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The chair Biography and publications Public lectures Guest lecturers Annual summaries Audios and videos News Upcoming Previous Special events 2 Apr 2025 5:30 - 7:00pm Marie Amalric What changes in the brain when learning mathematics ? Live Special events 21 May 2025 5:30 - 7:00pm Monica Neagoy How to cultivate a taste for mathematics with the Singapore method ? Live Symposium 22 May 2025 → 23 May 2025 Pierre-Michel Menger Boulez : the power of invention ? The years 1975-1995 Special events 18 Jun 2025 5:30 - 7:00pm Emmanuel Sander What makes a good mathematical problem ? :(Re)reconciling intuition and… Live Next 30 series Filters Event type Event type Lecture (12) Seminar (1) Symposium (15) Opening lecture (1) Special events (1) Academic year Academic year 2024 - 2025 (4) 2023 - 2024 (2) 2022 - 2023 (4) 2021 - 2022 (2) 2020 - 2021 (2) 2019 - 2020 (1) 2018 - 2019 (3) 2017 - 2018 (2) 2016 - 2017 (2) 2015 - 2016 (2) 2014 - 2015 (2) 2013 - 2014 (4) 2024 - 2025 Lecture Educational issues (continued) Pierre-Michel Menger 08 Nov 2024 → 13 Dec 2024 08 Nov 2024 → 13 Dec 2024 Symposium Family educational strategies Pierre-Michel Menger 17 Dec 2024 17 Dec 2024 Special events Re-enchanting maths at school Acting for education, Stanislas Dehaene, Pierre-Michel Menger, Stéphane Mallat 22 Jan 2025 → 18 Jun 2025 22 Jan 2025 → 18 Jun 2025 Symposium Boulez : the power of invention ? The years 1975-1995 Pierre-Michel Menger 22 May 2025 → 23 May 2025 22 May 2025 → 23 May 2025 2023 - 2024 Lecture Education issues Pierre-Michel Menger 01 Mar 2024 → 05 Apr 2024 01 Mar 2024 → 05 Apr 2024 Symposium Education and performance assessment Pierre-Michel Menger 06 Jun 2024 06 Jun 2024 2022 - 2023 Lecture Merit and " meritocracy " (continued) Pierre-Michel Menger 10 Mar 2023 → 14 Apr 2023 10 Mar 2023 → 14 Apr 2023 Symposium " Meritocracy " - a comparative perspective Pierre-Michel Menger 22 May 2023 22 May 2023 Symposium Karl Marx at the Collège de France Antoine Compagnon, Pierre-Michel Menger 08 Jun 2023 → 09 Jun 2023 08 Jun 2023 → 09 Jun 2023 Symposium Entrepreneurship, Risk, Talent and Innovation Philippe Aghion, Pierre-Michel Menger 19 Jun 2023 → 20 Jun 2023 19 Jun 2023 → 20 Jun 2023 2021 - 2022 Lecture Merit and " meritocracy ". Motivating equality or inequality ? Pierre-Michel Menger 04 Mar 2022 → 08 Apr 2022 04 Mar 2022 → 08 Apr 2022 Symposium " Meritocracy " - Analyses and controversies Pierre-Michel Menger 24 May 2022 24 May 2022 2020 - 2021 Lecture How to complete a work Work and the creative process (continued) - Case studies Pierre-Michel Menger 05 Mar 2021 → 09 Apr 2021 05 Mar 2021 → 09 Apr 2021 Symposium Artists' work - Markets, reputations, remuneration Pierre-Michel Menger 25 May 2021 25 May 2021 2019 - 2020 Lecture No lectures this year Pierre-Michel Menger 01 Sep 2019 01 Sep 2019 2018 - 2019 Lecture How to complete a work Work and the creative process Pierre-Michel Menger 01 Mar 2019 → 05 Apr 2019 01 Mar 2019 → 05 Apr 2019 Symposium Creation on hold Pierre-Michel Menger 14 May 2019 14 May 2019 Symposium Durkheim at the Collège de France Pierre-Michel Menger, Antoine Compagnon 06 Jun 2019 → 07 Jun 2019 06 Jun 2019 → 07 Jun 2019 2017 - 2018 Lecture What is talent ? Elements of the social physics of differences and inequalities (continued) Pierre-Michel Menger 02 Mar 2018 → 06 Apr 2018 02 Mar 2018 → 06 Apr 2018 Symposium The world of mathematicians Pierre-Michel Menger 15 May 2018 15 May 2018 2016 - 2017 Lecture What is talent ? Elements of the social physics of differences and inequalities Pierre-Michel Menger 20 Jan 2017 → 03 Mar 2017 20 Jan 2017 → 03 Mar 2017 Symposium Talent and its approaches in the social sciences. Attributions, markets, mobilities Pierre-Michel Menger 16 May 2017 16 May 2017 2015 - 2016 Lecture Knowledge production (continued). Careers, disciplines and organizations Pierre-Michel Menger 15 Jan 2016 → 26 Feb 2016 15 Jan 2016 → 26 Feb 2016 Symposium Scientific work and its transformations Pierre-Michel Menger 17 May 2016 17 May 2016 2014 - 2015 Lecture The production of knowledge. Careers and competitions in teaching and research Pierre-Michel Menger 23 Jan 2015 → 06 Mar 2015 