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We'll look at the evolutionary processes at work in the domestication of … 1 Mar 2024 15:30 - 17:00 Event Stéphanie Lacour Introduction. Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system Lecture Abstract A thorough understanding of the nervous system is essential for the development of neurotechnology. This involves the study of neurons, synapses and neural networks, as well as the biochemical and electrical processes that regulate communication … 1 Mar 2024 14:00 - 15:30 Event Jean Dalibard Dipolar interaction Lecture 1 Mar 2024 09:30 - 11:00 Event Stanislas Dehaene The role of education and visual experience in geometric intuition Lecture The Role of Education and Visual Experience in Geometric Intuition Abstract How do experience and education transform our geometric intuitions ? The lecture reviews several experiments carried out among children and adults from relatively isolated … 1 Mar 2024 09:30 - 11:00 Series Sources pour une histoire administrative croisée. Collège de France and Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1773-1815 Antoine Compagnon, chair Modern and contemporary French literature : history, criticism, theory Symposium Handwritten notes by astronomer Joseph-Jérôme de Lalande on the Collège royal and its members from 1776 to 1806. The period to be studied during the two seminars organized by the Collège de France and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, as part of the … 12 Jun 2023 → 19 Jun 2023 Event Lluis Quintana-Murci Genetic adaptation and natural selection Lecture Abstract Natural selection is based on three main principles : the principle of variation, the principle of differential reproductive success, and the principle of heredity. Although natural selection acts on phenotypes, it is mainly the genetics … 1 Mar 2024 14:00 - 15:30 Event Muriel Debié God as the first teaching : schools in the Syriac world of Late Antiquity Seminar Abstract Readings in Greek paideia continued into the Christian period, in languages other than Latin and Greek. A whole network of Syriac schools is attested in the Roman Empire, as well as in the Sassanid Empire in the regions of northern and southern … 29 Feb 2024 15:30 - 17:00 Event Philippe Descola Protecting indigenous knowledge Seminar Abstract Accusations of biopiracy made by indigenous peoples against pharmaceutical companies have brought to the fore the more general question of the commercial appropriation of indigenous knowledge, whether in specialized fields such as biological … 29 Feb 2024 14:30 - 16:00 Event Samantha Besson The human right to science (1) : purpose, owners and debtors Lecture 29 Feb 2024 10:00 - 11:30 Series Philology of Japanese civilization Jean-Noël Robert, chair Philology of Japanese civilization Closing lecture 27 Jun 2023 Event Nele Ziegler The creator (and destroyer) gods according to Mesopotamian documentation from the 2nd millennium BC . Seminar Documents and media Download support … 29 Feb 2024 15:30 - 16:30 Event Thomas Römer " It is not good for human beings to be alone... " - The creation of the human being (Gn 2,4-25) Lecture Abstract Gn 2 ,4-25 presents a new version of man's creation, quite different from Gn 1 . How does this new account differ, where does it come from, and why is it affixed to the first creation account ? Documents and media Download … 29 Feb 2024 14:00 - 15:00 Event Stéphanie Lacour Neurotechnology : science and engineering for new therapies Opening lecture Abstract Neurotechnology is an emerging interdisciplinary field that merges neuroscience and technology to explore, understand and manipulate the nervous system. This discipline offers vast possibilities for deciphering neural mechanisms, diagnosing and … 29 Feb 2024 18:00 - 19:00 Event Karin Zonneveld Did Climate Change Affect the Romans? What the Sea Floor Can Tell Us Seminar Abstract Does the current climate change enhance the risk of future pandemics? A way to search for an answer on this difficult question is using the past as a key to the present. Past episodes of climate change can provide a resource for understanding the … 29 Feb 2024 11:15 - 12:15 Event Kyle Harper Climate change and the fall of Rome Lecture Abstract The Roman Empire has fallen more than once. The role of climate change in various crisis episodes is a test case for exploring the nature of complex, compound and contagious … 29 Feb 2024 10:00 - 11:00 Event Olivier Danvy Continuations : five minutes to learn, a lifetime to understand Seminar Abstract In this talk, Olivier Danvy uses the dialogical method he has developed for his lectures to present four facets of continuations : an illustration of continuations in learning at the university ; a closer look at the classic example of Calder's … 29 Feb 2024 11:15 - 12:15 Event Xavier Leroy Effect theory : from monads to algebraic effects Lecture Abstract The sixth lecture presented the theoretical foundations underlying the effect and effect management mechanisms introduced in the previous lecture. We started with monads, a concept derived from category theory and applied to denotational … 29 Feb 2024 09:30 - 11:00 Event Jean-Luc Fournet Schools in monasteries (4) Lecture Lecture plan 2. In search of Egypt's monastic schools 2.1. Readings for young people ? 