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The optimal nonlinear approximation of x in an orthonormal basis consists in selecting the coefficients of x in the basis with the largest … 3 Feb 2021 09:30 to 11:00 Event Timothy Gowers Probability (I) : use the mean and the second-order moment Lecture Abstract It's obvious that the largest possible value of a random quantity is at least as large as the mean value of that quantity, and that the smallest possible value is at most as large as the mean value. Surprisingly, this very basic observation turns … 25 Jan 2021 10:00 to 12:00 Event Luigi Rizzi The development of cartographic structures : tree growth Lecture 29 Jan 2021 11:30 to 13:00 Event Frantz Grenet et Ching Chao-jung New approach to Chinese sources (mainly Tongdian) on Central Asia west of the Pamirs (2) Seminar Knowledge of Chinese is not required. … 29 Jan 2021 10:30 to 12:00 Event Luigi Rizzi On labeling algorithms Lecture 29 Jan 2021 10:00 to 11:30 Series Active ingredient Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics Seminar Abstract Each lecture was followed by a seminar given by an external speaker. The aim of the seminars was to give a slightly broader view of active matter, with presentations of specific active systems leading to original physics that was sometimes a … 18 Feb 2019 → 25 Mar 2019 Series Active ingredient Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics Lecture Jean-François Joanny presents his lecture in the series les courTs du Collège de France. The first lecture of the Soft Matter and Biophysics chair will be devoted to active matter. An active system is a system out of thermodynamic equilibrium whose energy … 18 Feb 2019 → 25 Mar 2019 Event Dominique Delande Non-equilibrium dynamics of disordered quantum gases Seminar 1 Feb 2021 11:15 to 12:15 Event Frantz Grenet Royal themes (1) Lecture 28 Jan 2021 15:30 to 16:30 Event Bernard Derrida The physics of disordered systems and its applications (4) Lecture 1 Feb 2021 09:30 to 11:00 Event Anne Cheng Civilization, humiliation, Japan Lecture 28 Jan 2021 11:00 to 12:00 Event Timothy Gowers Combinatorics Opening lecture Abstract A somewhat paradoxical field, Combinatorics is at once simple and complex, poor and rich, easy and difficult, pure and applied. Today, combinatorics occupies an almost central position in mathematics, not least because of its many interactions … 21 Jan 2021 18:00 to 19:00 Event Anne-Marie Thiesse Literary pantheons of stone and paper Seminar Abstract Through a historical comparison between France and Germany, the seminar analyzed the construction of national literary heritages from the 19th century onwards. The nationalization of literature was underpinned by cultural policies based primarily … 26 Jan 2021 15:30 to 16:30 Event Jean-Noël Robert Reading texts related to the course topic (4) Seminar 26 Jan 2021 16:00 to 18:00 Event Hélène Le Bail Immigration and politics in Japan from the 1980s to the present day Seminar Session organized in collaboration with the Policy department of the Institut Convergences Migrations. Two migration models outside Europe : Japan and Saudi Arabia Immigration and politics in Japan from the 1980s to the present … 30 Nov 2020 15:00 to 16:00 Event William Marx Mental shelves Lecture Abstract Within a dialectic between the visible and the invisible, the invisible library essentially corresponds to a mental library. Moreover, the latter represents the most general case of the library form. Whether on an individual or collective level, … 26 Jan 2021 14:30 to 15:30 Event Jean-Noël Robert It all started like this Lecture 26 Jan 2021 10:30 to 11:30 Event Edhem Eldem The last illusions (1867-1869) Lecture Documents and media Download support … 29 Jan 2021 14:00 to 15:30 Series Soft Matter and Biophysics Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics Opening lecture 14 Feb 2019 Event Dominique Charpin The teaching of Assyriology, from its beginnings to 1905 Lecture This lecture addressed an aspect hitherto neglected by historiography: the transition from the generation of founders to the training of specialists who gradually took over from them. The aim was to examine the institutional conditions under which a new … 25 Jan 2021 11:00 to 12:00 Series Gods, daimones, heroes (1) Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, chair Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World Seminar The seminars extended the lecture by bringing in guest speakers to address different aspects of the general problem of categorizing superhuman … 13 Feb 2019 → 17 Apr 2019 Event Patrick Boucheron Three pandemics : the composition of worlds Lecture Alexandre Yersin's discovery of the plague bacillus in Hong Kong in 1894 is inextricably linked with an epidemiological orientalism that carries the imaginary pestis of the ancients into the plague of modern times. Yet it also represents a break with the … 26 Jan 2021 11:00 to 12:00 Event Stéphane Mallat Large dimensions and principal components Lecture Abstract We begin by constructing the separable extension of a basis for functions of several variables, and define the Sobolev regularity in any dimension p from the decay of the Fourier coefficients captured by a convergent series. We demonstrate the … 27 Jan 2021 09:30 to 11:00 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 308 Page 309 Page 310 Page 311 Page 312 Page 313 Page 314 Page 315 Page 316 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Patrick Boucheron Yersinia pestis, natural history(ies) Lecture The modes of transmission of Yersinia pestis are the subject of increasingly sophisticated biological and epidemiological studies, based not only on the current clinical picture but also on retrospective modeling of past sources. Yet the virulence of the … 2 Feb 2021 11:00 to 12:00
