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Abstract This lecture, based on a new book entitled Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000-2000 will ask the question why Europe and China reversed positions in economic development and technological capabilities …
5:30 - 6:30pm
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Documents and media Download support Abstract Capitalizing on the success of the microelectronics and integrated photonics industries, silicon is the material that has generated the most scientific interest for quantum technologies and currently offers …
4:30 - 5:15pm
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Abstract The distribution of entanglement between the nodes of a quantum network will allow new advances e.g. in long distance quantum communication, distributed quantum computing and quantum sensing. The realization of large-scale quantum networks-also …
3:15 - 4:00pm
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Documents and media Download support Abstract Single-photon detectors are a key enabling technology for the realization of light-based quantum information applications. These devices operate at the fundamental limit of electromagnetic signal strength, …
2:30 - 3:15pm
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Documents and media Download support Abstract For the emerging field of quantum energetics, a crucial motivation is to understand how quantum features impact energy and entropy exchanges in the quantum realm. Energetic footprint of quantum coherence and …
12:15 - 1:00pm
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Documents and media Download support Abstract Gravitational waves have opened a new way of observing the Universe, but their detection relies on laser interferometers operating at the very edge of what quantum physics allows. Quantum light - and in …
11:30am - 12:15pm
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Abstract Photonic systems represent a promising physical platform for realizing quantum computing, offering low-noise operation, room-temperature compatibility, and access to inherently high-dimensional optical modes. A key challenge for scaling these …
10:15 - 11:00am
Serge Haroche
Rydberg Atoms Interacting with Light: From Bohr's Atom to Quantum Simulations
Serge Haroche
Rydberg Atoms Interacting with Light: From Bohr's Atom to Quantum Simulations
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9:15 - 10:15am
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Hope, George Frederic Watts, 1886, Tate Britain, London. There has never been so much talk of international law in the European public arena. The shortcomings of the contemporary international institutional order are at last clear for all to see, as are …
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Presentation Complexity reduction methods are based on a wide variety of approaches, of which I will present a broad selection. Depending on the objectives—accuracy, speed, computational cost—one or other of these techniques will be favored, but the goal …
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Table ronde sur le thème : Mithra en dialogue en Asie centrale, Iran et Rome : 1. Le point de vue iranologique (la partie 2. Le point de vue des études gréco-romaines , se déroulera à Sorbonne Université en novembre ou décembre …
10:00 - 11:30am
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Documents and Media Download the support material Abstract This presentation will outline three socialist criticisms of liberalism. It will explain why the first lost traction, leading many socialists to adopt the second, more fruitful line of critique. …
10:00 - 11:00am
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Chair: Victor Tamburini Hannah Steinicke Hannah Steinicke is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Mind, Brain and Behavior at Justus-Liebig University Gießen in Germany. Recently, she worked on the mental representation of sets in infants in …
4:00 - 5:15pm
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Chair: Victor Tamburini Abstract Children become able to process verbal identity statements as they learn to attribute false beliefs. The mental files explanation points to the need for linked indexed files for solving both tasks, which children achieve …
2:20 - 3:35pm
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Chair: Michael Murez Abstract Scene constructions, or more broadly, episodic simulations, are internal representations of states, relations, and events in the spatial navigational system of the brain. These constructions serve various purposes, including …
11:35am - 12:50pm
Michael Doyle
More than Just Peace
Michael Doyle
More than Just Peace
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Image generated with A.I. Michael Doyle is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Samantha Besson. The conference is in English. Abstract John Rawls's publication of The Law of Peoples was a profound attempt to design a …
11:00am - 12:00pm
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Saint Luke as a copyist (BnF, Coislin 195 f° 240 v°, 10th century) Presentation The seminar offers complementary Spotlights on the lecture or discussions on new texts. This year, in addition to a presentation of a new ERC project on Greco-Roman education, …
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Sam Cumming
Guises of 'I'
Sam Cumming
Guises of 'I'
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Chair: Nicholas Shea Abstract I propose that communication with the indexical pronoun 'I' requires coordination on a familiar discourse referent, just like communication with anaphoric (or deictic) use of 'she'. This proposal improves on a contrasting …
5:30 - 6:45pm
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Chair: Nicholas Shea Abstract Discourse referents are "mental files" insofar as they are mental representations that function like variables: they architecturally separate addresses from contents. I argue for a construal of discourse referents in which …
3:55 - 5:10pm
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Chair: Nicholas Shea Abstract In previous work, I argue that discourse referents-devices for tracking objects under discussion in discourse-are best understood as mental files: vehicles for tracking the same object in cognition independently of any …
2:20 - 3:35pm
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Chair: Joulia Smortchkova Abstract MSDRT (Mental State Discourse Representation Theory) has developed a number of different Types of Entity Representations (its term for what is referred to by others as Mental Files). The different ER Types are for …
11:40am - 12:55pm
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Chair: Joulia Smortchkova Abstract Two ideas characterize many discussions of discourse files or discourse referents. One is that they are only temporary, serving as mental proxies for individuals only across some segment of discourse. Dissociations …
10:05 - 11:20am