Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 28122 results Filters Content type Content type Lessons (24007) News (1735) People (1371) Chair (360) Editions (360) Page (230) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Event Anouch Bourmayan Affect in language : an undervalued dimension ? Seminar Abstract Largely neglected in the course of the 20th century, affect was gradually rehabilitated towards the end of the century by certain works in psychology : Zajonc (1980, 2000) in particular defends the idea that affect can intervene in the … 18 Mar 2024 11:30 to 13:00 Event François Recanati Strength and content Lecture Abstract The thesis that the content of judgment is constituted by the mental act of attributing to something (the subject) a property (the predicate) runs up against two objections. The first is the putative existence of simple (one-term) judgment … 18 Mar 2024 10:00 to 11:30 Series Vietnamese women : creativity and commitment Phượng Bùi Trân, chair French-speaking worlds Symposium The symposium " Vietnamese women : creativity and commitment " features Vietnamese women from several generations. What these women have in common is their commitment to the values they have each chosen to stand up for. Some have participated in wars and … 08 Jun 2023 Event Edith Heard Examples of environmental impacts on the animal kingdom Lecture Abstract Examples of environmental impacts on the animal kingdom. Documents and media Download support … 18 Mar 2024 10:00 to 12:30 Series Reading IPCC reports to understand the world ahead - An introduction to societal issues between science, utopia and reality Avenir Commun Durable Special events Since 1988, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (or IPCC) has been regularly publishing thick reports, ranging in size from two thousand to three thousand pages, presenting the state of knowledge on climate change, its causes and impacts, and … 29 Mar 2023 → 01 Jun 2023 Event Anne Boud’hors School Ostraca from the Theban region Seminar Abstract The region known as theban (Upper Egypt), populated by monastic establishments of various types, has yielded thousands of texts written on pottery shards or limestone chips, mostly in Coptic ( 6th-8th centuries). School texts are far from being … 14 Mar 2024 15:30 to 17:00 News Type theory, from Russell to demonstration assistants Thierry Coquand, chair Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Thierry Coquand, invited to hold the Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Annual Chair , will give his opening lecture on March 13 2025. Documents and media Download the press release Read the article "Building mathematical … Published on 27 February 2025 Series New paths for comics Benoît Peeters, chair Artistic creation Symposium Catherine Meurisse, drawing from La jeune femme et la mer. The aim of this symposium is to take stock of comics in the French-speaking world, from a variety of angles. Of course, we'll be looking at the aesthetic dimension, evoking poetry comics, the … 07 Jun 2023 News Justine Lacroix at the Brussels Book Fair Publications On the occasion of the 2025 edition of the Brussels Book Fair, Justine Lacroix will take part in a debate organized by the festival and the European Parliament Liaison Office in Belgium, on the theme of " L'Europe face à ses défis : comment renforcer la … Published on 27 February 2025 Event Pierre-Michel Menger Women and educational growth. Changing family structures - couples and single-parent families. What impact does this have on children's success at school? Lecture 15 Mar 2024 10:00 to 12:00 Event Aline Lefebvre-Lepot Contacts and lubrication : numerical schemes based on convex optimization problems Seminar Abstract This presentation focuses on the numerical simulation of granular materials and suspensions. Contacts between grains lead to singular interactions for which adapted numerical schemes must be developed. We take as our starting point models of the … 15 Mar 2024 11:15 to 12:30 Event Rudolf Grimm Ultracold Fermion Mixtures with Tunable Interactions: Polarons and the Quest for Novel Superfluids Seminar Abstract The possibility to tune interatomic interactions by means of magnetically controlled Feshbach resonances has opened up unprecedented opportunities for experiments concerning the intriguing many-body physics of ultracold matter in the strongly … 15 Mar 2024 11:15 to 12:30 Event Jean Dalibard The excitation spectrum and its roton-maxon structure Lecture 15 Mar 2024 09:30 to 11:00 Event Christophe Hitte Natural selection and artificial selection : two forces that have shaped the dog Seminar Abstract Dogs were once wild wolves who came closer to humans to take advantage of the benefits of living in a community. This natural selection led to the creation of domestic dogs over 15 000 years ago. Over the millennia, humans have selected those … 15 Mar 2024 15:30 to 17:00 Event Lluis Quintana-Murci Can we adapt biologically to extreme environments ? Lecture Abstract Some of the most extreme environments