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11:00 - 11:30am
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10:00 - 10:30am
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9:30 - 10:00am
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This series of lectures will explore the current structure of the outer Solar System, including the giant planets, their satellites, the Trojans, the trans-Neptunian population, the Oort cloud and comets. We'll also look at models relating to its origin, …
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Mark Bowick
Order in Biological Development
Mark Bowick
Order in Biological Development
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Abstract How does a biological system set up a body plan to produce a final organism with everything in the right place and orientation? I will discuss a developmental system (parhyale) that exploits activity and cell division to establish four-fold …
2:00 - 3:00pm
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Round table moderated by Antoine Lilti, Collège de France, with the participation of Marlene Daut, Yale University, Délide Joseph, Université de la Guyane, and Chelsea B. Stieber, Tulane …
2:00 - 4:30pm
Hervé Reculeau
At the source of the Flood : environmental catastrophe as a literary and religious motif in Mesopotamia
Hervé Reculeau
At the source of the Flood : environmental catastrophe as a literary and religious motif in Mesopotamia
Guest lecturer
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Abstract To conclude the lecture series, we will explore the perceptions and concepts developed by the ancient Mesopotamians themselves to account for the complex relationships between societies and environments. In particular, we will focus on the motif …
11:00am - 12:00pm
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10:30 - 11:00am
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Mikael Larsson est invité par l'assemblée du Collège de France sur proposition du Pr Thomas Römer. Mikael Larsson …
Emmanuel Sander
What makes a good mathematical problem ? :(Re)reconciling intuition and mathematical sense
Emmanuel Sander
What makes a good mathematical problem ? :(Re)reconciling intuition and mathematical sense
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Go to Emmanuel Sander Emmanuel Sander is Professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva. A member of the Conseil Scientifique de l'Education Nationale, his research focuses on the analysis of mental …
5:30 - 7:00pm
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Abstract The theater, as a space where people speak to a collective body, is by its very nature a place where power is exercised. This tripartite power emanates from the text, the artists and the audience. It is within this three-tiered billiard …
7:00 - 8:30pm
Hourig Sourouzian
Statuary groups
Hourig Sourouzian
Statuary groups
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Abstract The study of different types of statuary groups allows us to glimpse, when we know their exact position in a given part of a temple, the role and interference of the figures represented. King and deities For the most part, the statuary group …
5:00 - 6:00pm
Gender and Science
Opening symposia
Gender and Science
Opening symposia
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Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue #2 , 1916. Brooklin Museum. Opening symposium 2024-2025 Gender and Science The opening symposium 2024 of the Collège de France aims to explore the relationship between Gender and Science from two different and complementary …
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Abstract Thermalized elastic membranes show strong scale-dependence of their elastic moduli. A beautiful realization is in the physics of thermalized 2D metamaterials, such as graphene, where thermal effects already set in at microscopic length scales. …
2:00 - 3:00pm
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Abstract After an incursion into tragedies that evoke human sacrifice, animal sacrifice is analyzed in three tragedies: Aeschylus' Agamemnon , Euripides' Electra and Sophocles' Antigone . The Agamemnon , in which the human sacrifice of Iphigenia is …
11:00am - 12:00pm
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Example Boolean circuit. The nodes are AND gates, the nodes are OR gates, and the nodes are NOT gates (CC BY-SA 4.0). …
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Abstract Faced with the growing success of discourses that make climate change the driving force behind the successes and (above all) the failures of ancient societies, we need to give a voice to the actors - humans and non-humans alike - of …
11:00am - 12:00pm