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Abstract Photocatalysis has progressed enormously over the last decade, with numerous applications in organic synthesis, where the energy of excited states is used to induce reactions involving intermediates that would be inaccessible by thermal means. …

Abstract Documentation from excavations at the Antinoopolis site testifies to the central role played by this city in education, at all levels : from learning Greek and Latin, through shorthand, to research work in mathematics and medicine. This …

Abstract The book of Joshua curiously concludes with two   farewell speeches by Joshua, who have different functions and come from different production backgrounds. Joshua 23 insists that the conquest will ultimately succeed only if the recipients remain …

Abstract The term Bouphonia refers to a sacrifice performed by Athenians during the Dipolia or Dipoleia, the feast of Zeus Polieus celebrated on the Acropolis of Athens at the beginning of July. Lexically speaking, the name of the ritual associates a …

Abstract Although born of international treaties, the European Union (EU) is fundamentally a legal innovation: not only does it aim to replace national law with European law within each member state, it also aims to replace international law with Union …

Elected to the Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge chair, Prof. Claudine Tiercelin gave her opening lecture on Thursday May 5, 2011. Over the next fourteen years, her lectures explored a renewed approach to metaphysics, articulating classical …

Abstract There is no end to the gesture of creating, and yet we have to finish. To declare that here, at this moment, is to end. What's finished  ? How do you recognize the final point  ? How do you stop in time  ? What bursts forth at the moment of …

Abstract Knowing that ending is only an illusion, how can we think of the final point  ? Nothing ends, but is abandoned. So how do we accept abandonment, how do we allow the end to emerge, and the mourning that goes with it  ? How do you submit to the …

Lecture outline : aczel's translation of set theory into type theory   ; miquel's variation for not necessarily well-founded sets   ; application to the problem of the logical strength of certain type systems, in particular the Lean system (Mario …

Abstract In the second lecture of the year, we attempted to sketch a portrait of Zimri-Lim. Along the way, we added a number of new features. We will complete this picture, for the most part with elements we have not yet encountered. We'll see how the …

Abstract Slavery was part of Roman society. Not only were slaves plentiful, but slavery was an essential component of Rome's economic success in the last few centuries B.C. and the first two centuries A.D. Willem Jongman aims to demonstrate that the …

Abstract The sequencing of the human genome has taught us that the majority of our genetic differences are made up of extra pages, missing pages and/or pages whose order is altered in our "   encyclopedia of life   ". These variations in the architecture …

Abstract This lecture will address a major question in human genomics and public health  : how do genetics and the environment interact in the development of disease  ? We'll start by examining how the environment -   the exposome   - can affect our …

Abstract Is there a right way to say verse  ? In a house like the Comédie-Française, which relies on a permanent troupe where the art of telling is passed down from one generation to the next, on stage and in the corridors, there are many different …

Abstract From childhood through to research, the back-and-forth between concrete problems and abstraction enables the discovery and understanding of new mathematical concepts. In practice, it's difficult to extend the manipulative approaches deployed in …