Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 24846 results Filters Content type Content type (-) Lessons (24495) News (1671) People (1352) Chair (359) (-) Editions (351) Page (230) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Active filters Lessons Editions Event Dominique Charpin The first years of the reign Lecture Abstract The first years of Samsu-iluna's reign are poorly known. From the point of view of sources, we are handicapped by the fact that we have no correspondence from Samsu-iluna equivalent to what we have for Hammu-rabi. Sent by Hammu-rabi, we have a … 29 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:00 Event Rachid Guerraoui Atomicity in a distributed system Lecture Abstract The aim of this first lecture has been to define precisely what a correct distributed algorithm is. The safety property considered is what we call " atomicity ", or " linearizability ", defined by reference to the sequential specification of a … 26 Oct 2018 10:00 - 11:00 Event Rachid Guerraoui Distributed algorithms : in search of lost universality Opening lecture Abstract Algorithms have been around for as long as humans have been trying to calculate. In the Middle Ages, their execution was delegated to machines. In 1936, Alan Turing proposed a universal machine, capable of executing all conceivable algorithms, … 25 Oct 2018 18:00 - 19:00 Event Philippe Aghion Inequality and growth Lecture Measuring inequality : Kuznets and beyond Explaining the rise in skill-premium since 1980 Evolution of top income inequality Innovation and top income inequality Inclusive policies Documents and media Download … 23 Oct 2018 14:00 - 16:00 Event Amos Gitai Documentary as metaphor. House and Wadi, two documentary trilogies filmed over a quarter of a century; Pineapple Lecture Films : House (1980) ; News from Home/News from House (2005) ; Pineapple (1983). Documentaries " House and Wadi are two films for which I felt the need to return, several years later, to the same locations to film the same people. For me, Wadi is a kind … 23 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:30 Series Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Clément Sanchez, chair Hybrid materials chemistry Guest lecturer 11 May 2016 → 02 Jun 2016 Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture Abstract I have first shown that most intermediate and deep earthquakes occur in " subduction zones ", tectonic plate convergence zones where one of the plates (usually oceanic) plunges beneath the other. The hypocentres of these earthquakes are … 22 Oct 2018 16:00 - 17:30 Event Dominique Charpin The advent of Samsu-iluna Lecture Abstract The lecture began with an overview of the kingdom Samsu-iluna inherited from his father. The text used as a guide is the prologue to the Code of Hammu-rabi, written at the end of his reign. In it, the ruler defines himself in relation to the main … 22 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:00 Event General discussion Symposium 19 Oct 2018 17:30 - 18:00 Event William F. Hanks Non-Western concepts in comparative pragmatics : from the Kyoto School to the context of enunciation Symposium This lecture proposes a new approach to the concept of the "context of enunciation" in social pragmatics, based on a critical reading of the philosophy of the Kyoto school, Japan. The key concept is " basho ", which translates as "place, location, field", … 19 Oct 2018 16:10 - 16:50 Event Karine Chemla How mathematical activity shapes its language and textual forms Symposium In 1920, Marcel Granet (1884-1940), an influential sinologist of the first decades of the 20th century, thought it appropriate to make some recommendations to those who were reforming the Chinese language at the time. In an article entitled "Quelques … 19 Oct 2018 16:50 - 17:30 Event Irène Rosier Catach Reflections on the power of words in Western medieval thought Symposium Biography Irène Rosier-Catach is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS (UMR "Histoire des Théories Linguistiques") and Director of Studies Emeritus at the École Pratique des Hautes Études ( 5th section). A specialist in the history of linguistic and … 19 Oct 2018 15:10 - 15:50 Event Laurent Dubreuil The thought, the poem Symposium Proposing to introduce a distinction between thinking and thinking , or between the cognitive and the intellective , I suggest that certain uses of language are out of the ordinary and capable of transporting us beyond the limits of our ordinary thinking. … 19 Oct 2018 14:30 - 15:10 Event Joël Fagot Thinking without language: an experimental approach in baboons Symposium Animal research is a privileged way of approaching the question of the relationship between thought and language. The non-human primate, which does not have our language, displays a multitude of behaviors whose complexity suggests the existence of … 19 Oct 2018 11:10 - 11:50 Event Guy Theraulaz The collective intelligence of animal societies Symposium Numerous