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We introduced boundary layer theory … 14 Oct 2013 14:30 - 16:00 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 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 Readings and presentations related to the course topic Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Seminar The seminar was divided between readings of ancient sources and presentations on contemporary " revisits " of classic themes. … 15 Jan 2009 → 09 Apr 2009 Series Collective decisions Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences Lecture 15 Jan 2009 → 19 May 2009 Series Confucius revisited : old texts, new speeches Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Lecture Why did you choose Confucius as the starting point for your new Chair in Chinese Intellectual History ? There are at least three reasons. The first is a fact that can be observed at first glance : Confucius is the first - if not the only - name known to … 14 Jan 2009 → 01 Apr 2009 Series Poverty and development worldwide Esther Duflo, chair Knowledge against poverty Lecture 12 Jan 2009 → 02 Feb 2009 Series Apelin, adrenomedullin and urotensin Pierre Corvol, chair Experimental medicine Lecture 12 Jan 2009 → 26 Jan 2009 Series Archaeology and history of ancient Switzerland : recent data Christian Goudineau, chair National Antiques Guest lecturer The extraordinary development of archaeology, particularly preventive archaeology, over the last three or four decades has produced a considerable mass of material documents and contextual data that need to be approached and analyzed from a historical … 12 Jan 2009 → 02 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 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 Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (1) Lecture 7 Oct 2013 16:15 - 18:15 Series The secondary evolution of tetrapods towards aquatic environments 3. Mesozoic forms (continued) : diapsids Armand de Ricqlès, chair Historical biology and evolutionism Lecture 09 Jan 2009 → 06 Feb 2009 Series Gravitation and Cosmology : The Standard Model Gabriele Veneziano, chair Elementary particles, gravitation and cosmology Lecture 09 Jan 2009 → 06 Feb 2009 Series Experience, science and the fight against poverty Esther Duflo, chair Knowledge against poverty Opening lecture 08 Jan 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 Adel class monoid Alain Connes, chair Analysis and geometry Lecture 08 Jan 2009 → 12 Mar 2009 Series Uses of Wittgenstein Jacques Bouveresse, chair Philosophy of language and knowledge Seminar 07 Jan 2009 → 08 Apr 2009 Event Glen W. Bowersock Pagan angels of late antiquity Guest lecturer The Byzantine world before Islam knew a host of paganisms, both polytheistic and from time to time, because of the hierarchy of their gods, quasi-monotheistic. In the Koran, the Prophet Muhammad referred to those who shared their gods as mushrikūn and … 30 Sep 2013 17:00 - 18:00 Series Mongolia's Bronze Age monuments Michel Brunet, chair Human paleontology Guest lecturer 07 Jan 2009 → 28 Jan 2009 Series In the labyrinth : necessity, contingency and freedom in Leibniz Jacques Bouveresse, chair Philosophy of language and knowledge Lecture 07 Jan 2009 → 08 Apr 2009 Series Writing life : Montaigne, Stendhal, Proust Antoine Compagnon, chair Modern and contemporary French literature : history, criticism, theory Lecture 06 Jan 2009 → 31 Mar 2009 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 720 Page 721 Page 722 Page 723 Page 724 Page 725 Page 726 Page 727 Page 728 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
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 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 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 Readings and presentations related to the course topic Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Seminar The seminar was divided between readings of ancient sources and presentations on contemporary " revisits " of classic themes. … 15 Jan 2009 → 09 Apr 2009
Series Collective decisions Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences Lecture 15 Jan 2009 → 19 May 2009
Series Confucius revisited : old texts, new speeches Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History Lecture Why did you choose Confucius as the starting point for your new Chair in Chinese Intellectual History ? There are at least three reasons. The first is a fact that can be observed at first glance : Confucius is the first - if not the only - name known to … 14 Jan 2009 → 01 Apr 2009
Series Poverty and development worldwide Esther Duflo, chair Knowledge against poverty Lecture 12 Jan 2009 → 02 Feb 2009
Series Apelin, adrenomedullin and urotensin Pierre Corvol, chair Experimental medicine Lecture 12 Jan 2009 → 26 Jan 2009
Series Archaeology and history of ancient Switzerland : recent data Christian Goudineau, chair National Antiques Guest lecturer The extraordinary development of archaeology, particularly preventive archaeology, over the last three or four decades has produced a considerable mass of material documents and contextual data that need to be approached and analyzed from a historical … 12 Jan 2009 → 02 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 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
Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (1) Lecture 7 Oct 2013 16:15 - 18:15
Series The secondary evolution of tetrapods towards aquatic environments 3. Mesozoic forms (continued) : diapsids Armand de Ricqlès, chair Historical biology and evolutionism Lecture 09 Jan 2009 → 06 Feb 2009
Series Gravitation and Cosmology : The Standard Model Gabriele Veneziano, chair Elementary particles, gravitation and cosmology Lecture 09 Jan 2009 → 06 Feb 2009
Series Experience, science and the fight against poverty Esther Duflo, chair Knowledge against poverty Opening lecture 08 Jan 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 Adel class monoid Alain Connes, chair Analysis and geometry Lecture 08 Jan 2009 → 12 Mar 2009
Series Uses of Wittgenstein Jacques Bouveresse, chair Philosophy of language and knowledge Seminar 07 Jan 2009 → 08 Apr 2009
Event Glen W. Bowersock Pagan angels of late antiquity Guest lecturer The Byzantine world before Islam knew a host of paganisms, both polytheistic and from time to time, because of the hierarchy of their gods, quasi-monotheistic. In the Koran, the Prophet Muhammad referred to those who shared their gods as mushrikūn and … 30 Sep 2013 17:00 - 18:00
Series Mongolia's Bronze Age monuments Michel Brunet, chair Human paleontology Guest lecturer 07 Jan 2009 → 28 Jan 2009
Series In the labyrinth : necessity, contingency and freedom in Leibniz Jacques Bouveresse, chair Philosophy of language and knowledge Lecture 07 Jan 2009 → 08 Apr 2009
Series Writing life : Montaigne, Stendhal, Proust Antoine Compagnon, chair Modern and contemporary French literature : history, criticism, theory Lecture 06 Jan 2009 → 31 Mar 2009