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This year's lecture will be given in parallel with Thomas Lecuit's lecture on the … 08 Nov 2021 → 13 Dec 2021 Series Immigration in debate : rhetoric and arguments, disputes and polemics François Héran, chair Migrations and Societies Seminar 08 Nov 2021 → 14 Mar 2022 Event Laurence Plazenet Handwriting pathologies in the classical age Seminar Abstract Seventeenth-century authors say almost nothing about their own writing practice or their conception of their work, even though it was during this period that the advent of the author took place. This is because writing is linked to the … 14 Feb 2023 18:00 to 19:00 Event William Marx " What will become of Europe's intellectual capital ? " Lecture Abstract Valéry's schema of the two mountains presupposes a hierarchy between works, according to the degree of exigency they carry. From this stems an essential problem : how do we know what type of aesthetic requirement is carried by a work ? What … 14 Feb 2023 17:00 to 18:00 Page Spotlight ChADoC Each month, a topical scientific subject is explored by a researcher from the Collège de France. The reconfiguration of the Law of the Sea by NGOs Camille Michel , doctoral student in international law Published on December 16 2025 Roman law at the origin … Event Vincent Maisonneuve Fluorinated materials as positive electrodes for Li- and Na-Ion Seminar 13 Feb 2023 17:00 to 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 to 17:00 Event Antoine Lilti Discovering Europe Lecture 13 Feb 2023 14:30 to 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 to 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 to 12:15 Event Bernard Derrida Asymmetric neural networks and random automata Lecture 13 Feb 2023 09:30 to 11:00 Series New research on the Black Death (II). Biological history of the epidemic and funerary archaeology Patrick Boucheron, chair History of power in Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth century Symposium Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Redemption , c. 1338, Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale. Colloquium co-organized by Patrick Boucheron , History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th to 16th Centuries Chair (Collège de France), and Etienne Anheim (EHESS). The … 06 Oct 2021 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 to 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 to 11:00 Series Exploring the interface between men and gods in ancient Greece Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, chair Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World Guest lecturer Athens, National Museum, inv. 1338: photo by Lorenz E. Baumer. Presentation This series of three lectures explores the multiple fields of interaction between men and gods in ancient Greek society. Conceived with the power to manifest themselves in human … 07 Mar 2022 → 21 Mar 2022 Series Revisiting the biological basis of anticancer activity Hugues de Thé, chair Cellular and Molecular Oncology Lecture 03 Nov 2021 → 24 Nov 2021 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 to 12:00 Series On the existence of critical points for area and volume Pierre-Louis Lions, chair Partial Differential Equations and Applications Guest lecturer Peccot Lecture Series Since 1885, thanks to an endowment from the family of mathematician Claude-Antoine Peccot, the Collège de France has awarded annual prizes to young mathematicians under the age of 30 who have distinguished themselves in theoretical … 03 Jan 2022 → 31 Jan 2022 Event Véronique Izard Cognitive foundations of mathematics Seminar 10 Feb 2023 11:00 to 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 to 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 to 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. 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Event Lydéric Bocquet Flow, from hydrodynamic slip to quantum friction Lecture At nanometric scales, surface effects obviously become predominant. Wall friction effects play a key role, impacting all transport processes - fluid, ionic, etc. They originate in molecular friction at the interface between the fluid, e.g. water, and the … 15 Feb 2023 14:00 to 15:30
Series Single cell movements Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics Lecture These lectures show how soft matter theory in general, and active matter theory in particular, enable a quantitative description of biological systems from cell to tissue. This year's lecture will be given in parallel with Thomas Lecuit's lecture on the … 08 Nov 2021 → 13 Dec 2021
Series Immigration in debate : rhetoric and arguments, disputes and polemics François Héran, chair Migrations and Societies Seminar 08 Nov 2021 → 14 Mar 2022
Event Laurence Plazenet Handwriting pathologies in the classical age Seminar Abstract Seventeenth-century authors say almost nothing about their own writing practice or their conception of their work, even though it was during this period that the advent of the author took place. This is because writing is linked to the … 14 Feb 2023 18:00 to 19:00
Event William Marx " What will become of Europe's intellectual capital ? " Lecture Abstract Valéry's schema of the two mountains presupposes a hierarchy between works, according to the degree of exigency they carry. From this stems an essential problem : how do we know what type of aesthetic requirement is carried by a work ? What … 14 Feb 2023 17:00 to 18:00
Page Spotlight ChADoC Each month, a topical scientific subject is explored by a researcher from the Collège de France. The reconfiguration of the Law of the Sea by NGOs Camille Michel , doctoral student in international law Published on December 16 2025 Roman law at the origin …
Event Vincent Maisonneuve Fluorinated materials as positive electrodes for Li- and Na-Ion Seminar 13 Feb 2023 17:00 to 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 to 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 to 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 to 12:15
Event Bernard Derrida Asymmetric neural networks and random automata Lecture 13 Feb 2023 09:30 to 11:00
Series New research on the Black Death (II). Biological history of the epidemic and funerary archaeology Patrick Boucheron, chair History of power in Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth century Symposium Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Redemption , c. 1338, Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale. Colloquium co-organized by Patrick Boucheron , History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th to 16th Centuries Chair (Collège de France), and Etienne Anheim (EHESS). The … 06 Oct 2021
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 to 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 to 11:00
Series Exploring the interface between men and gods in ancient Greece Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, chair Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World Guest lecturer Athens, National Museum, inv. 1338: photo by Lorenz E. Baumer. Presentation This series of three lectures explores the multiple fields of interaction between men and gods in ancient Greek society. Conceived with the power to manifest themselves in human … 07 Mar 2022 → 21 Mar 2022
Series Revisiting the biological basis of anticancer activity Hugues de Thé, chair Cellular and Molecular Oncology Lecture 03 Nov 2021 → 24 Nov 2021
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 to 12:00
Series On the existence of critical points for area and volume Pierre-Louis Lions, chair Partial Differential Equations and Applications Guest lecturer Peccot Lecture Series Since 1885, thanks to an endowment from the family of mathematician Claude-Antoine Peccot, the Collège de France has awarded annual prizes to young mathematicians under the age of 30 who have distinguished themselves in theoretical … 03 Jan 2022 → 31 Jan 2022
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 to 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 to 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 to 11:00
Series The kingdom of Mâli (13th-14th centuries) François-Xavier Fauvelle, chair History and Archaeology of African Worlds Lecture 02 Nov 2021 → 14 Dec 2021