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Timothy Gowers
The notion of natural proof and the difficulty of showing that P ≠ NP
Lecture
Event
10:00 to 12:00

Laurent Coulon
Osiris, a god apart ?
Lecture
Event
Abstract The aim of this introductory lecture is to examine the specific place (or otherwise) of Osiris in the Egyptian divine pantheon, from a number of angles. Firstly, we will examine the name Osiris and its origin ; secondly, the " divine identity " …
11:00 to 12:30

New art
Benoît Peeters, chair Artistic creation
Opening lecture
Series

Techniques, Economies and Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean. At the limits of archaeology
Jean-Pierre Brun, chair Techniques and Economies in the Ancient Mediterranean
Lecture
Series
Pompeii, tannery district, 2005. For the academic year 2022-2023, a series of lectures on the themes of the ancient economy will be offered to present, with partner institutions, current research, the most recent archaeological discoveries and the …
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Laurent Thirouin
Pascal, the challenge of honesty
Symposium
Event
17:10 to 18:00

Boris Donné
Pascal, Descartes and the " romans " of thought
Symposium
Event
16:20 to 17:10

Benedetta Papasogli
Creatures without a hymn : Pascal's cirons, flies and ants
Symposium
Event
15:00 to 16:00

Tony Gheeraert
" This mute conglomerate we call nature " (P. Descola). Pascal at the risk of contemporary anthropology
Symposium
Event
14:50 to 15:00

Christophe Litwin
The hatred of truth in Pascal's analysis of the relationship between understanding and will
Symposium
Event
11:50 to 12:40

Jean-Louis Quantin
" So corrupt or ignorant is the Inquisition " : Pascal and Roman censorship
Symposium
Event
11:00 to 11:50

Hélène Michon
Abandonment, hardening, blindness : what kind of God is Pascal's ?
Symposium
Event
09:50 to 10:40

François Jacob Day: Stress Responses
Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB)
Symposium
Series

Jean-Baptiste Guillon
The Pascalian wager : from rationality in a situation of uncertainty to voluntarist irrationalism
Symposium
Event
17:10 to 18:00

Jean-Pierre Cléro
Language games in some Pascalian reasoning
Symposium
Event
16:20 to 17:10

Mikael Cozic
Rationality and hope
Symposium
Event
15:10 to 16:00

Sophie Roux
Crucial experiments and proofs by the absurd
Symposium
Event
14:20 to 15:10

Jean-Pascal Anfray
" Ny substance, ny accident " : the ontological status of space and emptiness
Symposium
Event
11:50 to 12:40

Cyrille Michon
The faith
Symposium
Event
11:00 to 11:50

Laurence Plazenet
Pascal : no story
Symposium
Event
09:50 to 10:40

François Héran
Migration of " Europeans " to the colonies
Lecture
Event
Abstract Settling colonies, exploiting colonies The exclusion (or regeneration) of undesirables Dear Empire or cheap Empire : the question of the balance sheet (economic, demographic, social, …
10:30 to 12:30

Pierre-Louis Lions
Some nonlinear problems of the Krein-Rutman type
Seminar
Event
Abstract Some examples of nonlinear problems in economics will be presented. Unusual results analogous to Krein-Rutman theorems will be …
11:15 to 12:30

Pierre-Louis Lions
Large random matrices and PDEs - II : control and large deviations (1)
Lecture
Event
09:00 to 11:00

Laurent Coulon
The paths open to Egyptology
Opening lecture
Event
Abstract The Civilization of Pharaonic Egypt stretches along the Nile for almost 3 500 years, but its imprint extends far beyond these temporal and geographical limits if we include its formative periods and its influence on neighboring and later …
18:00 to 19:00

Jean-Luc Fournet, Antonio Ricciardetto et Valérie Schram
Workshop Ergaleion 3 : From one meaning to another Polysemy and borrowings in the lexicon of material life in Egypt
Symposium
Event
Ergaleion - Papyrological lexicography of material life Conceived as part of the Ifao program " Realia d'Égypte de l'époque ptolémaïque aux débuts de l'Islam : mots et mobiliers " (dir. P. Ballet, M. Mossakowska, V. Schram), Ergaleion -   Outil de …
09:30 to 17:30