Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 28518 results Filters Content type Content type Lessons (24495) News (1672) People (1352) Chair (359) Editions (351) Page (230) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Event Rachid Guerraoui Atomicity in a distributed system Lecture Abstract The aim of this first lecture has been to define precisely what a correct distributed algorithm is. The safety property considered is what we call " atomicity ", or " linearizability ", defined by reference to the sequential specification of a … 26 Oct 2018 10:00 - 11:00 News New professors at the Collège de France 2022-2023 Press release This press release presents the thirteen new professors who will be inaugurating their professorships (statutory or annual) in the 2022-2023 academic year, listed chronologically according to the date of their opening lecture. Solemnly pronounced in … Published on 15 September 2022 News The Power of Law in Europe Perry Anderson Press release Portrait © Institut d'études avancées de Nantes Perry Anderson will give four lectures at the Collège de France on the origins and evolution of the law of nations in the European Union and its relationship with the rest of the world. Cycle Europe at the … Published on 15 September 2022 Event Rachid Guerraoui Distributed algorithms : in search of lost universality Opening lecture Abstract Algorithms have been around for as long as humans have been trying to calculate. In the Middle Ages, their execution was delegated to machines. In 1936, Alan Turing proposed a universal machine, capable of executing all conceivable algorithms, … 25 Oct 2018 18:00 - 19:00 Series Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Clément Sanchez, chair Hybrid materials chemistry Guest lecturer 11 May 2016 → 02 Jun 2016 Event Philippe Aghion Inequality and growth Lecture Measuring inequality : Kuznets and beyond Explaining the rise in skill-premium since 1980 Evolution of top income inequality Innovation and top income inequality Inclusive policies Documents and media Download … 23 Oct 2018 14:00 - 16:00 Event Amos Gitai Documentary as metaphor. House and Wadi, two documentary trilogies filmed over a quarter of a century; Pineapple Lecture Films : House (1980) ; News from Home/News from House (2005) ; Pineapple (1983). Documentaries " House and Wadi are two films for which I felt the need to return, several years later, to the same locations to film the same people. For me, Wadi is a kind … 23 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:30 Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture Abstract I have first shown that most intermediate and deep earthquakes occur in " subduction zones ", tectonic plate convergence zones where one of the plates (usually oceanic) plunges beneath the other. The hypocentres of these earthquakes are … 22 Oct 2018 16:00 - 17:30 Event Dominique Charpin The advent of Samsu-iluna Lecture Abstract The lecture began with an overview of the kingdom Samsu-iluna inherited from his father. The text used as a guide is the prologue to the Code of Hammu-rabi, written at the end of his reign. In it, the ruler defines himself in relation to the main … 22 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:00 Series Philip Stamp Jean Dalibard, chair Atoms and Radiation Guest lecturer 09 May 2016 → 30 May 2016 Event General discussion Symposium 19 Oct 2018 17:30 - 18:00 Event William F. Hanks Non-Western concepts in comparative pragmatics : from the Kyoto School to the context of enunciation Symposium This lecture proposes a new approach to the concept of the "context of enunciation" in social pragmatics, based on a critical reading of the philosophy of the Kyoto school, Japan. The key concept is " basho ", which translates as "place, location, field", … 19 Oct 2018 16:10 - 16:50 Event Karine Chemla How mathematical activity shapes its language and textual forms Symposium In 1920, Marcel Granet (1884-1940), an influential sinologist of the first decades of the 20th century, thought it appropriate to make some recommendations to those who were reforming the Chinese language at the time. In an article entitled "Quelques … 19 Oct 2018 16:50 - 17:30 Event Irène Rosier Catach Reflections on the power of words in Western medieval thought Symposium Biography Irène Rosier-Catach is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS (UMR "Histoire des Théories Linguistiques") and Director of Studies Emeritus at the École Pratique des Hautes Études ( 5th section). A specialist in the history of linguistic and … 19 Oct 2018 15:10 - 15:50 Event Laurent Dubreuil The thought, the poem Symposium Proposing to introduce a distinction between thinking and thinking , or between the cognitive and the intellective , I suggest that certain uses of language are out of the ordinary and capable of transporting us beyond the limits of our ordinary thinking. … 19 Oct 2018 14:30 - 15:10 Event Joël Fagot Thinking without language: an experimental approach in baboons Symposium Animal research is a privileged way of approaching the question of the relationship between thought and language. The non-human primate, which does not have our language, displays