Event Stéphane Mallat Non-linear approximations and neural networks Lecture Abstract This lecture addresses the triangle of regularity, approximation and parsimony in a nonlinear framework. The optimal nonlinear approximation of x in an orthonormal basis consists in selecting the coefficients of x in the basis with the largest … 3 Feb 2021 09:30 to 11:00
Event Timothy Gowers Probability (I) : use the mean and the second-order moment Lecture Abstract It's obvious that the largest possible value of a random quantity is at least as large as the mean value of that quantity, and that the smallest possible value is at most as large as the mean value. Surprisingly, this very basic observation turns … 25 Jan 2021 10:00 to 12:00
Event Luigi Rizzi The development of cartographic structures : tree growth Lecture 29 Jan 2021 11:30 to 13:00
Event Frantz Grenet et Ching Chao-jung New approach to Chinese sources (mainly Tongdian) on Central Asia west of the Pamirs (2) Seminar Knowledge of Chinese is not required. … 29 Jan 2021 10:30 to 12:00
Series Active ingredient Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics Seminar Abstract Each lecture was followed by a seminar given by an external speaker. The aim of the seminars was to give a slightly broader view of active matter, with presentations of specific active systems leading to original physics that was sometimes a … 18 Feb 2019 → 25 Mar 2019
Series Active ingredient Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics Lecture Jean-François Joanny presents his lecture in the series les courTs du Collège de France. The first lecture of the Soft Matter and Biophysics chair will be devoted to active matter. An active system is a system out of thermodynamic equilibrium whose energy … 18 Feb 2019 → 25 Mar 2019
Event Dominique Delande Non-equilibrium dynamics of disordered quantum gases Seminar 1 Feb 2021 11:15 to 12:15
Event Bernard Derrida The physics of disordered systems and its applications (4) Lecture 1 Feb 2021 09:30 to 11:00
Event Timothy Gowers Combinatorics Opening lecture Abstract A somewhat paradoxical field, Combinatorics is at once simple and complex, poor and rich, easy and difficult, pure and applied. Today, combinatorics occupies an almost central position in mathematics, not least because of its many interactions … 21 Jan 2021 18:00 to 19:00
Event Anne-Marie Thiesse Literary pantheons of stone and paper Seminar Abstract Through a historical comparison between France and Germany, the seminar analyzed the construction of national literary heritages from the 19th century onwards. The nationalization of literature was underpinned by cultural policies based primarily … 26 Jan 2021 15:30 to 16:30
Event Jean-Noël Robert Reading texts related to the course topic (4) Seminar 26 Jan 2021 16:00 to 18:00
Event Hélène Le Bail Immigration and politics in Japan from the 1980s to the present day Seminar Session organized in collaboration with the Policy department of the Institut Convergences Migrations. Two migration models outside Europe : Japan and Saudi Arabia Immigration and politics in Japan from the 1980s to the present … 30 Nov 2020 15:00 to 16:00
Event William Marx Mental shelves Lecture Abstract Within a dialectic between the visible and the invisible, the invisible library essentially corresponds to a mental library. Moreover, the latter represents the most general case of the library form. Whether on an individual or collective level, … 26 Jan 2021 14:30 to 15:30
Event Edhem Eldem The last illusions (1867-1869) Lecture Documents and media Download support … 29 Jan 2021 14:00 to 15:30
Series Soft Matter and Biophysics Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics Opening lecture 14 Feb 2019
Event Dominique Charpin The teaching of Assyriology, from its beginnings to 1905 Lecture This lecture addressed an aspect hitherto neglected by historiography: the transition from the generation of founders to the training of specialists who gradually took over from them. The aim was to examine the institutional conditions under which a new … 25 Jan 2021 11:00 to 12:00
Series Gods, daimones, heroes (1) Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, chair Religion, History and Society in the Ancient Greek World Seminar The seminars extended the lecture by bringing in guest speakers to address different aspects of the general problem of categorizing superhuman … 13 Feb 2019 → 17 Apr 2019
Event Patrick Boucheron Three pandemics : the composition of worlds Lecture Alexandre Yersin's discovery of the plague bacillus in Hong Kong in 1894 is inextricably linked with an epidemiological orientalism that carries the imaginary pestis of the ancients into the plague of modern times. Yet it also represents a break with the … 26 Jan 2021 11:00 to 12:00
Event Stéphane Mallat Large dimensions and principal components Lecture Abstract We begin by constructing the separable extension of a basis for functions of several variables, and define the Sobolev regularity in any dimension p from the decay of the Fourier coefficients captured by a convergent series. We demonstrate the … 27 Jan 2021 09:30 to 11:00