26 January 2012 – 6 pm
Speaker: Francesca Merlin (University of Leuven)
Videos
Europe’s Economic Crisis
Transatlantic Perspectives
Panel Discussions and Book Launch
7 December 2011, Washington, D.C.
Chaired by Robert Solow (M.I.T.)
Organized with the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, EU Center of Excellence, Washington, DC
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 Feasibility of European Monetary and Fiscal Policies
RETHINKING POLICY FROM A TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE
Chaired by Robert Solow (M.I.T.)
Organized with the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
19 October 2010, Johns Hopkins University, Kenney Auditorium, 1740 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.
The Keynesian Concept of Uncertainty
25 November 2009
Speaker: André Orléan (CNRS)
Commentator: Michèle Leclerc (EHESS)
12 & 13 November 2009
The new international division of labour
Conference volume: The Shape of the Division of Labour: Nations, Industries and Households
Programme Conference (389.8 KiB)
Trade and Labor Market Outcomes, Elhanan Helpman (Harvard University)
Exports of Knowledge-intensive and Manufactures, Valentina Meliciani (Teramo University)
Changes in the Concepts of Comparative Advantage, Matthieu Crozet (CEPII)
The Changing Global Economic Landscape, Jan Fagerberg (University of Oslo)
The Changing Sexual Division of Labour, Shelly Lundberg (University of Washington)
The Determinants of a New Division of Labour, John-Gabriel Goddard (World Bank)
Developing Countries, Developed Countries: The New Division of Labour, Richard Cooper (Harvard University)
How Global is FDI and What Policymakers Can Do About It, Peter Nunnenkamp (University of Kiel)
Developing Countries, Developed Countries: The New Division of Labour, Mathilde Maurel (University Paris-I)
Round Table: How Do Nations Adapt to the Changes in the Division of Labour? Bina Agarwal (University of Delhi)
Round Table: How Do Nations Adapt to the Changes in the Division of Labour? Martin Baily (Brookings Inst.)
Round Table: How Do Nations Adapt to the Changes in the Division of Labour? Jean-Louis Beffa (Saint-Gobain)
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)
Bayesian Confirmation Theory
26 March 2009
Speaker: Mikaël Cozic (École Normale Supérieure)
Commentator: Brian Hill (G.R.E.G.H.E.C.)
Appeal: Towards a Common Fiscal Policy: Relaunching the Euro-zone Economies
9 February 2009 (in Berlin)
Jean-Louis Beffa (Saint-Gobain), Gerhard Illing (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), Inge Kaul (Hertie School of Governance), Günther Schmid (W.Z.B.), Robert Solow (M.I.T.)
Stochastic Models of Decision Making
5 February 2009
Speaker: Jérôme Sackur (École Normale Supérieure)
Commentator: Catherine Tallon-Baudry (C.N.R.S.)
Thursday, 18 December 2008
The Economic Cost of Climate Change
Morning Session
1. Economics and the Environment
Martin Weitzman (Harvard University)
Olivier Godard (CNRS)
Commentator: Philippe Quirion (CNRS)
Some Basic Economics of Extreme Climate Change, Martin Weitzman (Harvard University)
Economics in the Environmental Crisis: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?, Olivier Godard (CNRS)
Comments on Olivier Godard and Martin Weitzman’s presentations, Philippe Quirion (CNRS)
Afternoon Session
2. Scenarios and Models of Climate Change
Michel Armatte (Centre Alexandre Koyré)
Thomas Sterner (University of Gothenburg)
Commentator: Jean-Charles Hourcade (CIRED)
Building Scenarios: How Climate Change Became an Economic Question, Michel Armatte (INSEE)
In Defence of Sensible Economics, Thomas Sterner (University of Gothenburg)
Comments on Michel Armatte and Thomas Sterner’s presentations, Jean-Charles Hourcade (CIRED)
Comments, Questions and Answers
Friday, 19 December 2008
Morning Session
3. Certainties, Uncertainties and What They Imply about Action
Thomas Schelling (University of Maryland), keynote speaker
Commentators: Masahiko Aoki (Stanford University) and Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Stanford University)
Comments on Thomas Schelling’s presentation, Masahiko Aoki (Stanford University)
Comments on Thomas Schelling’s presentation, Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Stanford University)
Afternoon Session
4. Round Table chaired by Robert Solow (MIT): Where Do We Stand and Where Do We Go from Here?
Inge Kaul (Hertie School of Governance)
Thomas Schelling (University of Maryland)
Nicholas Stern (London School of Economics)
Thomas Sterner (University of Gothenburg)
Martin Weitzman (Harvard University)
Part 1
Part 2
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)
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.)
