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Vincent Van Gogh, Round of Prisoners , Pushkin Museum During the last decades of the twentieth century, most Western countries have experienced a considerable increase in their prison populations, with no direct link to trends in crime. This « punitive …
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Abstract During the first part of the event, some winners of the 2024 Challenges presented their algorithms as well as the results that achieved the highest scores. An awards ceremony was held for the winners of the other challenges, followed by a …
11:15am - 12:30pm
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Abstract Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) require the calculation of a saddle point through a sequence of minimization and maximization steps, which leads to numerical instabilities. Numerous numerical variants have been developed, but these …
9:30 - 11:00am
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Abstract After a brief look back at the Egyptian Expedition and the notion of Orientalism, this session explores the emergence of French cultural imperialism under Napoleon, showing how the universalist, civilizing ideals of the Enlightenment were …
2:30 - 3:30pm
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Abstract A translation surface is a Riemann surface with a holomorphic differential. This differential defines a flat metric (outside the singular locus) whose holonomy is trivial. I will explain how the counting of long geodesics on a generic translation …
9:30 - 10:20am
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Abstract When Barthes asserts that we must not emotionally adhere to fiction in order to maintain objectivity, he is reactivating a questioning that goes back to the Greek tragedies. But the reader's inner experience is ambivalent: awareness of the …
6:00 - 7:00pm
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Human languages allow the creation of an unlimited number of messages. Syntactic Combinatorics is at the root of this remarkable property. Through the recursive application of simple Combinatorics rules (perhaps just one very general rule ! ), we can …
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Abstract The extravagant readings of Poussin's Shepherds of Arcadia may serve to define what a good reading should be. To read well, unlike certain Kabbalistic decodings, we must neither eliminate the surface of the work nor disengage ourselves from its …
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Abstract In this lecture, Laurent Billon will introduce the concepts of biomimicry and bio-inspiration for materials. These concepts will then be explained through examples of his research on microgels inspired by marine sponges, which led to the creation …
11:00am - 12:00pm
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Abstract The talk deals with a type of random geometry which combines convex and integral geometry together with probability theory and specifically the notion of point processes. In general, it consists in starting with a discrete set of random points in …
10:00 - 10:50am
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10:30 - 11:30am
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Résumé Le droit de cuissage a-t-il existé au Moyen Âge ? Certainement pas comme ius primae noctis, et il faut pour cela suivre la démonstration d’Alain Boureau qui montre comment les controverses sur cette redevance seigneuriale imaginaire au XIX e …
2:00 - 3:00pm
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Plant-pollinator interactions, which play a central role in the functioning of all ecosystems, including in farmland, are likely to be greatly altered by global change, but these changes remain poorly understood because they are often studied in …
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Abstract The ability to attribute beliefs to others (mentalization) and the ability to perform a disjunctive syllogism share something in common. To believe that [Sally believes that p], one must be able to think p without judging p to be true. To believe …
11:30am - 1:00pm