François Paré : Le fantasme d’Escanaba, Québec, Éditions Nota bene, 2007

Ambroise Paré (1510-1590).

study medicine in 1536 and supported himself by lecturing on mathematics, geography and astronomy. In Paris, his teachers included Sylvius and Andermach, who hailed him with Andrea Vesalius as his most able assistant in dissections There he stepped over the line that Christian doctrine had drown between acceptable areas of astrology, and forbidden zone of judicial astrology (left for God-essent...

Patient safety: Le Groupe Vigilance pour la Sécurité des Soins: a Québec perspective.

2000, following a series of tragic adverse events, the Quebec Health and Social Services Minister, Madame Pauline Marois, set up a committee to study adverse events in the province. Under the chairmanship of Mr. Jean Francœur, first Health and Social Services Ombudsman, the committee made a series of recommendations concerning all aspects of patient safety and including leadership, information ...

19 April 2013 − − François

Assignment 3 François Séguin

Question 1 First, we have that λ − λ − 2 = (λ + 1)(λ − 2). Therefore, it is true that the eigenvalues of the corresponding adjacency matrix come in pairs of additive inverse. However, notice that ± √ −1 are eigenvalues, and therefore the associated matrix cannot be symmetric (there would only be real eigenvalues). We conclude that no undirected graph can have the above characteristic polynomial...

The Planck mission François

These lecture notes discuss some aspects of the Planck1 mission, whose prime objective was a very accurate measurement of the temperature anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). We announced our findings a few months ago, on March 21st , 2013. I describe some of the relevant steps we took to obtain these results, sketching the measurement process, how we processed the data to obt...