The Archive holds the following Recordings from November 1989

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1st November 1989  : 4:15 pm : Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

The London Relativity Seminar :

Professor Sergei ODINTSOV (Tomsk/Newcastle) :

Quantum Aspects of Kaluza-Klein Theories                                                                      mf 011189 

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2nd November 1989 : Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science  :  Seminar Room,  2, Free School Lane  :  Departmental Seminar 4:30 pm

Prof. Bruce HUNT (University of Texas) : Imperial science : Submarine cables and British Field Theory

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3rd November 1989 : Oxford University Mathematical Institute : Mathematical Logic Seminar 4:30 pm :

Prof G. PLOTKIN (Edinburgh) : A power domain for probabilistic computations

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7th November 1989  :  2:15 pm  :  London School of Economics ( Graham Wallas Room )  :  LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method  Departmental Seminar

Mr James McALLISTER (LSE) : The Agents of Scientific Practice

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7th November 1989 : Oxford Mathematical Institute : Algebra Seminar : 5:00 pm Lecture Room 1 :

Prof. F.C. PIPER (RHBNC)

Axial automorphisms of symmetric designs

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8th November 1989   14: 15 hrs :

Kings College London History and Philosophy of Science Seminar

Dr Helena BARROCO (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) :

A Comparison of 3 stages in the Development of Physical Theory :  Aristotelian, Classical and Quantum

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8th November 1989 : 4:15 pm  : Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

The London Relativity Seminar

Julian BARBOUR : Mach and Inertia : The Real Problem and Why Einstein did not solve it      mf 081189

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9th November 1989 : Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science  :  Seminar Room,  2, Free School Lane  :  Departmental Seminar 4:30 pm

Prof. Robert RICHARDS (Chicago) : Narrative Explanation in the History of Science

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10th November 1989 : Oxford University Mathematical Institute : Mathematical Logic Seminar 4:30 pm :

Dr J.R. SHACKELL (kent) : Algorithms in Hardy Fields

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Monday 13th November 1989  : Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science  1:00 – 2:15 pm

The Cabinet of Natural History

Peter MURRAY-JONES on The Collections of Sir Hans Sloane.

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14th November 1989  :  2:15 pm  :  London School of Economics ( Graham Wallas Room )  :  LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method  Departmental Seminar

Mr Graham MacDONALD (Bradford)  : Evolution and Social Explanation

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Tuesday 14th November 1989 :  The Seminar Room, Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science 4:30 pm :  The SIGMA Club Meeting :

Professor Itamar PITOWSKY (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) : From Boole to Bell : The Mathematical Origins of Bell’s Inequality.

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Wednesday 15th November 1989

KING’s COLLEGE LONDON Centre for Philosophical Studies

Department of History and Philosophy of Science : A One day Conference on The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics

Room 2B 23 :  Chair  :  Professor Clive KILMISTER, Kings College London.

10:00 – 11:30 am  :  Dr Basil HILEY (Birkbeck College) : 

The Orthodox Interpretation versus the Causal Interpretation of QM : Some Implications for our Views of Reality

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11:30 am – 1:00 pm : Prof. Jean-Pierre VIGIER,  IHP (Institut Henri poincare) Paris :
The Problems of Space-Time Motion in Quiantum Mechanics

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Lunch Break

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2:30 – 4:00 pm : Dr John S BELL (C.E.R.N.) : Six Possible Worlds of Quantum Mechanics

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16th November 1989 : Oxford Mathematical Institute :  Seminar on Differential Equations and Applications : 4:15 pm (nb in Seminar Room of Dartington House, not in Mathematical Institute Building)

Prof. A. RODRIGUES (Lisbon) :  Nonlinear Diffusion problems

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17th  November 1989 : Oxford University Mathematical Institute : Mathematical Logic Seminar 4:30 pm :

Dr Dan ISAACSON (Oxford) : Arithmetical Truth and the Omega Rule

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20th November 1989 : Oxford Mathematical Institute :  Seminar on Theoretical Mechanics : Room L2 : 5:00 pm

Prof. K. WALTERS (Aberystwyth) : Non-Newtonian Flows in Complex Geometries

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21st November 1989 : 2:00 pm :  London School of Economics : Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method Staff/Graduate Seminar.   The Graham Wallis Room

Dr Harold NOONAN (Birmingham)

Chisholm on Loose and Popular Identity

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22nd November 1989 :  4: 15 pm :  Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

The London Relativity Seminar

Robin TUCKER (Lancaster)

On The Einstein-Maxwell System of Equations for A Rigid Membrane                    mf 221189

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23rd November 1989 : Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science  :  Seminar Room,  2, Free School Lane  :  Departmental Seminar 4:30 pm

Dr Steve PUMPHREY (Lancaster) : Ideas above his station : Robert Hooke’s curatorship of experiments at the Royal Society.

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Monday 27th November 1989  : Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science  1:00 – 2:15 pm

The Cabinet of Natural History

Helen BROCK : The Hunterian Museum

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28th November 1989  : 2:00 pm :  London School of Economics : Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method Staff/Graduate Seminar.   The Graham Wallis Room

Professor Jon DORLING (University of Amsterdam) : Why Modern Physical Theory Favours rationalism over Empiricism”

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Tuesday 28th November 1989 :  The Seminar Room, Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science 4:30 pm :  The SIGMA Club Meeting :

Dr Basil HILEY (Birkbeck College) : Relativistic Aspects of the Causal Interpretation of Quantum Theory.

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29th November 1989 : 4:15 pm : Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

The London Relativity Seminar

Dr Alan BARNES (Aston University) : Killing Vectors in Conformally Flat Perfect Fluid Fields   mf291189

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30th November 1989 : Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science  :  Seminar Room,  2, Free School Lane  :  Departmental Seminar 4:30 pm

Dr Peter SMITH (Sheffield) : Chaotic Reductions : Why the relation between different mathematical representations of the evolution of chaotic systems indicates we should relax our criteria of reducibility, and how that would affect our understanding of the relationship of Physics to other scientific theories 

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30th November 1989 : Oxford Mathematical Institute :  Seminar on Differential Equations and Applications : 4:15 pm (nb in Seminar Room of Dartington House, not in Mathematical Institute Building)

Dr G. DEANE : Unusual Physical Effects in 2nd order theory

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Many more recordings from November 1989 to be added.