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Chairman  : William Marx Abstract Reading, deciphering, interpreting. Considering deciphering is an opportunity to revisit what we do when we "   read  " and, consequently, what writing is. We frequently use codes, and speak of deciphering to indicate a …

Our society has lost the ability to interpret signs. What's at stake is a broadening of our conception of rationality. This is the angle from which we can make a realistic diagnosis of conspiracy theories, which are reviving in a degraded mode our need to …

Chairman  : William Marx Abstract In his "   Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst   " ( Introduction to the High School of the Art of Painting , 1678), the Dutch painter and art theorist Samuel van Hoogstraten proposes to defend the liberal …

Abstract In his Little Nemo in Slumberland series, published in the New York Herald from 1905 onwards, Winsor McCay (1869-1934) used the world of dreams to give free rein to the most dazzling visual transformations. Each Sunday page had to be spectacular …

Chairman  : Sonia Garel Abstract A central theme in biology is that the characteristics of an organism - the phenotype - are controlled by the nucleotide sequence of its genome. Understanding how the information encoded by the genome contributes to …

The page - or the plate - is the other fundamental unit of the comic strip. However, it's not taken for granted : Töpffer produced his stories in horizontal format, on a single strip. Monsieur Crépin , Monsieur Pencil or Doctor Festus could be presented …

Chairman  : Sonia Garel Abstract The functioning of biological systems relies on the use of a wide variety of information, both from their environment and from internal sources. Most internal information is stored in the form of chemical structures known …

Chairman  : Xavier Leroy Abstract Quantum technologies have the potential to improve communication security in network infrastructures in unprecedented ways. In this talk, after introducing the fundamental principles of quantum physics that enable the …

Chairman  : Xavier Leroy Abstract "   Despite all preconceived ideas, the property of absolute indecipherability is by no means a pure chimera   ". These words by William F. Friedman, one of the founding fathers of cryptology, show that cryptologists and …

Discussion in English. Kamini Vellodi Dr Kamini Vellodi is Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Tintoretto's Difference. Deleuze, Diagrammatics and Art History, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 and Series …

In these two nouns, the preposition functions differently still. Intermediality draws attention to the fundamental impurity of the media. No media product - whether considered text, image, sound or movement - can do without the often almost imperceptible …

Chairman  : Françoise Combes Abstract The discovery of extrasolar planets has shown that planetary systems can have very diverse structures. Clearly, there is a wide variety of possible formation and evolution histories. It therefore becomes important to …

Chairman  : Françoise Combes Abstract On 14   September 2015, gravitational wave detectors observed the gravitational signal produced by the merger of two   massive black holes at great astronomical distance. On 17   August 2017, the detectors observed …

Chairman  : Françoise Combes Abstract The cosmic microwave background is the electromagnetic radiation that bathes the Universe as a whole, emitted when it was only around 380   000   years old . Buried beneath the strata of emissions from our own and …

Chairman  : Jean-Luc Fournet Abstract During the fighting on the Pacific front in World War II, the Marines used speakers of the Native American Navajo language to exchange secret messages. This code proved impossible for the Japanese army to decipher, …