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She is also a member of the French group of the … 17 Oct 2013 11:30 - 12:00 Event Bernard Tardieu Comparing exploration and production worldwide Special events Bernard Tardieu is Chairman of the "Energy and Climate Change" Commission of the Académie des Technologies. He is an international expert in hydroelectricity, dams, canals and civil engineering for nuclear power plants. Until February 2008, he was … 17 Oct 2013 11:00 - 11:30 Event Serge Haroche Science and democracy - Opening Special events Extract from the introduction (transcript) I'd like to start with a few words of introduction to tell you what I think about the often conflicting relations between science and society. The idea for this colloquium came from the observation that science, … 17 Oct 2013 09:00 - 09:20 Event Steven Chu Energy and Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities: Dr Chu Goes to Washington. A review of the experience of a former US Secretary of Energy. Special events Simultaneous translation … 17 Oct 2013 09:20 - 10:30 Series Michael Meeker - " The Turkish exception " : a legacy of Ottoman political culture Gilles Veinstein, chair Turkish and Ottoman history Guest lecturer 20 Nov 2008 Event Jean-Pierre Brun The road to Myos Hormos (1) Lecture 15 Oct 2013 10:00 - 11:00 Event Alain Prochiantz Genome disorders and their repair Lecture Before resuming, I'd like to emphasize that the attitude of not seeing pathology or aging as the result of permanent degradation from an ideal point, which is still the dominant view, but of seeing it as an imbalance between destruction and construction, … 14 Oct 2013 17:00 - 18:30 Event Barbara Romanowicz Thermal and mechanical considerations - Different definitions of the boundary between lithosphere and asthenosphere Lecture Experimental stresses. Consequences for the Earth's plate tectonic regime. We began by taking stock of the different sources of internal heat in the Earth and the main modes of heat release: conduction and convection. We introduced boundary layer theory … 14 Oct 2013 14:30 - 16:00 Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (2) Lecture 14 Oct 2013 16:15 - 18:15 Event Helmut Müller Hellenistic and Roman Pergamon : five centuries of history illuminated by inscriptions (1) Guest lecturer The beginnings of a Greek city in western Asia Minor. … 9 Oct 2013 10:00 - 11:00 Event Oded Lipschits Excavating paradise : the Persian garden and the answer to " the enigma of Ramat Rahel " Guest lecturer 8 Oct 2013 17:00 - 18:00 Event Albert James Hudspeth How the Ear's Works Work: The Operation of the Inner Ear Guest lecturer Human hearing is extraordinary in its technical specifications. We can perceive frequencies as great as 20 kHz and discriminate between different tones with a precision of 0.2%. At the acoustical threshold, the inner ear responds to vibrations of only ± … 8 Oct 2013 11:00 - 12:00 Series Parameters and dimensions of musical interpretation Pierre-Laurent Aimard, chair Artistic creation Lecture Lectures focus on a fundamental dimension of interpretation ; seminars invite us to enter the performer's studio, to observe the development of an interpretation. The entire approach is based on the piano repertoire, examined throughout its … 18 Feb 2009 → 27 May 2009 Series Power and knowledge. The relationship between two kinds of uncertainty Pierre Rosanvallon, chair Modern and contemporary history of politics Guest lecturer 13 Feb 2009 Event Alain Prochiantz The different players in longevity Lecture To set the scene for this year's lectures, I'll start with a very comprehensive review by Lopez-Otin and colleagues (Cell 153: 1194-1217, 2013) which attempts to define the marks of aging, the less smiling face of longevity, not just cerebral, but … 7 Oct 2013 17:00 - 18:30 Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (1) Lecture 7 Oct 2013 16:15 - 18:15 Series Ancient federalism in question : renewal and transformation of Hellenistic confederations under Roman rule Denis Knoepfler, chair Epigraphy and history of Greek cities Lecture 13 Feb 2009 → 10 Apr 2009 Series Old and new documents on the operation of the Federal States in Greece and Asia Minor Denis Knoepfler, chair Epigraphy and history of Greek cities Seminar 13 Feb 2009 → 10 Apr 2009 Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture The importance of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, or LAB for short, in understanding how plate tectonics works. Basics: Different definitions of LAB depending on the type of measurement: petrological, geochemical, thermal, seismic (velocity and … 7 Oct 2013 14:30 - 16:00 Series Time reversal, Waves and Innovation Mathias Fink, chair Technological innovation Liliane Bettencourt Opening lecture 12 Feb 2009 Series Legends of absolute love. Remenbrance and writing in the Lais of Marie de France Michel Zink, chair Literatures of medieval France Guest lecturer 11 Feb 2009 → 18 Feb 2009 Event Albert James Hudspeth Senses and Sensivity: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Perception Guest lecturer In addition to possessing the classical senses of vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, humans respond to a variety of other stimuli. For example, the vestibular apparatus of the internal ear provides continuous feedback about linear and angular … 1 Oct 2013 11:00 - 12:00 Series The construction of an ancestor : the formation of the Abrahamic cycle Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Lecture The aim of this lecture, which reports on the professor's current research, was to analyze the biblical story of Abraham (Genesis 11:27-25:31) and to reconstruct the socio-historical contexts in which the various texts on Judaism's founding ancestor came … 11 Feb 2009 → 07 May 2009 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 665 Page 666 Page 667 Page 668 Current page 669 Page 670 Page 671 Page 672 Page 673 … Next page Last page
