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The Montagne Sainte-Geneviève is home to a large number of research groups, notably at the CIRB (Collège de France), UPMC, IJM, ENS, Institut Curie... whose work lies at the interface of mathematics and biology: population biology, evolution, …

Françoise Combes Dark matter, the key to the Universe? " A reference for all cosmology enthusiasts ! Although numerous discoveries in recent years have enabled us to gain a better understanding of our Universe, 95 % of its content, made up of dark matter …

Climate, energy and society: the Collège de France and COP 21. November 9, 2015 from 8:45 to 17:30. Symposium organized by Edouard Bard in the presence of François Hollande, President of the French Republic. Registration required. Due to the capacity of …

Video transcript Alain Prochiantz (AP) : Why is Tony Cragg at the Collège de France ? Because I've known Tony Cragg for a long time, he had an exhibition at Beaubourg some twenty years ago, he had read some of my work, I don't know why, it's …

Light, light Since the dawn of time, light has fascinated and troubled human beings. In Antiquity, solar cults were important, and 19th-century historians of religion gave them even greater importance, to the point of wanting to understand all ancient …

The Collège de France, with the support of Paris Sciences et Lettres, has restored and digitized its lecture posters produced between the 17th and 19th centuries (from 1688 to 1900). Today, this project gives the public and researchers remote access to a …

From Novel Preparation Techniques to Advanced Applications Opening Clément Sanchez, Chair in Hybrid Materials Chemistry New synthetic approaches to macroporous materials Ice-segregation based techniques: Dr. S. Deville Integrative chemistry toward …

A few weeks ahead of the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in Paris, citizens, associations and politicians are mobilizing. Scientists, too, are making their voices heard to fuel the fundamental debate that accompanies these …

This prize, founded by Madame Eugène Bloch, perpetuates the memory of the three founders of the Physics Laboratory at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Henri Abraham, Eugène Bloch and Georges Bruhat, all of whom were deported to Nazi camps. The winner of the …

To mark the 750th anniversary of the Poet's birth (1265-2015), the Corsican polyphonic group A Ricuccata : Augustin Baccarelli, Jean-Luc Ciccoli, Jacques Filippi, Nicolas Sisson, under the direction of François Berlinghi, sing a cappella : Dante, Paradis …

James Rothman, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013, Professor of Cell Biology at Yale University, will give 4 lectures. Friday, September 18 On the Sorting of Proteins to Compartmentalize the Cell - the Story of Three Nobel Prizes from a Modern …

As part of this year's European Heritage Days on September 19 and 20, the Collège de France is staging an exhibition entitled "The Dialogue of Civilizations", where the general public can discover rare and precious objects collected over the centuries by …

Alain Supiot and Mireille Delmas-Marty Taking responsibility seriously The result of an international colloquium organized at the Collège de France by Alain Supiot and Mireille Delmas-Marty on June 11 and 12 2015 , this book aims to restore the legal …

Organized by Edith Heard, Epigenetics and Cellular Memory, Nicole Le Douarin, Cellular and Molecular Embryology and Alain Prochiantz, Morphogenetic Processes, on September 15, 2015 at the Collège de France, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater (Marcelin …

Prof. Édouard Bard at the US National Academy of Sciences Founded in 1863 by an act of the US Congress, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, the US National Academy of Sciences is a forum of scientists charged with providing independent and objective …

The Collège de France will be opening its doors to the general public on Saturday September 19 and Sunday September 20, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. , as part of the European Heritage Days, whose theme this year is " 21st-century heritage, a story for the …

Prof. Alain de Libera, holder of the History of Medieval Philosophy chair , has been awarded the 2015 Grand Prix de Philosophie de l'Académie française. This annual prize, created in 1987, is awarded for a body of philosophical work. Access the list of …

Antoine Compagnon, Pierre Corvol and John Scheid. A forum for discussion and free inquiry par excellence, the Collège de France occupies a unique place in the French and academic world. While constantly adapting to the evolution of knowledge, the …

Professor Andrew Plaks (Princeton University) will give a seminar on reading the Daxue (The Great Study) and the Zhongyong (The Unchanging Middle) on Thursday June 18, from 2 pm to 4 pm. The seminar will be held at the Collège de France's Cardinal Lemoine …

June 18 and 20, 2015 Institut français Largo Giuseppe Toniolo, 20-22 Roma June 19, 2015 Sapienza Università di Roma Villa Mirafiori via Carlo Fea, 2 Roma The colloquium brings together musicologists, philologists and musicians to address the question of …

Authors  : Antoine Compagnon, Pierre Corvol and John Scheid. Éditions Gallimard / Collège de France, 2015, Paris. Documents and media Browse the book on the Gallimard website Antoine Compagnon, chair Modern and contemporary French literature: history, …

Marc Fontecave, member of the Académie des Sciences, Professor at the Collège de France The development of new technologies for harnessing renewable energies, such as solar and wind power, which are diluted and intermittent, requires the development of …

Organized by Mihaela Timus and Flavia Ruani Co-organizers: Mihaela Timuș (associate lecturer, Collège de France, 2013-2015) and Flavia Ruani (post-doc, Ghent University) with technical assistance from Marie Guérin (scientific and administrative …

Antoine Georges , Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Quantum Condensed Matter Physics and Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Transition metal oxides possess remarkable electronic properties, such as superconductivity at high critical …