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Alain Prochiantz
Eye story
Alain Prochiantz
Eye story
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In this part of the lecture, we continued to explore the evolution of the visual system, this time in metazoans. First, we introduced rhabdomeric and ciliary receptors and used this distinction to shed light on an evolutionary point concerning our own …
17:00 to 18:00
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16:30 to 17:30
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17:30 to 18:30
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This part of the lecture led us to discuss the very notion of the nervous system. This was done on the basis of light perception in unicellular organisms. We started from the idea of separating the light stimulus, which depends on photon-sensitive …
17:00 to 18:00
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On September 21, 2017 , Françoise Combes received her award at Gothenburg Physics Centre, Sweden. The award recognizes her innovative approach to extragalactic astronomy. During the award ceremony, Francoise Combes gave a lecture on: " When supermassive …
Published on 28 September 2017
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The 2008-2009 lecture focused on the evolution of the nervous system. It began with theoretical considerations on the concepts of robustness and plasticity. Naturally, questions of evolution were linked to those of development from an Evo/Devo …
17:00 to 18:00
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On September 25 in Paris, Prof. Alain Prochiantz, Administrator of the Collège de France, and his counterpart Prof. Michael Hoch, Rector of the University of Bonn, signed the renewal of the cooperation agreement between their two institutions. …
Published on 26 September 2017
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Defining a language and the role of the discontinuous A. Cutting a continuum into discrete elements: a prerequisite for the existence of a language. Failure of continuum-based systems (noise, glissando). Cultural differentiation by definition of cut. B. …
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Over the last two years of the lecture, I've spent a great deal of time on the problem of theme and thematics, on the relationship of theme to style, form and the needs of development. In the course of history, and following the evolution of language, the …
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Prof. Jean Dalibard with a young researcher in his laboratory at the Collège de France Jean Dalibard, Professor at the Collège de France and researcher at the LKB, received the "BEC Award senior 2017" on September 3, 2017 at the biennial " Bose-Einstein …
Published on 22 September 2017
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First Lévi-Strauss conference organized by L'Homme magazine On October 13, 2017 at 5 p.m., the lecture " Le diable et la vie secrète des nombres, Transformations et traductions en Amazonie" will take place at the Collège de France, organized by La revue …
Published on 22 September 2017
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The Collège de France is delighted to announce the success of two "promising" young researchers who have been awarded grants from the ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant program. - Sophie Carenco, CNRS research fellow, member of the Matériaux …
Published on 21 September 2017
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In partnership with the Collège de France , France Culture, AFP and France Médias Monde, the Institut du Monde Arabe is launching a new event to decipher current affairs. Connected to the flow of information, the Rendez-vous de l'actualité is a moment of …
Published on 21 September 2017
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A Collège de France - CNED coproduction Abstract Human genetics analyzes the contribution of genes to fundamental questions " Where do we come from ? What are we ? Where are we going ? It is also a medical discipline that aims to help prevent or treat …
18:00 to 19:00
Michael Edwards
Study of creative writing in English
Michael Edwards
Study of creative writing in English
Opening lecture
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A Collège de France - CNED coproduction Abstract " As you know, the Chair's guiding project is the study of literary creation. This is the approach that comes spontaneously to me, just as it can come to anyone who, writing poems or prose, is led to wonder …
18:00 to 19:00
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My lecture dealt with the metric aspect of non-commutative geometry. The lecture consisted of two parts. The first is the proof of Theorem I.2. below (see yearly Abstract), which, thanks to the Dixmier trace, allows us to reconstruct the essential …