animal species display collective behaviors that are often spectacular. Starlings, for example, gather in their tens of thousands at dusk to perform astonishing aerial choreographies. On another scale, social insects (ants, termites, certain … 19 Oct 2018 11:50 - 12:30 Event Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Giving the same name to two different things Symposium Biography Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician with a particular interest in differential geometry, especially as it relates to partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He is particularly interested in Ricci curvature, both in … 19 Oct 2018 10:10 - 10:50 Event François Recanati Thinking with language Symposium Verbal thinking is a specific form of thinking, based on a mechanism of "deference" and parasitic in relation to language. Acknowledging the existence of such thought means recognizing that language not only serves to express thoughts formed independently … 19 Oct 2018 09:30 - 10:10 Series Philip Stamp Jean Dalibard, chair Atoms and Radiation Guest lecturer 09 May 2016 → 30 May 2016 Event Marwan Rashed Greek, the language of being ? Arab answers Symposium Modern philosophers have argued about the nature of Aristotle's "Categories": categories of language or categories of thought? This debate is reminiscent of another, almost as famous and much older one: the one that pitted Philosophers in 10th-century … 18 Oct 2018 16:50 - 17:30 Event General discussion Symposium 18 Oct 2018 17:30 - 18:00 Event Elizabeth Spelke The role of language in the development of the child's knowledge core Symposium Young children display the highest degree of general intelligence of any entity on earth. In a few short years, they master their society's language, object categories and functions (plants, animals, artifacts), social networks, customs, conventions, … 18 Oct 2018 15:10 - 15:50 Event Luigi Rizzi Syntactic complexity and language acquisition Symposium Grammars for natural languages need to specify at least two types of procedure: word combination procedures, which build hierarchically organized structures, and procedures that establish dependencies between structural positions, for example by … 18 Oct 2018 14:30 - 15:10 Event Gérard Huet Understanding Sanskrit : from Pānini's grammar to Eilenberg's machines Symposium Sanskrit is the learned language of Indian civilization. It was fixed as early as the 4th century B.C. by an exact formal grammar due to the scholar Pāṇini, who was not only a genius linguist but also a pioneering computer scientist. 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Event Dominique Charpin The first years of the reign Lecture Abstract The first years of Samsu-iluna's reign are poorly known. From the point of view of sources, we are handicapped by the fact that we have no correspondence from Samsu-iluna equivalent to what we have for Hammu-rabi. Sent by Hammu-rabi, we have a … 29 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:00
Event Rachid Guerraoui Atomicity in a distributed system Lecture Abstract The aim of this first lecture has been to define precisely what a correct distributed algorithm is. The safety property considered is what we call " atomicity ", or " linearizability ", defined by reference to the sequential specification of a … 26 Oct 2018 10:00 - 11:00
Event Rachid Guerraoui Distributed algorithms : in search of lost universality Opening lecture Abstract Algorithms have been around for as long as humans have been trying to calculate. In the Middle Ages, their execution was delegated to machines. In 1936, Alan Turing proposed a universal machine, capable of executing all conceivable algorithms, … 25 Oct 2018 18:00 - 19:00
Event Philippe Aghion Inequality and growth Lecture Measuring inequality : Kuznets and beyond Explaining the rise in skill-premium since 1980 Evolution of top income inequality Innovation and top income inequality Inclusive policies Documents and media Download … 23 Oct 2018 14:00 - 16:00
Event Amos Gitai Documentary as metaphor. House and Wadi, two documentary trilogies filmed over a quarter of a century; Pineapple Lecture Films : House (1980) ; News from Home/News from House (2005) ; Pineapple (1983). Documentaries " House and Wadi are two films for which I felt the need to return, several years later, to the same locations to film the same people. For me, Wadi is a kind … 23 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:30
Series Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Clément Sanchez, chair Hybrid materials chemistry Guest lecturer 11 May 2016 → 02 Jun 2016
Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture Abstract I have first shown that most intermediate and deep earthquakes occur in " subduction zones ", tectonic plate convergence zones where one of the plates (usually oceanic) plunges beneath the other. The hypocentres of these earthquakes are … 22 Oct 2018 16:00 - 17:30
