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With different training data, these algorithms and … 5 May 2025 15:00 to 16:00 Event Remi Lam Learning global weather forecasting from data Special events Abstract This presentation will cover some of the recent advances in weather forecasting, learning directly from data using machine learning techniques. It will discuss some of the limitations and pitfalls of training ML models for scientific … 5 May 2025 14:00 to 15:00 Event Laure Zanna Reshaping climate modelling with AI Special events Abstract While AI has been disrupting conventional weather forecasting, we are only beginning to witness the impact of AI on long-term climate simulations. The fidelity and reliability of climate models has been limited by computing capabilities. These … 5 May 2025 11:30 to 12:30 Event Thomas Dubos Hamiltonian insights and the challenge of unresolved processes in geophysical models Special events Abstract Mathematical and numerical models of the atmosphere and ocean rely on various assumptions, approximations, and simplifications. Over the past decade, significant progress has been made in elucidating their structure and interconnections, … 5 May 2025 10:10 to 11:10 Event Michael Brenner The neural GCM, and other remarks Special events Abstract I will discuss the Neural GCM, which we built by building a dynamical core in JAX and then training the parameterization on ERA5 on 5-day forecasts. The quality of the forecasts up to 1 year portends a potential revolution in improving model … 5 May 2025 09:10 to 10:10 Event Hourig Sourouzian Investigating Osirid statues and the iconography of Osiris in two-dimensional representations Guest lecturer Abstract Origin and evolution of the Osirian statue. Large groups of Osirid statues and pillars in temple lecture halls. Evolution of the mummiform type of accoutrement; transition from shroud to ceremonial costume. Representation of the god in royal … 28 May 2025 17:00 to 18:00 Series Central Asia's lost literatures saved by the figurative arts Frantz Grenet, chair History and Cultures of Pre-Islamic Central Asia Lecture Punjikent (Tajikistan), detail of a mural painting, circa 740: a Sogdian variation on the theme of Beauty and the Beast (the cursed young girl goes to draw water and encounters the aquatic demon) Pre-Islamic Central Asia produced a large number of texts … 09 Jan 2025 → 27 Mar 2025 Event Éric Ruf, Patrick Boucheron & Florence Naugrette Theater and power Special events Abstract The theater, as a space where people speak to a collective body, is by its very nature a place where power is exercised. This tripartite power emanates from the text, the artists and the audience. It is within this three-tiered billiard … 11 Jun 2025 19:00 to 20:30 Series In the name of the universal : crises and legacies Antoine Lilti, chair History of the Enlightenment, 18th-21st century Lecture 1848 / Universal Democratic and Social Republic / Le Pacte. Sorrieu, Frédéric , Dessinateur-lithographe / Goldsmid, Marie-Cécile (Citoyenne), Dessinateur-lithographe. Musée Carnavalet, … 08 Jan 2025 → 26 Mar 2025 Event Mark Bowick Order in Biological Development Guest lecturer Abstract How does a biological system set up a body plan to produce a final organism with everything in the right place and orientation? I will discuss a developmental system (parhyale) that exploits activity and cell division to establish four-fold … 26 May 2025 14:00 to 15:00 Event Hervé Reculeau At the source of the Flood : environmental catastrophe as a literary and religious motif in Mesopotamia Guest lecturer Abstract To conclude the lecture series, we will explore the perceptions and concepts developed by the ancient Mesopotamians themselves to account for the complex relationships between societies and environments. In particular, we will focus on the motif … 26 May 2025 11:00 to 12:00 Series The sex of power Patrick Boucheron, chair History of power in Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth century Lecture Phyllis straddling Aristotle , bronze Aquamanile (late 14th-early 15th century), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection. This year's lecture extends and clarifies the inquiry into " politiques de l'amour ", which attempts to … 07 Jan 2025 → 18 Mar 2025 Series Philosophy of Language and Mind François Recanati, chair Philosophy of Language and Mind Seminar Caesar at the Rubicon , Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917). … 06 Jan 2025 → 10 Feb 2025 Series Cognitive dynamics François Recanati, chair Philosophy of Language and Mind Lecture Caesar at the Rubicon , Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917). Presentation In this lecture on concepts and their persistence through time, we begin by recalling the classical theory (now discredited) that the content of a concept is a "definition". The definition … 06 Jan 2025 → 10 Feb 2025 Series One hand, many scripts: aspects of polygraphism Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Symposium VIIth day of the Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP) The Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP), which aims to develop a transdisciplinary approach to palaeography, invites you to take part in a new day of study … 05 Dec 2024 Event Didier Fassin In search of origins Lecture 13 May 2025 15:15 to 16:15 Event Hourig Sourouzian Statuary groups Guest