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Evolutionary theory offers an extremely powerful … 21 Feb 2022 → 11 Apr 2022 Event Vincent Maisonneuve Fluorinated materials as positive electrodes for Li- and Na-Ion Seminar 13 Feb 2023 17:00 - 18:00 Event Jean-Marie Tarascon AMXO4 polyanionic insertion materials with the emergence of LiFePO4 and its LiFe1-xMnxPO4 derivatives Lecture 13 Feb 2023 16:00 - 17:00 Event Antoine Lilti Discovering Europe Lecture 13 Feb 2023 14:30 - 15:30 Event Dominique Charpin Families and gods Lecture Religion is most often studied through the lens of official worship. We'll be looking at the intimacy of families, observing domestic spaces reserved for worship (" chapels ") and family devotions through the legends of cylinder … 13 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00 Event Guy Bunin Many-Species Dynamics in Ecosystems Seminar Interactions between species in nature can lead to fluctuations in population sizes, as for example in a two-species predator-prey system. What dynamical behavior should we expect when many species are involved, as is often the case in nature? I will … 13 Feb 2023 11:15 - 12:15 Event Bernard Derrida Asymmetric neural networks and random automata Lecture 13 Feb 2023 09:30 - 11:00 Event Sylvain Charlat The emergence of Darwinian individuality : towards a meta-evolutionary perspective Seminar Abstract From intragenomic conflicts to mutualistic symbioses, biological interactions invite us to question the foundations of a rarely-explained concept that is nonetheless essential to Darwinian reasoning : the individual. The individual as " level of … 13 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00 Event Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo The living world is embedded in a historical process Lecture The machine metaphor does not apply well to living elements. Every cell derives from a cell. Every living thing derives from another living thing. The future dynamics of an ecosystem can only be understood in the light of its past history. Synthetic … 13 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00 Series Biodiversity dynamics and evolution : species formation, domestication and adaptation Tatiana Giraud, chair Biodiversity and ecosystems Opening lecture 17 Feb 2022 Series The Arab world in French-language comics Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World Symposium In the twentieth century , the images of the contemporary Arab world conveyed by French-language comics were aimed at a young audience and created a whole imaginary world. Today, they are aimed more at adults, expressing the conflicts, exile and dual … 18 Feb 2022 Event Pedro Arrojo-Agudo Water commoditization and the human right to drinking water and sanitation Seminar Abstract Although water is essential to life, it is often regarded as an economic good that must be managed according to the logic of the market. This commodification of water carries risks and impacts on respect for human rights to drinking water and … 10 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00 Event Véronique Izard Cognitive foundations of mathematics Seminar 10 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:30 Event Stéphane Mischler Constructive Krein-Rutman theorem and applications Seminar Abstract In this talk, I will present results concerning a constructive approach to the Krein-Rutman theorem motivated by the asymptotic analysis of evolution PDEs. These results have been obtained in a recent work carried out in collaboration with … 10 Feb 2023 11:15 - 12:30 Event Laurence Boisson de Chazournes Water and economic uses : the relationship between market and non-market values Lecture Abstract Water is used for many economic purposes, from river transport to irrigation methods and industrial activities. They have all left their mark on the principles and rules applicable in this field. The question of the economic value of water has … 10 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00 Event Stanislas Dehaene The vector representation of language : how do you represent a sentence ? Lecture Can a sentence be represented by a vector ? The problem of " compositionality " consists in finding a code that combines individual word representations while also managing to encode their composition, i.e. their syntactic and semantic organization. We … 10 Feb 2023 09:30 - 11:00 Series Competing victims, 25 years later Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World Guest lecturer Jean-Michel Chaumont is invited by the Professors' Assembly, at the suggestion of Prof. Henry Laurens, holder of the Contemporary History of the Arab World chair. Jean-Michel … 05 Jan 2022 → 12 Jan 2022 Event Frantz Grenet Prestige silver in Central Asia (continued) : Homer, Alexander. Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (4) Lecture A look at eastern Iran : Kuh-e Khwâjah (Sistân), in the light of comparison with Bandiyân (Khurâsân). … 9 Feb 2023 15:30 - 16:30 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Hesiodic genealogies Lecture In Hesiod's Theogony , Demeter is a goddess of the generation of Zeus : daughter of Rhea and Kronos, granddaughter of Gaia and Ouranos. In accordance with the genealogical principle that divine children specialize the functions of their parents, the … 9 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00 Event Andrew Wilson The contribution of archaeology to Roman economics. General conclusions Lecture Abstract The aim of this conference is to organize the thoughts generated by the presentation of the data in such a way as to stimulate a real debate on the Roman economy, based on the most up-to-date research. Emphasis is placed on the nature and … 9 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:30 Event Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo Thinking differently about life Opening lecture Abstract Feeling the warmth of the sun's rays on your skin. Following a flock of birds in the distance. While our senses enable us to apprehend the world around us and act accordingly, they also introduce biases into our understanding of biodiversity and … 9 Feb 2023 18:00 - 19:00 Series Images of fossil man Jean-Jacques Hublin, chair Paleoanthropology Symposium From the outset, research into human evolution and prehistory has served a dual function. On the one hand, they developed as new scientific disciplines, at the frontier between biology and the humanities. On the other hand, in the West at least, they … 17 Jun 2022 Event Giulio Biroli Entropy, statistical physics and computer science Seminar Abstract The concept of entropy is fundamental to physics and theoretical computer science. Recent advances have shown that it plays a very important role in many other scientific fields. In this talk, Giulio Biroli presents the multidisciplinary and … 8 Feb 2023 11:15 - 12:30 Event Stéphane Mallat Mutual dependence and information Lecture Abstract Typical sets and the asymptotic equipartition theorem are extended to the case of independent variables with continuous values. The properties of conditional entropy and Kullback-Liebler divergence are studied, as well as mutual information and … 8 Feb 2023 09:30 - 11:00 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 153 Page 154 Page 155 Page 156 Current page 157 Page 158 Page 159 Page 160 Page 161 … Next page Last page
Series Biodiversity dynamics and evolution Tatiana Giraud, chair Biodiversity and ecosystems Lecture The current threats to biodiversity are manifold. To conserve biodiversity and the countless services it provides, we need to understand how biodiversity was formed and what factors influence its dynamics. Evolutionary theory offers an extremely powerful … 21 Feb 2022 → 11 Apr 2022
Event Vincent Maisonneuve Fluorinated materials as positive electrodes for Li- and Na-Ion Seminar 13 Feb 2023 17:00 - 18:00
Event Jean-Marie Tarascon AMXO4 polyanionic insertion materials with the emergence of LiFePO4 and its LiFe1-xMnxPO4 derivatives Lecture 13 Feb 2023 16:00 - 17:00
Event Dominique Charpin Families and gods Lecture Religion is most often studied through the lens of official worship. We'll be looking at the intimacy of families, observing domestic spaces reserved for worship (" chapels ") and family devotions through the legends of cylinder … 13 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00
Event Guy Bunin Many-Species Dynamics in Ecosystems Seminar Interactions between species in nature can lead to fluctuations in population sizes, as for example in a two-species predator-prey system. What dynamical behavior should we expect when many species are involved, as is often the case in nature? I will … 13 Feb 2023 11:15 - 12:15
Event Bernard Derrida Asymmetric neural networks and random automata Lecture 13 Feb 2023 09:30 - 11:00
Event Sylvain Charlat The emergence of Darwinian individuality : towards a meta-evolutionary perspective Seminar Abstract From intragenomic conflicts to mutualistic symbioses, biological interactions invite us to question the foundations of a rarely-explained concept that is nonetheless essential to Darwinian reasoning : the individual. The individual as " level of … 13 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00
Event Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo The living world is embedded in a historical process Lecture The machine metaphor does not apply well to living elements. Every cell derives from a cell. Every living thing derives from another living thing. The future dynamics of an ecosystem can only be understood in the light of its past history. Synthetic … 13 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00