a multitude of behaviors whose complexity suggests the existence of … 19 Oct 2018 11:10 - 11:50 Event Guy Theraulaz The collective intelligence of animal societies Symposium Numerous animal species display collective behaviors that are often spectacular. Starlings, for example, gather in their tens of thousands at dusk to perform astonishing aerial choreographies. On another scale, social insects (ants, termites, certain … 19 Oct 2018 11:50 - 12:30 Event Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Giving the same name to two different things Symposium Biography Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician with a particular interest in differential geometry, especially as it relates to partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He is particularly interested in Ricci curvature, both in … 19 Oct 2018 10:10 - 10:50 Event François Recanati Thinking with language Symposium Verbal thinking is a specific form of thinking, based on a mechanism of "deference" and parasitic in relation to language. Acknowledging the existence of such thought means recognizing that language not only serves to express thoughts formed independently … 19 Oct 2018 09:30 - 10:10 Event General discussion Symposium 18 Oct 2018 17:30 - 18:00 Event Marwan Rashed Greek, the language of being ? Arab answers Symposium Modern philosophers have argued about the nature of Aristotle's "Categories": categories of language or categories of thought? This debate is reminiscent of another, almost as famous and much older one: the one that pitted Philosophers in 10th-century … 18 Oct 2018 16:50 - 17:30 Page CIRB activities Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology Back to CIRB home page CIRB seminar schedule 2024-2025 All seminars take place at the Collège de France, 11 place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75005 Paris. January 2025 Tuesday, September 16, 2025 (invited by the Smile team) Dr Flora Borne, Columbia Univ. … Event Elizabeth Spelke The role of language in the development of the child's knowledge core Symposium Young children display the highest degree of general intelligence of any entity on earth. In a few short years, they master their society's language, object categories and functions (plants, animals, artifacts), social networks, customs, conventions, … 18 Oct 2018 15:10 - 15:50 Event Luigi Rizzi Syntactic complexity and language acquisition Symposium Grammars for natural languages need to specify at least two types of procedure: word combination procedures, which build hierarchically organized structures, and procedures that establish dependencies between structural positions, for example by … 18 Oct 2018 14:30 - 15:10 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 546 Page 547 Page 548 Page 549 Page 550 Page 551 Page 552 Page 553 Page 554 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Rachid Guerraoui Atomicity in a distributed system Lecture Abstract The aim of this first lecture has been to define precisely what a correct distributed algorithm is. The safety property considered is what we call " atomicity ", or " linearizability ", defined by reference to the sequential specification of a … 26 Oct 2018 10:00 - 11:00
News New professors at the Collège de France 2022-2023 Press release This press release presents the thirteen new professors who will be inaugurating their professorships (statutory or annual) in the 2022-2023 academic year, listed chronologically according to the date of their opening lecture. Solemnly pronounced in … Published on 15 September 2022
News The Power of Law in Europe Perry Anderson Press release Portrait © Institut d'études avancées de Nantes Perry Anderson will give four lectures at the Collège de France on the origins and evolution of the law of nations in the European Union and its relationship with the rest of the world. Cycle Europe at the … Published on 15 September 2022
Event Rachid Guerraoui Distributed algorithms : in search of lost universality Opening lecture Abstract Algorithms have been around for as long as humans have been trying to calculate. In the Middle Ages, their execution was delegated to machines. In 1936, Alan Turing proposed a universal machine, capable of executing all conceivable algorithms, … 25 Oct 2018 18:00 - 19:00
Series Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Clément Sanchez, chair Hybrid materials chemistry Guest lecturer 11 May 2016 → 02 Jun 2016
Event Philippe Aghion Inequality and growth Lecture Measuring inequality : Kuznets and beyond Explaining the rise in skill-premium since 1980 Evolution of top income inequality Innovation and top income inequality Inclusive policies Documents and media Download … 23 Oct 2018 14:00 - 16:00
Event Amos Gitai Documentary as metaphor. House and Wadi, two documentary trilogies filmed over a quarter of a century; Pineapple Lecture Films : House (1980) ; News from Home/News from House (2005) ; Pineapple (1983). Documentaries " House and Wadi are two films for which I felt the need to return, several years later, to the same locations to film the same people. For me, Wadi is a kind … 23 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:30
Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture Abstract I have first shown that most intermediate and deep earthquakes occur in " subduction zones ", tectonic plate convergence zones where one of the plates (usually oceanic) plunges beneath the other. The hypocentres of these earthquakes are … 22 Oct 2018 16:00 - 17:30
Event Dominique Charpin The advent of Samsu-iluna Lecture Abstract The lecture began with an overview of the kingdom Samsu-iluna inherited from his father. The text used as a guide is the prologue to the Code of Hammu-rabi, written at the end of his reign. In it, the ruler defines himself in relation to the main … 22 Oct 2018 11:00 - 12:00
Series Philip Stamp Jean Dalibard, chair Atoms and Radiation Guest lecturer 09 May 2016 → 30 May 2016
Event William F. Hanks Non-Western concepts in comparative pragmatics : from the Kyoto School to the context of enunciation Symposium This lecture proposes a new approach to the concept of the "context of enunciation" in social pragmatics, based on a critical reading of the philosophy of the Kyoto school, Japan. The key concept is " basho ", which translates as "place, location, field", … 19 Oct 2018 16:10 - 16:50
Event Karine Chemla How mathematical activity shapes its language and textual forms Symposium In 1920, Marcel Granet (1884-1940), an influential sinologist of the first decades of the 20th century, thought it appropriate to make some recommendations to those who were reforming the Chinese language at the time. In an article entitled "Quelques … 19 Oct 2018 16:50 - 17:30
Event Irène Rosier Catach Reflections on the power of words in Western medieval thought Symposium Biography Irène Rosier-Catach is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS (UMR "Histoire des Théories Linguistiques") and Director of Studies Emeritus at the École Pratique des Hautes Études ( 5th section). A specialist in the history of linguistic and … 19 Oct 2018 15:10 - 15:50
Event Laurent Dubreuil The thought, the poem Symposium Proposing to introduce a distinction between thinking and thinking , or between the cognitive and the intellective , I suggest that certain uses of language are out of the ordinary and capable of transporting us beyond the limits of our ordinary thinking. … 19 Oct 2018 14:30 - 15:10
Event Joël Fagot Thinking without language: an experimental approach in baboons Symposium Animal research is a privileged way of approaching the question of the relationship between thought and language. The non-human primate, which does not have our language, displays a multitude of behaviors whose complexity suggests the existence of … 19 Oct 2018 11:10 - 11:50
Event Guy Theraulaz The collective intelligence of animal societies Symposium Numerous animal species display collective behaviors that are often spectacular. Starlings, for example, gather in their tens of thousands at dusk to perform astonishing aerial choreographies. On another scale, social insects (ants, termites, certain … 19 Oct 2018 11:50 - 12:30
Event Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Giving the same name to two different things Symposium Biography Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician with a particular interest in differential geometry, especially as it relates to partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He is particularly interested in Ricci curvature, both in … 19 Oct 2018 10:10 - 10:50
Event François Recanati Thinking with language Symposium Verbal thinking is a specific form of thinking, based on a mechanism of "deference" and parasitic in relation to language. Acknowledging the existence of such thought means recognizing that language not only serves to express thoughts formed independently … 19 Oct 2018 09:30 - 10:10
Event Marwan Rashed Greek, the language of being ? Arab answers Symposium Modern philosophers have argued about the nature of Aristotle's "Categories": categories of language or categories of thought? This debate is reminiscent of another, almost as famous and much older one: the one that pitted Philosophers in 10th-century … 18 Oct 2018 16:50 - 17:30
Page CIRB activities Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology Back to CIRB home page CIRB seminar schedule 2024-2025 All seminars take place at the Collège de France, 11 place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75005 Paris. January 2025 Tuesday, September 16, 2025 (invited by the Smile team) Dr Flora Borne, Columbia Univ. …
Event Elizabeth Spelke The role of language in the development of the child's knowledge core Symposium Young children display the highest degree of general intelligence of any entity on earth. In a few short years, they master their society's language, object categories and functions (plants, animals, artifacts), social networks, customs, conventions, … 18 Oct 2018 15:10 - 15:50
Event Luigi Rizzi Syntactic complexity and language acquisition Symposium Grammars for natural languages need to specify at least two types of procedure: word combination procedures, which build hierarchically organized structures, and procedures that establish dependencies between structural positions, for example by … 18 Oct 2018 14:30 - 15:10
