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Introduction This year’s course by Jean-Luc Fournet is devoted to one of the figures of Late Antiquity in Egypt, the philosopher and grammarian Horapollo ( 5 th century), under whose name a treatise on hieroglyphs has come down to us. Why would a Greek …
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The Age of Uncertainty: Risks and Crises in the Organocene
Olivier Borraz, chair Public Health
The Age of Uncertainty: Risks and Crises in the Organocene
Olivier Borraz, chair Public Health
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Introduction This course will analyze how our societies deal with uncertainty. It will begin by describing the deployment of risk management tools, designed to bring within the realm of governance phenomena whose nature, origin, properties, effects, or …
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2:00 - 4:00pm
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3:00 - 4:00pm
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10:00am - 12:00pm
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Abstract Microorganisms communicate, cooperate, recognize one another, fight, and devour each other to occupy their ecological niche. Bacteria can exchange chemical signals over long distances, distinguish self from non-self, or act through direct contact …
2:00 - 3:30pm
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Introduction For decades, mathematical models describing the spread of infectious diseases have primarily been conceptual models, whose realism could be limited by the lack of data necessary to characterize the underlying processes. This symposium will …