lecturer Abstract The study of different types of statuary groups allows us to glimpse, when we know their exact position in a given part of a temple, the role and interference of the figures represented. King and deities For the most part, the statuary group … 21 May 2025 17:00 to 18:00 Event Mark Bowick Membranes - Control by Geometry in Graphene Statistical Mechanics Guest lecturer Abstract Thermalized elastic membranes show strong scale-dependence of their elastic moduli. A beautiful realization is in the physics of thermalized 2D metamaterials, such as graphene, where thermal effects already set in at microscopic length scales. … 20 May 2025 14:00 to 15:00 Event Hervé Reculeau Mesopotamians and climate : the " climate paradigm " and its critics Guest lecturer Abstract Faced with the growing success of discourses that make climate change the driving force behind the successes and (above all) the failures of ancient societies, we need to give a voice to the actors - humans and non-humans alike - of … 19 May 2025 11:00 to 12:00 Event Frantz Grenet Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress (2) Symposium The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). Program Pre-Islamic Late Antiquity (200 - 750 CE) 9.00am - 9.30am: "Preliminary Results of the Study … 3 Jul 2025 09:00 to 18:00 Series Paul Veyne at the Collège de France Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome Symposium Paul Veyne in his office. A meeting organized by Dario Mantovani, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge and John Scheid. In the mid-70s, the titles of the professorships at the Collège de France no longer had the generic, repetitive character of their predecessors. … 10 Dec 2024 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Tragic sacrifices (2) Lecture Abstract After an incursion into tragedies that evoke human sacrifice, animal sacrifice is analyzed in three tragedies: Aeschylus' Agamemnon , Euripides' Electra and Sophocles' Antigone . The Agamemnon , in which the human sacrifice of Iphigenia is … 30 Apr 2025 11:00 to 12:00 Event Frantz Grenet Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress (1) Symposium The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). Program Final Bronze - Earliest Iron Age 9.00am - 9.30am: "Connecting the Dots: the site of … 2 Jul 2025 09:00 to 18:00 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Marc Bocquet Artificial intelligence for geophysical data assimilation Special events Abstract Data assimilation is the set of key mathematical methods used to optimally combine observations and numerical model outputs. Data assimilation (DA) is critical to adjust the initial condition of meteorological forecasts, to estimate model … 5 May 2025 16:20 to 17:20
Event Claire Monteleoni Confronting climate change with generative and self-supervised machine learning Special events Abstract The stunning recent advances in AI content generation rely on cutting-edge, generative deep learning algorithms and architectures trained on massive amounts of text, image, and video data. With different training data, these algorithms and … 5 May 2025 15:00 to 16:00
Event Remi Lam Learning global weather forecasting from data Special events Abstract This presentation will cover some of the recent advances in weather forecasting, learning directly from data using machine learning techniques. It will discuss some of the limitations and pitfalls of training ML models for scientific … 5 May 2025 14:00 to 15:00
Event Laure Zanna Reshaping climate modelling with AI Special events Abstract While AI has been disrupting conventional weather forecasting, we are only beginning to witness the impact of AI on long-term climate simulations. The fidelity and reliability of climate models has been limited by computing capabilities. These … 5 May 2025 11:30 to 12:30
Event Thomas Dubos Hamiltonian insights and the challenge of unresolved processes in geophysical models Special events Abstract Mathematical and numerical models of the atmosphere and ocean rely on various assumptions, approximations, and simplifications. Over the past decade, significant progress has been made in elucidating their structure and interconnections, … 5 May 2025 10:10 to 11:10
Event Michael Brenner The neural GCM, and other remarks Special events Abstract I will discuss the Neural GCM, which we built by building a dynamical core in JAX and then training the parameterization on ERA5 on 5-day forecasts. The quality of the forecasts up to 1 year portends a potential revolution in improving model … 5 May 2025 09:10 to 10:10
Event Hourig Sourouzian Investigating Osirid statues and the iconography of Osiris in two-dimensional representations Guest lecturer Abstract Origin and evolution of the Osirian statue. Large groups of Osirid statues and pillars in temple lecture halls. Evolution of the mummiform type of accoutrement; transition from shroud to ceremonial costume. Representation of the god in royal … 28 May 2025 17:00 to 18:00
Series Central Asia's lost literatures saved by the figurative arts Frantz Grenet, chair History and Cultures of Pre-Islamic Central Asia Lecture Punjikent (Tajikistan), detail of a mural painting, circa 740: a Sogdian variation on the theme of Beauty and the Beast (the cursed young girl goes to draw water and encounters the aquatic demon) Pre-Islamic Central Asia produced a large number of texts … 09 Jan 2025 → 27 Mar 2025
