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The Power of Peace in Europe
Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions
The Power of Peace in Europe
Samantha Besson, chair International Law of Institutions
Guest lecturer
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Ukraine, monotype. Stella Ghervas has been invited by the Collège de France assembly, at the suggestion of Profs Samantha Besson, Edith Heard, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge and Thomas Römer. Stella Ghervas This series of four lectures is part of the Collège …
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Mathematical Models of Active Matter
Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics
Mathematical Models of Active Matter
Jean-François Joanny, chair Soft Matter and Biophysics
Guest lecturer
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Leonid Berlyand is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Pr Jean-François Joanny. Leonid Berlyand Active matter systems are a novel class of out-of-equilibrium systems consisting of agents that consume energy locally. The scales …
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Mangrove 3, (detail), Miquel Barceló, 2021. …
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As a witness to the contemporary history of Việt Nam and a historian, I invite you to revisit Vietnamese history from a new angle, that of the history of women. Vietnamese women have always played an important role in myths and legends, folklore, written …
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Borromean rings. They are intertwined so that they can all separate as soon as one of them is cut. r. Tan Davis / Flickr …
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Merit and " meritocracy " (continued)
Pierre-Michel Menger, chair Sociology of Creative Work
Merit and " meritocracy " (continued)
Pierre-Michel Menger, chair Sociology of Creative Work
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Wordcloud illustration of meritocracy …
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Borromean rings. They are intertwined so that they can all separate as soon as one of them is cut. r. Tan Davis / Flickr Since Newton's work, the three-body problem has fascinated generations of physicists and mathematicians. In quantum physics, a …
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Balanced binary tree. The efficiency of software depends very much on the way it organizes the data it manipulates into algorithmically efficient structures. Most data structures known today are transient : updates to the structure are made by …
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Harold E. Varmus
How Do Scientific Discoveries Affect the Way We Live? How Studies of a Chicken Virus Changed Cancer Therapy
Harold E. Varmus
How Do Scientific Discoveries Affect the Way We Live? How Studies of a Chicken Virus Changed Cancer Therapy
Guest lecturer
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Abstract The main theme of the second lecture concerns the way in which fundamental biological research (as an example, my own work to identify and characterize the genes that produce cancers in animals) can produce important benefits for society (e.g., …
17:00 to 18:00
Jessica Fintzen
Representations of p-adic Groups (2)
Jessica Fintzen
Representations of p-adic Groups (2)
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Abstract The second lecture will provide an introduction to the Bruhat-Tits theory and Moy-Prasad filtration, which play an essential role in the construction and study of representations of p-adic groups. (The second lecture is mostly independent of the …
10:00 to 12:00
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Aqueduct, Rome. The seminar will focus on Ulpian's De officio proconsulis (On the Duties of the Proconsul ), a kind of guidebook that envisaged the Roman governor's mandate from his arrival in the province to his departure. Reading Ulpian's treatise …
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Aqueduct, Rome. Cicero observed that " by the work of our hands, we try to create, in nature, like a second nature ". Drawing on the legal, literary and philosophical history of Antiquity, this year's lecture explores the resources and limits of the …
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The Fall of Man (detail), Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, 1592. …
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Masanori Tsukamoto
Dream research in Valéry, Proust and Myōe
Masanori Tsukamoto
Dream research in Valéry, Proust and Myōe
Guest lecturer
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Masanori Tsukamoto is invited by the Collège de France assembly, at the suggestion of Prof. William Marx. Documents and media Download the conference poster Abstract Both Proust and Paul Valéry establish a link between writing and sleep. In neither case …
17:00 to 18:00
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13:10 to 13:40
Philippe Sansonetti
Urban Epidemic Risk at the Time of Anthropocene and Climate Change
Philippe Sansonetti
Urban Epidemic Risk at the Time of Anthropocene and Climate Change
Special events
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Abstract As the world's population grows, so does the rate of urbanisation. The megacities that are emerging (20 cities with more than 15 million inhabitants, half of them in the south) combine numerous vulnerabilities to the risk of epidemics (or …
12:10 to 12:30
Chris Bowler
The Climate Biodiversity Nexus in the Ocean
Chris Bowler
The Climate Biodiversity Nexus in the Ocean
Special events
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Abstract Marine ecosystems play a crucial role in supporting societal needs and human well-being by providing resources like food, carbon storage, coastal protection, and recreational opportunities. However, the impact of climate change on marine …
11:50 to 12:10
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11:30 to 11:50