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Michel Devoret
Introduction to mesoscopic physics : electrons and photons (1)
Lecture
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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)
Guest lecturer
Event
17:00 to 18:00

Nicolas Grimal
Pharaonic civilization : Archaeology, Philology, History
Opening lecture
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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 …
18:00 to 19:00

Gérard Fussman
Reading Sanskrit inscriptions from the Gupta period (3)
Seminar
Event
15:00 to 16:00

Michael Friedman
Carnap, Cassirer and Heidegger: the Davos Disputation and twentieth-century Philosophy (3)
Guest lecturer
Event
17:00 to 18:00

Gérard Fussman
Reading Sanskrit inscriptions from the Gupta period (2)
Seminar
Event
15:00 to 16:00

Tribute to Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez, chair Invention, technique and language in music
News
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

Tribute to Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy, chair Comparative studies of the poetic function
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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

Gérard Fussman
Reading Sanskrit inscriptions from the Gupta period (1)
Seminar
Event
15:00 to 16:00

Michel Devoret
From atoms to quantum machines
Opening lecture
Event
Abstract Because of their large number of atoms, macroscopic systems can easily be assembled from independent parts, like clocks and their cogs. Quantum systems, on the other hand, have properties that make them naturally regular and resistant to noise, …
18:00 to 19:00

Denis Knoepfler
Reading of Boeotian inscriptions relevant to the course
Seminar
Event
11:00 to 12:00

The end of utopia and the return of melancholy. A look at the intellectuals of an old continent
Wolf Lepenies, chair European Chair (1989-2008)
Opening lecture
Series

From Jansenism to modernism : The Auctorem fidei Bull (1794), pivot of the Roman magisterium ?
Republic of Knowledge : Letters, Sciences, Philosophy
News
Colloquium November 24-25, 2016 at ENS Placed between the Constitution civile du clergé and the Concordat, Auctorem fidei had all the palette needed to color the twilight of the Jansenist quarrel, to give it its "fin de siècle" aspect. Even if one defends …
Published on 24 November 2016

Anne Porter
Since when are there Amorrites ?
Guest lecturer
Event
11:00 to 12:00

Francisco Rico
The Spanish novel and the history of the novel (2)
Guest lecturer
Event
17:00 to 18:00

Francisco Rico
The Spanish novel and the history of the novel (1)
Guest lecturer
Event
17:00 to 18:00

Andrew Majda
Mathematical Strategies for Multi-Scale and Stochastic Modelling in Atmosphere/Ocean Science (4)
Guest lecturer
Event
09:30 to 10:30

Anne Porter
Political practices of pastoralists
Guest lecturer
Event
11:00 to 12:00

Anne Porter
Wool, writing and religion : the role of pastoralism in Urukean expansion
Guest lecturer
Event
11:00 to 12:00

Andrew Majda
Mathematical Strategies for Multi-Scale and Stochastic Modelling in Atmosphere/Ocean Science (3)
Guest lecturer
Event
09:30 to 10:30

Filippo M. Rijli
Nervous system development in vertebrates and development of the sensory Homunculus and hox genes
Guest lecturer
Event
16:00 to 17:00

Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas
Biology and Society (3)
Seminar
Event
14:00 to 15:00

Andrew Majda
Mathematical Strategies for Multi-Scale and Stochastic Modelling in Atmosphere/Ocean Science (2)
Guest lecturer
Event
09:30 to 10:30

Anne Porter
The real dimension of nomadism
Guest lecturer
Event
11:00 to 12:00