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Abstract Philippe Clergeau will present the concept of regenerative urbanism, after recalling the definitions of biodiversity and ecosystems, which are essential to a liveable, sustainable city. Nature-based solutions already permeate architecture, but we …

Abstract For centuries, it was expected that all planetary systems, by virtue of the universality of physical laws, would roughly resemble our own, with small rocky planets on the inside and gas giants on the outside, all on nearly circular, coplanar …

Abstract Cities are particularly exposed to hydro-climatic hazards, now exacerbated by anthropogenic global warming. As both major sources of greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerable territories, cities are called upon to be drivers of mitigation and …

Abstract This paper examines the future of cities by shifting the focus to the African continent. The aim is to consider African cities as places for exploring new imaginaries and new ways of inhabiting the world. This reflection comes at a crucial time …

Abstract When it comes to building, as with energy, the new doesn't make the old disappear. The extraordinary rise of concrete between 1950 and 2000, far from eradicating other building materials, allowed them to grow : glass of course, steel, wood, but …

Abstract New York, the city of exile for the Surrealists and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, is the capital of the modern, but also the refuge of the archaic. " Ali Baba's cave ", it provides backdoor exits and an escape from the time of …

Abstract In low- and middle-income countries, there are many small businesses, and few large ones. How can this be explained ? And how do companies in poor countries operate ? Are they as productive ? Do they face specific …

Abstract After an introduction to the entire course and seminar, the first lecture traced the appearance of control structures in the first programming languages (1945-1965) : assembly languages, where control is expressed by unconditional or conditional …

Abstract Challenges are proposed by public services, companies or scientific laboratories, and are based on real-life problems. Participants submit the results of their classification or prediction algorithms, which are then put into competition via the …

The Monte-Carlo method approximates averages by empirical sums of independent samples, which is equivalent to approximating integrals, potentially in very high dimensions. It is used in physics to simulate systems with a large number of degrees of …

Abstract Is love in marriage based on a division between the carnal and the spiritual, which presupposed that a woman could give herself to her husband " without any quivering of the soul " (Georges Duby) ? Despite the efforts of moralists, the Middle …

Abstract After recounting his chance encounter with Carlo Emilio Gadda's La Connaissance de la douleur , Philippe Bordas returns to the work of a great author, little known in France and belatedly known in Italy. For Pasolini, however, Gadda was Dante's …

Documents and media Download support Abstract When interpreting, when reading, what place should be given to details in relation to the overall picture ? We may tend to neglect them in favor of an overall interpretation. Or, on the contrary, we may want …

Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch : "  Études coloniales, postcoloniales, décoloniales : enjeux et perspectives " Denis Cogneau : "  What is the economic and political assessment of …

Abstract First appearing in the theoretical field, the black hole is now part of the standard astrophysical bestiary. After introducing the concept of the black hole within the framework of the relativistic theory of gravitation - general relativity - we …

Abstract Stars with masses greater than 8 solar masses have a very short life on the main sequence, and then burn helium, followed by carbon, oxygen, etc., until they have a core of iron and silicon. Fusion continues in shells, until the core implodes and …