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If the digital revolution … 17 Oct 2025 10:10 to 10:50 Event Philippe Aghion Malthusian trap and demographic transition Lecture Documents and media Download support … 14 Oct 2025 14:00 to 16:00 News There's a real denial of philosophical India Isabelle Ratié, chair History of Indian Systems of Thought Isabelle Ratié Documents and media Discover this interview with our online reader Download the interview Isabelle Ratié is a specialist in Indian philosophy. She edits Sanskrit texts from manuscripts and translates them. In this way, she traces the … Published on 12 December 2025 Event Daniel Andler Artificial general intelligence: mirage or false connection? Symposium Chair: Xavier Leroy Abstract It is often assumed that as AI makes regular progress in solving more and more problems in various areas, it approaches, asymptotically, the ultimate goal of artificial general intelligence (AGI). If AGI is understood as … 17 Oct 2025 09:30 to 10:10 Event Stéphanie Dupouy How to study forms of intelligence ? The questions of Alfred Binet (1857-1911) Symposium Chairman : Patrick Boucheron Abstract French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911) is famous for having invented the metric intelligence scale, ancestor of the IQ, between 1904 and 1911. This paper will review the prior conceptual transformations that … 16 Oct 2025 17:00 to 17:40 Event William Marx The intelligence factory : from word to deed Symposium Chair : Patrick Boucheron Abstract Over the course of the XIX th century, the concept of intelligence took on an increasingly important role in European anthropological and philosophical thought, establishing itself against competitors such as the mind … 16 Oct 2025 16:20 to 17:00 Event David Bates On the technical evolution of intelligence: an artificial history Symposium Chair: Patrick Boucheron Abstract This article traces an artificial history of natural intelligence, arguing that, since the emergence of modern thought during the scientific revolution in Europe, the mind and its capacities have been apprehended as … 16 Oct 2025 15:20 to 16:00 Event Jean-Baptiste Brenet Machine arrière: Averroès, Marx and the general intellect Symposium Chair: Patrick Boucheron Abstract Averroës was cursed in European history for his conception of a human intellect radically separate from bodies, eternal and unique for the entire species. It was seen as the ruin of personal thought, the end of the … 16 Oct 2025 14:40 to 15:20 Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge The Greeks and their "miracle": what intelligence does to history, and back again Symposium Chair: Patrick Boucheron Abstract Most works dealing with intelligence, whatever their author's profile, make a detour via the Greeks, albeit a brief one. The place of Greek philosophers—those "professionals of intelligence"—in European cultural baggage … 16 Oct 2025 14:00 to 14:40 Event Jocelyne Troccaz Gesture intelligence: from scalpel to robot Symposium Chair: Stéphane Mallat Abstract The excellence of a surgeon, or more generally of an interventional physician, is not simply a matter of intellectual ability to make the right diagnosis or choose the right therapeutic strategy; it also rests on the … 16 Oct 2025 11:30 to 12:10 Event Stéphane Mallat Mathematical mysteries of not-so-artificial intelligences Symposium Chair: Nalini Anantharaman Abstract Artificial intelligence neural networks are trained to estimate answers to questions using statistical computation. The accuracy of these answers, despite the explosion of the set of possibilities, shows that they … 16 Oct 2025 10:50 to 11:30 Event Timothy Gowers What impact will AI have on mathematics over the next few years? Symposium Chair: Stéphane Mallat Abstract AI has already had multiple impacts on mathematics, from working collaboratively with human mathematicians by suggesting conjectures or performing smarter searches, to producing entire proofs unaided. I'll discuss the … 16 Oct 2025 10:10 to 10:50 Event Stanislas Dehaene How does the human brain compare with today's artificial intelligences? Some challenges from the cognitive sciences Symposium Chair: Stéphane Mallat … 16 Oct 2025 09:30 to 10:10 Event Carolin Antos Reasoning with Specifics-the Use of Examples in Mathematics Seminar 13 Oct 2025 14:00 to 15:00 Event Timothy Gowers Axioms and fundamental properties of entropy Lecture 13 Oct 2025 10:00 to 12:00 Event Thomas Römer Forms of intelligence - Opening Symposium 16 Oct 2025 09:15 to 09:30 Event Daniel Lieberman How we've evolved to eat almost anything, but some diets are better than others Guest lecturer Abstract The second conference will focus on the evolution of the human diet. What have we evolved to eat and not eat, and why have humans become the most omnivorous species on the planet ? What role did food processing