Share Facebook LinkedIn Bluesky Threads Copy url Search results Search 27026 results Filters Content type Content type Lessons (23105) News (1608) People (1328) Chair (352) Editions (344) Page (230) Research (27) Library (14) Annual Chair (12) Award (6) Series The baby statistician : Bayesian learning theories Stanislas Dehaene, chair Experimental Cognitive Psychology Lecture Continuing on from the previous year, the lecture addressed a hypothesis which is currently the subject of intense theoretical and experimental exploration in the sciences : the idea that the human and animal brain contains statistical inference … 08 Jan 2013 → 19 Feb 2013 Event Jean-Luc Fournet Study of Byzantine papyri relating to multilingualism (2) Seminar Knowledge of ancient Greek is required for the seminar. … 21 Jan 2016 15:00 - 17:00 Event Anne Cheng Reading of the Treatise on Rites (continued) (5) Seminar A good knowledge of classical Chinese is required for the seminar. … 21 Jan 2016 16:00 - 17:30 Event Alain Connes Frequency website (3) Lecture 21 Jan 2016 14:30 - 17:00 Event François Déroche The Qur'anic manuscript under the Umayyad dynasty (8) Lecture 21 Jan 2016 14:00 - 15:00 Event John Scheid Rites, ritualism and religious practices (continued) Lecture One of the signs announcing Emperor Otto's imminent death in 69 was this sacrifice to Dis Pater, during which the signs presented by the victim proved favorable. As Suetonius points out (Otto , 8, 6), "in such a sacrifice, a contrary fressure is of … 21 Jan 2016 14:00 - 15:00 Event Anne Cheng Filial piety and political space Lecture Works cited Bronislaw Geremek, "L'exemplum et la circulation de la culture au Moyen Âge", Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Moyen Âge, Temps modernes , vol. 92, no. 1 (1980) pp. 153-179. James L. Watson & Evelyn S. Rawski, eds, Death Ritual in Late … 21 Jan 2016 11:00 - 12:00 Event Chris Bowler Marine microbes play a role in the health of the planet and mark the health of the oceans Seminar The ocean protects us, but it's under threat. The ocean is a source of potential innovations for human health; the richness and diversity of ocean microbiota must be inventoried. Through the presence of cyanobacteria and protists such as diatoms, the … 20 Jan 2016 17:30 - 18:30 Event Clément Sanchez Grazing molluscs : " chalk house and iron teeth " Lecture After presenting the major role of iron and its oxides in (bio)geochemistry and the environment, and in particular their involvement in numerous biological processes, we briefly discussed the processes by which iron oxides are formed in natural … 20 Jan 2016 16:30 - 17:30 Event Philippe Sansonetti A world without microbes : dream or nightmare ? Lecture Louis Pasteur believed that life without microbes would be impossible. In the decades that followed, gnotoxenia, the science of life in a sterile or microbiologically controlled environment, was born, demonstrating that germ-free (axenic) life, contrary … 20 Jan 2016 16:00 - 17:15 Event Jean-Luc Fournet Introductory lecture (1) : why ? Lecture Over the past few decades, multilingualism has been attracting increasing attention from society, linguists and historians alike. Its resonance in our societies is rooted in various macro-social causes : mass emigration has made us ever more attentive to … 20 Jan 2016 11:00 - 12:00 Event Charles Méla The human condition : being-for-death (Sein zum Tode) Seminar 20 Jan 2016 11:30 - 13:00 Event Michel Zink Talking to the simple, talking about the simple : awareness of simplicity in medieval literary art (6) Lecture 20 Jan 2016 10:30 - 11:30 Event Roger Chartier 1616. Cervantes and Shakespeare : Encounters (4) Lecture 12 Nov 2015 11:00 - 12:00 Event Valérie Stiénon The modernity of small : panoramas, physiologies and pantheons Seminar 19 Jan 2016 17:30 - 18:30 Event Antoine Compagnon These tumblers of mud Lecture Tombereaux