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Mr. Thomas LECUIT Research Director, CNRS Institut de Biologie du développement de Marseille Luminy, CNRS/Université de la Méditerranée Genetic control and physical constraints during morphogenesis This lecture will take place at 2 p.m collège de France …

Jean Yoyotte (1927-2009) Jean Yoyotte passed away on July 1. He was born in Lyon on August 4, 1927, into a family originally from Martinique. His father was a chemical engineer with a comfortable position at Rhône-Poulenc, which soon led him to move to …

Sensorimotor Computation: the Control of Gaze In cooperation with Prof. D. Pai of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies) . Program 09h00 - 09h15: Opening remarks Dianne NEWELL (Director of the PWIAS, …

Collège de france lectures in Tunisia, May 3 and 4, 2010. Theme: Past, Present …

Taking up Paul Boghossian's important distinction in Fear of Knowledge, we can distinguish two forms of social constructivism. According to the first, there are no facts that are independent of the kind of theory (or, as a Wittgensteinian would say, …

We take a detailed look at sea-level variations during the last deglaciation, which caused a dramatic rise in global sea level of around 120 metres. During this period, many other climatic and oceanographic parameters underwent major changes: global …

Rome and its religions: worship, morality, spirituality Study day organized on the occasion of the republication of Lux Perpetua (Bibliotheca Cumontiana, Opera maiora 2 / Nino Aragno Editore, Turin, 2010) by Professors Carlo Ossola and John Scheid. Lux …

Contents Tobacco: history and botany Genesis of an epidemic Marc KIRSCH The benefits of tobacco Agnès RICROCH Tobacco and addiction Interview with Jean-Pierre CHANGEUX Interview with Jean-Pol TASSIN Tobacco and health Cardiovascular risks of smoking: …

On the occasion of the 2010 Fyssen Foundation International Prize, which will be awarded to him on Friday, March 26, Professor Chris Frith will give an exceptional lecture at the Collège de France: "What is Consciousness for?" Friday March 26, 2010, at …

Beyond allusions at the Collège de France 11, place Marcelin Berthelot 75005 Paris, France This colloquium will be filmed (Collège de France / CERIMES co-production) and broadcast on our website. The long-standing relations between France and Turkey, …

Cycle 2009-2010 Past, Present Professors Michel Zink, Anne Cheng, Esther Duflo, Serge Haroche and Mathias Fink will be giving lectures in Tunisia . Professor Anne Cheng Chair of Chinese Intellectual History Monday March 1, 2010 at 3 pm Professor Esther …

International colloquium organized in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura de Paris and the Società Dante Alighieri - Comité de Paris. Lectures given in French. Free admission, subject to availability Friday, December 4th 2009 9:30am - …

Can the ocean amplify climate change or regulate it? In collaboration with Ros Rickaby of Oxford University, we have just provided some new insights into this question (Bard & Rickaby, 2009, Nature ). Our work focuses on a problem that is still debated, …

Claude Lévi-Strauss download the symposium program access the conference recordings …

Cycle 2009-2010 Past, Present Lectures by Professors Michel Zink, Anne Cheng, Esther Duflo, Serge Haroche and Mathias Fink. download the "Past, Present" program download M. Zink's …

International symposium under the scientific direction of Professors Marc Fumaroli and Antoine Compagnon, with the support of the Fondation Hugot du Collège de France. Friday, November 27, 2009 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m Chairman: Marc Fumaroli Marc FUMAROLI, …

GREAT CIVILIZATIONS 2009-2010 program Every neighborhood, every village, every community in human society is a civilization: a place of exchange, of memory, of training, of shaping the future. Evoking the "great civilizations" of history means summoning …

As part of "Franca.Br 2009, the Year of France in Brazil", the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the French Academy of Sciences and the Collège de France are organizing a number of scientific meetings in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo from September 14 to 18: …

Thursday, September 10th 9h00- 9h15: Welcome address 9h15-12h45: Session 1 "Cavity QED" (Chair: F. Schmidt-Kaler) 9h15-10h00: C. Cohen-Tannoudji The dressed atom approach. From radio-frequency spectroscopy to cold atoms and cavity quantum electrodynamics. …

International symposium organized by Professor Alain Berthoz and Professor Yves Clot, Chair of Psychology of Work at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers . The aim of this multidisciplinary colloquium is to bring together experts from the …

Organized by professors Jon Elster and Henry Laurens. June 18 and 19, 2009 Collège de France Salle 2 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot 75005 Paris Thursday, June 18th 2:00 pm - Jon Elster and Henry Laurens: Introduction 2:15 p.m. - Roger Guesnerie: "Rumors and …

Symposium organized jointly by the Collège de France and the Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques, Sénat et Assemblée nationale (OPECST). may 14-15, 2009. Illulisat Fjord icebergs, Jakobshavn glacier (Greenland). The …

Program 10:00am-12:30pm Yves Bonnefoy, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France " Some opening words " Michael Phillips, Professor at the University of York (Edinburgh, Scotland) " Preparations for the William Blake exhibition at the Petit …

THURSDAY MAY 14, 2009 Venue : Senate - Salle Clémenceau 08:30 Welcome of participants 09:15 Introduction . Dr Claude Birraux, MP, Chairman of OPECST . Prof. Jean-Claude Etienne, Senator, First Vice-President of OPECST . Dr Christian Gaudin, Senator, …