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Abstract I will report on recent joint work with M.   Mauri and R.   Pagaria which, building on my previous work with de Cataldo and Heinloth, gives a complete determination of the supports in the sense of Ngô of the Hitchin fibration (for GL_n), and the …

Abstract Why do anaphoric expressions such as herself/lui-même have the interpretive and distributive properties observed for them (viz. Marie est fière d'elle-même) and why do they also function as intensifiers (viz. Marie elle-même est fière de lui) ? …

Abstract The configurations revealed by cartographic studies are complex in both syntactic organization and interface properties. How do children master this complexity  ? In recent years, a simple model for the acquisition of syntactic structures has …

Abstract In this lecture, I will discuss work that identified several pathways/genes that are critically involved in distinct developmental steps during neurogenesis (including their pioneering work that identified a critical role for lipid metabolism for …

Abstract This lecture will provide an introduction to the world of post-translational modifications (PTMs) of proteins. Chemical modifications of protein surfaces serves as a mechanism to increase proteome diversity. More than 400 different PTMs are …

Abstract I shall appeal to teleological considerations to argue that there are no elements in thought that are simultaneously indexical and file-like. So-called perceptual demonstratives are particularly interesting in this …

Abstract I propose a couple of revisions to the standard criterion of difference for modes of presentation attributed to Frege. First, we need to broaden the scope of the criterion so that not merely the thoughts of a given subject at a given time may or …

Summary The latest conference systematically examines how the European Union could better defend and promote democracy. It explains why the destruction of democracy within member states is a greater threat to the Union than rather technocratic failures …

Jennifer Pitts has been invited by the assembly of the Collège de France, at the suggestion of Pr   Antoine Lilti. Abstract Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (1787), one of the most radical anti-slavery treatises …

Abstract In this lecture, I will discuss novel technology pioneered by his group (e.g., intravital imaging of individual NSCs and their progeny in the mouse hippocampus). Together with molecular tools (such as single cell RNA-sequencing), he will present …

Abstract The purpose of this talk will be to determine certain special representations (i.e. in the discrete series, but not cuspidal) whose space is generated by spherical automorphic functions. Volker Heiermann 1994  : Doctoral thesis, University of …