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At the acoustical threshold, the inner ear responds to vibrations of only ± … 8 Oct 2013 11:00 - 12:00 Series In case of emergency : how not to understand the war on terror Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences Guest lecturer 04 Mar 2009 → 25 Mar 2009 Series State and society in Iran (from the year 1000 to the Mongol conquest) Gilles Veinstein, chair Turkish and Ottoman history Guest lecturer 28 Apr 2009 → 19 May 2009 Series Sylvain Vogel Gérard Fussman, chair History of the Indian world Guest lecturer 21 Jan 2009 Event Alain Prochiantz The different players in longevity Lecture To set the scene for this year's lectures, I'll start with a very comprehensive review by Lopez-Otin and colleagues (Cell 153: 1194-1217, 2013) which attempts to define the marks of aging, the less smiling face of longevity, not just cerebral, but … 7 Oct 2013 17:00 - 18:30 Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (1) Lecture 7 Oct 2013 16:15 - 18:15 Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture The importance of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, or LAB for short, in understanding how plate tectonics works. Basics: Different definitions of LAB depending on the type of measurement: petrological, geochemical, thermal, seismic (velocity and … 7 Oct 2013 14:30 - 16:00 Event Albert James Hudspeth Senses and Sensivity: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Perception Guest lecturer In addition to possessing the classical senses of vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, humans respond to a variety of other stimuli. For example, the vestibular apparatus of the internal ear provides continuous feedback about linear and angular … 1 Oct 2013 11:00 - 12:00 Event Glen W. Bowersock Pagan angels of late antiquity Guest lecturer The Byzantine world before Islam knew a host of paganisms, both polytheistic and from time to time, because of the hierarchy of their gods, quasi-monotheistic. In the Koran, the Prophet Muhammad referred to those who shared their gods as mushrikūn and … 30 Sep 2013 17:00 - 18:00 Series Religious landscapes. About inventories of places of worship (Italy, Africa, Gaul and China) John Scheid, chair Religion, institutions and society in ancient Rome Seminar 09 Apr 2009 Series Demographics, the end of the transition ? Henri Leridon, chair Sustainable development - Environment, energy and society Seminar 08 Apr 2009 → 13 May 2009 Series The chemistry of life : enzymes and metalloenzymes, fascinating bio-catalysts Marc Fontecave, chair Chemistry of Biological Processes Seminar 08 Apr 2009 → 03 Jun 2009 Series The chemistry of life : enzymes and metalloenzymes, fascinating bio-catalysts Marc Fontecave, chair Chemistry of Biological Processes Lecture Enzyme catalysis, the power of certain proteins to accelerate chemical reactions in the cell with extraordinary speed and fascinating precision, remains one of the great mysteries of living systems to this day. The reactions in question range from the … 08 Apr 2009 → 03 Jun 2009 Series The young hero Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Symposium 06 Apr 2009 → 07 Apr 2009 Series The students of Claude Bernard : continuity of thought and disciplinary developments Pierre Corvol, chair Experimental medicine Symposium 30 Mar 2009 Series Molecular self-organization and dynamics Jean-Marie Lehn, chair Molecular interaction chemistry Lecture 26 Mar 2009 → 09 Apr 2009 Series Recent advances in molecular and supramolecular chemistry Jean-Marie Lehn, chair Molecular interaction chemistry Seminar 26 Mar 2009 → 09 Apr 2009 Series The Homo genus conquers the rest of the world Michel Brunet, chair Human paleontology Lecture 26 Mar 2009 → 11 Jun 2009 Series The Homo genus conquers the rest of the world Michel Brunet, chair Human paleontology Seminar 26 Mar 2009 → 11 Jun 2009 Event Luigi Rizzi The hierarchical nature of linguistic representations and the mapping of syntactic structures Guest lecturer The unbounded nature of our linguistic capacities has inspired the computational approach to language: knowledge of the mother tongue implies implicit mastery of a system of recursive procedures, capable of generating a potentially unlimited set of … 23 Oct 2013 17:00 - 18:00 Series From memory of the past to anticipation Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and action Seminar 07 Jan 2009 → 11 Feb 2009 Series Cognitive foundations of identity : between memory of the past and anticipation Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and action Lecture 07 Jan 2009 → 11 Feb 2009 Series Shapes, deformations, transformations Alain Prochiantz, chair Morphogenetic processes Seminar 20 Mar 2009 Series Shapes, deformations, transformations Philippe Descola, chair Anthropology of nature Seminar 20 Mar 2009 Pagination First page Previous page … Page 656 Page 657 Page 658 Page 659 Current page 660 Page 661 Page 662 Page 663 Page 664 … Next page Last page
