May 1989
The Archive contains the folowing Recordings for May 1989 :
1st May 1989 : University of Oxford Mathematical Institute Room L 2 : 3:00 pm : Geometry and Analysis Seminar
Professor M.F. ATIYAH : Instantons, monopoles and skyrmions
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1st May 1989 : University of Oxford Mathematical Institute Higman Room 5:00 PM : Topology Seminar
J.P. MAY (Chicago) : Completions of G-Spectra at ideals of the Burnside ring.
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2nd May 1989 : The London School of Economics : The Vera Anstey Room 2:00 pm : LSE Department of Philosophy Logic and Scientific Method Departmental Staff/Graduate Seminar
Prof. Alan BOYER (University of Clermont) : Some effects of Popper’s Metaphysical Turn on His Epistemology
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2nd May 1989 May 1989 : 4:30 pm : Seminar Room, University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane 4: 30 pm : SIGMA Club Meeting
Professor Hugh MELLOR (Cambridge) : Psychophysical Laws
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2nd May 1989 : 5:00 pm University of Oxford Mathematical Institute : Algebra Seminar
Mr Maurice du SAUTOY (Oxford) : Discrete Groups, Analytic Groups and Poincare Series
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3rd May 1989 : 4:30 pm : Queen Mary College University of London : London Relativity Seminar :
David FINKELSTEIN (Georgia Tech/visiting Oxford)
Algebraic Relativity
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3rd May 1989 : Kings College London (KCL) Department of History and Philosophy of Science : 2:15 pm : Departmental Seminar : Room 1 B 06
Professor Ned BLOCK (MIT) : Does the inverted Spectrum refute the Computer Model of the Mind ?
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Thursday 4th May 1989 : Seminar Room, University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 2, Free School Lane 4: 30 pm : Departmental Seminar :
Dr Christopher HOOKWAY (Birmingham) : Naturalized Epistemology, Nominalist Epistemology and Scepticism
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5th May 1989 : University of Oxford Mathematical Institute Room L3, 4:30 pm : Mathematical Logic Seminar
Professor D.S. BRIDGES (Buckingham) : Completeness and markov’s Principle
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8th May 1989 : University of Oxford Mathematical Institute Room L 2 : 3:00 pm : Geometry and Analysis Seminar
Professor D. TOLEDO : Fundamental Groups of Kahler Manifolds.
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9th May 1989 : 5:00 pm University of Oxford Mathematical Institute : Algebra Seminar
Dr S. VASILOVSKY (Novosibirsk)
Bases of Identities of some simple non-associative algebras over an infinite field.
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10th May 1989 : Kings College London (KCL) Department of History and Philosophy of Science : 2:15 pm : Departmental Seminar : Room 1 B 06 :
Dr Philip RIPPON (Open University) : The Geometric Nature of Fractals
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May 10th 1989 : 2:30 pm : Queen Mary College University of London : London Relativity Seminar (i) :
Professor Igor NOVIKOV (Moscow/Cambridge) : Wormholes and Time Machines
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May 10th 1989 : 4:30 pm : Queen Mary College University of London : London Relativity Seminar (ii) :
James VICKERS (Southampton) : Curvature and Cosmic Strings
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Thursday 11th May 1989 : Seminar Room, University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 2, Free School Lane 4: 30 pm : Departmental Seminar :
Prof. Nancy NERSESSIAN (Princeton) : Reasoning from Imagery and Analogy in Concept Formation in Science : Faraday, Maxwell and the Concept of A Field
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12th May 1989 : University of Oxford Mathematical Institute Room L 3, 4:30 PM : Mathematical Logic Seminar
H.S. SHIN (Oxford) : Counterfactuals and the Theory of Equilibrium Games
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15th May 1989 : 4:00 pm : Queen Mary College University of London : London Relativity Seminar :
Professor James HARTLE : Time and Prediction in Quantum Cosmology
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15th May 1989 : University of Oxford Mathematical Institute Room L 2 : 3:00 pm : Geometry and Analysis Seminar
Professor Michael ATIYAH : K-Theory and Witten’s Euler characteristic
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15th May 1989 : 5:00 pm University of Oxford Mathematical Institute
Dr K. ANSON (ICI) : A New Solution to the Taylor Problem of flow between rotating cylinders
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16th May 1989 : The London School of Economics : The Vera Anstey Room 2:00 pm : LSE Department of Philosophy Logic and Scientific Method Departmental Staff/Graduate Seminar
Prof. John FORGE (Griffith University, Australia) : Laws of Nature
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Tuesday 16th May 1989 : Seminar Room, University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 2, Free School Lane 4: 30 pm : SIGMA Club Meeting
Prof. Gordon FLEMING (Penn State) : The Interpretation and Detection of Rindler Quanta.