2.1.1. P.Mon. Epiph . 140 : a master's report on his lectures ? 2.1.2. The " children's cell " of the monasteries of Apa Jérémie and Bawît 2.2. Strange lecture rooms ! … 28 Feb 2024 11:00 - 12:00 Event Marc Fontecave Introduction Symposium 28 Feb 2024 09:00 - 09:15 Event Randal Douc Sampling with auxiliary distributions : from teleportation to Markov chain importance sampling Seminar Abstract In this talk, we present the teleportation algorithm and the Markov chain importance sampling algorithm. These two algorithms share the common principle of obtaining a chain targeting a given distribution from a simple transformation of a Markov … 28 Feb 2024 11:15 - 12:30 Event Stéphane Mallat Sampling Lecture We now consider the generation of new data by sampling a probability distribution whose density is known. Sampling a probability distribution can be achieved with a deterministic but chaotic dynamical system, whose probability distribution is an invariant … 28 Feb 2024 09:30 - 11:00 Event Patrick Boucheron Loving and serving : feudal domination (11th-12th centuries) Lecture Abstract In this second part of the lecture, the aim is to chronologically trace the history of power through the prism of the languages of love. In the 11th-12th centuries, political friendship was reformulated in a more affective way. Occitan … 27 Feb 2024 11:00 - 12:00 Event Frédérique Leichter-Flack Reading in extreme situations. On a scene from moral life in the gulag Seminar Abstract In " Le Charmeur de serpents ", written in 1954, Varlam Chalamov refers to a practice that took place in Siberian camps at the time of the Stalinist purges: that of an educated detainee telling thrilling stories to the camp leaders. 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Event Elizabeth Pellicano Shifting Priors: A Bayesian Theory of Perception and Learning in Autism Seminar Abstract More than 10 years ago, David Burr and I proposed the use of computational modelling to identify the mechanisms that underlie autistic sensation and perception. Specifically, we suggested that attenuated Bayesian priors could result in autistic … 1 Mar 2024 11:00 - 12:30
Event Tatiana Giraud Gene flow and adaptation : the domestication of apple trees and cheese-ripening fungi Seminar Abstract Domestication is a process of rapid evolution under the influence of human selection. We have domesticated the dog, but we have also evolved fruit trees and microorganisms. We'll look at the evolutionary processes at work in the domestication of … 1 Mar 2024 15:30 - 17:00
Event Stéphanie Lacour Introduction. Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system Lecture Abstract A thorough understanding of the nervous system is essential for the development of neurotechnology. This involves the study of neurons, synapses and neural networks, as well as the biochemical and electrical processes that regulate communication … 1 Mar 2024 14:00 - 15:30
Event Stanislas Dehaene The role of education and visual experience in geometric intuition Lecture The Role of Education and Visual Experience in Geometric Intuition Abstract How do experience and education transform our geometric intuitions ? The lecture reviews several experiments carried out among children and adults from relatively isolated … 1 Mar 2024 09:30 - 11:00
Series Sources pour une histoire administrative croisée. Collège de France and Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1773-1815 Antoine Compagnon, chair Modern and contemporary French literature : history, criticism, theory Symposium Handwritten notes by astronomer Joseph-Jérôme de Lalande on the Collège royal and its members from 1776 to 1806. The period to be studied during the two seminars organized by the Collège de France and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, as part of the … 12 Jun 2023 → 19 Jun 2023
Event Lluis Quintana-Murci Genetic adaptation and natural selection Lecture Abstract Natural selection is based on three main principles : the principle of variation, the principle of differential reproductive success, and the principle of heredity. Although natural selection acts on phenotypes, it is mainly the genetics … 1 Mar 2024 14:00 - 15:30
Event Muriel Debié God as the first teaching : schools in the Syriac world of Late Antiquity Seminar Abstract Readings in Greek paideia continued into the Christian period, in languages other than Latin and Greek. A whole network of Syriac schools is attested in the Roman Empire, as well as in the Sassanid Empire in the regions of northern and southern … 29 Feb 2024 15:30 - 17:00
