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It focuses on the dynamics of phase transitions and specific … 21 Nov 2022 15:00 to 16:30 Event Jean-Baptiste Rauzy Proposition, belief and assertion. The Leibniz-Spinoza debate and the advantages of the Leibnizian position Seminar 21 Nov 2022 11:30 to 13:00 Event François Recanati Cogito ergo sum Lecture Abstract According to Hintikka's interpretation of the cogito, "I think" is not a factual premise from which we infer "I exist" thanks to the tacit premise "to think, one must be" . I think" is not a first thought-content from which a second is inferred … 21 Nov 2022 10:00 to 11:30 Event Alice Dupas On the duality of aesthetic properties as a particular mode of experience Symposium 6 Oct 2022 17:20 to 18:20 Event Alexandre Declos Aesthetic tropism Symposium Documents and media Download support … 6 Oct 2022 16:20 to 17:20 Event Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann Can There Be One Metaphysics of Aesthetic Properties? Symposium 6 Oct 2022 15:00 to 16:00 Event Derek Matravers What is Meant by the Term "Aesthetic Property"? Symposium Documents and media Download support … 6 Oct 2022 14:00 to 15:00 Event Jérôme Dokic Is the sublime an aesthetic property ? Symposium Documents and media Download support … 6 Oct 2022 11:20 to 12:20 Event Roger Pouivet Why beauty ? Symposium Documents and media Download support … 6 Oct 2022 10:00 to 11:00 Event Dominique Charpin et Xavier Leroy Fence Symposium 21 Oct 2022 16:00 to 16:15 Event Denis Thouard Reading, deciphering, interpreting. The challenge of hermeneutics Symposium Chairman : William Marx Abstract Reading, deciphering, interpreting. Considering deciphering is an opportunity to revisit what we do when we " read " and, consequently, what writing is. We frequently use codes, and speak of deciphering to indicate a … 21 Oct 2022 15:20 to 16:00 Event Emmanuelle Danblon Signs that don't deceive. A look back at the interpretative function in rhetoric Symposium Our society has lost the ability to interpret signs. What's at stake is a broadening of our conception of rationality. This is the angle from which we can make a realistic diagnosis of conspiracy theories, which are reviving in a degraded mode our need to … 21 Oct 2022 14:40 to 15:20 Event Jan Blanc Painting " in a hieroglyphic way " - Johannes Vermeer's art of the enigma Symposium Chairman : William Marx Abstract In his " Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst " ( Introduction to the High School of the Art of Painting , 1678), the Dutch painter and art theorist Samuel van Hoogstraten proposes to defend the liberal status … 21 Oct 2022 14:00 to 14:40 Event Edith Heard Epigenetics : beyond the genetic code and the laws of heredity ? Symposium Chairman : Sonia Garel Abstract A central theme in biology is that the characteristics of an organism - the phenotype - are controlled by the nucleotide sequence of its genome. Understanding how the information encoded by the genome contributes to … 21 Oct 2022 11:50 to 12:30 Event Jean Weissenbach What do we understand about the genetic code in 2022 ? Symposium Chairman : Sonia Garel Abstract The functioning of biological systems relies on the use of a wide variety of information, both from their environment and from internal sources. Most internal information is stored in the form of chemical structures known … 21 Oct 2022 11:10 to 11:50 Event Eleni Diamanti Secure communications in a quantum world Symposium Chairman : Xavier Leroy Abstract Quantum technologies have the potential to improve communication security in network infrastructures in unprecedented ways. In this talk, after introducing the fundamental principles of quantum physics that enable the … 21 Oct 2022 10:10 to 10:40 Event Anne Canteaut Is it possible to dream of impenetrable writing ? Symposium Chairman : Xavier Leroy Abstract " Despite all preconceived ideas, the property of absolute indecipherability is by no means a pure chimera ". These words by William F. Friedman, one of the founding fathers of cryptology, show that cryptologists and … 21 Oct 2022 09:30 to 10:10 Event Alessandro Morbidelli Deciphering the origin of the solar system with witnesses to its origins : meteorites and comets Symposium Chairman : Françoise Combes Abstract The discovery of extrasolar planets has shown that