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The major events of March 2025

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Major events

The Comédie-Française at the Collège de France

The Collège de France and the Comédie-Française are organizing a series of seven meetings during which professors and actors will discuss the science of theater, what it means to play, to direct, to say verse and prose, to embody life and society, to take to the stage to speak of the world and to the world.

"Theater audiences" by Éric Ruf & Florence Naugrette
Conference on March 5, 2025 from 7pm to 8:30pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater).

"L'espace de la scène" by Éric Ruf & Béline Dolat
Conference on March 12, 2025 from 7pm to 8:30pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater).

Agir pour l'éducation - Reenchanting maths at school

A series of conferences on mathematics organized by Stanislas Dehaene, Stéphane Mallat and Pierre-Michel Menger as part of the Agir pour l'éducation initiative.

Notoriously difficult, but also a source of beauty, mystery and enthusiasm, mathematics is losing interest among many students. Even more worrying is the fact that, over the past thirty years or so, surveys have shown a steady decline in student performance, particularly in numeracy and problem-solving, which, according to the TIMSS survey, now places France at the bottom of the European league table.

"Developing a culture of effort. Competition and contests in mathematics" by Pierre-Michel Menger
Conference on March 19, 2025 from 5:30 pm to 7 pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater) and live on the Collège de France Foundation channel.

In search of a Sustainable Common Future

A lecture series organized as part of the Avenir Commun Durable initiative , in the form of a round-table discussion moderated by a journalist and featuring researchers from projects supported by the initiative.

In keeping with the values of the Collège de France, Avenir Commun Durable aims to contribute to public debate by providing reliable information and data, based on rigorous and demanding research. Since its launch, the initiative has already supported five ambitious research projects in the humanities, social sciences and experimental sciences.
The aim of these roundtables is to give everyone a better understanding of the ambitions, approaches and expectations shaping this research.

"Modeling agricultural transitions "
Conference on March 6, 2025 from 6pm to 7pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Guillaume Budé amphitheater).

Opening lecture

"Type theory, from Russell to demonstration assistants" - Thierry Coquand

March 13, 2025 at 6pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheatre) and live on the Collège de France Youtube channel.

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"Biodiversity: between complexity, paradoxes and holism" - Franck Courchamp

March 27, 2025 at 6pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Marguerite de Navarre amphitheater) and live on the Collège de France Youtube channel.

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Guest speakers

"Three-term arithmetic progressions, the slice rank polynomial method and the Erdös-Ginzburg-Ziv Problem" - Lisa Sauermann

Cycle of lectures organized as part of the Cours Peccot International. Created in 2023, it specifically rewards young European mathematicians, invited to give a series of lectures at the Collège de France.

March 3 and 10, 2025 from 10am to 12pm at the Collège de France (Marcelin Berthelot site, Guillaume Budé amphitheater).

"On maximal hypoellipticity and sub-Riemannian geometry" - Omar Mohsen

Cycle of lectures organized as part of the Cours Peccot. Since 1885, thanks to an endowment from the family of mathematician Claude-Antoine Peccot, the Collège de France has awarded annual prizes to young mathematicians under the age of 30, who are invited to give a series of lectures at the Collège de France.

March 13, 20 and 27 2025 from 10am to 12pm at the Collège de France (site Marcelin Berthelot, salle 5).

Next lecture: April 3, 2025.