Event Dominique Charpin The advent of Samsu-iluna Lecture Abstract The lecture began with an overview of the kingdom Samsu-iluna inherited from his father. The text used as a guide is the prologue to the Code of Hammu-rabi, written at the end of his reign. In it, the ruler defines himself in relation to the main … 22 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:00
Event William F. Hanks Non-Western concepts in comparative pragmatics : from the Kyoto School to the context of enunciation Symposium This lecture proposes a new approach to the concept of the "context of enunciation" in social pragmatics, based on a critical reading of the philosophy of the Kyoto school, Japan. The key concept is " basho ", which translates as "place, location, field", … 19 Oct 2018 16:10 - 16:50
Event Karine Chemla How mathematical activity shapes its language and textual forms Symposium In 1920, Marcel Granet (1884-1940), an influential sinologist of the first decades of the 20th century, thought it appropriate to make some recommendations to those who were reforming the Chinese language at the time. In an article entitled "Quelques … 19 Oct 2018 16:50 - 17:30
Event Irène Rosier Catach Reflections on the power of words in Western medieval thought Symposium Biography Irène Rosier-Catach is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS (UMR "Histoire des Théories Linguistiques") and Director of Studies Emeritus at the École Pratique des Hautes Études ( 5th section). A specialist in the history of linguistic and … 19 Oct 2018 15:10 - 15:50
Event Laurent Dubreuil The thought, the poem Symposium Proposing to introduce a distinction between thinking and thinking , or between the cognitive and the intellective , I suggest that certain uses of language are out of the ordinary and capable of transporting us beyond the limits of our ordinary thinking. … 19 Oct 2018 14:30 - 15:10
Event Joël Fagot Thinking without language: an experimental approach in baboons Symposium Animal research is a privileged way of approaching the question of the relationship between thought and language. The non-human primate, which does not have our language, displays a multitude of behaviors whose complexity suggests the existence of … 19 Oct 2018 11:10 - 11:50
Event Guy Theraulaz The collective intelligence of animal societies Symposium Numerous animal species display collective behaviors that are often spectacular. Starlings, for example, gather in their tens of thousands at dusk to perform astonishing aerial choreographies. On another scale, social insects (ants, termites, certain … 19 Oct 2018 11:50 - 12:30
Event Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Giving the same name to two different things Symposium Biography Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician with a particular interest in differential geometry, especially as it relates to partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He is particularly interested in Ricci curvature, both in … 19 Oct 2018 10:10 - 10:50
Event François Recanati Thinking with language Symposium Verbal thinking is a specific form of thinking, based on a mechanism of "deference" and parasitic in relation to language. Acknowledging the existence of such thought means recognizing that language not only serves to express thoughts formed independently … 19 Oct 2018 09:30 - 10:10
Series Philip Stamp Jean Dalibard, chair Atoms and Radiation Guest lecturer 09 May 2016 → 30 May 2016
Event Marwan Rashed Greek, the language of being ? Arab answers Symposium Modern philosophers have argued about the nature of Aristotle's "Categories": categories of language or categories of thought? This debate is reminiscent of another, almost as famous and much older one: the one that pitted Philosophers in 10th-century … 18 Oct 2018 16:50 - 17:30
Event Elizabeth Spelke The role of language in the development of the child's knowledge core Symposium Young children display the highest degree of general intelligence of any entity on earth. In a few short years, they master their society's language, object categories and functions (plants, animals, artifacts), social networks, customs, conventions, … 18 Oct 2018 15:10 - 15:50
Event Luigi Rizzi Syntactic complexity and language acquisition Symposium Grammars for natural languages need to specify at least two types of procedure: word combination procedures, which build hierarchically organized structures, and procedures that establish dependencies between structural positions, for example by … 18 Oct 2018 14:30 - 15:10
Event Gérard Huet Understanding Sanskrit : from Pānini's grammar to Eilenberg's machines Symposium Sanskrit is the learned language of Indian civilization. It was fixed as early as the 4th century B.C. by an exact formal grammar due to the scholar Pāṇini, who was not only a genius linguist but also a pioneering computer scientist. Computer processing … 18 Oct 2018 11:40 - 12:20
Event Gérard Berry Computer languages : from thought to automatic execution Symposium 18 Oct 2018 12:20 - 12:50