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Abstract It is often conjectured, that the far-from-equilibrium dynamics of generic disordered isolated systems exhibits thermalization. While this process is notoriously difficult to be treated theoretically, we can experimentally probe the relaxation …

Biography André Joffre André Joffre is 67 years old. An arts and crafts engineer, he first worked in the solar subsidiary of Société Européenne de Propulsion (Safran group). He then set up TECSOL, which has become one of Europe's leading solar energy …

Merit and meritocracy: for oneself or for all? Values, opinions, judgments and behavior. Lessons from The European Social Survey. …

Abstract The quadratic approximation of an N-body Hamiltonian. Bogoliubov's method and its implementation for a spin-1 particle gas in the single-mode approximation. Documents and media Download support Download lecture …

This lecture will look at the development of photovoltaics in society and its capacity to respond massively and rapidly to the global energy transition, while respecting the environmental, economic and ethical criteria essential to the fight against …

Knowledge of Biblical Hebrew essential. …

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Abstract The information systems we use every day are highly complex. In particular, they rely on the implementation of network protocols and the interpretation of documents in a variety of formats. In this seminar, we will focus on the specifications …

Abstract This lesson addresses the issue of piety as a norm, thus reversing the perspective hitherto adopted in the analysis. After exploring the way in which the gods were likely - in the Greek imaginary - to infuse, or even impose, norms on men, we …

Abstract Some information is more confidential than others, or more trustworthy than others. After an introduction to Bell-LaPadula 's confidentiality and Biba's integrity policies, we'll look at how to control the flow of information through a program, …

Stéphane Conversy Stéphane Conversy is Professor of Computer Science at the École nationale de l'aviation civile, and head of the Interactive Computing team. His research focuses on the design of graphical, sound and group interactions, and the …

To design effective interactive systems, you need to understand your future users. However, we can't just ask them what they want. We need to use methods that reveal what users need, even for technologies that have not yet been invented. This lesson …

Abstract La Concurrence des victimes was published in 1997. Its reception was very mixed, prompting more or less sincere cries of outrage. Since then, the use of the expression has become commonplace, and the book has been widely cited in academic …

Maud Tenaillon Maud Tenaillon, CNRS research director, leads a team whose work focuses on the evolution and adaptation of domesticated plants. Her main study models are maize and its wild relatives, with questions on the evolution of genome sizes, …

This lecture will focus on domestication as a model for studying biodiversity and evolution, using examples such as the domestication of plants, fruit trees, cheese-ripening mushrooms, dogs and horses. This lecture will also address current challenges …

Abstract Women composers are too often overlooked. Ignorance of the " geysers of sound " by Alice Mary Smith, an English composer of the 19th   century, or of the poignant melodies of an adagio composed by the American Amy Beach is a fairly recent …

Abstract What is the past ? T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land answers this question by showing the bitter mixture of memory and desire created by any appearance of the past in dead soil. Complete oblivion, associated with winter, is more comfortable than …

By comparing archaeological data, sources from the royal archives and Jewish memory of the attack on the call of the Catalan city of Tàrrega in the summer of 1348, and then comparing it with other examples of the killing of Jews in times of plague in the …