play in the evolution of the human … 10 Oct 2025 14:30 to 15:30 Series Food sovereignty and agro-ecological transition in Europe Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions Guest lecturer Olivier de Schutter has been invited by the assembly of the Collège de France, at the suggestion of Pr Samantha Besson, Chair of International Law of Institutions . Olivier de Schutter This series of four lectures by Olivier de Schutter is part of the … 04 Nov 2026 → 13 Nov 2026 Event Pierre-Louis Lions High-dimensional analysis and open problems (2) Lecture 10 Oct 2025 09:00 to 11:00 Event Neil Price Loki's Children Guest lecturer Abstract The god Loki has become famous in recent years through media of which the Norse could never have dreamed, but in his late Iron Age form he is central to their understanding of the irrational. Shifting sex, gender, and even species, he pairs with … 8 Oct 2025 17:00 to 18:00 Publication Wajdi Mouawad L’ombre en soi qui écrit « Tout héros qu'il est, Ulysse demande à être attaché au mât du navire pour résister au chant des sirènes. De même, le poète oppose une résistance farouche à l'attraction du savoir. Non pas qu’il soit contre le savoir, au contraire, mais obstinément, avec … 8 December 2025 Publication Louis Fensterbank Chimie moléculaire : nouveaux défis et innovation durable La synthèse moléculaire est la science qui consiste à transformer des molécules de départ pour en créer de nouvelles plus élaborées. Physiquement, elle requiert de former de nouvelles liaisons entre des atomes grâce à un processus d'activation moléculaire … 8 December 2025 Event Philippe Aghion Introduction and Agricultural revolution, urbanization, ideas Lecture Documents and media Download support 1 (Introduction) Download support 2 (Agricultural revolution, urbanization, ideas) Download reading … 7 Oct 2025 14:00 to 16:00 News Research training workshop. Introduction to the sources of Roman law - 10thedition Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome The call for applications for the 10 th edition of the " Introduction aux sources du droit romain " workshop is now open. The workshop will take place from June 15 to 19 2026 at the École française de Rome. The deadline for applications is January 15 , … Published on 9 December 2025 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 102 Page 103 Page 104 Page 105 Page 106 Page 107 Page 108 Page 109 Page 110 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Anne Alombert artificial (de)formations of the mind: AI, between intellectual technology and computational folly Symposium Chair: Xavier Leroy Abstract In contrast to comparisons between human minds and computing machines, I propose to consider the "artificial intelligence" as a "intellectual technology", which shapes and deforms our minds. If the digital revolution … 17 Oct 2025 10:10 to 10:50
Event Philippe Aghion Malthusian trap and demographic transition Lecture Documents and media Download support … 14 Oct 2025 14:00 to 16:00
News There's a real denial of philosophical India Isabelle Ratié, chair History of Indian Systems of Thought Isabelle Ratié Documents and media Discover this interview with our online reader Download the interview Isabelle Ratié is a specialist in Indian philosophy. She edits Sanskrit texts from manuscripts and translates them. In this way, she traces the … Published on 12 December 2025
Event Daniel Andler Artificial general intelligence: mirage or false connection? Symposium Chair: Xavier Leroy Abstract It is often assumed that as AI makes regular progress in solving more and more problems in various areas, it approaches, asymptotically, the ultimate goal of artificial general intelligence (AGI). If AGI is understood as … 17 Oct 2025 09:30 to 10:10
Event Stéphanie Dupouy How to study forms of intelligence ? The questions of Alfred Binet (1857-1911) Symposium Chairman : Patrick Boucheron Abstract French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911) is famous for having invented the metric intelligence scale, ancestor of the IQ, between 1904 and 1911. This paper will review the prior conceptual transformations that … 16 Oct 2025 17:00 to 17:40
Event William Marx The intelligence factory : from word to deed Symposium Chair : Patrick Boucheron Abstract Over the course of the XIX th century, the concept of intelligence took on an increasingly important role in European anthropological and philosophical thought, establishing itself against competitors such as the mind … 16 Oct 2025 16:20 to 17:00
Event David Bates On the technical evolution of intelligence: an artificial history Symposium Chair: Patrick Boucheron Abstract This article traces an artificial history of natural intelligence, arguing that, since the emergence of modern thought during the scientific revolution in Europe, the mind and its capacities have been apprehended as … 16 Oct 2025 15:20 to 16:00
