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In these two nouns, the preposition functions differently still. Intermediality draws attention to the fundamental impurity of the media. No media product - whether considered text, image, sound or movement - can do without the often almost imperceptible …

Chairman  : Xavier Leroy Abstract Quantum technologies have the potential to improve communication security in network infrastructures in unprecedented ways. In this talk, after introducing the fundamental principles of quantum physics that enable the …

Chairman  : Xavier Leroy Abstract "   Despite all preconceived ideas, the property of absolute indecipherability is by no means a pure chimera   ". These words by William F. Friedman, one of the founding fathers of cryptology, show that cryptologists and …

Chairman  : Françoise Combes Abstract The discovery of extrasolar planets has shown that planetary systems can have very diverse structures. Clearly, there is a wide variety of possible formation and evolution histories. It therefore becomes important to …

Chairman  : Françoise Combes Abstract On 14   September 2015, gravitational wave detectors observed the gravitational signal produced by the merger of two   massive black holes at great astronomical distance. On 17   August 2017, the detectors observed …

Chairman  : Françoise Combes Abstract The cosmic microwave background is the electromagnetic radiation that bathes the Universe as a whole, emitted when it was only around 380   000   years old . Buried beneath the strata of emissions from our own and …

Chairman  : Jean-Luc Fournet Abstract During the fighting on the Pacific front in World War II, the Marines used speakers of the Native American Navajo language to exchange secret messages. This code proved impossible for the Japanese army to decipher, …

Chairman  : Jean-Luc Fournet Abstract We've all learned to decipher a subtle cryptogram : the alphabetic script you're reading right now. Using brain imaging, my laboratory is trying to understand how learning to read takes place in the developing brain. …

Chairman  : Jean-Luc Fournet Abstract What process is followed when clay tablets inscribed in cuneiform script are discovered on an excavation site  ? This paper, based on over forty   years of experience in Syria and Iraq and on recent discoveries , will …

The last two years of Champollion's all-too-brief life were crucial. On his return to Paris on March 5 1830, he had taken a decisive step towards the deciphering of hieroglyphics. The sixteen months he had just spent in Egypt, in contact with its …

Chairman  : Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Abstract Meroitic was the language spoken in ancient times in the land of Kush, north of present-day Sudan. During the last phase of this civilization, strongly influenced by Pharaonic Egypt, known as the   kingdom of …

Chairman  : Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Abstract In September   1822, the publication of Lettre à M.   Dacier marked a fundamental step in the long road that led Jean-François Champollion to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs  : in it, he emphasized the …

Chairman  : Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Abstract Jean-François Champollion's deciphering of the hieroglyphs was a thunderclap in the skies of historical studies, and its impact may not be fully appreciated -   to the extent that it has become the paradigm …

Abstract Our knowledge of the remote epochs of cosmic dawn and reionization is about to be profoundly modified by large-scale instruments such as SKA and JWST. Numerical simulations dedicated to the formation of the first structures are thus being …

Abstract Galaxies in the first billion years after the Big Bang are certainly responsible for the reionization of the Universe. We know more about these galaxies thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Reionization will certainly be impacted by the …