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 Africa Business School, Rabat Campus, Thursday 18 January 2024 The Chair of Complexities ∞ Humanities is pleased to organize an event in Rabat to honor the work of an exceptional mathematician and computer scientist, Gregory Chaitin. Gregory and his wife Virginia, a historian and philosopher of sciences, are residents at the UM6P Institute for Advanced Studies for the year 2023-24, bringing their scientific background and life experience to the UM6P… Lire plus / Read more

Book review by Reda Benkirane of Pankaj Mishra, The Age of Anger. A History of the Present, London, Allen Lane, 2017, by Reda Benkirane. (Translation in English and Arabic by  Samia Erraji of the article published in Le Monde, June 2022. ) In a striking mirror narrative, the Indian essayist Pankaj Mishra dissects peoples’ resentment since the 18th century and the “blindness” of the Enlightenment. There is a grand narrative… Lire plus / Read more

Extrait de Quand la Science parlait arabe, sous la direction de Fouad Laroui et Saâd Tazi, Actes de la 1ère édition de la Semaine de la Science, Université Mohamed VI Polytechniques (UM6P),  Maroc, juin 2022. Les femmes et les hommes de ce siècle, qu’ils se réclament des sciences et techniques, des arts, cultures et religions, sont confrontés à un problème planétaire de surchauffe et probablement de survie qui se résume à une… Lire plus / Read more

Version : English – Française Excerpts translated by Nicolas Sperry-Guillou from Réda Benkirane, La Complexité, vertiges et promesses. Histoires de sciences. Nouvelle édition, Benguerir, UM6P-Press, 2023. [Algorithm, Algorithmic information theory, Belouzof-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction, Boolean automata networks, Brownian motion, Cellular automaton, Combinatorial optimization, Cybernetics, Entropy, Feynman’s sum, Fitness landscape, Frankfurt School, Gauss Carl Friedrich, Growth problems, Hilbert David, Incompleteness theorem, Koch von, Helge, Kuhn Thomas, Laplace Pierre-Simon de, Learning curves, Lorenz Edward,… Lire plus / Read more

  Hayy Ibn Yaqdhan, Socrom, 2023 © ABS The Self-Taught Philosopher The History of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan. Translated by Simon Ockley, 1708. Revised with an Introduction by A. S. Fulton, Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, New York.   Le philosophe autodidacte Hayy ben Yaqdhan, roman philosophique. Traduction de Léon Gauthier, 1909.   الفيلسوف العصامي حي بن يقظن لإبن طفيل. تقديم:  حسن حنفي Lire plus / Read more

FOCUS World Conference on Complex Systems April 20 to 22, 2026 – UM6P Benguerir Relive the entire conference here Altérités en/et devenir Connaissance tacite Fusion of Science and Culture Key to the 21st century An essay byMahdi Elmandjra (1933-2014)     Conférence – “Regards croisés sur la complexité dans les organisations” Le 30 mai dernier, la Chaire Complexités ∞ Humanités a co-organisé une conférence à la Bibliothèque Universitaire Mohammed Sekkat,… Lire plus / Read more

Exploring the complexity of UM6P The work undertaken here aims to better understand the extent of UM6P’s ecosystem. This in-depth investigation highlights the principle that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. However, this thorough exploration fails to fully capture the complexity, including the formal and informal dynamics, conscious and unconscious interactions, and the cycles and processes over time. As a university institution, UM6P exemplifies the complexity… Lire plus / Read more

Lancement de la Chaire Complexités ∞ Humanités [extraits] avec Hicham El Habti (President, UM6P), Gregory Chaitin (mathematician), Stuart Kauffman (biologist) et Reda Benkirane (sociologist) UM6P Science Week – Complexity 22/02/2023 Lire plus / Read more