29 February 2012 – 6pm
Speaker: Xavier Timbeau (OFCE)
Seminars
“The Probabilism Sessions” are a transdisciplinary research seminar focused on the role of probability in the sciences. In the seminar, specialists from all sciences compare their methods and definitions. Augustin Cournot’s writings on probability theory serve as the source of inspiration.
The Probabilistic Shift in Biology
26 January 2012 – 6 pm
Speaker: Francesca Merlin (University of Leuven)
Information and probabilities in Biology
17 November 2011 – 6 pm
Speaker: Pierre-Henri Gouyon (Muséum d’histoire naturelle)
Noise from a Stochastic Perspective
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20 October 2011 – 6 pm
Speaker: Josselin Garnier (Université Paris VII)
Commentator: Nicole El Karoui (École Polytechnique)
The Emergence of French Probabilistic Statistics
29 September 2011 – 6 pm Read more »
Speaker: Laurent Mazliak (Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires)
Commentator: Alain Desrosières
Is Everything Stochastic?
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13 October 2010
Speaker: Glenn Shafer (Rutgers Business School)
Commentator: Michel Armatte (Centre Alexandre Koyré)
Quantification of the Brain
30 September 2010
Speaker: Pascal Legendre (INSERM)
Commentator: Alain Desrosières (INSEE) and Jean-Philippe Lachaux (INSERM)
Computer Science as a Probability Science: the Case of Speech Recognition
8 July 2010
Speaker: Alexander Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University)
Commentators: Jean-Marie Pierrel (Université de Nancy-II) and Franck Varenne (Université de Rouen / C.N.R.S.)
Spurious Regressions
27 May 2010
Speaker: Jean-Bernard Chatelain (University of Paris-I)
Commentator: Xavier Ragot (Banque de France)
What Do Probability Applications Say About Their Meaning?
18 March 2010
Speaker: Thierry Martin (IHPST, University of Besançon)
Commentator: Thomas Heams (Agroparistech)
Probabilities of Probabilities
21 January 2010
Speaker: Bernard Walliser (E.H.E.S.S.)
Commentator: Mikaël Cozic (E.N.S.)
The Keynesian Concept of Uncertainty
25 November 2009
Speaker: André Orléan (CNRS)
Commentator: Michèle Leclerc (EHESS)
Three Sources of Probability Calculations in the 18th Century
28 October 2009
Speaker: Michel Armatte (Centre Alexandre Koyré)
Commentator: Pierre-Charles Pradier (University of Paris-I)
The Probabilization of Risk
30 September 2009
Speaker: Pierre-Charles Pradier (Université Paris I)
Commentators: Yuri Biondi (C.N.R.S.) and Nicole El Karoui (École Polytechnique)
An Economic Analysis of Panics
25 May 2009
Speakers: Desiree Desierto (University of the Philippines) and John Nye (George Mason University, Virginia)
Commentator: Xavier Ragot (C.N.R.S.)
Bayesian Confirmation Theory
26 March 2009
Speaker: Mikaël Cozic (École Normale Supérieure)
Commentator: Brian Hill (G.R.E.G.H.E.C.)
Stochastic Models of Decision Making
5 February 2009
Speaker: Jérôme Sackur (École Normale Supérieure)
Commentator: Catherine Tallon-Baudry (C.N.R.S.)
Probabilism Theories: From Bayes to Reichenbach
20 November 2008
Speaker: Alexis Bienvenu (I.H.P.S.T.)
Commentator: Bernard Walliser (E.H.E.S.S.)
Determinism & Freedom
16 October 2008
Speaker: Ted Honderich (University College London)
Commentator: Edouard Guinet (Philosopher, Académie de Paris)
The Autonomization of Probability as a Science: The Experience of a Probabilist
18 September 2008
Speaker: Nicole El Karoui (École Polytechnique)
Commentator: Michel Armatte (Centre Alexandre Koyré)
Probabilism in Natural History
19 June 2008
Speakers: Guillaume Lecointre (French Natural History Museum) and Pierre Darlu (I.N.S.E.R.M.)
Commentator: Thierry Martin (University of Franche-Comté)
Probability Theories of Causality
5 June 2008
Speaker: Isabelle Drouet (University of Pittsburgh)
Commentator: Max Kistler (University of Grenoble)
The Random Expression of Genes: Probability or Biological Parameter?
20 March 2008
Speaker: Thomas Heams (I.N.R.A.)
Commentator: Franck Varenne (C.N.R.S.)