Event Albert James Hudspeth How the Ear's Works Work: The Operation of the Inner Ear Guest lecturer Human hearing is extraordinary in its technical specifications. We can perceive frequencies as great as 20 kHz and discriminate between different tones with a precision of 0.2%. At the acoustical threshold, the inner ear responds to vibrations of only ± … 8 Oct 2013 11:00 - 12:00
Series In case of emergency : how not to understand the war on terror Jon Elster, chair Rationality and social sciences Guest lecturer 04 Mar 2009 → 25 Mar 2009
Series State and society in Iran (from the year 1000 to the Mongol conquest) Gilles Veinstein, chair Turkish and Ottoman history Guest lecturer 28 Apr 2009 → 19 May 2009
Event Alain Prochiantz The different players in longevity Lecture To set the scene for this year's lectures, I'll start with a very comprehensive review by Lopez-Otin and colleagues (Cell 153: 1194-1217, 2013) which attempts to define the marks of aging, the less smiling face of longevity, not just cerebral, but … 7 Oct 2013 17:00 - 18:30
Event Don Zagier Modular forms and representations of finite groups (1) Lecture 7 Oct 2013 16:15 - 18:15
Event Barbara Romanowicz Introduction Lecture The importance of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, or LAB for short, in understanding how plate tectonics works. Basics: Different definitions of LAB depending on the type of measurement: petrological, geochemical, thermal, seismic (velocity and … 7 Oct 2013 14:30 - 16:00
Event Albert James Hudspeth Senses and Sensivity: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Perception Guest lecturer In addition to possessing the classical senses of vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, humans respond to a variety of other stimuli. For example, the vestibular apparatus of the internal ear provides continuous feedback about linear and angular … 1 Oct 2013 11:00 - 12:00
Event Glen W. Bowersock Pagan angels of late antiquity Guest lecturer The Byzantine world before Islam knew a host of paganisms, both polytheistic and from time to time, because of the hierarchy of their gods, quasi-monotheistic. In the Koran, the Prophet Muhammad referred to those who shared their gods as mushrikūn and … 30 Sep 2013 17:00 - 18:00
Series Religious landscapes. About inventories of places of worship (Italy, Africa, Gaul and China) John Scheid, chair Religion, institutions and society in ancient Rome Seminar 09 Apr 2009
Series Demographics, the end of the transition ? Henri Leridon, chair Sustainable development - Environment, energy and society Seminar 08 Apr 2009 → 13 May 2009
Series The chemistry of life : enzymes and metalloenzymes, fascinating bio-catalysts Marc Fontecave, chair Chemistry of Biological Processes Seminar 08 Apr 2009 → 03 Jun 2009
Series The chemistry of life : enzymes and metalloenzymes, fascinating bio-catalysts Marc Fontecave, chair Chemistry of Biological Processes Lecture Enzyme catalysis, the power of certain proteins to accelerate chemical reactions in the cell with extraordinary speed and fascinating precision, remains one of the great mysteries of living systems to this day. The reactions in question range from the … 08 Apr 2009 → 03 Jun 2009
Series The young hero Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Symposium 06 Apr 2009 → 07 Apr 2009
Series The students of Claude Bernard : continuity of thought and disciplinary developments Pierre Corvol, chair Experimental medicine Symposium 30 Mar 2009
Series Molecular self-organization and dynamics Jean-Marie Lehn, chair Molecular interaction chemistry Lecture 26 Mar 2009 → 09 Apr 2009
Series Recent advances in molecular and supramolecular chemistry Jean-Marie Lehn, chair Molecular interaction chemistry Seminar 26 Mar 2009 → 09 Apr 2009
Series The Homo genus conquers the rest of the world Michel Brunet, chair Human paleontology Lecture 26 Mar 2009 → 11 Jun 2009
Series The Homo genus conquers the rest of the world Michel Brunet, chair Human paleontology Seminar 26 Mar 2009 → 11 Jun 2009
Event Luigi Rizzi The hierarchical nature of linguistic representations and the mapping of syntactic structures Guest lecturer The unbounded nature of our linguistic capacities has inspired the computational approach to language: knowledge of the mother tongue implies implicit mastery of a system of recursive procedures, capable of generating a potentially unlimited set of … 23 Oct 2013 17:00 - 18:00
Series From memory of the past to anticipation Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and action Seminar 07 Jan 2009 → 11 Feb 2009
Series Cognitive foundations of identity : between memory of the past and anticipation Alain Berthoz, chair Physiology of perception and action Lecture 07 Jan 2009 → 11 Feb 2009
Series Shapes, deformations, transformations Alain Prochiantz, chair Morphogenetic processes Seminar 20 Mar 2009
Series Shapes, deformations, transformations Philippe Descola, chair Anthropology of nature Seminar 20 Mar 2009