Cours sur les modèles de mémoire associative,
Ecole de Physique Statistique, 31 mai-12 juin 1987, Beg-Rohu.
Conférences invitées et Séminaires / Invited talks
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2016
- Modeling the contagion dynamics of the 2005 French riots, Statistical and Mathematical Modeling in Biological Applications (SaMMBA seminar), Institut Pasteur, Paris, Jan. 5th, 2016.
2015
- 10 years after: modelling the dynamics of the 2005 French riots, Mathematics and Social Sciences Workshop, Imperial College, London, 16-17 Nov. 2015
- Propagation of riots, Escuela de Primavera Modelos de Crisis, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Campus Viña del Mar, Chili, 28-30 Oct. 2015.
- A model of riots dynamics: shocks, diffusion and thresholds , 3rd Sociophysics workshop, CEVIPOF, Paris, March 30/31 2015
- Entanglement between Demand and Supply in Markets with Bandwagon Goods, "Statistical Physics Methods in Social and Economic Systems", IHP, Paris, January 26th-30th, 2015
2014
- Perception catégorielle : codage neuronal et apprentissage comportemental, Séminaire du Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, ENS, 3 décembre 2014.
- Categorical perception: neural coding and behavioral learning, lunch seminar, GNT, DEC, ENS, Paris, 25 Sept. 2014
- Participation à la Nuit des sciences, exposé sur le thème "Qu'est-ce qu'un modèle ?", Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 6 juin 2014.
- Urban social dynamics: "Don¿t buy the house, buy the neighborhood", Physics Department, HKUST university, Hong-Kong, June 2014
- Neural correlates of categorical perception,
Inaugural workshop of the European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN, Human Brain Project) , Paris, March 26Th, 2014
2013
- Categorical Perception: from Coding Efficiency to Reaction Times, Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience, Workshop of CNS2013 (annual meeting of the Organization for Computational Neurosciences), Paris, July 17-19, 2013. See also: Poster at CNS2013.
- Invited talk, Interactions 2013 - Understanding urban conflicts, University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, July 4-5, 2013.
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Dynamique de ségrégation socio-spatiale en milieu urbain, conférence plénière, Modélisation, Dynamique Urbaine et Etalement Urbain, Orléans, 4 - 5 juin 2013
- Urban social dynamics: ``Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood'', Séminaire du Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées aux Systèmes, Ecole Centrale de Paris (ECP), 18 février 2013.
2012
- Urban social dynamics: ``Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood", Colloquium, Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atomico de Bariloche, Argentina, Dec 4, 2012.
- Categorical perception: making choice under stimulus ambiguity and neural variability, Centro Atomico de Bariloche, Argentina, Dec 3, 2012.
- Invited talk, Mini-Encuentro sobre Sistemas Complejos, organized by L. Ermann, M. Saraceno and M.A. Virasoro, Buenos-Aires, 27-30 Nov. 2012.
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Dynamiques sociales urbaines : Schelling revisité,
Séminaire du Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Bretagne Atlantique (LMBA), Vannes, vendredi 23 novembre 2012.
The curse of coordination: Entanglement between demand and supply in markets with bandwagon goods, Econophys-Kolkata VII Conference,
jointly organized by the Ecole Centrale Paris, Kyoto University and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics.
Kolkata (Calcutta, India), November 8-12, 2012 (proceedings here).
Comportements collectifs dans les systèmes sociaux, Rencontres du Réseau National des Systèmes Complexes (RNSC), Montpellier, France, 2 octobre 2012.
Urban social dynamics: ``Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood'', Special Session: Mathematics of Social Systems at the 9th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications July 1 - 5, 2012. Orlando, Florida, USA.
Agent-based models of social segregation: from Schelling's dynamics to urban housing market, plenary session,
17th Annual Workshop on Economic Heterogeneous Interacting Agents
(WEHIA 2012),
Paris, June 21-23, 2012.