Series Biodiversity dynamics and evolution : species formation, domestication and adaptation Tatiana Giraud, chair Biodiversity and ecosystems Opening lecture 17 Feb 2022
Series The Arab world in French-language comics Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World Symposium In the twentieth century , the images of the contemporary Arab world conveyed by French-language comics were aimed at a young audience and created a whole imaginary world. Today, they are aimed more at adults, expressing the conflicts, exile and dual … 18 Feb 2022
Event Pedro Arrojo-Agudo Water commoditization and the human right to drinking water and sanitation Seminar Abstract Although water is essential to life, it is often regarded as an economic good that must be managed according to the logic of the market. This commodification of water carries risks and impacts on respect for human rights to drinking water and … 10 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00
Event Stéphane Mischler Constructive Krein-Rutman theorem and applications Seminar Abstract In this talk, I will present results concerning a constructive approach to the Krein-Rutman theorem motivated by the asymptotic analysis of evolution PDEs. These results have been obtained in a recent work carried out in collaboration with … 10 Feb 2023 11:15 - 12:30
Event Laurence Boisson de Chazournes Water and economic uses : the relationship between market and non-market values Lecture Abstract Water is used for many economic purposes, from river transport to irrigation methods and industrial activities. They have all left their mark on the principles and rules applicable in this field. The question of the economic value of water has … 10 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00
Event Stanislas Dehaene The vector representation of language : how do you represent a sentence ? Lecture Can a sentence be represented by a vector ? The problem of " compositionality " consists in finding a code that combines individual word representations while also managing to encode their composition, i.e. their syntactic and semantic organization. We … 10 Feb 2023 09:30 - 11:00
Series Competing victims, 25 years later Henry Laurens, chair Contemporary History of the Arab World Guest lecturer Jean-Michel Chaumont is invited by the Professors' Assembly, at the suggestion of Prof. Henry Laurens, holder of the Contemporary History of the Arab World chair. Jean-Michel … 05 Jan 2022 → 12 Jan 2022
Event Frantz Grenet Prestige silver in Central Asia (continued) : Homer, Alexander. Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (4) Lecture A look at eastern Iran : Kuh-e Khwâjah (Sistân), in the light of comparison with Bandiyân (Khurâsân). … 9 Feb 2023 15:30 - 16:30
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Hesiodic genealogies Lecture In Hesiod's Theogony , Demeter is a goddess of the generation of Zeus : daughter of Rhea and Kronos, granddaughter of Gaia and Ouranos. In accordance with the genealogical principle that divine children specialize the functions of their parents, the … 9 Feb 2023 11:00 - 12:00
Event Andrew Wilson The contribution of archaeology to Roman economics. General conclusions Lecture Abstract The aim of this conference is to organize the thoughts generated by the presentation of the data in such a way as to stimulate a real debate on the Roman economy, based on the most up-to-date research. Emphasis is placed on the nature and … 9 Feb 2023 10:00 - 11:30
Event Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo Thinking differently about life Opening lecture Abstract Feeling the warmth of the sun's rays on your skin. Following a flock of birds in the distance. While our senses enable us to apprehend the world around us and act accordingly, they also introduce biases into our understanding of biodiversity and … 9 Feb 2023 18:00 - 19:00
Series Images of fossil man Jean-Jacques Hublin, chair Paleoanthropology Symposium From the outset, research into human evolution and prehistory has served a dual function. On the one hand, they developed as new scientific disciplines, at the frontier between biology and the humanities. On the other hand, in the West at least, they … 17 Jun 2022
Event Giulio Biroli Entropy, statistical physics and computer science Seminar Abstract The concept of entropy is fundamental to physics and theoretical computer science. Recent advances have shown that it plays a very important role in many other scientific fields. In this talk, Giulio Biroli presents the multidisciplinary and … 8 Feb 2023 11:15 - 12:30
Event Stéphane Mallat Mutual dependence and information Lecture Abstract Typical sets and the asymptotic equipartition theorem are extended to the case of independent variables with continuous values. The properties of conditional entropy and Kullback-Liebler divergence are studied, as well as mutual information and … 8 Feb 2023 09:30 - 11:00
