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Abstract This lecture focuses on the genesis and evolution of gas disks around forming stars. These disks are also called accretion disks because of their ability to transport matter towards the central star. Stellar accretion is also observed …

Geometric and Musical Patterns: Brain Mechanisms and Educational Relevance Abstract The sense of geometry for static shapes is accompanied, in the human species, by an ability to perceive regularities and in particular symmetries within spatial and …

Abstract Following on from last year's study of the British Library tablets, we now turn our attention to a previously unpublished tablet from Fribourg, which provides new evidence of bilingual (Greek-Coptic) vocational education in post-Arab conquest …

Abstract Over the past 8,000 years, Southwest Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean have seen the rise of cities, states and empires. Climate fluctuations are generally considered to be a significant factor in these changes because in pre-industrial …

Abstract The concept of resilience has rapidly gained remarkable importance in socio-ecological systems theory. The word resilience appears thousands of times in the latest IPCC assessment report. A historical perspective can help us understand its …

Abstract Since Babbage and Lovelace's analytical machine, the machine language executed by processors has typically consisted of a succession of instructions in sequence. But efficient implementation in hardware requires instructions to be executed in …

Abstract What are the difficulties in gaining acceptance for and actually implementing environmental protection policies ? And more generally, how do you regulate businesses in relatively weak …

Abstract In contrast to classical imperative programming, declarative programming is concerned with describing the expected results of a program, without making explicit the sequence of elementary computational steps that produce these results. Do we …

Lecture plan 0. Introduction 1. Monasticism and lectures 1.1. The topos of the illiterate monk  : monasteries as a place of unculture or a-culture …

Abstract In this presentation, we will discuss opportunities for accelerating the simulation of physical systems at equilibrium with machine learning. These methods rely heavily on deep generative models, which are highly flexible probabilistic models …

We are now focusing on parametric models that admit a Gibbs energy. The aim is to estimate the parameters that best approximate the distribution of the training base samples. The distribution to be estimated is approximated by a distribution with a …

Abstract In 1187, Richard the Lionheart and Philip Augustus expressed their joy at finding each other with such spectacular displays of affection that King Henry   II declared himself "   deeply astonished by the vehement love that existed between them, …

Abstract The dialogue between Plato and Aristotle is important for knowing how to read. It is against this backdrop that we need to understand, for example, sensitivity reading and the debates it provokes, a type of reading that corresponds less to a new …

Documents and media Download support Abstract The evolution of the literary status of fairy tales post-dates the very evolution of print production and publishing. From the end of the 16th   century, simplified texts with a popular appeal began to …

Julien Debonneville : "  The Philippines in the globalized economy of domestic work " Chiara Giordano : "  Desirable/undesirable : the role of origins in the image of domestic …

Abstract Globular clusters are systems made up of hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of stars, held together by gravity. Long considered very simple systems, made up of stars of the same age and with the same chemical properties, they now reveal a …