Series Chemistry of Biological Processes: an introduction Marc Fontecave, chair Chemistry of Biological Processes Opening lecture 26 Feb 2009
Event Anne-Yvonne le Dain Media, scientific and political taboos... a strange era Special events Member of Parliament for Hérault since 2012, Anne-Yvonne Le Dain is a member of the Commission des Lois and vice-president of the Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques. She is also a member of the French group of the … 17 Oct 2013 11:30 - 12:00
Event Bernard Tardieu Comparing exploration and production worldwide Special events Bernard Tardieu is Chairman of the "Energy and Climate Change" Commission of the Académie des Technologies. He is an international expert in hydroelectricity, dams, canals and civil engineering for nuclear power plants. Until February 2008, he was … 17 Oct 2013 11:00 - 11:30
Event Serge Haroche Science and democracy - Opening Special events Extract from the introduction (transcript) I'd like to start with a few words of introduction to tell you what I think about the often conflicting relations between science and society. The idea for this colloquium came from the observation that science, … 17 Oct 2013 09:00 - 09:20
Event Steven Chu Energy and Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities: Dr Chu Goes to Washington. A review of the experience of a former US Secretary of Energy. Special events Simultaneous translation … 17 Oct 2013 09:20 - 10:30
Series Michael Meeker - " The Turkish exception " : a legacy of Ottoman political culture Gilles Veinstein, chair Turkish and Ottoman history Guest lecturer 20 Nov 2008
Event Alain Prochiantz Genome disorders and their repair Lecture Before resuming, I'd like to emphasize that the attitude of not seeing pathology or aging as the result of permanent degradation from an ideal point, which is still the dominant view, but of seeing it as an imbalance between destruction and construction, … 14 Oct 2013 17:00 - 18:30
Event Barbara Romanowicz Thermal and mechanical considerations - Different definitions of the boundary between lithosphere and asthenosphere Lecture Experimental stresses. Consequences for the Earth's plate tectonic regime. We began by taking stock of the different sources of internal heat in the Earth and the main modes of heat release: conduction and convection. We introduced boundary layer theory … 14 Oct 2013 14:30 - 16:00
Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (2) Lecture 14 Oct 2013 16:15 - 18:15
Event Helmut Müller Hellenistic and Roman Pergamon : five centuries of history illuminated by inscriptions (1) Guest lecturer The beginnings of a Greek city in western Asia Minor. … 9 Oct 2013 10:00 - 11:00
Event Oded Lipschits Excavating paradise : the Persian garden and the answer to " the enigma of Ramat Rahel " Guest lecturer 8 Oct 2013 17:00 - 18:00
Event Albert James Hudspeth How the Ear's Works Work: The Operation of the Inner Ear Guest lecturer Human hearing is extraordinary in its technical specifications. We can perceive frequencies as great as 20 kHz and discriminate between different tones with a precision of 0.2%. At the acoustical threshold, the inner ear responds to vibrations of only ± … 8 Oct 2013 11:00 - 12:00
Series Parameters and dimensions of musical interpretation Pierre-Laurent Aimard, chair Artistic creation Lecture Lectures focus on a fundamental dimension of interpretation ; seminars invite us to enter the performer's studio, to observe the development of an interpretation. The entire approach is based on the piano repertoire, examined throughout its … 18 Feb 2009 → 27 May 2009
Series Power and knowledge. The relationship between two kinds of uncertainty Pierre Rosanvallon, chair Modern and contemporary history of politics Guest lecturer 13 Feb 2009
Event Alain Prochiantz The different players in longevity Lecture To set the scene for this year's lectures, I'll start with a very comprehensive review by Lopez-Otin and colleagues (Cell 153: 1194-1217, 2013) which attempts to define the marks of aging, the less smiling face of longevity, not just cerebral, but … 7 Oct 2013 17:00 - 18:30
Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (1) Lecture 7 Oct 2013 16:15 - 18:15
Series Ancient federalism in question : renewal and transformation of Hellenistic confederations under Roman rule Denis Knoepfler, chair Epigraphy and history of Greek cities Lecture 13 Feb 2009 → 10 Apr 2009
Series Old and new documents on the operation of the Federal States in Greece and Asia Minor Denis Knoepfler, chair Epigraphy and history of Greek cities Seminar 13 Feb 2009 → 10 Apr 2009
Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture The importance of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, or LAB for short, in understanding how plate tectonics works. Basics: Different definitions of LAB depending on the type of measurement: petrological, geochemical, thermal, seismic (velocity and … 7 Oct 2013 14:30 - 16:00
Series Time reversal, Waves and Innovation Mathias Fink, chair Technological innovation Liliane Bettencourt Opening lecture 12 Feb 2009
Series Legends of absolute love. Remenbrance and writing in the Lais of Marie de France Michel Zink, chair Literatures of medieval France Guest lecturer 11 Feb 2009 → 18 Feb 2009
Event Albert James Hudspeth Senses and Sensivity: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Perception Guest lecturer In addition to possessing the classical senses of vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, humans respond to a variety of other stimuli. For example, the vestibular apparatus of the internal ear provides continuous feedback about linear and angular … 1 Oct 2013 11:00 - 12:00
Series The construction of an ancestor : the formation of the Abrahamic cycle Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Lecture The aim of this lecture, which reports on the professor's current research, was to analyze the biblical story of Abraham (Genesis 11:27-25:31) and to reconstruct the socio-historical contexts in which the various texts on Judaism's founding ancestor came … 11 Feb 2009 → 07 May 2009
