Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 28171 results Filters Content type Content type Lessons (24021) News (1749) People (1389) Editions (362) Chair (360) Page (231) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Event Daniel Ansari Number Symbols in the Brain and Mind Seminar Documents and media Download support … 20 Jan 2023 11:00 to 12:30 Event Lucas Gérin Dense random graphs : an example of a fractal boundary Seminar Abstract In the years 2000, a theory of boundaries from dense graphs to " continuous " graphs (also called " graphons ") emerged, initiated in particular by Lovasz. This theory has been extended to random dense graphs (under the impetus of Diaconis and … 20 Jan 2023 11:15 to 12:30 Event Stanislas Dehaene Use factoring and vector subspaces to encode information and communicate between brain areas Lecture Mathematicians know that a vector space can be decomposed into orthogonal subspaces. Does the brain exploit this property ? The answer seems positive : distinct populations of neurons, or orthogonal vectors carried by the same neurons, often code for … 20 Jan 2023 09:30 to 11:00 Event Laurence Boisson de Chazournes Use of international rivers and aquifers Lecture Abstract The law of international watercourses has been the subject of various codification efforts at regional and universal levels, envisaging international waters as shared natural resources. These instruments apply various principles and rules to the … 20 Jan 2023 10:00 to 11:00 Event Pierre-Louis Lions Large random matrices and PDEs (8) Lecture 20 Jan 2023 09:00 to 11:00 Event Anne Cheng Zhuangzi readings (continued) (8) Seminar The seminar on January 19, 2023 is cancelled. An additional session will be held on Thursday, February 2 (usual times and room). … 19 Jan 2023 16:30 to 18:00 Event Frantz Grenet Prestige silver in Central Asia (continued) : Homer, Alexander. Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (1) Lecture A reminder of the Central Asian silver with Homeric subjects, co-studied with Anca Dan and seen last year. Sketch of new avenues of interpretation : moral lessons adapted to the local context ? A new example added to the debate : the Freer Gallery … 19 Jan 2023 15:30 to 16:30 Series Philosophical knowledge and knowledge of essences Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Symposium The Philosopher in Meditation , Rembrandt, 1632, Musée du Louvre The international colloquium " Connaissance philosophique et connaissance des essences " (Philosophical knowledge and the knowledge of essences ) will follow in the footsteps of Prof. … 07 Oct 2021 → 08 Oct 2021 Event Stéphane Mallat Data Challenges 2023 (1) Seminar Abstract Challenges are proposed by public services, companies or scientific laboratories, and are based on real-life problems. Participants submit the results of their classification or prediction algorithms, which are then put into competition via the … 18 Jan 2023 11:15 to 12:30 Event Stéphane Mallat Models, information and statistical physics Lecture Abstract Statistical physics revolutionized the understanding of the macroscopic properties of physics by linking them to microscopic interactions. This made it possible to unify separate branches of 19th century physics, such as mechanics, … 18 Jan 2023 09:30 to 11:00 Event Dario Mantovani, Évelyne Scheid-Tissinier Epieikeia/aequitas : equity from Athens and Rome Seminar Abstract Greek and Roman thought developed two notions - epieikeia and aequitas - which are often translated, in modern languages, by a single term " l'équité ". Is this really a single notion ? This seminar explores epieikeia and aequitas - in the … 23 Nov 2022 15:00 to 17:00 News Collège de France Award winners 2024 Collège de France As in previous years, the Collège de France awarded scientific prizes to researchers chosen for the excellence of their careers. In 2024, the winners were : The Collège de France Award for Young Researchers 2024 goes to glaciologist Fanny Brun . The … Published on 16 September 2024 Event Catriona Seth The foundling, or how to fill in the gaps in history Seminar Abstract A parallel can be drawn between history and literature in the 18th century through the paradigm of the foundling. At that time, a third of children were abandoned, mainly for reasons of poverty, illegitimacy or because their mother had died in … 17 Jan 2023 15:30 to 16:30 Event William Marx " We keep a copy of each lesson in our archives " Lecture Abstract In addition to the " avant-dire " (drafts and preparatory essays) of the Cours de poétique , and notes taken by the public, including a few shorthand transcriptions, the editor of the Cours found in the immense Valéry collection at the … 17 Jan 2023 14:30 to 15:30 News Didier Fassin, winner of the 2024 Huxley Memorial Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Didier Fassin, chair Moral Questions and Political Issues in Contemporary Societies The