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Monday, January 16, 2017 Thierry Mandon , Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research, has signed the agreement marking the launch of the program to help welcome scientists in exile. Collège de France becomes the operator of this program and the …
Published on 16 January 2017
Don Zagier
Number theory
Don Zagier
Number theory
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Documents and media Read the excerpt from the opening lecture Télécharger le texte intégral …
18:00 to 19:00
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 …
18:00 to 19:00
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In my opening lecture, I explained how the classical notions of 1) measure theory ; 2) topology of locally compact spaces and 3) de Rham current theory are replaced in the non-commutative case by 1) von Neumann algebras ; 2) C*-algebras ; 3) cyclic …
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 …
18:00 to 19:00
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Published on 3 January 2017
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
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09:00 to 10:00
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13:30 to 14:30
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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17:00 to 18:00
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
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The year's lecture Abstract is not available. …
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The year's lecture Abstract is not available. …
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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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16:00 to 17:00
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 …
18:00 to 19:00
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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17:00 to 18:00
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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 …
17:00 to 18:00
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09:30 to 17:00
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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16:00 to 17:00
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09:30 to 17:00
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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 …
17:00 to 18:00
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
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17:00 to 18:00