Cycles of cooperation and free-riding in social systems, Inter-disciplinary workshop on "Collective Decisions", Paris School of Economics, Paris, June 28, 2012.
Complexité du codage neuronal. Atelier Complexité - Simplexité organisé par Jean-Luc Petit autour du livre d'Alain Berthoz, "La simplexité". Fondation Hugot du Collège de France, Paris, 23-24 mai 2012.
Categorical perception: making choice under stimulus ambiguity and neural variability,
Colloque en l'honneur de Daniel Bennequin, "Géométrie sans frontières, au contact de plusieurs
disciplines", Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, 12-17 mars 2012.
2011
- Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood, workshop "The unexpected conference", ENSTA/CREA, Paris, Nov. 14-16, 2011.
- Making choice under social influence: Entanglement between Demand and Supply,
session in honor of Alan Kirman, Urrutia Elejalde Foundation (FUE) Diversity Prize, at the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET) annual meeting,
Evora, Portugal, Oct. 27-29, 2011.
- Modeling urban housing market dynamics: can the sociospatial
segregation preserve some social diversity?,
Séminaire CEPN - LAGA, UFR Sciences Economiques et Gestion, Université Paris 13,
9 juin 2011.
- Categorical perception and discrete choices experiments: from neural coding to reaction times,
Symposium on Working Memory and Decision Making,
Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, March 8-9, 2011.
- Categorical perception and discrete choices experiments: from neural coding to reaction times,
Workshop Interaction and Decision Making in
Animal Space Use and Navigation, Univ. of Bristol, UK, 20-21 Jan. 2011.
- Physique statistique de dynamiques sociales urbaines,
11 janvier 2011,
Séminaire general du Laboratoire de Physique des Solides,
Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay, 11 janvier 2011.
2010
- Category Perception: From Effcient Coding to Reaction Times, 9th International neural coding workshop (NC2010), Limassol, Cyprus, 29 October - 3 November, 2010.
- Analyse de séries temporelles de la délinquance : peut-on démêler l'écheveau de l'intrication entre dynamiques locales et tendance nationale ?, Colloque "Probabilités juridiques et statistiques judiciaires", Université de Franche-comté, UFR SLHS, Besancon, 14 et 15 octobre 2010.
- Cycles of cooperation and free-riding in social systems, workshop "From reciprocity to altruism: What are the advantages of evolving positive minds?", FMSH, Paris, 15 - 16 June 2010.
- Pricing of Goods with Bandwagon Properties: Entanglement between Demand and Supply, invited seminar, Bristol Center for Complex Systems, Bristol, UK, June 1st 2010.
- Perception of Categories: From Coding Efficiency to Reaction Times, 8th Paris area Computational Neuroscience Day, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, April 30, 2010.
2009
- La modelizacion matematica en Ciencias Sociales (talk given in English),
Seminario de Estadistica y Ciencias Sociales. Departamento de Sociologia I, Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociologia, UNED, Madrid, Nov. 4, 2009.
- Population coding: an information theoretic approach, Beijing International Symposium on Computational Neuroscience, Beijing, China, July 24-25, 2009.
- Pricing of Goods with Bandwagon Properties:
Entanglement between Demand and Supply, mathematical modelling workshop, program Limits to Rationality in Economics and Financial Markets,
The Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), Glasgow, June 29-30, 2009.
- "La tyrannie des petites décisions" : phénomènes collectifs dans les
systèmes économiques et sociaux, Journées "Approches de la complexité",
Institut de l'ENS,
Paris, 4-5 juin 2009.
- La tyrannie des petites décisions :
un regard de physicien sur le travail pionnier de Thomas Schelling (Micromotives and Macrobehavior: a physicist's look at Schelling's pioneering works), Séminaire du groupe de travail "Interactions" du GREQAM, Marseille, 15 mai 2009.
