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Abstract The first lecture is aimed at a general math audience and will be an introduction to the representation theory of p-adic groups and its relation to other areas. It will include an overview of the construction of representations of p-adic groups …

Exceptionally, the last seminar will take place on a Friday. Abstract In sub-Saharan Africa, authors' rights were granted to " invented subject ", in colonial times, according to the European Romantic standard of the 19th  century. We have progressively …

Abstract Can the political love of the late Middle Ages only be understood in opposition to the disenchantment of modernity  ? This final   session focuses on the figure of Marguerite de Navarre, based on Lucien Febvre's Amour sacré, amour profane (1944). …

Summary This lesson looks at the life of French from its various neo-Latin ancestors in Gaul to its status as the national language of France and parts of Belgium and Switzerland  ; then we look at its contact with English, and the Amerindian and African …

Abstract The third and fourth lectures will focus on the role of activity in the construction of cortical circuits, from the maturation and migration of different populations of neurons, the roles of transient neurons and circuits, to the integration and …

Abstract Best-seller of antiquity, Homer is the Greek author most often attested by papyrological documentation, and the Iliad is two or three   times more frequently attested than the Odyssey . One of the reasons for this is that Homer was the "   …

This conference is only available in audio. Abstract In Roman times, ivory was a highly prized luxury material. Its uses ranged from small, everyday instruments to decorations and even furniture and votive objects. The same was true of bone, a material …

Abstract We are interested in quasi-linear parabolic systems, in which the diffusion matrix is not uniformly elliptic, but verifies a condition, known as the Petrovskii condition, of positivity of the real part of the eigenvalues. The locally …

Abstract Discovered by Edmond Becquerel in 1839, the photovoltaic effect transforms sunlight into electrical power. Spectacular advances in this field have made solar cells emblems of the energy transition. However, although these objects have become …

Abstract In the second   part of the lecture, attention turns to electrodes designed for neural stimulation, a crucial technique for modulating nerve activity in therapeutic and research contexts. As with the recording of neural activity, electrochemical …

Abstract The increasing use of digital technologies is often described as a revolution. In this session, we will challenge this assumption by exploring how digital technologies, and in particular algorithmic governance techniques, under the guise of …