Event Éric Ruf, Patrick Boucheron & Florence Naugrette Theater and power Special events Abstract The theater, as a space where people speak to a collective body, is by its very nature a place where power is exercised. This tripartite power emanates from the text, the artists and the audience. It is within this three-tiered billiard … 11 Jun 2025 19:00 to 20:30
Series In the name of the universal : crises and legacies Antoine Lilti, chair History of the Enlightenment, 18th-21st century Lecture 1848 / Universal Democratic and Social Republic / Le Pacte. Sorrieu, Frédéric , Dessinateur-lithographe / Goldsmid, Marie-Cécile (Citoyenne), Dessinateur-lithographe. Musée Carnavalet, … 08 Jan 2025 → 26 Mar 2025
Event Mark Bowick Order in Biological Development Guest lecturer Abstract How does a biological system set up a body plan to produce a final organism with everything in the right place and orientation? I will discuss a developmental system (parhyale) that exploits activity and cell division to establish four-fold … 26 May 2025 14:00 to 15:00
Event Hervé Reculeau At the source of the Flood : environmental catastrophe as a literary and religious motif in Mesopotamia Guest lecturer Abstract To conclude the lecture series, we will explore the perceptions and concepts developed by the ancient Mesopotamians themselves to account for the complex relationships between societies and environments. In particular, we will focus on the motif … 26 May 2025 11:00 to 12:00
Series The sex of power Patrick Boucheron, chair History of power in Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth century Lecture Phyllis straddling Aristotle , bronze Aquamanile (late 14th-early 15th century), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection. This year's lecture extends and clarifies the inquiry into " politiques de l'amour ", which attempts to … 07 Jan 2025 → 18 Mar 2025
Series Philosophy of Language and Mind François Recanati, chair Philosophy of Language and Mind Seminar Caesar at the Rubicon , Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917). … 06 Jan 2025 → 10 Feb 2025
Series Cognitive dynamics François Recanati, chair Philosophy of Language and Mind Lecture Caesar at the Rubicon , Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917). Presentation In this lecture on concepts and their persistence through time, we begin by recalling the classical theory (now discredited) that the content of a concept is a "definition". The definition … 06 Jan 2025 → 10 Feb 2025
Series One hand, many scripts: aspects of polygraphism Jean-Luc Fournet, chair Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Symposium VIIth day of the Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP) The Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP), which aims to develop a transdisciplinary approach to palaeography, invites you to take part in a new day of study … 05 Dec 2024
Event Hourig Sourouzian Statuary groups Guest lecturer Abstract The study of different types of statuary groups allows us to glimpse, when we know their exact position in a given part of a temple, the role and interference of the figures represented. King and deities For the most part, the statuary group … 21 May 2025 17:00 to 18:00
Event Mark Bowick Membranes - Control by Geometry in Graphene Statistical Mechanics Guest lecturer Abstract Thermalized elastic membranes show strong scale-dependence of their elastic moduli. A beautiful realization is in the physics of thermalized 2D metamaterials, such as graphene, where thermal effects already set in at microscopic length scales. … 20 May 2025 14:00 to 15:00
Event Hervé Reculeau Mesopotamians and climate : the " climate paradigm " and its critics Guest lecturer Abstract Faced with the growing success of discourses that make climate change the driving force behind the successes and (above all) the failures of ancient societies, we need to give a voice to the actors - humans and non-humans alike - of … 19 May 2025 11:00 to 12:00
Event Frantz Grenet Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress (2) Symposium The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). Program Pre-Islamic Late Antiquity (200 - 750 CE) 9.00am - 9.30am: "Preliminary Results of the Study … 3 Jul 2025 09:00 to 18:00
Series Paul Veyne at the Collège de France Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome Symposium Paul Veyne in his office. A meeting organized by Dario Mantovani, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge and John Scheid. In the mid-70s, the titles of the professorships at the Collège de France no longer had the generic, repetitive character of their predecessors. … 10 Dec 2024
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Tragic sacrifices (2) Lecture Abstract After an incursion into tragedies that evoke human sacrifice, animal sacrifice is analyzed in three tragedies: Aeschylus' Agamemnon , Euripides' Electra and Sophocles' Antigone . The Agamemnon , in which the human sacrifice of Iphigenia is … 30 Apr 2025 11:00 to 12:00
Event Frantz Grenet Sogdiane: state of the art and research in progress (1) Symposium The symposium will be held on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 July 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). Program Final Bronze - Earliest Iron Age 9.00am - 9.30am: "Connecting the Dots: the site of … 2 Jul 2025 09:00 to 18:00