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Doris Tsao
Representing the Visual World
Symposium
Event
09:50 to 10:30

Nancy Kanwisher
Intuitive Physical Reasoning in the Human Brain
Symposium
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Abstract Visual scene understanding requires much more than a list of the objects present in the scene and their locations. To understanding a scene, plan action on it, and predict what will happen next we must extract the relationships between objects …
09:10 to 09:50

Takeo Hoshi
Demographic Challenges
Guest lecturer
Event
Abstract One of the most pressing issues facing the Japanese economy in recent decades is the set of profound demographic changes. Japan has been experiencing simultaneous shifts: an overall decline in population, a rapid acceleration of population aging, …
17:00 to 18:00

Faced with immigration, the scientist and the politician
François Héran, chair Migrations and Societies
Closing lecture
Series

Daniel Lieberman
Why we evolved to be physically active but not to exercise
Guest lecturer
Event
Abstract The third conference will focus on physical activity. How and why did humans go from being very sedentary apes to being so physically active ? Why, if we've evolved to be physically active, do so many people dislike exercising ? And above all, …
14:30 to 15:30

Laurent Coulon
Portraits of courtiers (18th-20th dynasty)
Lecture
Event
11:00 to 12:30

Tristan Stérin
The fifth Busy Beaver number
Seminar
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Abstract We're calculating the fifth value of a function... that can't be calculated. This function, called Busy Beaver and proposed by Tibor Radó in 1962, measures the maximum number of operations a program can perform before stopping, as a function of …
14:00 to 15:00

Timothy Gowers
The conjecture of stable families by union
Lecture
Event
10:00 to 12:00

Sogdiane : state of the art and research in progress
Frantz Grenet, chair History and Cultures of Pre-Islamic Central Asia
Symposium
Series
Terracotta figurine head, Bukhara, 3rd century BCE. uzAmEB. The symposium will be held on Wednesday, July 2 and Thursday, July 3 2025 at the ENS, in the Jean Jaurès amphitheatre (entrance via 28 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris). In collaboration with : Collège …
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Understanding the Mysteries of the Cell
Edith Heard, chair Epigenetics and Cellular Memory
Guest lecturer
Series
UMAP Tabula Sapiens Stephen Quake is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Prof. Edith Heard. Stephen Quake The conferences will be held in English. Presentation These four lectures explore fundamental aspects of cellular biology …
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Neil Price
The Invisible Population
Guest lecturer
Event
Abstract The static form in which Norse mythology has come down to us belies its original, fluid and highly contextualised setting as spoken tales, and we thereby risk misunderstandings in their interpretation. Many of these stories concern what might be …
17:00 to 18:00

Takeo Hoshi
Rapid Growth and Long Stagnation
Guest lecturer
Event
Abstract Japan's postwar economic growth is often described as a miracle, and for good reason. Having suffered immense destruction during the Second World War-with roughly one quarter of its national wealth and production facilities lost-the country …
17:00 to 18:00

Alessandro Morbidelli
The asteroid belt
Lecture
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Documents and media Download support …
16:45 to 18:45

Philippe Aghion
The role of institutions in kick-starting growth
Lecture
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Documents and media Download support (Institutions - part 1) Download support (Institutions - part 2) Download support (Institutions - part …
14:00 to 16:00

Laurent Coulon
The pharaonic court and the internationalized context of the New Kingdom
Lecture
Event
11:00 to 12:30

Frederike Lieven
In search of a " culture compatible with our times " : modern mathematics in France, the GDR and the FRG
Seminar
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Abstract During the 1950s and 1960s, European societies were undergoing a period of profound transformation. One aspect of this transformation was the fundamental role played by science, both as an explanatory principle of reality, and as a vehicle for …
14:00 to 15:00

Timothy Gowers
Shearer's lemma and Brégman's theorem
Lecture
Event
10:00 to 12:00

The social production of health inequalities: theoretical approaches and empirical data. International perspectives
Nathalie Bajos, chair Public health
Symposium
Series
© Pixabay Presentation Inequalities in health, which persist at a very high level in countries around the world, represent a major challenge for social justice. While this observation is unanimously shared by the scientific community, and numerous studies …

Neil Price
Story-Worlds

Guest lecturer
Event
Abstract It has long been clear that narrative played a central role in the Norse understanding and negotiation of reality, in poetic tales of gods, supernatural beings, and heroes. We see its legacies in the extraordinary richness of the medieval …
17:00 to 18:00

Statuary and temple in ancient Egypt
Laurent Coulon, chair The Civilization of Pharaonic Egypt
Guest lecturer
Series
Temple of Ouadi es-Sebuâ © Hourig Sourouzian Hourig Sourouzian has been invited by the assembly of the Collège de France on the proposal of Professor Laurent Coulon, Chair of The Civilization of Pharaonic Egypt . Hourig …
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Neuroimmune Crosstalk in Brain/Body Interactions
Sonia Garel, chair Neurobiology and the Immune System
Symposium
Series

Order, Geometry and Defects
Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics
Guest lecturer
Series
Mark Bowick has been invited to the Collège de France by Professor Jean-François Joanny, Chair of Soft Matter and Biophysics . Mark Bowick Conferences in …
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Philippe Aghion
Malthusian trap and demographic transition
Lecture
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14:00 to 16:00

Jules Oppert (1825-1905) and the Assyriology of his time
Dominique Charpin, chair Mesopotamian Civilization
Symposium
Series
Portrait of Jules Oppert. Photo Jacques Pilartz (Bad Kissingen), 1897(?), Collège de France archives. Conference co-organized by Prof. Dominique Charpin,  Mesopotamian Civilization chair, and Mr.  Antoine Jacquet , researcher attached to the   …