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Abstract In Homeric verse, the share of the gods is generically designated by the neuter plural hiera , "sacred shares". Against this background, hiereus , generally translated as "priest", literally designates "the one who makes the hiera ", and thus the …

Abstract Among recent advances in machine learning , one of the most impressive is undoubtedly that of generative AI, which in particular makes it possible to create ever more realistic samples of sounds, images and videos from a finite set of examples. …

Documents and media Download the educational Spotlight on the event Abstract In 1530, François  I founded the Collège des lecteurs royaux, now the Collège de France, to provide the nation with the knowledge it needed. One hundred and fifty years later, in …

Abstract The goal of this talk is to showcase how we can use stochastic processes to study the geometry of surfaces. More precisely, we use the Brownian loop measure to express the lengths of closed geodesics on a hyperbolic surface and zeta-regularized …

Abstract Combinatorial maps are discrete surfaces obtained as gluings of polygons. The first enumerative results about them were obtained by Tutte in the 1960's. During the 1980-90's, they were intensively studied in theoretical physics (under various …

Abstract In this talk, I will explain how Witten, at the beginning of the 1990's, computed the symplectic volume of the moduli space of flat connections on a principal bundle over a closed compact surface. Witten's main idea was to approximate the …

Abstract Random geometry involves calculating expectations and probabilities on random geometric objects, typically surfaces (hyperbolic surfaces, discrete surfaces, surfaces immersed in a target space, or carrying certain fields, etc.) Remarkably, the …

Abstract A writer is first and foremost a reader: tracing his or her reading path enables us to understand his or her intimate relationship with the stories and voices of others, and their role in the construction of his or her own writing. Tanguy Viel …

Abstract As peace talks for Ukraine get underway, the lecture begins with a reminder of the demand for truth. We might ask whether such a requirement is relevant to literary reading, which is undoubtedly more of an art than a science. If there is a …

Abstract In this talk I will present several random image models that are else explicit (such as Gaussian models or Boolean models for instance), or more "implicit" (such as images generated by a neural network). I will discuss how these models are used …

Abstract "   One day, someone, somewhere, something happened to him.   " Time. Subject. Space. Event. If any narrative is always articulated around these four   dimensions, among them, time holds the thread around which the other three are articulated. …

Abstract Some geometrical and topological features of the excursions of smooth random fields will be presented, such as their expected Lipschitz-Killing curvatures. The concerned random fields will be Gaussian or Gaussian based, but also shot-noise fields …

Abstract Based on specific events that marked the 16th   century, such as Shakespeare's creation of Hamlet , the publication of Cervantes' Don Quixote , Copernicus' The Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs , and Christopher Columbus's discovery of the …

Abstract The talk will first introduce unimodular random graphs and give several examples from the theory of point processes, branching processes, random walks and self-similar discrete random sets. Several types of results on these graphs will then be …

Abstract of Nicolas Martin's talk Coacervats : dynamic droplets to assemble artificial cells Cells are the fundamental building blocks of living organisms. These systems, of remarkable sophistication for physical chemists, function like miniature …

Abstract One of Mari's best-known figures is Intendant Mukannišum, who has already been the subject of numerous studies. His correspondence completes our knowledge of the activities of many craftsmen (jewelers, weavers, etc.), also documented by …