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Abstract Photoinduced reactions offer a promising route to developing more sustainable and environmentally-friendly chemistry. However, a thorough understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of these processes is essential to optimize their efficiency and …

Abstract In France and many other countries, people from the most disadvantaged social categories and ethno-racial minorities are less likely to be vaccinated against Covid-19. These people are also more often confronted than others with various forms of …

Abstract Because they affect the entire population, vaccination policies are an ideal place to observe contemporary health inequalities. In this presentation, we will return to the social mechanisms explaining these inequalities, but we will also look at …

Abstract The question of how heritable mutations arise is one of long-standing interest in biology. In the case of bacteria, there was a debate about whether mutations arise as a consequence of adaptation to selective pressure from the environment, or …

Abstract Divine and royal statuary is an integral part of the Egyptian temple. The temples we visit today may have kept their walls, and sometimes even their ceilings, but most of them are almost completely emptied of their rich furnishings, which …

Abstract The beetle is an insect that feeds on the excrement of animals much larger than itself, from which it extracts the appropriate substance to produce the carapace we know and love. In the same way, there is a form of writing that feeds on the waste …

Abstract In this talk, I will describe experiments where an ultracold Fermi gas is strongly coupled to light in optical resonators. In such a system, virtual photon exchanges between atoms yield a long-range, all-to-all interaction leading to a number of …

Abstract What does observing what is furthest from oneself offer as a horizon for "   making the leap from the ferocious beast   "  ? The importance of the radically different. What does the encounter with the sphere farthest from oneself provoke in …

Project under the direction of  : Patrick Boucheron, History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th to 16th century chair and François-Xavier Fauvelle, History and Archaeology of African Worlds chair . Abstract For the past twenty years, the " environmental …

Abstract of Christophe Chassenieux 's presentation Proteins as new sources of materials Beyond their everyday use in our diet, proteins are also functional building blocks that can be used to obtain materials with properties of interest. For example, milk …

Abstract The kingdom of Mari was dimorphic  : alongside the sedentary population, it included a very large nomadic population. It is usually said that we only know about nomads through the distorting prism of sedentary writings. This is not the case in …