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A good knowledge of Sino-Japanese or Japanese is required for the seminar. …

What makes the authors of novellistica "skilful and light"? It's because they display what Italo Calvino called a "pensive lightness" (pensosità ) that makes frivolity seem heavy, inert and opaque. Guido Cavalcanti's "light leap", confronted by Betto …

Courier is often praised by Stendhal. Courier, ten years his junior, had lived through the wars with the same dilettantism, and detested the moral order and temporal power of the clergy as much as he did. In his Chroniques , Stendhal sometimes portrays …

In the second lecture, we examined the spontaneous vocal communication abilities of different animal species. In non-human primates, these abilities are limited to the production of alarm calls that refer to the different types of predator encountered. …

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Abstract How do galaxies form? One of the first hypotheses was to imagine a sudden or progressive collapse of a single system on itself, which would rapidly form stars, resulting in an elliptical galaxy, or a halo of old stars and a disk of gas and young …

Abstract The first lecture began by introducing some of the simplest models, such as Eden's model or the ballistic deposition model, which describe the growth from a stable to an unstable medium. These models, which are very easy to simulate on a …

As an introduction to a program covering a long period - the famous "long nineteenth century" - and a subject that is, to say the least, complex, it seems useful to devote the first lecture to some fundamental questions concerning the discipline of …

Abstract The automatic analysis of digital data has become a major industrial, societal and scientific challenge, and must cope with the diversification and exponential multiplication of this data. The Collège de France has decided to create a chair …