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Abstract The case of Habdu-malik is interesting, as this " prime minister " (SUKKAL), being mostly close to the king, left few letters and remains rather poorly known. Fortunately, this is not the case for the " ministers of the economy " (šandabakkum ), …

Abstract Good sleep is essential for efficient learning. It allows us to be available at the moment of encoding, but it is also crucial after learning to allow memory traces to consolidate. This sleep-dependent memory consolidation depends on specific …

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Abstract In this talk, I will review how the concepts of optimal transport can be applied to analyze different machine learning methods, in particular for sampling and training neural networks. The focus will be on the use of optimal transport to study …

Abstract Hero that he is, Ulysses resists the sirens' songs and asks to be tied to the ship's mast. The son of Laërte is determined not to take part in what attracts his crew. To do so would mean the end of the voyage. Likewise, the poet fiercely resists …

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Abstract This lecture will present the concept of war in ancient Israel, in Near Eastern inscriptions and in biblical texts. We will see that the ideology of war is not necessarily opposed to peace, but often presented as a means of restoring order. The …

Abstract The first lecture will give an overview over the problem of estimating the maximum possible size of a three-term progression free subset of F_p^n for a fixed prime p and large n, as well as over the analogous problem in {1,...,N}. More …

Abstract The "   République universelle   " was one of the slogans of February 1848 , calling for solidarity with the uprisings of European peoples. By following the iconographic program of citizen Goldsmid, Victor Hugo's rallying to the Republic, the …

Abstract During the Hellenistic period, which seems so ancient yet so modern, Jewish authors explored ways in which Jewish tradition and Greek thought converged. This was also the period when the history of Jewish philosophy began. For Philo of Alexandria …

Abstract At the turn of the 20th century, the notion of literature as a pastime seemed to fade in favor of a restorative and therapeutic one. After formalism, literature regained a form of transitivity through the desire to bond and heal. The therapeutic …

Abstract The Guerchin's Et in Arcadia ego can be transposed as a list of signs constituting the words of a sentence, in the tradition of Ripa's emblems: an element represents an abstract idea, and the elements are brought together in a composition by …

Elyamine Settoul: "Jihadism and radicalization" Nadia Fadil: "A critical look at deradicalization programs" …

Abstract An analysis of transvestism and transidentity in Le Roman de Silence and other literary texts from the 13th and 14th   centuries , as well as the few examples of gender reassignment in medieval hagiography, suggests that in Christian …

Abstract from Colin Bonduelle's talk From Natural Proteins to Polymer Synthesis Proteins are natural polymers that possess unique features that are not found in their synthetic counterparts. These include chemical diversity, hierarchical structure, …

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Abstract In "Intention and Convention in Speech Acts", Strawson influentially argued for a distinction between essentially conventional acts and communicative acts: conventional acts rely on extralinguistic conventions for their successful execution; …

Abstract According to the "véhicularist" perspective, two co-referential concepts are the same concept if and only if the vehicle (the thin mental file) is the same. The conception (the content of the concept) may vary, but this does not affect the …

Abstract Zimri-Lim's private secretary, Šunuhra-Halu, is well known to us: it was he who read to the sovereign the mail from the kingdom's officials, and wrote the letters the monarch sent in reply. The title of another close relative of the king, named …