23 Jan 2015 → 06 Mar 2015 Symposium Scientific work and employment : organizations and markets in transformation Pierre-Michel Menger 11 May 2015 11 May 2015 2013 - 2014 Opening lecture 18:00 - 19:00 Difference, competition and disproportion Pierre-Michel Menger 09 Jan 2014 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 09 Jan 2014 18:00 - 19:00 Lecture Work, its value and evaluation Pierre-Michel Menger 17 Jan 2014 → 04 Apr 2014 17 Jan 2014 → 04 Apr 2014 Seminar Evaluation in the sciences, arts and organizations Pierre-Michel Menger 17 Jan 2014 → 04 Apr 2014 17 Jan 2014 → 04 Apr 2014 Symposium Big data, business and social sciences - Uses and sharing of mass digital data Pierre-Michel Menger 02 Jun 2014 02 Jun 2014
Special events 2 Apr 2025 5:30 - 7:00pm Marie Amalric What changes in the brain when learning mathematics ? Live
Special events 21 May 2025 5:30 - 7:00pm Monica Neagoy How to cultivate a taste for mathematics with the Singapore method ? Live
Symposium 22 May 2025 → 23 May 2025 Pierre-Michel Menger Boulez : the power of invention ? The years 1975-1995
Special events 18 Jun 2025 5:30 - 7:00pm Emmanuel Sander What makes a good mathematical problem ? :(Re)reconciling intuition and… Live
Lecture Educational issues (continued) Pierre-Michel Menger 08 Nov 2024 → 13 Dec 2024 08 Nov 2024 → 13 Dec 2024
Special events Re-enchanting maths at school Acting for education, Stanislas Dehaene, Pierre-Michel Menger, Stéphane Mallat 22 Jan 2025 → 18 Jun 2025 22 Jan 2025 → 18 Jun 2025
Symposium Boulez : the power of invention ? The years 1975-1995 Pierre-Michel Menger 22 May 2025 → 23 May 2025 22 May 2025 → 23 May 2025
Lecture Merit and " meritocracy " (continued) Pierre-Michel Menger 10 Mar 2023 → 14 Apr 2023 10 Mar 2023 → 14 Apr 2023
Symposium Karl Marx at the Collège de France Antoine Compagnon, Pierre-Michel Menger 08 Jun 2023 → 09 Jun 2023 08 Jun 2023 → 09 Jun 2023
Symposium Entrepreneurship, Risk, Talent and Innovation Philippe Aghion, Pierre-Michel Menger 19 Jun 2023 → 20 Jun 2023 19 Jun 2023 → 20 Jun 2023
Lecture Merit and " meritocracy ". Motivating equality or inequality ? Pierre-Michel Menger 04 Mar 2022 → 08 Apr 2022 04 Mar 2022 → 08 Apr 2022
Lecture How to complete a work Work and the creative process (continued) - Case studies Pierre-Michel Menger 05 Mar 2021 → 09 Apr 2021 05 Mar 2021 → 09 Apr 2021
Symposium Artists' work - Markets, reputations, remuneration Pierre-Michel Menger 25 May 2021 25 May 2021
Lecture How to complete a work Work and the creative process Pierre-Michel Menger 01 Mar 2019 → 05 Apr 2019 01 Mar 2019 → 05 Apr 2019
Symposium Durkheim at the Collège de France Pierre-Michel Menger, Antoine Compagnon 06 Jun 2019 → 07 Jun 2019 06 Jun 2019 → 07 Jun 2019
Lecture What is talent ? Elements of the social physics of differences and inequalities (continued) Pierre-Michel Menger 02 Mar 2018 → 06 Apr 2018 02 Mar 2018 → 06 Apr 2018
Lecture What is talent ? Elements of the social physics of differences and inequalities Pierre-Michel Menger 20 Jan 2017 → 03 Mar 2017 20 Jan 2017 → 03 Mar 2017
Symposium Talent and its approaches in the social sciences. Attributions, markets, mobilities Pierre-Michel Menger 16 May 2017 16 May 2017
Lecture Knowledge production (continued). Careers, disciplines and organizations Pierre-Michel Menger 15 Jan 2016 → 26 Feb 2016 15 Jan 2016 → 26 Feb 2016
Lecture The production of knowledge. Careers and competitions in teaching and research Pierre-Michel Menger 23 Jan 2015 → 06 Mar 2015 23 Jan 2015 → 06 Mar 2015
Symposium Scientific work and employment : organizations and markets in transformation Pierre-Michel Menger 11 May 2015 11 May 2015
Opening lecture 18:00 - 19:00 Difference, competition and disproportion Pierre-Michel Menger 09 Jan 2014 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 09 Jan 2014 18:00 - 19:00
Lecture Work, its value and evaluation Pierre-Michel Menger 17 Jan 2014 → 04 Apr 2014 17 Jan 2014 → 04 Apr 2014
Seminar Evaluation in the sciences, arts and organizations Pierre-Michel Menger 17 Jan 2014 → 04 Apr 2014 17 Jan 2014 → 04 Apr 2014
Symposium Big data, business and social sciences - Uses and sharing of mass digital data Pierre-Michel Menger 02 Jun 2014 02 Jun 2014
