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Orest Ranum
France in the 1650s: Histories and Historiographies
Orest Ranum
France in the 1650s: Histories and Historiographies
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18:00 to 19:00
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Abstract Epidemics can lead to a rapid and significant influx of patients into hospitals. To plan healthcare capacity as effectively as possible, Regional Health Agencies and hospital directors need forecasts that allow them to anticipate this influx. How …
11:00 to 12:00
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16:10 to 16:35
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14:00 to 14:25
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13:35 to 14:00
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Abstract The primary expectation for a storage system is that it be fast. To achieve this, two types of approaches can be employed: hardware (moving data up the memory hierarchy, with the highest levels being the fastest) and logical redundancy (creating …
10:00 to 11:00
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11:35 to 12:00
Simon Bunel
Cultivating Productivity through Regulation: The Case of Pesticide Bans in France
Simon Bunel
Cultivating Productivity through Regulation: The Case of Pesticide Bans in France
Symposium
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11:10 to 11:35
Wolf Lepenies
The End of Utopia and the Return of Melancholy: A Look at the Intellectuals of an Old Continent
Wolf Lepenies
The End of Utopia and the Return of Melancholy: A Look at the Intellectuals of an Old Continent
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Abstract In my opening lecture, drawing on a historical retrospective, I sought to distinguish between two groups of European intellectuals: on the one hand, the “men of good conscience,” and on the other, “that species that complains” (P. Valéry). With …
18:00 to 19:00
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10:20 to 10:45
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Abstract One of our first projects focused on untranslatable terms in the cultural heritage of sub-Saharan Africa. With the help of the African Academy of Languages, we sought to understand the distortions at play between French, English, Fulfulde, and …
17:30 to 18:30
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Non-relativistic limits of the light cone: "vertical" straight line (c → 0) or "horizontal" hyperplane (c → ∞) Presentation The non-relativistic limits of Einstein's theory - also known as non-Lorentzian limits - are obtained by tending the speed of light …
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09:30 to 11:00
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