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Christophe Nihan is invited by the Collège de France Assembly at the suggestion of Professor Thomas Römer. Christophe Nihan …
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Abstract The cutoff phenomenon is an abrupt transition from the non-equilibrium state to the equilibrium state undergone by certain Markov processes in the limit where the number of states tends to infinity. Discovered forty years ago in the context of …
11:15 to 12:30
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Inequalities © Pinclipart Prof. Karl-Oskar Lindgren is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Prof. Philippe Aghion. Karl-Oskar Lindgren Abstract Alexis de Tocqueville once highlighted the love for equality as a defining …
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Claudine Tiercelin New challenges for metaphysics In 2010, Claudine Tiercelin brought metaphysics to the Collège de France. In this book, she clearly and precisely describes the metaphysical approach she has developed. We thought metaphysics was outdated, …
Published on 9 October 2025
Sébastien Lecommandoux
Biomaterials of tomorrow : biomimetic polymers and biohybrids
Sébastien Lecommandoux
Biomaterials of tomorrow : biomimetic polymers and biohybrids
Opening lecture
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Abstract This lesson explores recent advances in the field of biopolymers, in particular biomimetic and biohybrid polymers. Since ancient times, with materials such as rubber and silk, scientists have been striving to understand and imitate natural …
18:00 to 19:00
Frantz Grenet
Introduction (continued). The recent rediscovery of Parthian and Sogdian versification
Frantz Grenet
Introduction (continued). The recent rediscovery of Parthian and Sogdian versification
Lecture
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15:30 to 16:30
Human movement from the origins to the Olympics
Jean-Jacques Hublin, chair Paleoanthropology
Human movement from the origins to the Olympics
Jean-Jacques Hublin, chair Paleoanthropology
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The year of the Olympic Games is an opportunity for France, in addition to its athletes and technologies linked to sport or disability compensation, to promote the existence of a highly interdisciplinary scientific field " Les Sciences du Mouvement ". …
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Simon Gascoin
The contribution of space observations to monitoring snow cover and its impacts
Simon Gascoin
The contribution of space observations to monitoring snow cover and its impacts
Seminar
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Abstract The snowpack that accumulates in the mountains every year is a precious natural water reservoir for humans, retaining winter precipitation and releasing it in spring at the right time to irrigate crops. What's more, the snowpack is a powerful …
11:00 to 12:00
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Abstract Satellite Earth observation began a few years after the launch of the first artificial satellites. The first instruments aboard these satellites were designed for imaging purposes, and were mainly used to visualize cloud systems. Soon, more …
10:00 to 11:00
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Abstract This session explores the question of the universality of science. Even more than natural law or the language of civilization, isn't science at the heart of conceptions of the universal developed in the 18th century ? To understand what is at …
14:30 to 15:30
Nalini Anantharaman
Trace methods, spectral hole of the Laplacian and Friedman-Ramanujan functions
Nalini Anantharaman
Trace methods, spectral hole of the Laplacian and Friedman-Ramanujan functions
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Abstract We begin by demonstrating that, for a random hyperbolic surface of large genus, the spectral hole is close to 1/4, with probability tending towards 1. The "trace method" consists in controlling the spectral hole by the number of large periodic …
10:00 to 12:00
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Round table discussion with Emmanuel Macron , President of the French Republic, and Prof. Mario Draghi , former Italian Prime Minister and President of the European Central Bank, moderated by Philippe Aghion …
15:30 to 16:30
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Speakers Introduction by Thomas Römer , Administrator of Collège de France Presentation by Philippe Aghion (Collège de France, INSEAD, London School of Economics) Presentation by Antonin Bergeaud (HEC Paris, Collège de France Innovation Lab) Presentation …
14:00 to 15:30
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Abstract Context and vocalization make Hebrew one of the most polysemous languages. Readers of the Bible are constantly forced to make trade-offs: they have to accept misunderstandings, or rather misreadings , and the impossibility of a faithful, reliable …
18:00 to 19:00
William Marx
Et in Arcadia ego
William Marx
Et in Arcadia ego
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Abstract In a world that has never seemed so dangerous, why read literature ? Many would say, including Pope Francis : to better understand this world, to better penetrate its reality. This is particularly true when we place ourselves under the realist …
17:00 to 18:00