- Micromotives and Macrobehavior: a new look at Schelling's pioneering works, ANR-NSF Workshop on Dynamics in the Human Sciences: Cognitive, Behavioral, & Social Complexity,
Reims, 27 et 28 Avril 2009.
- Phénomènes collectifs en sciences sociales: heurs et malheurs de la coordination, Conférence invitée aux Journées de Physique Statistique, Paris 29-30 janvier 2009.
2008
- Temporal and spatial patterns in crime statistics, workshop "Physics Applied to Economics and Social Sciences" (PAESS08), Porto Alegre, Brazil, 25-29 nov. 2008.
- Pricing of Goods with Bandwagon Properties: Entanglement between Demand and Supply, 5th European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS08), Jerusalem, September 14-19, 2008
- Coordination in social systems: how complexity may hinder strategic decision making, Public Think Tank events, Complexity Science in the 21 Century, Jerusalem, September 17-19, 2008
- Neural coding: an information theoretic approach, Conference "A scientific day in honour of Nicolas Sourlas", Physics Department, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, Friday 6th of June, 2008.
- Neural coding of categories: Information Efficiency and Optimal Population Codes, 1st Ecole Normale Supérieure - Northwestern University "Life and Biomedical Sciences" Research Workshop, May 8, 2008
- Workshop Mathematical models for criminality in urban areas, Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 17-19 April 2008.
- La tyrannie des petites décisions -
modélisation de systèmes complexes en sciences sociales, Conférence invitée, RFIA2008, Amiens, 22-25 janv. 2008.
2007
- Choix sous influence sociale : heurs et malheurs de la coordination, Séminaire "La Cognition Sociale", ENS-LSH et institut Rhône Alpin des systèmes complexes, Lyon, 8 novembre 2007.
- Choix sous influence sociale: heurs et malheurs de la coordination, conférence invitée, Colloque de l'ACI Systèmes Complexes en Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-La-Salle, 26 mai - 2 juin 2007.
- Choice under Social Influence: the Curse of Coordination, invited talk,workshop KTASEEM (Kinetic Theory and Socio-Economical Equilibria Modelling), Orléans, 15-16 March 2007.
- Exposé sur la thématique "Systèmes complexes", Journée ENS - EPFL, ENS, Paris, 26 janvier 2007.
2006
- Information theoretic approach to neural coding, invited talk, Journée "Maths and Brain" ("Maths et Cerveau") organized by D. Bennequin, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris, Nov. 10, 2006.
- Invited Talk at the
International Conference on Recent Advances in the Interdisciplinary Applications of Statistical Physics, 20 - 22 September 2006, ICTS, Beijing, P.R. China
- Existe-t-il une physique de l'émergence ?,
séminaire du CAMS "Emergences dans les systèmes complexes", EHESS, 16 mars 2006.
2005
- Analysis and modeling of collective phenomena in biology, Invited talk, Colloque "As physics make a contribution to studies of the living: witnesses of the present time", organized by Centre Alexandre Koyré and Entre-Sciences, December 16-17, 2005, Paris.
Videos of the workshop: click here.
Proceedings: "Working at interface of sciences: as physics meets biology", Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, special issue, to appear (June 2007).
- Modélisation du codage neuronal : approches statistiques, 23 juin 2005, Conférence pour l'Ecole Maths et Cerveau (Maths and Brain ),
école d'été de l'Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, IHP et Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, 13-24 juin 2005.
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De l'individuel au collectif :
choix sous influence sociale dans une population d'agents hétérogènes,
séminaire du CAMS "La question de la modélisation en sciences sociales", EHESS, mardi 17 mai 2005.
2004
- De l'individuel au collectif : sciences physiques vs. sciences sociales,
Séminaire général de la matière condensée, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides,
23 novembre, Université d'Orsay.
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Neural Computation in the Cerebellum (and elsewhere): What Silent Synapses Tell Us,
November 19, Interdisciplinary Seminars in Nonlinear Science,
Complex systems group, Northwestern University, Evenston, USA.
