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Abstract This lecture will explore a simple question: Does the historical human experience of climate change since the last Ice Age matter to us now as we confront the very pressing problems raised by an unprecedented rate of change in a rapidly warming …

Abstract The most significant impacts of natural climate in human history have been influenced by human factors. The link between climate and conflict is one of the main possible mechanisms of …

Abstract Koka is a strict functional language with full algebraic effect handlers and rich effect typing. The Koka compiler also uses compiler guided reference counting and compiles directly to C code without needing a garbage collector or runtime system. …

Abstract Just as mathematical logic provides laws for reasoning about mathematical definitions and statements, a program logic for a programming language provides laws for establishing true properties of all possible executions of a program written in …

Lecture plan 2.2. Funny lecture rooms ! Or the empire of the school tag (continued) 2.2.2. An open-air classroom ? (continued) …

Abstract After metaphors, the protagonists of the first   session, it's the body that takes center stage in this lecture. The body acts in at least two   different ways as a matrix for metaphors and other tropes. Many metaphors arise from the fact that …

Abstract Denoising diffusion models have led to impressive generative models in many domains. These algorithms learn from data a probability distribution in high dimension. They invert a stochastic differential which maps the probability distribution to a …

Abstract The first lecture is aimed at a general math audience and will be an introduction to the representation theory of p-adic groups and its relation to other areas. It will include an overview of the construction of representations of p-adic groups …

The state of the art for generating complex data such as images, sounds or complex physical fields is the diffusion score algorithm. The score diffusion algorithm samples a probability distribution by transporting white Gaussian noise to the distribution …

Abstract From the dolce stil nuovo envisaged as the collective exercise of a poetry of knowledge to the metaphysics of love deployed in the Commedia, Dante never ceased to "   think amorously   ". This conjunction between the experience of love and the …

Abstract In 1943, the encyclical Divinante Afflante Spiritu marked the abandonment of fundamentalist reading and called for a critical reading of the Bible. From this moment onwards, a reflection on the ways in which the divine word can be interpreted …

Documents and media Download support Abstract With Marcel Proust, a theory and experience of reading become a theory and motor of writing. Such would be the fundamental intuition of his literary system, to use the words of Henri Bergson, according to whom …

Abstract This first lecture will present the historical background to the study of neural activity and experience. It will also present methods for measuring neuronal activity and their recent evolution, which have made it possible to highlight early …

Abstract How do cells control their size and couple the various ongoing cellular processes? Over the last decade, techniques were developed for extracting information pertinent to this question from correlations between key cell cycle variables, such as …

Abstract The law on parity, passed in 2000 and requiring political parties to field 50 % female candidates in all elections, gave rise to fierce debate throughout the years 1990, revealing major disagreements among feminist intellectuals. It was against …

Documents and media Download support Download lecture notes References Riccardo Rao and Massimiliano Esposito, "Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Chemical Reaction Networks: Wisdom from Stochastic Thermodynamics", Phys. Rev. X , 6, 041064 (2016). Xingbo …

Abstract from Rémi Bastien 's talk Is the hypermobility of our modern world possible without fossil fuels ? The domestication of coal and, above all, oil has accelerated the movement of goods and people exponentially. Mobility is not a consequence of …

Abstract Since the process of planetary formation tends to produce several planets, it is essential to take into account the interactions between them. Migration leads to the formation of resonance chains, sometimes observed in exoplanetary systems. …