planetary systems can have very diverse structures. Clearly, there is a wide variety of possible formation and evolution histories. It therefore becomes important to … 20 Oct 2022 17:20 to 18:00 Event Luc Blanchet Deciphering gravitational waves Symposium Chairman : Françoise Combes Abstract On 14 September 2015, gravitational wave detectors observed the gravitational signal produced by the merger of two massive black holes at great astronomical distance. On 17 August 2017, the detectors observed the … 20 Oct 2022 16:40 to 17:20 Event Nabila Aghanim Deciphering the cosmological background Symposium Chairman : Françoise Combes Abstract The cosmic microwave background is the electromagnetic radiation that bathes the Universe as a whole, emitted when it was only around 380 000 years old . Buried beneath the strata of emissions from our own and distant … 20 Oct 2022 16:00 to 16:40 Event Luigi Rizzi The language: a code to decipher ? Symposium Chairman : Jean-Luc Fournet Abstract During the fighting on the Pacific front in World War II, the Marines used speakers of the Native American Navajo language to exchange secret messages. This code proved impossible for the Japanese army to decipher, … 20 Oct 2022 14:50 to 15:30 Event Stanislas Dehaene How does our brain decipher writing ? Symposium Chairman : Jean-Luc Fournet Abstract We've all learned to decipher a subtle cryptogram : the alphabetic script you're reading right now. Using brain imaging, my laboratory is trying to understand how learning to read takes place in the developing brain. … 20 Oct 2022 14:10 to 14:50 Event Benoît Peeters Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay Seminar Abstract In his Little Nemo in Slumberland series, published in the New York Herald from 1905 onwards, Winsor McCay (1869-1934) used the world of dreams to give free rein to the most dazzling visual transformations. 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Event Alexandre Solon Active Phase Separations Seminar Abstract Active (often biological) matter can exhibit a wide range of complex collective behaviors. However, at the level of our theoretical descriptions, many of them can be understood as phase separations. I will discuss two prominent examples: … 21 Nov 2022 16:45 to 17:45
Event Jean-François Joanny First-order phase transitions (2) Lecture Abstract A continuation of the previous lecture. The lecture gives a brief abstract of the classical theories of phase transitions in liquids useful for understanding biological condensates. It focuses on the dynamics of phase transitions and specific … 21 Nov 2022 15:00 to 16:30
Event Jean-Baptiste Rauzy Proposition, belief and assertion. The Leibniz-Spinoza debate and the advantages of the Leibnizian position Seminar 21 Nov 2022 11:30 to 13:00
Event François Recanati Cogito ergo sum Lecture Abstract According to Hintikka's interpretation of the cogito, "I think" is not a factual premise from which we infer "I exist" thanks to the tacit premise "to think, one must be" . I think" is not a first thought-content from which a second is inferred … 21 Nov 2022 10:00 to 11:30
Event Alice Dupas On the duality of aesthetic properties as a particular mode of experience Symposium 6 Oct 2022 17:20 to 18:20
Event Alexandre Declos Aesthetic tropism Symposium Documents and media Download support … 6 Oct 2022 16:20 to 17:20
Event Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann Can There Be One Metaphysics of Aesthetic Properties? Symposium 6 Oct 2022 15:00 to 16:00
Event Derek Matravers What is Meant by the Term "Aesthetic Property"? Symposium Documents and media Download support … 6 Oct 2022 14:00 to 15:00
Event Jérôme Dokic Is the sublime an aesthetic property ? Symposium Documents and media Download support … 6 Oct 2022 11:20 to 12:20
Event Roger Pouivet Why beauty ? Symposium Documents and media Download support … 6 Oct 2022 10:00 to 11:00
Event Denis Thouard Reading, deciphering, interpreting. The challenge of hermeneutics Symposium Chairman : William Marx Abstract Reading, deciphering, interpreting. Considering deciphering is an opportunity to revisit what we do when we " read " and, consequently, what writing is. We frequently use codes, and speak of deciphering to indicate a … 21 Oct 2022 15:20 to 16:00
