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Abstract In France, as long as the procedure is performed by a doctor or midwife, the law allows all women to have an abortion within the fourteen-week time limit   -   - that's voluntary interruption of pregnancy. Recourse to abortion is particularly …

Abstract Diffusion models can be used to synthesize samples with complex distributions and have many applications in data generation. Recently, they have been used as priors for solving Bayesian inverse problems. This presentation provides an overview of …

Speakers: Michel Ferrero (École Polytechnique, CPHT and Collège de France), Kris van Houcke (ENS, Laboratoire de Physique ), Olivier Parcollet (Flatiron Institute), Thomas Schäfer (Max Planck Institute, …

Abstract The interaction of light with matter is extremely rich. In chemistry and biology, the photon is used as a reagent in a wide range of preparative and analytical scientific developments. As this seminar will illustrate, however, the use of photons …

Abstract In the inter-war period, the universalist legacy of the Enlightenment was not confined to the colonialist discourse advocating Europe' s civilizing mission . It was used in other ways, from a European perspective, to defend democracy, oppose …

Abstract One of the most important medical innovations to arise from the genome revolution is the development of liquid biopsies: simple blood tests which replace the need for invasive sampling in fields as diverse as pregnancy, transplant medicine, …

Abstract In this talk, I will employ an ADM deparametrization strategy to discuss the radial canonical formalism for asymptotically AdS gravity in three dimensions. It leads to the identification of a radial 'time' before quantization, namely the volume …

Abstract Unlike the book, the letter implies a particular situation of writing and enunciation, as well as circumstances of reading: as soon as the envelope is opened, the recipient is transformed into a reader, the text into an event and its message into …

Abstract Poussin's painting Les Bergers d'Arcadie does not require us to choose between contradictory interpretations: they are all valid in the same way as optical illusions whose interpretation and referent change depending on whether we structure the …

Abstract Since Régine Pernoud and Georges Duby, a tradition, whose influence extends beyond the historiographical framework, locates in the second half of the 12th   century, at the time of Hildegarde de Bingen and Eleanor of Aquitaine, a lost paradise of …

Abstract The oracle was expressed in the form of an enigma. It fell to a wise man to decipher it and make the encrypted message apparent. If history is the art of looking at the enigmas of the past and grasping their nature as much as the reasons that …