Event Philippe Descola Protecting indigenous knowledge Seminar Abstract Accusations of biopiracy made by indigenous peoples against pharmaceutical companies have brought to the fore the more general question of the commercial appropriation of indigenous knowledge, whether in specialized fields such as biological … 29 Feb 2024 14:30 - 16:00
Event Samantha Besson The human right to science (1) : purpose, owners and debtors Lecture 29 Feb 2024 10:00 - 11:30
Series Philology of Japanese civilization Jean-Noël Robert, chair Philology of Japanese civilization Closing lecture 27 Jun 2023
Event Nele Ziegler The creator (and destroyer) gods according to Mesopotamian documentation from the 2nd millennium BC . Seminar Documents and media Download support … 29 Feb 2024 15:30 - 16:30
Event Thomas Römer " It is not good for human beings to be alone... " - The creation of the human being (Gn 2,4-25) Lecture Abstract Gn 2 ,4-25 presents a new version of man's creation, quite different from Gn 1 . How does this new account differ, where does it come from, and why is it affixed to the first creation account ? Documents and media Download … 29 Feb 2024 14:00 - 15:00
Event Stéphanie Lacour Neurotechnology : science and engineering for new therapies Opening lecture Abstract Neurotechnology is an emerging interdisciplinary field that merges neuroscience and technology to explore, understand and manipulate the nervous system. This discipline offers vast possibilities for deciphering neural mechanisms, diagnosing and … 29 Feb 2024 18:00 - 19:00
Event Karin Zonneveld Did Climate Change Affect the Romans? What the Sea Floor Can Tell Us Seminar Abstract Does the current climate change enhance the risk of future pandemics? A way to search for an answer on this difficult question is using the past as a key to the present. Past episodes of climate change can provide a resource for understanding the … 29 Feb 2024 11:15 - 12:15
Event Kyle Harper Climate change and the fall of Rome Lecture Abstract The Roman Empire has fallen more than once. The role of climate change in various crisis episodes is a test case for exploring the nature of complex, compound and contagious … 29 Feb 2024 10:00 - 11:00
Event Olivier Danvy Continuations : five minutes to learn, a lifetime to understand Seminar Abstract In this talk, Olivier Danvy uses the dialogical method he has developed for his lectures to present four facets of continuations : an illustration of continuations in learning at the university ; a closer look at the classic example of Calder's … 29 Feb 2024 11:15 - 12:15
Event Xavier Leroy Effect theory : from monads to algebraic effects Lecture Abstract The sixth lecture presented the theoretical foundations underlying the effect and effect management mechanisms introduced in the previous lecture. We started with monads, a concept derived from category theory and applied to denotational … 29 Feb 2024 09:30 - 11:00
Event Jean-Luc Fournet Schools in monasteries (4) Lecture Lecture plan 2. In search of Egypt's monastic schools 2.1. Readings for young people ? 2.1.1. P.Mon. Epiph . 140 : a master's report on his lectures ? 2.1.2. The " children's cell " of the monasteries of Apa Jérémie and Bawît 2.2. Strange lecture rooms ! … 28 Feb 2024 11:00 - 12:00
Event Randal Douc Sampling with auxiliary distributions : from teleportation to Markov chain importance sampling Seminar Abstract In this talk, we present the teleportation algorithm and the Markov chain importance sampling algorithm. These two algorithms share the common principle of obtaining a chain targeting a given distribution from a simple transformation of a Markov … 28 Feb 2024 11:15 - 12:30
Event Stéphane Mallat Sampling Lecture We now consider the generation of new data by sampling a probability distribution whose density is known. Sampling a probability distribution can be achieved with a deterministic but chaotic dynamical system, whose probability distribution is an invariant … 28 Feb 2024 09:30 - 11:00
Event Patrick Boucheron Loving and serving : feudal domination (11th-12th centuries) Lecture Abstract In this second part of the lecture, the aim is to chronologically trace the history of power through the prism of the languages of love. In the 11th-12th centuries, political friendship was reformulated in a more affective way. Occitan … 27 Feb 2024 11:00 - 12:00
Event Frédérique Leichter-Flack Reading in extreme situations. On a scene from moral life in the gulag Seminar Abstract In " Le Charmeur de serpents ", written in 1954, Varlam Chalamov refers to a practice that took place in Siberian camps at the time of the Stalinist purges: that of an educated detainee telling thrilling stories to the camp leaders. This … 27 Feb 2024 18:00 - 19:00