Huxley Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, the highest British distinction in anthropology, has been awarded to Didier Fassin for the year 2024. Previous French recipients are Marcel Mauss (1938), Claude … Published on 16 September 2024 Event Frantz Grenet Introduction Symposium 17 Jan 2023 10:00 to 10:15 Event Marine Lépée Entre Narbonensis et Tres Galliae : production and trade in the towns of the mid-Rhône valley, the contribution of archaeological sources Lecture Abstract The mid-Rhône Valley is well known for its role in long-distance trade and commercial networks between the Mediterranean basin and Inner Gaul. It is within these same networks that the infrastructures and players of a day-to-day economy are … 17 Jan 2023 10:00 to 11:30 Event Tomaž Prosen Exactly Solved Models of Many-Body Quantum Chaos Seminar Abstract I will discuss the problem of unreasonable effectiveness of random matrix theory for description of spectral fluctuations in extended quantum lattice systems. A class oflocally interacting spin systems has been recently identified where the … 17 Jan 2023 15:30 to 16:30 Series Europa : myth as metaphor Alberto Manguel, chair The invention of Europe through languages and cultures Opening lecture 30 Sep 2021 Event Nalini Anantharaman Quantum ergodicity on large graphs I Lecture 17 Jan 2023 14:00 to 15:15 Event Antoine Lilti Wars, science and prophecy Lecture This second session is devoted to setting the scene for the meeting, on the eve of Wallis and Bougainville's arrival in Tahiti, by nuancing the usual opposition between Europeans driven by scientific curiosity and a spirit of adventure, and Tahitians … 16 Jan 2023 14:30 to 15:30 Event Dominique Charpin Introduction: definitions and sources Lecture Defining the family is no easy task : we'll start by comparing Babylonian terminology with current anthropological approaches. We will then outline the various sources available, whether from archaeology (architecture, physical anthropology, etc.) or … 16 Jan 2023 11:00 to 12:00 Event Jorge Kurchan The chaotic phase at complex temperatures Seminar Many systems have a phase in the complex temperature plane in which the partition function has a uniform density of zeros, and the thermodynamic free energy is non-analytical in temperature. The first example, which has been studied in depth analytically, … 16 Jan 2023 11:15 to 12:15 Event Frantz Grenet Around the exhibition " Splendors of Uzbekistan's oases : new terrains, new issues " Symposium The January 16 event will be held at the Louvre in the Michel Laclotte auditorium, from 10 h to 18 h (free admission). 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Event Daniel Ansari Number Symbols in the Brain and Mind Seminar Documents and media Download support … 20 Jan 2023 11:00 to 12:30
Event Lucas Gérin Dense random graphs : an example of a fractal boundary Seminar Abstract In the years 2000, a theory of boundaries from dense graphs to " continuous " graphs (also called " graphons ") emerged, initiated in particular by Lovasz. This theory has been extended to random dense graphs (under the impetus of Diaconis and … 20 Jan 2023 11:15 to 12:30
Event Stanislas Dehaene Use factoring and vector subspaces to encode information and communicate between brain areas Lecture Mathematicians know that a vector space can be decomposed into orthogonal subspaces. Does the brain exploit this property ? The answer seems positive : distinct populations of neurons, or orthogonal vectors carried by the same neurons, often code for … 20 Jan 2023 09:30 to 11:00
Event Laurence Boisson de Chazournes Use of international rivers and aquifers Lecture Abstract The law of international watercourses has been the subject of various codification efforts at regional and universal levels, envisaging international waters as shared natural resources. These instruments apply various principles and rules to the … 20 Jan 2023 10:00 to 11:00
Event Anne Cheng Zhuangzi readings (continued) (8) Seminar The seminar on January 19, 2023 is cancelled. An additional session will be held on Thursday, February 2 (usual times and room). … 19 Jan 2023 16:30 to 18:00
Event Frantz Grenet Prestige silver in Central Asia (continued) : Homer, Alexander. Non-Buddhist temples in Bactria and Sogdiana (1) Lecture A reminder of the Central Asian silver with Homeric subjects, co-studied with Anca Dan and seen last year. Sketch of new avenues of interpretation : moral lessons adapted to the local context ? A new example added to the debate : the Freer Gallery … 19 Jan 2023 15:30 to 16:30
Series Philosophical knowledge and knowledge of essences Claudine Tiercelin, chair Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Symposium The Philosopher in Meditation , Rembrandt, 1632, Musée du Louvre The international colloquium " Connaissance philosophique et connaissance des essences " (Philosophical knowledge and the knowledge of essences ) will follow in the footsteps of Prof. … 07 Oct 2021 → 08 Oct 2021
