BE profile

Second year mathematics program, part taught at Lycée Joffre :

# Reminders of linear algebra and complements of Euclidean geometry

# Advanced probability

# Analysis of functions of one variable

# Functions of several variables

See full page

General culture (epistemology and philosophy):

# history of ideas

# Epistemology of science and digital technology

#argumentatition and communication

See full page

Introduction to the use of data mining methods:

# Motivations, areas of application

# Data mining tasks (classification, estimation, prediction, etc.)

# Processing on the data (pre/post-processing)

# Supervised learning (Bayes method, k nearest neighbors, neural networks, etc.)

# Unsupervised learning (k-means)

# Evaluation of methods

# Data mining software (R, Scikit, Weka, etc.)

See full page

This course is a continuation of the L2 S3 course, which focuses on describing the morpho-anatomical characteristics of the major organizational plans of metazoans found in present and past faunas, and on explaining their origin and the dynamics of their appearance, through the acquisition of skills in paleontology and zoology. In S4, the main focus will be on the major subdivisions within protostomian organisms such as lophotrochozoa (annelids, mollusks, brachiopods, etc.) and ecdysozoa (arthropods, nematodes, etc.), with emphasis on their phylogenetic relationships and their socio-economic importance and impact. The course is classically divided into lectures and tutorials, mainly aimed at illustrating and supporting aspects of taxon biodiversity, and practical work in sessions aimed at acquiring skills, in particular and necessarily through the performance of certain dissections.

See full page

This course continues the training of students in applied mathematics, in particular the use of statistical tools:

# Notions of populations and random samples.

# Estimators.

#Erreur mean square and bias-variance decomposition.

# Empirical estimators of mean and variance. Construction of estimators by the method of moments. Maximum plausibility.
Interval estimation.

# Hypothesis tests: null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis. Errors of the first and second kinds. Power of a test. Test Statistic, Rejection Region. Examples of classic tests.

See full page

The aim of this course is to understand evolutionary processes on both micro- and macro-evolutionary scales.

Using examples, manipulations and accessible modeling, the aim of the lessons is to present, in a concrete and quantitative way, the effects of the 4 evolutionary forces operating on the scale of individuals and populations (mutation, migration, selection and drift). The integration of these micro-evolutionary processes on larger time scales (e.g. differentiation between lineages, speciation) will then be addressed. Finally, the course will include an introduction to the tools of phylogeny (tree reading and construction), making it possible to study macro-evolutionary events (diversification, extinction) and trace changes in character states, notably by integrating fossil data.

See full page

- Physiology of major functions: anatomy and functions of the cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and digestive systems.

- Cell and molecular biology 3: cytoskeleton function, cell adhesion, protein trafficking and study methods, cell cycle regulation, immunoprecipitation, fluorescence videomicroscopy, RNA interference, overexpression, regulation of gene expression: transcriptional regulation (repressor, activator) and attenuation in prokaryotes, mechanisms of expression regulation in eukaryotes.

See full page

The 2nd year computer science course taught at the Lycée is focused on advanced concepts in algorithmics and programming:

# Tree data structures: binary trees, heaps, ABRs, priority queues

# Sort by heap, lower bound on sorting

# Graph structure: representations (adjacency matrices, edge lists, neighbor lists)

# Basic algorithms (connectedness, depth and width paths, topological sorting)

# Distance calculation (Dijkstra, heap implementation)

# Introduction to object programming (encapsulation, late binding, classes, methods, etc.)

# Programming in Python

See full page

The EU covers the different groups of plants ("algae", "cryptogams", spermatophytes), specifying for each of them their position and phylogenetic nature (mono- or paraphyletic group), their origin and their morpho-anatomical, reproductive and ecological specificities.

4 CM present different plant groups: CM1, diversity of "algae"; CM2, life cycles of "algae"; CM3, "cryptogams"; CM4, Spermatophytes.

6 TDs cover cross-disciplinary concepts based on oral or written exercises: TD1, Biological cycles; TD2, Endosymbiosis; TD3, Interactions; TD4, Adaptation; TD5, Polyploidy; TD6, Phylogeny.

6 practical sessions illustrate the concepts covered in the lectures and practical sessions using living material: TP1, "algae "1 ; TP2, "algae "2 ; TP3, "bryophytes" ; TP4, "pteridophytes" ; TP5, Gymnosperms, vegetative apparatus ; TP6, Gymnosperms, reproduction.

See full page

The Functional Ecology UE aims to provide a solid grounding in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, and in particular the role played by living organisms in the flow of matter within them. The main processes covered are primary production, consumption and, in particular, herbivory, and the decomposition and transformation of soil organic matter. For each of these processes, particular attention is paid to (1) the link between organisms' strategies and their function in the ecosystem, and (2) basing the presentation of concepts on field findings, highlighting characteristics of organisms or the ecosystem that students may encounter on field trips.

This course fits in with the broader presentation of ecology in S1 (HLBE304) and provides the concepts required for the L3 course on community ecology.

Emphasis is placed on practical aspects, in particular through a series of group assignments, where a simple but scientifically relevant hypothesis is experimentally tested using an appropriate protocol.

See full page

This modern language teaching is focused on the written and oral practice of English, with a particular emphasis on oral expression.

See full page

This course, similar in spirit to the first-year project, is an introduction to the research approach, more advanced than in the first year: it includes immersion in a research laboratory, a bibliographical study, and the realization of a project involving the study of a biological context, the acquisition of experimental or observational data, and the implementation of a modeling and/or digital simulation approach.

See full page