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Abstract No experiment today provides evidence that gravity requires a quantum description. The quantum optical control of solid-state mechanical devices, quantum optomechanics, may change that situation -- by enabling experiments that directly probe the …

Abstract Since Plutarch, political literature has been teaching princes how to choose between offering and withdrawing, between public exposure and the shadow of secrecy. Places of power, in their very architecture, put these dilemmas to the test. Such is …

Documents and media Download support Abstract The vibrations of a single atom, or of a multitude of atoms in a solid, are both a source of decoherence that must be overcome, and a fully-fledged quantum system that can be manipulated. This lecture will …

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Abstract This final lecture will explore the role of sleep as a privileged state of dialogue between body and brain. It will show how sleep modifies the activity of cerebral and systemic immune cells, with consequences for the stabilization of neural …

Documents and media Download support Download lecture notes References Altmann, R. (1894). Die Elementarorganismen und ihre Beziehungen zu den Zellen . deGruyter. Guven, J. (2013). 1. Stacked endoplasmic reticulum sheets are connected by helicoidal …

Abstract In the past few years the notion of “strong convergence” of multi-matrix models has found applications across pure mathematics including to random graphs, operator algebras (in several ways), spectral theory of hyperbolic manifolds, and the …

Abstract It is well-known that the Betti numbers of nonpositively-curved manifolds are (under normalization of curvature and some additional assumptions) linearly bounded by their volume. In a joint work with M. Frączyk and S. Hurtado we showed that for …

Abstract In the 1990s, Voiculescu developed the theory of non-commutative entropy. For a single non-commutative variable, this entropy reduces to the rate function of the empirical measure of the eigenvalues of a Gaussian matrix. For several …

Conversation between Sonia Wieder-Atherton , cellist, and William Marx , Professor of Comparative Literatures at the Collège de France. Moderator: Chloë Cambreling Abstract Sonia Wieder-Atherton is known for bringing to the stage proposals that go beyond …

Abstract The spectral gap (or bass note) of a closed hyperbolic surface is the smallest non-zero eigenvalue of its Laplacian. This invariant plays an important role in many parts of hyperbolic geometry. The talk will start with a brief introduction to the …

Abstract Throughout this talk, we will discuss tunneling in the context of the Schrödinger equation with a magnetic field. First, we'll look at the work of Helffer and Sjöstrand in the eighties in the case of electric potentials, and their relatively …

Abstract In this talk, we focus on an infinite-dimensional model of repulsively interacting Brownian motions: Dyson Brownian motion (DBM) at soft-edge scaling. It is known that its stationary process is the Airy line ensemble, a collection of …

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Abstract What is moral socialism ? " If we seek an answer to those who hesitate and ask us whether they should be socialists or not " wrote Austro-Marxist Otto Bauer over a century ago, " we still need Kant's ethics ". In this opening lecture, Lea Ypi …

Documents and media Download support Abstract The question of the function of the stories about the first kings of Israel and of their historicity will be addressed. The stories of these kings can be found in the books of Samuel and Kings, and in part in …