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Abstract There are many ways to define an object, in this case a ship. This lecture explores the approaches of a Latin declamator (Cicero, De l'invention , 2.153), a jurist (Alfenus, Digest, 21.2.44), a scholar (Aulu-Gelle, Nuits attiques, 10.25.5), the …

Abstract Can the political love of the late Middle Ages only be understood in opposition to the disenchantment of modernity  ? This final   session focuses on the figure of Marguerite de Navarre, based on Lucien Febvre's Amour sacré, amour profane (1944). …

Summary This lesson looks at the life of French from its various neo-Latin ancestors in Gaul to its status as the national language of France and parts of Belgium and Switzerland  ; then we look at its contact with English, and the Amerindian and African …

Abstract The third and fourth lectures will focus on the role of activity in the construction of cortical circuits, from the maturation and migration of different populations of neurons, the roles of transient neurons and circuits, to the integration and …

Abstract During the course of their schooling, students are required to make a number of choices that affect both their education and their career prospects. This choice takes place at the end of secondary school, when a course of study must be entered, …

Masanori Tsukamoto is invited by the Collège de France assembly, at the suggestion of Prof. William Marx. Documents and media Download the conference poster Abstract Both Proust and Paul Valéry establish a link between writing and sleep. In neither case …

Exceptionally, the last seminar will take place on a Friday. Abstract In sub-Saharan Africa, authors' rights were granted to " invented subject ", in colonial times, according to the European Romantic standard of the 19th  century. We have progressively …

Abstract Best-seller of antiquity, Homer is the Greek author most often attested by papyrological documentation, and the Iliad is two or three   times more frequently attested than the Odyssey . One of the reasons for this is that Homer was the "   …

Abstract We are interested in quasi-linear parabolic systems, in which the diffusion matrix is not uniformly elliptic, but verifies a condition, known as the Petrovskii condition, of positivity of the real part of the eigenvalues. The locally …

Abstract Discovered by Edmond Becquerel in 1839, the photovoltaic effect transforms sunlight into electrical power. Spectacular advances in this field have made solar cells emblems of the energy transition. However, although these objects have become …

Abstract I will begin by talking about the nature of scientific thought, contrasted with the experience of working in a complex "enterprise." Then I will note some of the reasons (personal, cultural, economic, political or other) that explain why people …

Abstract In the second   part of the lecture, attention turns to electrodes designed for neural stimulation, a crucial technique for modulating nerve activity in therapeutic and research contexts. As with the recording of neural activity, electrochemical …

Abstract The second lecture will provide an introduction to the Bruhat-Tits theory and Moy-Prasad filtration, which play an essential role in the construction and study of representations of p-adic groups. (The second lecture is mostly independent of the …

Abstract The increasing use of digital technologies is often described as a revolution. In this session, we will challenge this assumption by exploring how digital technologies, and in particular algorithmic governance techniques, under the guise of …

Abstract France really embarked on its colonial adventure in the 17th   century, following the establishment of trading posts in North America and on the coast of Senegal. This marked the beginning of the spread of French throughout the world, as well as …

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