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Patrick Boucheron
Metropolization: how great cities have thought of and built their future
Patrick Boucheron
Metropolization: how great cities have thought of and built their future
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09:30 to 10:00
Enlightenment news
Antoine Lilti, chair History of the Enlightenment, 18th-21st century
Enlightenment news
Antoine Lilti, chair History of the Enlightenment, 18th-21st century
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Transport is essential to us today, whether it's to get to work, to go on vacation or to transport the goods we consume every day. Proof of its importance is that it currently accounts for over 25 % of our CO 2 emissions (in France). They therefore make a …
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Since 2024, the " Chaire d'excellence en biologie/santé " scheme has aimed to support the work of highly talented researchers in France. Sonia Garel, Professor at Neurobiology and the Immune System , has been awarded the 2025 prize for her project …
Published on 23 July 2025
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Abstract In this seminar, I will present how the study of plant-pollinator communities benefits from interaction network approaches. These approaches, which integrate both all the species making up the communities and the interactions that link these …
15:30 to 16:30
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Abstract As with all living things, plant-pollinator interactions are not just two-by-two exchanges, but form part of the planet's living fabric, in the form of interaction networks that link almost all species to one another, from close to close, in an …
14:30 to 15:30
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Abstract The usual semi-classical correspondence (called quantum-classical) shows that the fixed-time evolution of wave packets by a wave equation reveals the geodesic flow in the small-wavelength limit λ → 0. This geodesic flow is determined by the …
15:30 to 16:30
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Abstract In these last two lectures, we are interested in models of random (q+1)-regular graphs with N vertices. We study the spectral hole of the adjacency matrix, in the limit where N tends to infinity. We present a result due to Joel Friedman, and …
14:00 to 15:15
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Abstract Mutual understanding during a conversation is an extremely fast and efficient process : we can process three words per second, often more. However, this observation is not consistent with laboratory experiments showing that processing a single …
11:00 to 12:00
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Abstract Conversational agents, chatbots and large language models : from Eliza to ChatGPT and ChatLLAMA. How have very large conversational models been trained ? What are their limits, ethical issues, uses and …
10:00 to 11:00
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Abstract Animals behave flexibly, seamlessly generalizing knowledge between apparently different scenarios. This is the hallmark of intelligence. To do this, representations and computations in the brain must also be flexible and generalise. In this talk …
11:00 to 12:30
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Children's Drawings and Geometric Universals: How to Explain Them? Abstract In addition to examining the transcultural diversity of geometric signs, across cultures as well as history, the analysis of children's drawings provides a third route to the …
09:30 to 11:00
Referential Dependence in Language and Mind
François Recanati, chair Philosophy of Language and Mind
Referential Dependence in Language and Mind
François Recanati, chair Philosophy of Language and Mind
Guest lecturer
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Bazari arari Hans Kamp is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Prof. François Recanati . Hans Kamp Presentation Lectures are in English. Much that we want to say to others, or express for the clarification of our own minds, is …
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Kyle Harper
Climate change and social dynamics : historical perspectives on the great challenge
Kyle Harper
Climate change and social dynamics : historical perspectives on the great challenge
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Abstract Driven by the challenge of anthropogenic climate change, the reconstruction of the Holocene climate has provided historians and archaeologists with new insights into the human past. We are learning that the instability of the Earth system has …
18:00 to 19:00
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Abstract Poor countries raise relatively few taxes, and this limits their ability to take action to help their populations. How are tax revenues distributed ? How can these countries increase their fiscal …
14:00 to 16:00
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Abstract The second lecture looked at control structures on a larger scale than the commands (statements ) of the first lecture : the scale of mechanisms for breaking programs down into subroutines, procedures, functions and methods. These linguistic …
09:30 to 11:00
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11:00 to 12:00