in which humans are found include the cold, barren climates of the Arctic, the hot, humid regions of tropical forests, and life at high altitude, whether in the Himalayas or the Andes, where the amount of … 15 Mar 2024 14:00 to 15:30 Event Olivier Beaud The legal challenge of academic freedom Seminar Abstract Academic freedom is not a legal concept, nor is it easily grasped by the law. It is even sometimes distorted by the law when the latter seeks to protect it through the principle of free expression (ECHR law) or Free Speech ( 1st Amendment in the … 14 Mar 2024 14:30 to 16:00 Event Samantha Besson Appropriate science for the international public good of science Lecture 14 Mar 2024 10:00 to 11:30 Event Piet Lammers The Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition at the critical point (2) Guest lecturer 31 Jan 2024 14:00 to 16:00 Event Corinne Lanoir The origins of women in Genesis Seminar Documents and media Download support … 14 Mar 2024 15:30 to 16:30 Event Frantz Grenet Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (continued). 2) New archaeological data on Sogdian oases (7) Lecture 14 Mar 2024 15:30 to 16:30 Event Thomas Römer " Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him... " - The origin of violence (Gn 4) Lecture Abstract Gn 4 describes humanity's first murder, that of Abel by his own brother Cain. Where does human violence come from, and how can it be curbed ? Documents and media Download … 14 Mar 2024 14:00 to 15:00 Event Joseph Manning Climate and Historical Change during the Holocene. How Does Paleoclimatology Change Historical Work? Seminar Abstract This lecture will explore a simple question: Does the historical human experience of climate change since the last Ice Age matter to us now as we confront the very pressing problems raised by an unprecedented rate of change in a rapidly warming … 14 Mar 2024 11:15 to 12:15 Event Kyle Harper Climate change and conflict in history Lecture Abstract The most significant impacts of natural climate in human history have been influenced by human factors. The link between climate and conflict is one of the main possible mechanisms of … 14 Mar 2024 10:00 to 11:00 Event Daan Leijen Design and Compilation of Efficient Effect Handlers in the Koka Language Seminar Abstract Koka is a strict functional language with full algebraic effect handlers and rich effect typing. The Koka compiler also uses compiler guided reference counting and compiles directly to C code without needing a garbage collector or runtime system. … 14 Mar 2024 11:15 to 12:15 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 197 Page 198 Page 199 Page 200 Page 201 Page 202 Page 203 Page 204 Page 205 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Anouch Bourmayan Affect in language : an undervalued dimension ? Seminar Abstract Largely neglected in the course of the 20th century, affect was gradually rehabilitated towards the end of the century by certain works in psychology : Zajonc (1980, 2000) in particular defends the idea that affect can intervene in the … 18 Mar 2024 11:30 to 13:00
Event François Recanati Strength and content Lecture Abstract The thesis that the content of judgment is constituted by the mental act of attributing to something (the subject) a property (the predicate) runs up against two objections. The first is the putative existence of simple (one-term) judgment … 18 Mar 2024 10:00 to 11:30
Series Vietnamese women : creativity and commitment Phượng Bùi Trân, chair French-speaking worlds Symposium The symposium " Vietnamese women : creativity and commitment " features Vietnamese women from several generations. What these women have in common is their commitment to the values they have each chosen to stand up for. Some have participated in wars and … 08 Jun 2023
Event Edith Heard Examples of environmental impacts on the animal kingdom Lecture Abstract Examples of environmental impacts on the animal kingdom. Documents and media Download support … 18 Mar 2024 10:00 to 12:30
Series Reading IPCC reports to understand the world ahead - An introduction to societal issues between science, utopia and reality Avenir Commun Durable Special events Since 1988, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (or IPCC) has been regularly publishing thick reports, ranging in size from two thousand to three thousand pages, presenting the state of knowledge on climate change, its causes and impacts, and … 29 Mar 2023 → 01 Jun 2023
Event Anne Boud’hors School Ostraca from the Theban region Seminar Abstract The region known as theban (Upper Egypt), populated by monastic establishments of various types, has yielded thousands of texts written on pottery shards or limestone chips, mostly in Coptic ( 6th-8th centuries). School texts are far from being … 14 Mar 2024 15:30 to 17:00
News Type theory, from Russell to demonstration assistants Thierry Coquand, chair Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Thierry Coquand, invited to hold the Computer Sciences and Digital Technologies Annual Chair , will give his opening lecture on March 13 2025. Documents and media Download the press release Read the article "Building mathematical … Published on 27 February 2025
