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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 …
10:00 to 11:30
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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 …
11:00 to 12:00
New frontiers in radical chemistry
Louis Fensterbank, chair Activations in Molecular Chemistry
New frontiers in radical chemistry
Louis Fensterbank, chair Activations in Molecular Chemistry
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The " New Frontiers in Radical Chemistry " symposium concludes the first cycle of lectures in radical chemistry, mainly devoted to the fundamentals of the field and its evolution in the context of green chemistry, and in particular to the …
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Vincent Van Gogh, Round of Prisoners , Pushkin Museum During the last decades of the twentieth century, most Western countries have experienced a considerable increase in their prison populations, with no direct link to trends in crime. This « punitive …
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Abstract Sleep is accompanied by an inert state which does not prevent the brain from continuing to process sensory information from the environment and internal representations in memory circuits. We will discuss the types of processing that can and …
11:00 to 12:30
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Abstract During the first part of the event, some winners of the 2024 Challenges presented their algorithms as well as the results that achieved the highest scores. An awards ceremony was held for the winners of the other challenges, followed by a …
11:15 to 12:30
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Abstract Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) require the calculation of a saddle point through a sequence of minimization and maximization steps, which leads to numerical instabilities. Numerous numerical variants have been developed, but these …
09:30 to 11:00
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Abstract After a brief look back at the Egyptian Expedition and the notion of Orientalism, this session explores the emergence of French cultural imperialism under Napoleon, showing how the universalist, civilizing ideals of the Enlightenment were …
14:30 to 15:30
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Abstract A translation surface is a Riemann surface with a holomorphic differential. This differential defines a flat metric (outside the singular locus) whose holonomy is trivial. I will explain how the counting of long geodesics on a generic translation …
09:30 to 10:20
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Human languages allow the creation of an unlimited number of messages. Syntactic Combinatorics is at the root of this remarkable property. Through the recursive application of simple Combinatorics rules (perhaps just one very general rule ! ), we can …
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Abstract When Barthes asserts that we must not emotionally adhere to fiction in order to maintain objectivity, he is reactivating a questioning that goes back to the Greek tragedies. But the reader's inner experience is ambivalent: awareness of the …
18:00 to 19:00
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Abstract The extravagant readings of Poussin's Shepherds of Arcadia may serve to define what a good reading should be. To read well, unlike certain Kabbalistic decodings, we must neither eliminate the surface of the work nor disengage ourselves from its …
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Abstract In this lecture, Laurent Billon will introduce the concepts of biomimicry and bio-inspiration for materials. These concepts will then be explained through examples of his research on microgels inspired by marine sponges, which led to the creation …
11:00 to 12:00
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Plant-pollinator interactions, which play a central role in the functioning of all ecosystems, including in farmland, are likely to be greatly altered by global change, but these changes remain poorly understood because they are often studied in …
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Abstract The talk deals with a type of random geometry which combines convex and integral geometry together with probability theory and specifically the notion of point processes. In general, it consists in starting with a discrete set of random points in …
10:00 to 10:50