- Making choice under social influence:
some insight from statistical mechanics, November 16, Seminar of the
The Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO),
Northwestern University, Evenston, USA.
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Learning and Decision in Biological and Social Networks,
workshop on Bounded rationality and learning,
Aix-en-Provence, September 30, October 1, 2004.
- Statistical physics of social interactions:
multiple equilibria in a market with heterogeneous agents,
conference on "Fundamental Aspects of Complexity", September 6-10, 2004, ICTP, Trieste.
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Ce que nous disent les synapses silencieuses
(présentation jointe avec Boris Barbour), Séminaire de l'unité Physicochimie 'Curie' - UMR 168 CNRS/Institut Curie, Institut Curie, 1er juillet 2004.
- Conférence invitée, Journées "Approche dynamique de la cognition, Emergentisme et Représentationalisme", ENS-LSH, Lyon 22-24 avril 2004.
- Physique statistique des phénomènes collectifs en sciences économiques
et sociales, conférence du CERMSEM, Université Paris 1 : "Modèles et méthodes mathématiques dans les sciences sociales : apports et limites",
26-27 mars 2004, Maison des Sciences Économiques, Paris.
- Concepts et outils physiques pour la modélisation des systèmes cognitifs et sociaux, Colloque de prospective "Vers une science des systèmes complexes", CNRS, Paris 11-12 fév. 2004.
2003
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Perception of the Structure of the Physical World using Unknown Multimodal Sensors and Effectors,
David Philipona, J. Kevin O'Regan, Jean-Pierre Nadal, Olivier J.-M. D. Coenen,
Poster, and Oral presentation by D. Philipona, at NIPS 2003,
Vancouver, December 9-11, 2003.
- Monopoly Market with Externality: an Analysis with Statistical Physics and ACE (work with D Phan, M B Gordon and J Vannimenus),
WEHIA 2003, Kiel - May 2003.
- Codage neuronal, estimation de paramètres, traitement du signal :
une approche unifiée dans le cadre de la théorie de l'information, séminaire commun LPT-LPTMS (Orsay), March 27, 2003
2002
- Infering space from sensori-motor activities,
sept. 10-17, 2002, Les Treilles,
workshop "Brain basis of spatial orientation" organized by Sidney Wiener and Jeffrey Taube.
- Outils et concepts de la physique statistique
pour la modélisation des systèmes cognitifs et sociaux,
14 février 2002,
Conférence du Département de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan.
2001
- Statistical Physics Approach to the Modelling of Social Networks,
French-Chinese (CNRS-NSFC) Workshop on Complexity in Social and Cognitive Sciences,
Paris - CNRS - 3 Rue Michel-Ange,
20 to 22 of September 2001.
- Codage par population dans le cortex :
analyse dans le cadre de la théorie de l'information
,
Séminaires Cognition de l'Ecole Doctorale
de Sciences Cognitives de Lyon, 1er mars 2001.
Autres participations à des Ecoles et Conférences /
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Organisation de Conférences et Ecoles
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Organization of Conferences and Schools
- Complexity in social systems: from data to models, Cergy-Pontoise University, 27-28 June 2013, organized with L Hernandez and Ch. Borghesi (UCP).
- "De la diversité des humanitées numériques : une exploration des pratiques", EHESS, Paris, 25 mars 2013. Journée organisée avec F. Chateauraynaud et P. Fridenson (EHESS).
- Urban social dynamics: segregation and criminality, Satellite meeting of the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'11), Vienna, September 12-16, 2011. Co-organisation with Mirta B. Gordon (LIG, Grenoble), Andromachi Tseloni (Nottingham Trent University) and Annick Vignes (ERMES, Paris 2), an event of the project DyXi supported by the French National Research Agency, the ANR.
- Urban social dynamics: inequalities, segregation and criminality. An interdisciplinary workshop, EHESS, Paris, November 15-16, 2010 - (a joint event of the project DyXi supported by the French National Research Agency, the ANR, and of the PPF Systèmes complexes en sciences sociales (grant from the French Ministry of Research).
