaum Scaling Intelligence the Human Way Symposium 3 Oct 2025 15:40 to 16:20 Event Mathias Sablé-Meyer Dissecting the Language of Thought Hypothesis across Marr's Levels Symposium Abstract The Language of Thought (LoT) hypothesis posits that mental representations are best understood as programme-like objects; indeed, "thoughts" share properties such as productivity and systematicity with programming languages. I tackle questions … 3 Oct 2025 15:20 to 15:40 Event Valentin Wyart The What?, How? And Why? Of Behavior: Using Cognitive Computational Models to Answer Distinct Questions about Human Cognition Symposium Abstract Quantitative modeling approaches are routinely used in cognitive science to make sense of behavior. Statistical models are designed to test *what* specific patterns are present in behavior, whereas cognitive computational models are developed to … 3 Oct 2025 15:00 to 15:20 Event Floris de Lange Uniquely Human Prediction? Symposium Abstract The brain is fundamentally a predictive organ that uses internal models to extrapolate future events from current inputs. While this predictive capacity exists across species, what may be uniquely human are the specific internal models we employ. … 3 Oct 2025 14:20 to 15:00 Event Florian Mormann Single-Neuron Correlates of Perception and Memory in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe Symposium 3 Oct 2025 12:10 to 12:50 Event Arun SP Do Monkeys See the Way We Do? Symposium Abstract Monkeys are widely used as model organisms for vision and cognition. While their anatomy and physiology have strong correspondences with humans, it is unclear whether they truly see the way we do. 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Series Exegesis of sacrifice as a unitary principle of the Avesta Jean Kellens, chair Indo-Iranian languages and religions Closing lecture The Avesta in our possession is not a book whose contents have been haphazardly pruned by the passage of time, as Karl Hoffmann's approach may have suggested, but the direct and complete culmination of a liturgy of variable composition and, in all its … 14 Feb 2014
Event Neil Price The End, and After Guest lecturer Abstract The Norse afterlife, with its famous destinations such as Valhöll (Vallhalla), Hel, and many others, is also almost unique in world history in that it has a finite end. At the battle of the Ragnarök, every being in the universe – living and dead, … 29 Oct 2025 17:00 to 18:00
Series The future of immunology and its applications Philippe Kourilsky, chair Molecular immunology Closing lecture 13 Feb 2012
Event Alessandro Morbidelli Meteorites and where they come from Lecture Documents and media Download support … 29 Oct 2025 16:45 to 18:45
Event Laurent Coulon Non-anthropomorphic Osirian images Seminar Knowledge of ancient Egyptian essential. Abstract The image of Osiris omnipresent in Egyptian monuments takes on a human appearance. However, there are many exceptions to this Osirian anthropomorphism. On the one hand, cult pillars such as the Abydenian … 29 Oct 2025 11:00 to 12:30
Event Henry Laurens Crisis in the East, the year 1970, the Palestine question from 2001 (1) Lecture 29 Oct 2025 10:00 to 12:00
Series Energy storage and conversion: summary and outlook Jean-Marie Tarascon, chair Sustainable development - Environment, energy and society Closing lecture The Chair's closing lecture focused on the problematic aspects of energy storage and conversion, and above all on a synthetic analysis of i) the intrinsic problems linked to the efficiency of the various energy chains, ii) the scientific approaches and … 23 Mar 2011
Event Philippe Aghion Technology waves Lecture Documents and media Download support … 28 Oct 2025 14:00 to 16:00
Event Renata Landgráfová A Ritual of Purification and Protection from the tomb of Iufaa at Abusir: aspects of text tradition and production in the Late Period Guest lecturer Lecture for Egyptologists audience. Abstract The shaft tomb of Iufaa, located in the Saite-Persian cemetery at Abusir, presents one of the most complex and singular examples of late Egyptian funerary text traditions. We will explore the extensive corpus … 15 Oct 2025 10:30 to 12:00
Event Neil Shubin Neil Shubin (1) Guest lecturer Résumé This lecture will explore the deep history of our bodies, one that extends billions of years. As we uncover new fossils, understand the patterns and mechanisms that form diverse animal bodies, and compare the anatomy of organ systems of creatures … 15 Oct 2025 11:00 to 12:00
Event Renata Landgráfová Snakes and Demons: Guardians of the Afterlife in the Saite-Persian Tombs at Abusir Guest lecturer Conference for the general public. Abstract In the shadow of the pyramids of the 5 th Dynasty in northwest Abusir lies a Saite-period shaft tomb necropolis whose tombs challenge conventional funerary expectations. The richly decorated tomb of Iufaa, in … 14 Oct 2025 17:00 to 18:00
Event Claude Grison Biotechnologies for ecosystem remediation and restoration Special events Résumé Depuis le début de l’ère industrielle, les activités humaines ont particulièrement dégradé les écosystèmes : pollution des sols par les métaux lourds et par des plastiques, contamination des eaux par les substances chimiques, destruction des … 14 Oct 2025 17:30 to 19:00
Event Tristan Stérin The fifth Busy Beaver number Seminar Abstract We're calculating the fifth value of a function... that can't be calculated. This function, called Busy Beaver and proposed by Tibor Radó in 1962, measures the maximum number of operations a program can perform before stopping, as a function of … 27 Oct 2025 14:00 to 15:00
Event Daniel Lieberman Why we evolved to be physically active but not to exercise Guest lecturer Abstract The third conference will focus on physical activity. How and why did humans go from being very sedentary apes to being so physically active ? Why, if we've evolved to be physically active, do so many people dislike exercising ? And above all, … 24 Oct 2025 14:30 to 15:30
Event Mathias Sablé-Meyer Dissecting the Language of Thought Hypothesis across Marr's Levels Symposium Abstract The Language of Thought (LoT) hypothesis posits that mental representations are best understood as programme-like objects; indeed, "thoughts" share properties such as productivity and systematicity with programming languages. I tackle questions … 3 Oct 2025 15:20 to 15:40
Event Valentin Wyart The What?, How? And Why? Of Behavior: Using Cognitive Computational Models to Answer Distinct Questions about Human Cognition Symposium Abstract Quantitative modeling approaches are routinely used in cognitive science to make sense of behavior. Statistical models are designed to test *what* specific patterns are present in behavior, whereas cognitive computational models are developed to … 3 Oct 2025 15:00 to 15:20
Event Floris de Lange Uniquely Human Prediction? Symposium Abstract The brain is fundamentally a predictive organ that uses internal models to extrapolate future events from current inputs. While this predictive capacity exists across species, what may be uniquely human are the specific internal models we employ. … 3 Oct 2025 14:20 to 15:00
Event Florian Mormann Single-Neuron Correlates of Perception and Memory in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe Symposium 3 Oct 2025 12:10 to 12:50
Event Arun SP Do Monkeys See the Way We Do? Symposium Abstract Monkeys are widely used as model organisms for vision and cognition. While their anatomy and physiology have strong correspondences with humans, it is unclear whether they truly see the way we do. In most studies, monkeys are extensively trained … 3 Oct 2025 11:30 to 12:10