de boue" are vehicles loaded with garbage, and "boue" is a mixture of filth kneaded with earth and water, found in both Jonathan Swift and Marcel Proust. The "décrotteurs" are often depicted (Carle Vernet, Louis Boilly), and Mercier devotes a … 19 Jan 2016 16:30 - 17:30 Event Stanislas Dehaene The instinct of language ? Precocity and automaticity of linguistic operations Lecture Do the brain circuits involved in syntactic processing form a " module " in the sense of Fodor (1983) ? They undoubtedly meet several modularity criteria. Not only is their neural architecture fixed and reproducible from one individual to another , but … 19 Jan 2016 09:30 - 11:00 Event Jean-Noël Robert Language, Poetry, Awakening : the language universe of Senjûshô (" Extracts from a florilegium ", 13th century) (2) Lecture 19 Jan 2016 10:30 - 11:30 Event Philippe Descola Opening session on the company Symposium 9 Nov 2015 14:25 - 14:30 Event Roger Balian Information and entropy in statistical physics Seminar Abstract Roger Balian recalled how the transition from the full density operator to a reduced density operator leads to an entropy that increases in the course of time. By choosing increasingly precise reduced density operators, he showed that we end up … 18 Jan 2016 11:15 - 12:45 Event Jean-Marie Tarascon Opening of the energy session Symposium 9 Nov 2015 11:15 - 11:20 Event Bernard Derrida Fluctuations and major deviations from the Second Principle (2) Lecture Abstract The second lecture tried to show how, starting from a microscopic Hamiltonian dynamics, one can end up with a Markovian dynamics, by partitioning the phase space into cells and approximating the Hamiltonian dynamics by jump probabilities between … 18 Jan 2016 09:30 - 11:00 Event Edouard Bard Climate session opens Symposium 9 Nov 2015 09:10 - 09:15 Event Alain de Libera The subject of passion (1) Lecture The first hour was devoted to a general introduction focusing on the notions of contagion and compassion, presented in Problemata VII, 7 by the pseudo-Aristotle, and on the formulation of the "Aristotelian" problem of the "synalgia" or "sharing" of … 18 Jan 2016 17:00 - 18:00 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 665 Page 666 Page 667 Page 668 Current page 669 Page 670 Page 671 Page 672 Page 673 … Next page Last page
Series The baby statistician : Bayesian learning theories Stanislas Dehaene, chair Experimental Cognitive Psychology Lecture Continuing on from the previous year, the lecture addressed a hypothesis which is currently the subject of intense theoretical and experimental exploration in the sciences : the idea that the human and animal brain contains statistical inference … 08 Jan 2013 → 19 Feb 2013
Event Jean-Luc Fournet Study of Byzantine papyri relating to multilingualism (2) Seminar Knowledge of ancient Greek is required for the seminar. … 21 Jan 2016 15:00 - 17:00
Event Anne Cheng Reading of the Treatise on Rites (continued) (5) Seminar A good knowledge of classical Chinese is required for the seminar. … 21 Jan 2016 16:00 - 17:30
Event François Déroche The Qur'anic manuscript under the Umayyad dynasty (8) Lecture 21 Jan 2016 14:00 - 15:00
Event John Scheid Rites, ritualism and religious practices (continued) Lecture One of the signs announcing Emperor Otto's imminent death in 69 was this sacrifice to Dis Pater, during which the signs presented by the victim proved favorable. As Suetonius points out (Otto , 8, 6), "in such a sacrifice, a contrary fressure is of … 21 Jan 2016 14:00 - 15:00
Event Anne Cheng Filial piety and political space Lecture Works cited Bronislaw Geremek, "L'exemplum et la circulation de la culture au Moyen Âge", Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Moyen Âge, Temps modernes , vol. 92, no. 1 (1980) pp. 153-179. James L. Watson & Evelyn S. Rawski, eds, Death Ritual in Late … 21 Jan 2016 11:00 - 12:00