- Complex systems in urban environment / Journée Systèmes complexes en environnement urbain, July 7, 2010, EHESS, Paris, (a joint event of the project DyXi supported by the French National Research Agency, the ANR, and of the European Coordinate Action Global System Dynamics and Policies).
- Workshop "Decision Making and Risks in Complex Environments", Thursday 29 April 2010, Institut des Systèmes Complexes Paris-Ile-de-France (ISC-PIF), Paris (an event of the European Coordinate Action "Global System Dynamics and Policies", organized with the ISC-PIF).
- Dec. 2008, "Is There a Mathematics of Social Entities?", Dahlem Konferenzen, Berlin - Member of the organizing committee.
- Journées Systèmes Complexes, EHESS, Paris, lundi 22 et mardi 23 septembre 2008
- Public Think Tank events, Complexity Science in the 21 Century, Jerusalem, September 14-15, 17-19, 2008 (co-organization with Sorin Solomon, Annick Vignes, Itzhak Aharon and Gur Yaari).
- NeuroComp 2007: Autumn School in Computational Neuroscience, ESPCI, Paris, November 14-16, 2007 - Member of the organizing committee.
- Workshop "Dynamics and Complexity in People and Societies",
Northwestern University, Evanston 22-24 Oct., 2007. Co-organization with J. Pierrehumbert and A. Wilkinson (NU), and with H. Berestycki (EHESS).
- "Dynamique des systèmes complexes et applications aux SHS : modèles, concepts méthodes", 8 - 17 mars 2004, Club IGESA d'Agay Roches Rouges,
Ecole de l'ACI "Systèmes complexes en SHS" (co-organisation avec D. Phan et G. Weisbuch).
- "NEUROSCIENCE and COMPUTATION", a three month program on computational neuroscience hosted by the Emile Borel Center of Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP), January 7 - April 12, 2002. Co-org. with Nicolas Brunel, Yves Frégnac and Claude Meunier. This program included Seminars, Courses, and three workshops:
From synaptic to brain imaging (14-16 January 2002),
Homeostasis, plasticity and learning: from experiments to algorithms (4-6 March 2002),
and Functional representations and dynamics of cell assemblies
(8-10 April 2002). Following this program a special issue of Journal of Physiology-Paris has been edited (Volume 97, Issues 4-6, Pages 387-694, July - November 2003).
- "Neural information and coding", NIC workshop, Les Houches, March 27-30, 2002. Coorg. with A. Pouget (Rochester Univ.) and Z. F. Mainen (Cold Spring Harbor).
- De 2001 à 2006, co-organisation avec Viviane Pouthas des Journées scientifiques du Réseau de Sciences Cognitives d'Ile-de-France (RESCIF).
- "Economie Cognitive", Ecole CNRS, Porquerolles, 25 septembre - 5 octobre 2001.
Co-edition of the proceedings.
- "Economie Cognitive", Ecole CNRS, Ile de Berder (Morbihan), 14-19 mai 2000.
- "From Statistical Physics To Statistical Inference and Back", Cargese, 1992 -
co-organization with P. Grassberger, and co-edition of the proceedings .
- "Complex Dynamical Systems", Summer institute, April 17 - July 31, 1990, ISI, Torino. Organization with R. Livi, N. Packard, M. Droz
and P. Grassberger.
- "Complexity and Evolution", Les Houches 1990,
co-org. with R. Livi R. and N. Packard. Co-edition of the proceedings .
- "Physics, Mathematics and Cognitive Neurosciences", Jan. 24-27, 1989, ENS, Paris.
Organization with J.-P. Changeux, S. Dehaene, J. Mehler and G. Weisbuch
- "Disorder and Mixing", Cargese 1987, co-org. with E. Charlaix, E. Guyon and Y. Pomeau.
Co-edition of the proceedings .
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