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Thinking differently about life
Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo, chair Biodiversity and ecosystems
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Mosquito , Olivier Leblois, watercolor, 2022. The living world is fascinating. Its complexity surpasses that of the most sophisticated machines invented by humans and that of physical material objects. Faced with the major challenges of the 21st century, …
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Sophie Ramond
How and why do the biblical Psalms speak of the origins of ?
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Documents and media Download example Download support …
15:30 to 16:30

Frantz Grenet
Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (continued). 2) New archaeological data on Sogdian oases (9)
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15:30 to 16:30

Thomas Römer
" Human wickedness multiplied on the earth... " - The reasons for the flood and how it began (Gn 6-7)
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Abstract Why did Yhwh decide to destroy his creation, and how did he go about it  ? The intertwining of two   different accounts of the flood in Gn   6-7 provides several answers to these questions. Documents and media Download …
14:00 to 15:00

John McNeill
The Great Acceleration and the Anthropocene
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Abstract This lecture will review two concepts that now feature prominently in environmental histories of the modern world and in global change science: The Great Acceleration and the Anthropocene. It will present evidence, drawn mainly from …
11:15 to 12:15

Kyle Harper
Climate and social tipping points
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Abstract The physical climate is a complex system. Because of the feedbacks that can stabilize or destabilize the climate, change is not linear. Human societies are also complex systems, and history can help us describe the possible tipping points that …
10:00 to 11:00

Jean-Luc Fournet
Schools in monasteries (8)
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Lecture plan 2.3. and the papyri  Exercises delivered by monasteries (continued) 2.3.2. The case of the Epiphanius monastery 2.3.2.1. A teacher in …
11:00 to 12:00

Dario Mantovani
Are we the same as last week ? The body as a tool of legal argument
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Abstract To tackle a legal problem, you first need concepts to make it manageable, then solve it in the light of value criteria deemed preferable. The jurist P. Alfenus Varus, consul in 39 BC and a leading figure on the Roman political and cultural scene, …
14:30 to 15:30

Patrick Boucheron
" No people has ever loved its kings so much " (14th-15th centuries)
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Abstract In the foreword to his Histoire de la Révolution française , Michelet evokes this "   singular trait of France   ", whose people would only have understood politics "   as devotion and love   ". As late as the end of the 20th   century, the …
11:00 to 12:00

International law on the move
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, chair Avenir Commun Durable
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The Senegal River. …
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Sonia Garel
Early neuronal activity in the assembly of cortical circuits (I)
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Abstract The third and fourth lectures will focus on the role of activity in the construction of cortical circuits, from the maturation and migration of different populations of neurons, the roles of transient neurons and circuits, to the integration and …
16:00 to 18:00

Claudine Tiercelin
Skepticism and knowledge (continued) (6)
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14:00 to 16:00

Piet Lammers
The Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition at the critical point (3)
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14:00 to 16:00

Dominique Charpin
A public law ? (2) The beginnings of international law. Conclusion
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11:00 to 12:00

Louis Fensterbank
Chain reactions
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09:30 to 11:00

Thinking differently about life
Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo, chair Biodiversity and ecosystems
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Edith Heard
Examples of environmental impacts on the plant kingdom
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Abstract Examples of environmental impacts on the plant kingdom. Documents and media Download support …
10:00 to 12:30

Fluid transport at nanometric scales, from emerging laws to innovation
Lydéric Bocquet, chair Technological innovation Liliane Bettencourt
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Molecular fluid mechanics - A field of innovation for water and energy
Lydéric Bocquet, chair Technological innovation Liliane Bettencourt
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This lecture describes the latest advances in the emerging field of nanofluidics, the science of molecular flows, which explores fluid flow and transport at nanometric scales. This world of infinitely small fluidics is the frontier where the continuum of …
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Korshi Dosoo
Magician training
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Abstract The magic papyri of Late Antiquity preserve few traces of their social context. Yet careful study can reveal valuable information about the individuals who composed and copied them. In this seminar, we propose to discuss accounts of the education …
15:30 to 17:00

Three-dimensional (3-D) insertion compounds for batteries : structure-electrochemistry relationships and shaping
Jean-Marie Tarascon, chair Chemistry of Materials and Energy
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Three-dimensional (3-D) insertion compounds for batteries : structure-electrochemistry relationships and shaping
Jean-Marie Tarascon, chair Chemistry of Materials and Energy
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Thanks to its high energy density and attractive cost-performance ratio, Li-ion technology is emerging as the electrochemical system of choice for electric mobility and grid applications, with market projections that are quite staggering (>3000 GWh in …
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Pierre-Michel Menger
Fertility, education and parental investment. The question of educational homogamy
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10:00 to 12:00

Nicoletta Tchou
Lagrangian formulation of mean-field games : two examples
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Abstract We study the existence of relaxed equilibria for finite-horizon deterministic mean-field games. These relaxed equilibria are probability measures on trajectories. Closed-graph properties play a major role in proving their existence. Two   cases …
11:15 to 12:30