Series New paths for comics Benoît Peeters, chair Artistic creation Symposium Catherine Meurisse, drawing from La jeune femme et la mer. The aim of this symposium is to take stock of comics in the French-speaking world, from a variety of angles. Of course, we'll be looking at the aesthetic dimension, evoking poetry comics, the … 07 Jun 2023
News Justine Lacroix at the Brussels Book Fair Publications On the occasion of the 2025 edition of the Brussels Book Fair, Justine Lacroix will take part in a debate organized by the festival and the European Parliament Liaison Office in Belgium, on the theme of " L'Europe face à ses défis : comment renforcer la … Published on 27 February 2025
Event Pierre-Michel Menger Women and educational growth. Changing family structures - couples and single-parent families. What impact does this have on children's success at school? Lecture 15 Mar 2024 10:00 to 12:00
Event Aline Lefebvre-Lepot Contacts and lubrication : numerical schemes based on convex optimization problems Seminar Abstract This presentation focuses on the numerical simulation of granular materials and suspensions. Contacts between grains lead to singular interactions for which adapted numerical schemes must be developed. We take as our starting point models of the … 15 Mar 2024 11:15 to 12:30
Event Rudolf Grimm Ultracold Fermion Mixtures with Tunable Interactions: Polarons and the Quest for Novel Superfluids Seminar Abstract The possibility to tune interatomic interactions by means of magnetically controlled Feshbach resonances has opened up unprecedented opportunities for experiments concerning the intriguing many-body physics of ultracold matter in the strongly … 15 Mar 2024 11:15 to 12:30
Event Jean Dalibard The excitation spectrum and its roton-maxon structure Lecture 15 Mar 2024 09:30 to 11:00
Event Christophe Hitte Natural selection and artificial selection : two forces that have shaped the dog Seminar Abstract Dogs were once wild wolves who came closer to humans to take advantage of the benefits of living in a community. This natural selection led to the creation of domestic dogs over 15 000 years ago. Over the millennia, humans have selected those … 15 Mar 2024 15:30 to 17:00
Event Lluis Quintana-Murci Can we adapt biologically to extreme environments ? Lecture Abstract Some of the most extreme environments in which humans are found include the cold, barren climates of the Arctic, the hot, humid regions of tropical forests, and life at high altitude, whether in the Himalayas or the Andes, where the amount of … 15 Mar 2024 14:00 to 15:30
Event Olivier Beaud The legal challenge of academic freedom Seminar Abstract Academic freedom is not a legal concept, nor is it easily grasped by the law. It is even sometimes distorted by the law when the latter seeks to protect it through the principle of free expression (ECHR law) or Free Speech ( 1st Amendment in the … 14 Mar 2024 14:30 to 16:00
Event Samantha Besson Appropriate science for the international public good of science Lecture 14 Mar 2024 10:00 to 11:30
Event Piet Lammers The Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition at the critical point (2) Guest lecturer 31 Jan 2024 14:00 to 16:00
Event Corinne Lanoir The origins of women in Genesis Seminar Documents and media Download support … 14 Mar 2024 15:30 to 16:30
Event Frantz Grenet Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (continued). 2) New archaeological data on Sogdian oases (7) Lecture 14 Mar 2024 15:30 to 16:30
Event Thomas Römer " Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him... " - The origin of violence (Gn 4) Lecture Abstract Gn 4 describes humanity's first murder, that of Abel by his own brother Cain. Where does human violence come from, and how can it be curbed ? Documents and media Download … 14 Mar 2024 14:00 to 15:00
Event Joseph Manning Climate and Historical Change during the Holocene. How Does Paleoclimatology Change Historical Work? Seminar Abstract This lecture will explore a simple question: Does the historical human experience of climate change since the last Ice Age matter to us now as we confront the very pressing problems raised by an unprecedented rate of change in a rapidly warming … 14 Mar 2024 11:15 to 12:15
Event Kyle Harper Climate change and conflict in history Lecture Abstract The most significant impacts of natural climate in human history have been influenced by human factors. The link between climate and conflict is one of the main possible mechanisms of … 14 Mar 2024 10:00 to 11:00
Event Daan Leijen Design and Compilation of Efficient Effect Handlers in the Koka Language Seminar Abstract Koka is a strict functional language with full algebraic effect handlers and rich effect typing. The Koka compiler also uses compiler guided reference counting and compiles directly to C code without needing a garbage collector or runtime system. … 14 Mar 2024 11:15 to 12:15