Event Jean-Baptiste Brenet Machine arrière: Averroès, Marx and the general intellect Symposium Chair: Patrick Boucheron Abstract Averroës was cursed in European history for his conception of a human intellect radically separate from bodies, eternal and unique for the entire species. It was seen as the ruin of personal thought, the end of the … 16 Oct 2025 14:40 to 15:20
Event Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge The Greeks and their "miracle": what intelligence does to history, and back again Symposium Chair: Patrick Boucheron Abstract Most works dealing with intelligence, whatever their author's profile, make a detour via the Greeks, albeit a brief one. The place of Greek philosophers—those "professionals of intelligence"—in European cultural baggage … 16 Oct 2025 14:00 to 14:40
Event Jocelyne Troccaz Gesture intelligence: from scalpel to robot Symposium Chair: Stéphane Mallat Abstract The excellence of a surgeon, or more generally of an interventional physician, is not simply a matter of intellectual ability to make the right diagnosis or choose the right therapeutic strategy; it also rests on the … 16 Oct 2025 11:30 to 12:10
Event Stéphane Mallat Mathematical mysteries of not-so-artificial intelligences Symposium Chair: Nalini Anantharaman Abstract Artificial intelligence neural networks are trained to estimate answers to questions using statistical computation. The accuracy of these answers, despite the explosion of the set of possibilities, shows that they … 16 Oct 2025 10:50 to 11:30
Event Timothy Gowers What impact will AI have on mathematics over the next few years? Symposium Chair: Stéphane Mallat Abstract AI has already had multiple impacts on mathematics, from working collaboratively with human mathematicians by suggesting conjectures or performing smarter searches, to producing entire proofs unaided. I'll discuss the … 16 Oct 2025 10:10 to 10:50
Event Stanislas Dehaene How does the human brain compare with today's artificial intelligences? Some challenges from the cognitive sciences Symposium Chair: Stéphane Mallat … 16 Oct 2025 09:30 to 10:10
Event Carolin Antos Reasoning with Specifics-the Use of Examples in Mathematics Seminar 13 Oct 2025 14:00 to 15:00
Event Daniel Lieberman How we've evolved to eat almost anything, but some diets are better than others Guest lecturer Abstract The second conference will focus on the evolution of the human diet. What have we evolved to eat and not eat, and why have humans become the most omnivorous species on the planet ? What role did food processing play in the evolution of the human … 10 Oct 2025 14:30 to 15:30
Series Food sovereignty and agro-ecological transition in Europe Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions Guest lecturer Olivier de Schutter has been invited by the assembly of the Collège de France, at the suggestion of Pr Samantha Besson, Chair of International Law of Institutions . Olivier de Schutter This series of four lectures by Olivier de Schutter is part of the … 04 Nov 2026 → 13 Nov 2026
Event Pierre-Louis Lions High-dimensional analysis and open problems (2) Lecture 10 Oct 2025 09:00 to 11:00
Event Neil Price Loki's Children Guest lecturer Abstract The god Loki has become famous in recent years through media of which the Norse could never have dreamed, but in his late Iron Age form he is central to their understanding of the irrational. Shifting sex, gender, and even species, he pairs with … 8 Oct 2025 17:00 to 18:00
Publication Wajdi Mouawad L’ombre en soi qui écrit « Tout héros qu'il est, Ulysse demande à être attaché au mât du navire pour résister au chant des sirènes. De même, le poète oppose une résistance farouche à l'attraction du savoir. Non pas qu’il soit contre le savoir, au contraire, mais obstinément, avec … 8 December 2025
Publication Louis Fensterbank Chimie moléculaire : nouveaux défis et innovation durable La synthèse moléculaire est la science qui consiste à transformer des molécules de départ pour en créer de nouvelles plus élaborées. Physiquement, elle requiert de former de nouvelles liaisons entre des atomes grâce à un processus d'activation moléculaire … 8 December 2025
Event Philippe Aghion Introduction and Agricultural revolution, urbanization, ideas Lecture Documents and media Download support 1 (Introduction) Download support 2 (Agricultural revolution, urbanization, ideas) Download reading … 7 Oct 2025 14:00 to 16:00
News Research training workshop. Introduction to the sources of Roman law - 10thedition Dario Mantovani, chair Law, Culture and Society in Ancient Rome The call for applications for the 10 th edition of the " Introduction aux sources du droit romain " workshop is now open. The workshop will take place from June 15 to 19 2026 at the École française de Rome. The deadline for applications is January 15 , … Published on 9 December 2025
