Past events
Public lecture - Morphogens in the ontogeny and phylogeny of cognitive functions
By Alain Prochiantz, Collège de France A mouse egg cell always develops into a mouse. This transition from a single cell to a billion-cell organism, whose shape can be predicted from the egg cell,...[more]
Fellows Seminar - Literature and mathematics in early modernity: Hamlet, Pascal, and the interrupted game
By Shankar Raman, 2022 Fellow This talk is divided into two main parts. It will begin by laying out my broader project: the often-surprising connections between mathematics and literature in 16th-...[more]
Public conference - Food challenges in all their states: insights from lawyers
One of the urgent issues that ecological transition requires us to address is to rethink our food systems. The challenges are immense, since food raises questions about our production and consumption...[more]
Public lecture - Melatonin: perspectives and hopes for humans
By Professor Josephine Arendt, University of Surrey (United Kingdom) Venue: Amphithéatre A3, Institut Le Bel Melatonin is a special hormone with a time-telling function in all animal species. By...[more]
Lecture - Acoustic and Cultural Explanations for Musical Harmony and its Associated Emotions
By Andrew Milne, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University (Australia) A fundamental uncertainty about musical pitch/harmony and its cognition is the extent to...[more]
Fellows seminar - Weird architectures: dynamic and structural complexity as a resource for brain function
By Demian Battaglia, 2020 Fellow We like to think that systems implementing a function must have an architecture specially designed to perform the considered function. Somewhat as a corollary to...[more]
Open Fellows seminar - When chemistry goes chiral
Chirality is a geometric property of asymmetry. In chemistry, a molecule is called chiral if it cannot be superposed on its mirror image by any combination of rotations or translations. The word...[more]
Fellows seminar - Playing evolution, or learning to live without (really) important proteins
By Alexandre Smirnov, 2020 Fellow Everyone has now heard of RNA (ribonucleic acid). It is an essential part of gene expression in all living beings, from bacteria to humans. The existence and...[more]