Event Emmanuelle Danblon Signs that don't deceive. A look back at the interpretative function in rhetoric Symposium Our society has lost the ability to interpret signs. What's at stake is a broadening of our conception of rationality. This is the angle from which we can make a realistic diagnosis of conspiracy theories, which are reviving in a degraded mode our need to … 21 Oct 2022 14:40 to 15:20
Event Jan Blanc Painting " in a hieroglyphic way " - Johannes Vermeer's art of the enigma Symposium Chairman : William Marx Abstract In his " Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst " ( Introduction to the High School of the Art of Painting , 1678), the Dutch painter and art theorist Samuel van Hoogstraten proposes to defend the liberal status … 21 Oct 2022 14:00 to 14:40
Event Edith Heard Epigenetics : beyond the genetic code and the laws of heredity ? Symposium Chairman : Sonia Garel Abstract A central theme in biology is that the characteristics of an organism - the phenotype - are controlled by the nucleotide sequence of its genome. Understanding how the information encoded by the genome contributes to … 21 Oct 2022 11:50 to 12:30
Event Jean Weissenbach What do we understand about the genetic code in 2022 ? Symposium Chairman : Sonia Garel Abstract The functioning of biological systems relies on the use of a wide variety of information, both from their environment and from internal sources. Most internal information is stored in the form of chemical structures known … 21 Oct 2022 11:10 to 11:50
Event Eleni Diamanti Secure communications in a quantum world Symposium Chairman : Xavier Leroy Abstract Quantum technologies have the potential to improve communication security in network infrastructures in unprecedented ways. In this talk, after introducing the fundamental principles of quantum physics that enable the … 21 Oct 2022 10:10 to 10:40
Event Anne Canteaut Is it possible to dream of impenetrable writing ? Symposium Chairman : Xavier Leroy Abstract " Despite all preconceived ideas, the property of absolute indecipherability is by no means a pure chimera ". These words by William F. Friedman, one of the founding fathers of cryptology, show that cryptologists and … 21 Oct 2022 09:30 to 10:10
Event Alessandro Morbidelli Deciphering the origin of the solar system with witnesses to its origins : meteorites and comets Symposium Chairman : Françoise Combes Abstract The discovery of extrasolar planets has shown that planetary systems can have very diverse structures. Clearly, there is a wide variety of possible formation and evolution histories. It therefore becomes important to … 20 Oct 2022 17:20 to 18:00
Event Luc Blanchet Deciphering gravitational waves Symposium Chairman : Françoise Combes Abstract On 14 September 2015, gravitational wave detectors observed the gravitational signal produced by the merger of two massive black holes at great astronomical distance. On 17 August 2017, the detectors observed the … 20 Oct 2022 16:40 to 17:20
Event Nabila Aghanim Deciphering the cosmological background Symposium Chairman : Françoise Combes Abstract The cosmic microwave background is the electromagnetic radiation that bathes the Universe as a whole, emitted when it was only around 380 000 years old . Buried beneath the strata of emissions from our own and distant … 20 Oct 2022 16:00 to 16:40
Event Luigi Rizzi The language: a code to decipher ? Symposium Chairman : Jean-Luc Fournet Abstract During the fighting on the Pacific front in World War II, the Marines used speakers of the Native American Navajo language to exchange secret messages. This code proved impossible for the Japanese army to decipher, … 20 Oct 2022 14:50 to 15:30
Event Stanislas Dehaene How does our brain decipher writing ? Symposium Chairman : Jean-Luc Fournet Abstract We've all learned to decipher a subtle cryptogram : the alphabetic script you're reading right now. Using brain imaging, my laboratory is trying to understand how learning to read takes place in the developing brain. … 20 Oct 2022 14:10 to 14:50
Event Benoît Peeters Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay Seminar Abstract In his Little Nemo in Slumberland series, published in the New York Herald from 1905 onwards, Winsor McCay (1869-1934) used the world of dreams to give free rein to the most dazzling visual transformations. Each Sunday page had to be spectacular … 22 Nov 2022 11:00 to 12:00