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17th May 1989 : Kings College London (KCL) Department of History and Philosophy of Science : 2:15 pm : Departmental Seminar : Room 1 B 06
Dr Mary MORGAN (LSE) : The Explanation of Cycles : Sunspots, Random Shocks and Economists
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May 17th 1989 : 4:30 pm : Queen Mary College University of London : London Relativity Seminar :
Neil O’MURCHAIDHA (Cork) : Trapped Surfaces and Spherical Stars
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Thursday 18th May 1989 : Seminar Room, University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 2, Free School Lane 4: 30 pm : Departmental Seminar :
Dr Alex KELLER (Leicester) : Scientific Biography versus Autobiography : The Case of Nuclear Fission
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19th May 1989 : 4:00 pm : Queen Mary College University of London : London Relativity Seminar :
Professor Victor BRUMBERG (Leningrad)
Relativity in Celestial Mechanics and Astronomy
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19th May 1989 : University of Oxford Mathematical Institute Room L 3, 4:30 PM : Mathematical Logic Seminar
Dr J. ABBOT (Bath) : Factorization of Polynomials given by black boxes.
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22nd May 1989 : University of Oxford Mathematical Institute Room L 2 : 3:00 pm : Geometry and Analysis Seminar
Professor M.F. ATIYAH : The casson Invariant as a Quantum Field Theory
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22nd May 1989 : 3:00 pm University of Oxford Mathematical Institute The Higman Room : Special Lecture on the History of Mathematics
Professor Judith GRABINER (Claremont California) : Was Newton’s Calculus A Dead End ? : A New Look at MacLaurin’s “Treatise on Fluxions”
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22nd May 1989 : 5:00 pm University of Oxford Mathematical Institute : Algebra Seminar
Professor P.J.HILTON (S.U.N.Y.) Recognising Z/k -like Groups
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23rd May 1989 : The London School of Economics : The Vera Anstey Room 2:00 pm : LSE Department of Philosophy Logic and Scientific Method Departmental Staff/Graduate Seminar
Dr Gregory CURRIE (University of Otago, New Zealand) : Pluralism and Relativism in the Structuralist Approach to Mathematicaal and Physical Theory
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24th May 1989 : Kings College London (KCL) Department of History and Philosophy of Science : 2:15 pm : Departmental Seminar : Room 1 B 06
Dr Paul FOULKES : Rational and Irrational Number in Plato, Aristotle and Euclid.
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24th May 1989 : 4:30 pm : Queen Mary College University of London : London Relativity Seminar :
Peter D’EATH (DAMTP) : High Speed Black-Hole Collisions : Review and Progress
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Thursday 25th May 1989 : Seminar Room, University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 2, Free School Lane 4: 30 pm : Departmental Seminar :
Prof. Ned BLOCK (MIT) : Inverted Earth : An Expanded (and Improved) Version of the Inverted Spectrum Argument
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29th May 1989 : University of Oxford Mathematical Institute Room L 2 : 3:00 pm : Geometry and Analysis Seminar
Prof. V.F.R. JONES (Berkeley) : Knot polynomials
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Tuesday 30th May 1989 : The London School of Economics : The Vera Anstey Room 2:00 pm : LSE Department of Philosophy Logic and Scientific Method Departmental Staff/Graduate Seminar
Professor Allan FRANKLIN (Colorado) ; Towards A Philosophy of Experiment
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Tuesday 30th May 1989 : Seminar Room, University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane 4: 30 pm : SIGMA Club Meeting
Professor David FINKELSTEIN (Georgia Institute of Technology, visiting Oxford)
World Without Being : An Approach to Quantum Dynamics.
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30th May 1989 : University of Oxford Mathematical Institute Higman Room , 5:00 PM : Topology Seminar
Ian HAMBLETON (McMaster) : Topology 4-Manifolds with finite fundamental group.
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31st May 1989 : Kings College London (KCL) Department of History and Philosophy of Science : 2:15 pm : Departmental Seminar : Room 1 B 06
Dr Peter LANDSBERG (Southampton) : Unattainability and Infinity : A Case Study of Thermodynamics and Its Implications.
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31st May 1989 : 4:30 pm : Queen Mary College University of London : London Relativity Seminar :
Ian ROULSTONE (Oxford and Meteorological Office) : Infra-Red Problems in Electrodynamics
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More recordings to be added