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Read the interview on the Centre for Quantum Technologies website Serge Haroche, chair Quantum physics …

Algorithms and science Algorithmic language is expressively rich enough to cope with the high descriptive complexity of the living world. Cellular circuits, schools of fish, flocks of birds, rumor transmission, crowd movements and political polarization …

Tribute to Ernest Renan 2012 marks the 150th  anniversary of Renan's famous opening lecture at the Collège de France, and the 120th  anniversary of his death. Taking advantage of this double commemoration, the Collège de France pays tribute to one of its …

To mark the 30th anniversary of Qualité de la science française (QSF). Download program Go to Qualité de la science française Antoine Compagnon, chair Modern and contemporary French literature: history, criticism, …

A pre-presentation of the new www.achemenet.com website Proceedings and discussions will be chaired by Amélie KUHRT, University College London. Programme 9:30am Presentation Pierre BRIANT, Collège de France 9:45 Database and organization of the new site …

Development of the nervous system This international symposium will present various aspects of nervous system development. Program 9h30-10h00 Welcome 10:00-10:45 Paola Bovolenta (Madrid) Dual role of frizzled proteins in eye morphogenesis, implications …

In an article published in the journal Nature on March 29, 2012, a team from the CEREGE laboratory, in collaboration with teams from the Universities of Oxford and Tokyo, has just highlighted a dramatic rise in sea level 14,650 years ago, in phase with …

Program Colloquium organized by the CNRS research team République des Lettres, Respublica Literaria as part of the TransferS laboratory of excellence, with the support of the Institut d'Études littéraires du Collège de France, the École normale supérieure …

Presentation The title of this symposium is borrowed from that of a fine recent book, D'autres vies que la mienne . Writing in a language other than one's mother tongue is an act fraught with significance. A writer can choose a language other than his or …

Metaphysics and Science Organized in collaboration with Max KISTLER, President of the Société de philosophie analytique (SOPHA) and Professor at Université Paris-1 According to an important approach in contemporary metaphysics, science should, if not …

Presentation This study day is organized on the occasion of the publication of Jacques Bouveresse's digital book "Dans le labyrinthe: nécessité, contingence et liberté chez Leibniz" (In the labyrinth: necessity, contingency and freedom in Leibniz). …

Presentation Despite the close connection of epistemology and psychology until the end of the 19th century, epistemological inquiries about the justification of knowledge have been led quite independently of our explanations about the way the mind …

As part of the meeting of the Franco-American, Franco-Brazilian and Franco-Chinese networks, Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France (Chair of Comparative Legal Studies and Internationalization of Law), will chair a …

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m Collège de France Salle 2 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot 75005 Paris On September 7, 2001, Professor Jacques Marescaux performed the first telesurgery operation on a patient in Strasbourg, with the help of a …

Colllège de France, 11 place Marcelin Berthelot, Amphithéâtre Maurice Halbwachs. 75005 Paris This lecture will benefit from the presence of the humanoid robot HRP2 (1.54m, 58 kilos). A series of demonstrations will be carried out on the robot by several …

Dialogue with 33 variations by Ludwig van Beethoven on a Diabelli waltz. At 5pm , in the Marguerite de Navarre amphitheatre. With the support of : - fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent - fondation Hugot du Collège de France - université Sorbonne …

The Collège de France lectures are part of the 2011/2012 "Sciences en questions" program organized by the Institut français de Tunisie. Professor Marc Fontecave Chair of Chemistry of Biological Processes Bio-inspired chemistry and hydrogen: from …

The philosophy of knowledge at the Collège de France Through the lectures given by Jules VUILLEMIN, Jacques BOUVERESSE and Claudine TIERCELIN, the philosophy of knowledge has had a strong presence at the Collège de France for the past fifty years. It has …

(1828-2011) Professor at the Collège de France Thursday, February 16, 2012, at 4:30 pm Collège de France Marguerite de Navarre Amphitheatre 11, place Marcelin Berthelot 75005 Paris With testimonies from : Isabelle Balsamo, Pierre Corvol, Jean-Pierre …

Biotechnology is the application of science and technology to living organisms, their components, products and models, to modify living or non-living materials for the production of knowledge, goods and services. Their progress opens up considerable …

This year, Professor Pierre Corvol's seminar will take the form of a colloquium, from 9:00 am to 5:45 pm. The seminar will address a highly topical issue: the transition from medicine based on epidemiology and large-scale therapeutic trials to medicine …

Study day organized by J. Scheid, M. Nicoud, J. Coste Collège de France, CIHAM UMR 5648, EPHE EA 4116 Presentation : The study day will focus on the relationship between thermalism and medicine and health practices in the broadest sense. These …

Georges Blin (1917-2015) It's not easy for me to eulogize Georges Blin, who passed away on April 14, 2015 in his ninety-eighth year. Georges Blin was, in my view, the greatest French literary critic of the twentieth century, at once an impeccable …