Event Stéphane Mallat Data Challenges 2023 (1) Seminar Abstract Challenges are proposed by public services, companies or scientific laboratories, and are based on real-life problems. Participants submit the results of their classification or prediction algorithms, which are then put into competition via the … 18 Jan 2023 11:15 to 12:30
Event Stéphane Mallat Models, information and statistical physics Lecture Abstract Statistical physics revolutionized the understanding of the macroscopic properties of physics by linking them to microscopic interactions. This made it possible to unify separate branches of 19th century physics, such as mechanics, … 18 Jan 2023 09:30 to 11:00
Event Dario Mantovani, Évelyne Scheid-Tissinier Epieikeia/aequitas : equity from Athens and Rome Seminar Abstract Greek and Roman thought developed two notions - epieikeia and aequitas - which are often translated, in modern languages, by a single term " l'équité ". Is this really a single notion ? This seminar explores epieikeia and aequitas - in the … 23 Nov 2022 15:00 to 17:00
News Collège de France Award winners 2024 Collège de France As in previous years, the Collège de France awarded scientific prizes to researchers chosen for the excellence of their careers. In 2024, the winners were : The Collège de France Award for Young Researchers 2024 goes to glaciologist Fanny Brun . The … Published on 16 September 2024
Event Catriona Seth The foundling, or how to fill in the gaps in history Seminar Abstract A parallel can be drawn between history and literature in the 18th century through the paradigm of the foundling. At that time, a third of children were abandoned, mainly for reasons of poverty, illegitimacy or because their mother had died in … 17 Jan 2023 15:30 to 16:30
Event William Marx " We keep a copy of each lesson in our archives " Lecture Abstract In addition to the " avant-dire " (drafts and preparatory essays) of the Cours de poétique , and notes taken by the public, including a few shorthand transcriptions, the editor of the Cours found in the immense Valéry collection at the … 17 Jan 2023 14:30 to 15:30
News Didier Fassin, winner of the 2024 Huxley Memorial Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Didier Fassin, chair Moral Questions and Political Issues in Contemporary Societies The Huxley Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, the highest British distinction in anthropology, has been awarded to Didier Fassin for the year 2024. Previous French recipients are Marcel Mauss (1938), Claude … Published on 16 September 2024
Event Marine Lépée Entre Narbonensis et Tres Galliae : production and trade in the towns of the mid-Rhône valley, the contribution of archaeological sources Lecture Abstract The mid-Rhône Valley is well known for its role in long-distance trade and commercial networks between the Mediterranean basin and Inner Gaul. It is within these same networks that the infrastructures and players of a day-to-day economy are … 17 Jan 2023 10:00 to 11:30
Event Tomaž Prosen Exactly Solved Models of Many-Body Quantum Chaos Seminar Abstract I will discuss the problem of unreasonable effectiveness of random matrix theory for description of spectral fluctuations in extended quantum lattice systems. A class oflocally interacting spin systems has been recently identified where the … 17 Jan 2023 15:30 to 16:30
Series Europa : myth as metaphor Alberto Manguel, chair The invention of Europe through languages and cultures Opening lecture 30 Sep 2021
Event Antoine Lilti Wars, science and prophecy Lecture This second session is devoted to setting the scene for the meeting, on the eve of Wallis and Bougainville's arrival in Tahiti, by nuancing the usual opposition between Europeans driven by scientific curiosity and a spirit of adventure, and Tahitians … 16 Jan 2023 14:30 to 15:30
Event Dominique Charpin Introduction: definitions and sources Lecture Defining the family is no easy task : we'll start by comparing Babylonian terminology with current anthropological approaches. We will then outline the various sources available, whether from archaeology (architecture, physical anthropology, etc.) or … 16 Jan 2023 11:00 to 12:00
Event Jorge Kurchan The chaotic phase at complex temperatures Seminar Many systems have a phase in the complex temperature plane in which the partition function has a uniform density of zeros, and the thermodynamic free energy is non-analytical in temperature. The first example, which has been studied in depth analytically, … 16 Jan 2023 11:15 to 12:15
Event Frantz Grenet Around the exhibition " Splendors of Uzbekistan's oases : new terrains, new issues " Symposium The January 16 event will be held at the Louvre in the Michel Laclotte auditorium, from 10 h to 18 h (free admission). Program 10 h - 10 h 20 Welcome address His Excellency Sardor Rustambaev, Ambassador of the Republic of Uzbekistan to France and Gayane … 16 Jan 2023 09:00 to 18:00