Event Chris Bowler Marine microbes play a role in the health of the planet and mark the health of the oceans Seminar The ocean protects us, but it's under threat. The ocean is a source of potential innovations for human health; the richness and diversity of ocean microbiota must be inventoried. Through the presence of cyanobacteria and protists such as diatoms, the … 20 Jan 2016 17:30 - 18:30
Event Clément Sanchez Grazing molluscs : " chalk house and iron teeth " Lecture After presenting the major role of iron and its oxides in (bio)geochemistry and the environment, and in particular their involvement in numerous biological processes, we briefly discussed the processes by which iron oxides are formed in natural … 20 Jan 2016 16:30 - 17:30
Event Philippe Sansonetti A world without microbes : dream or nightmare ? Lecture Louis Pasteur believed that life without microbes would be impossible. In the decades that followed, gnotoxenia, the science of life in a sterile or microbiologically controlled environment, was born, demonstrating that germ-free (axenic) life, contrary … 20 Jan 2016 16:00 - 17:15
Event Jean-Luc Fournet Introductory lecture (1) : why ? Lecture Over the past few decades, multilingualism has been attracting increasing attention from society, linguists and historians alike. Its resonance in our societies is rooted in various macro-social causes : mass emigration has made us ever more attentive to … 20 Jan 2016 11:00 - 12:00
Event Charles Méla The human condition : being-for-death (Sein zum Tode) Seminar 20 Jan 2016 11:30 - 13:00
Event Michel Zink Talking to the simple, talking about the simple : awareness of simplicity in medieval literary art (6) Lecture 20 Jan 2016 10:30 - 11:30
Event Roger Chartier 1616. Cervantes and Shakespeare : Encounters (4) Lecture 12 Nov 2015 11:00 - 12:00
Event Valérie Stiénon The modernity of small : panoramas, physiologies and pantheons Seminar 19 Jan 2016 17:30 - 18:30
Event Antoine Compagnon These tumblers of mud Lecture Tombereaux de boue" are vehicles loaded with garbage, and "boue" is a mixture of filth kneaded with earth and water, found in both Jonathan Swift and Marcel Proust. The "décrotteurs" are often depicted (Carle Vernet, Louis Boilly), and Mercier devotes a … 19 Jan 2016 16:30 - 17:30
Event Stanislas Dehaene The instinct of language ? Precocity and automaticity of linguistic operations Lecture Do the brain circuits involved in syntactic processing form a " module " in the sense of Fodor (1983) ? They undoubtedly meet several modularity criteria. Not only is their neural architecture fixed and reproducible from one individual to another , but … 19 Jan 2016 09:30 - 11:00
Event Jean-Noël Robert Language, Poetry, Awakening : the language universe of Senjûshô (" Extracts from a florilegium ", 13th century) (2) Lecture 19 Jan 2016 10:30 - 11:30
Event Roger Balian Information and entropy in statistical physics Seminar Abstract Roger Balian recalled how the transition from the full density operator to a reduced density operator leads to an entropy that increases in the course of time. By choosing increasingly precise reduced density operators, he showed that we end up … 18 Jan 2016 11:15 - 12:45
Event Bernard Derrida Fluctuations and major deviations from the Second Principle (2) Lecture Abstract The second lecture tried to show how, starting from a microscopic Hamiltonian dynamics, one can end up with a Markovian dynamics, by partitioning the phase space into cells and approximating the Hamiltonian dynamics by jump probabilities between … 18 Jan 2016 09:30 - 11:00
Event Alain de Libera The subject of passion (1) Lecture The first hour was devoted to a general introduction focusing on the notions of contagion and compassion, presented in Problemata VII, 7 by the pseudo-Aristotle, and on the formulation of the "Aristotelian" problem of the "synalgia" or "sharing" of … 18 Jan 2016 17:00 - 18:00