5 Patricia Renesto, Chantal Abergel, Philippe Decloquement, Danielle Moinier, Saïd 6 Azza, Hiroyuki Ogata, Patrick Fourquet, Jean-Pierre Gorvel, Jean-Michel Claverie 7 and Didier Raoult 8 9 10 From the Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR-48, Faculté de Médecine, 27 Boulevard 11 Jean Moulin, the Information Génomique & Structurale, CNRS UPR 2589, IBSM, Parc 12 scientifique et technologique...

I was lucky enough throughout the 1980s and early 1990s to have Jean Mandler as my colleague for about half of each year. Everyone at the erstwhile Cognitive Development Unit in London looked forward annually to Jean, along with spring, resuming her residence among us. Jean has a way of deploying her intellectual commitment, erudition, creativity, and skill in debate so that even if she is skew...

In her article "Comparativist Imagology and the Phenomenon of Strangeness Małgorzata Świderska presents national, ethnic, and/or (inter)cultural strangeness in literary works concept of comparativist imagology and from the work of Jean-Marc Moura. Świderska imagology to Heimito von Doderer's "

In these notes, we present a general framework to compute the codimension one part of the elimination ideal of a system of homogeneous polynomials. It is based on the computation of the so-called MacRae’s invariants that we will obtain by means of determinants of complexes. Our approach mostly uses tools from commutative algebra. We begin with some basics on elimination theory and then introduc...

There will be 3 to 4 homeworks in the semester. The first homework is already up or will be by the end of the day.

Jean is a model of early cognitive development based loosely on Piaget’s theory of sensori-motor and pre-operational thought. Like an infant, Jean repeatedly executes schemas, gradually transferring them to new situations and extending them as necessary to accommodate new experiences. We model this process of accommodation with the Experimental State Splitting (ESS) algorithm. ESS learns elemen...