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Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas
Developmental biology and genetics
Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas
Developmental biology and genetics
Opening lecture
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A Collège de France - CNED coproduction Abstract " The study of development occupies a central place in biology. For centuries, observers of nature have been fascinated by the forces that guide the development of an egg into a multicellular organism …
6:00 - 7:00pm
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Published on 3 January 2017
Philippe Descola
Anthropology of nature
Philippe Descola
Anthropology of nature
Opening lecture
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A Collège de France - CNED coproduction Abstract On the face of it, the anthropology of nature is something of an oxymoron, since for several centuries in the West, nature has been characterized by the absence of man, and man by what he has been able to …
6:00 - 7:00pm
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A joint venture between Tel Aviv University and Collège de France, to be led by Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University), Christophe Nicolle (Collège de France) and Thomas Römer (Collège de France). Under the joint direction of Israel Finkelstein (Tel …
Published on 13 December 2016
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The year's lecture Abstract is not available. …
Composition and its various gestures
Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music
Composition and its various gestures
Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music
Lecture
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The year's lecture Abstract is not available. …
Physiology of perception and action
Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and action
Physiology of perception and action
Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and action
Opening lecture
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9:00 - 10:00am
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1:30 - 2:30pm
Michael Friedman
Carnap, Cassirer and Heidegger: the Davos Disputation and twentieth-century Philosophy (2)
Michael Friedman
Carnap, Cassirer and Heidegger: the Davos Disputation and twentieth-century Philosophy (2)
Guest lecturer
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5:00 - 6:00pm
Roger Guesnerie
Economic theory and social organization
Roger Guesnerie
Economic theory and social organization
Opening lecture
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A Collège de France - CNED coproduction Abstract " Economic science focuses on the creation of material wealth, a field where "action is not always the sister of dreams", to quote the poet once more. It is part of a disenchantment of the world, the kind …
6:00 - 7:00pm
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4:00 - 5:00pm
Michael Friedman
Carnap, Cassirer and Heidegger: the Davos Disputation and twentieth-century Philosophy (1)
Michael Friedman
Carnap, Cassirer and Heidegger: the Davos Disputation and twentieth-century Philosophy (1)
Guest lecturer
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5:00 - 6:00pm
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In the second lesson, we examined how electron fluid screens the charge of individual electrons and arrived at the notion of quasi-particles, low-energy fermionic excitations of electron fluid that obey the Pauli exclusion principle and carry a transverse …
5:00 - 6:00pm
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9:30am - 5:00pm
Peter Stang
Nanoscale molecular architecture: design and self-assembly of metallocyclic polygons and polyhedra via coordination
Peter Stang
Nanoscale molecular architecture: design and self-assembly of metallocyclic polygons and polyhedra via coordination
Guest lecturer
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4:00 - 5:00pm
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9:30am - 5:00pm
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Abstract The first lesson began with a reminder of the difference between universal constants, such as the quantum of action (Planck's constant) and the quantum of charge, and microscopic constants, such as the mass of the electron and proton. We also …
5:00 - 6:00pm
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Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) Professor at the Collège de France from 1978 to 1995, Pierre Boulez passed away on January 5, 2016 in Baden-Baden. He was an immense composer, conductor and researcher, who was directly responsible for many aspects of modern …
Published on 27 November 2016
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Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) Born in Tours on June 24, 1923, Yves Bonnefoy died in Paris on July 1st, 2016. From 1981 to 1993, he held the chair of Études comparées de la fonction poétique at the Collège de France; his lectures were published in the volume …
Published on 27 November 2016
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A Collège de France - CNED coproduction Abstract " This brief exchange is part of the golden legend of our discipline. It took place, seventy-eight years ago in one month's time, on the afternoon of Sunday, November 26 1922, on one of those luminous …
6:00 - 7:00pm
Michael Friedman
Carnap, Cassirer and Heidegger: the Davos Disputation and twentieth-century Philosophy (4)
Michael Friedman
Carnap, Cassirer and Heidegger: the Davos Disputation and twentieth-century Philosophy (4)
Guest lecturer
Event
5:00 - 6:00pm