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'''French mathematical seminars''' have been an important type of institution combining research and exposition, active since the beginning of the twentieth century.

From 1909 to 1937, the [[Séminaire Hadamard]] gathered many participants (f. i. [[André Weil]]) around the presentation of international research papers and work in progress. The [[Séminaire Julia]] focussed on yearly themes and impulsed the Bourbaki movement. The [[Séminaire Nicolas Bourbaki]] is the most famous, but is atypical in a number of ways: it attempts to cover, if selectively, the whole of [[pure mathematics]], and its talks are now, by convention, reports and surveys on research by someone not directly involved. More standard is a working group organised around a specialist area, with research talks given and written up "from the horse's mouth".

Historically speaking, the [[Séminaire Cartan]] of the late 1940s and early 1950s, around [[Henri Cartan]],  was one of the most influential. Publication in those days was by means of the duplicated ''exemplaire'' (limited distribution and not peer-reviewed). The seminar model was tested, almost to destruction, by the SGA series of [[Alexander Grothendieck]].

==Notable seminars==

* Séminaire Bourbaki, still current, general; [[Nicolas Bourbaki]]
* Séminaire Brelot-Choquet-Deny (from 1957), [[potential theory]]; [[Marcel Brelot]], [[Gustave Choquet]], [[Jacques Deny]]
* Séminaire Cartan, [[homological algebra]], [[sheaf theory]], [[several complex variables]]; [[Henri Cartan]] and his students
* Séminaire Châtelet-Dubreil, Dubreil, Dubreil-Pisot, from 1951,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20061002200948/http://www.iecn.u-nancy.fr/~eguether/bibliotheque/DUBREIL.pdf S´eminaire Dubreil]</ref> [[abstract algebra]]
* Séminaire Chevalley, [[algebraic geometry]], late 1950s
* Séminaire Delange-Pisot, then Delange-Pisot-Poitou, from 1959,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20061002201023/http://www.iecn.u-nancy.fr/~eguether/bibliotheque/DELANGE.pdf S´eminaire Delange-Pisot]</ref> [[number theory]]
* Séminaire Ehresmann, [[differential geometry]] and [[category theory]]; [[Charles Ehresmann]]
* Séminaire Grothendieck, from 1957, became [[Grothendieck's Séminaire de Géométrie Algébrique]]
* Séminaire Janet, [[differential equation]]s
* Séminaire Kahane
* Séminaire Lelong, [[several complex variables]]
* Séminaire Schwartz, [[functional analysis]]; [[Laurent Schwartz]]

==See also==
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* [[:wikt:colloquium|Colloquium]]
* [[Congress]]
* [[Convention (meeting)]]
* [[Scientific journal]]
* [[Seminar]]
* [[Plenary session]]
* [[Poster session]]
* [[Professional conference]]
* [[Symposium (academic)]]
* [[Webinar]] (a seminar attended through the [[internet]])
}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061126105404/http://www.iecn.u-nancy.fr/~eguether/bibliotheque/SEMINAIRES/ 2003 list of ongoing seminars]
*[http://www.numdam.org/actas/ Numdam (seminars)]
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