The Archive contains the following Recordings from December 2001 :

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Notes of Discussions and Conversations 1st – 2nd 2001

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3rd December 2001 :  3:00 pm : Imperial College London Room 503 Huxley Building : Theoretical Physics Seminar :

Speaker : Prof. Fred Van OYSTAEYEN (Antwerp) : Is The Topology of Nature Noncommutative ?

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3rd December 2001 :  Discussions between F. Van OYSTAEYEN and Basil HILEY following Imperial College Seminar

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4th December 2001 Imperial College Physics Seminar :

Rafael SORKIN : Recovering General Covariance and other features of General Relativistic Cosmology from the Dynamics of Causal Sets

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4th December 2001 : Round Table Discussion of Topics in Cosmology : Chris ISHAM, Rafael SORKIN, Ioannis RAPTIS and Others  :  Reconciling Discrete General Covariance and Bell Causality

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Wednesday 5th December 2001 : CPNSS SEminar : Room T 206 Lakatos Building Tynes Court London WC 1 :
CPNSS Research Seminar “How Does Mathematics Relate to the World?” (Chaired by Michael REDHEAD)

Roman FRIGG (LSE) :  The Varieties of  Mathematical Structuralism : A Critical Survey

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5th December 2001 : TPRU Seminar Group Meeting Birkbeck College University of London :

Owen MARONEY : Some Open Problems in Thermodynamics of particular relevance to Connes and Rovelli’s Thesis concerning Thermodynamic Time

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6th December 2001 : Imperial College Room 507 Huxley Building : Theoretical Physics Seminar :

Profesor B.J> HILEY (Emeritus, Birkbeck College)

A Report on the Current State of Research into Algebriac Structures as Candidates for Pre-Geometry

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Plus Following extended Discussion on Prospects for “Algebraic Physics” between Prof. HILEY and Prof. Anastasios MALLIOS (University of Athens)

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Notes on discussions, chiefly concerning the Epistemology of basic mathematical concepts, with Prof. Alberto PERUZZI, University of Florence

Discussions of 7th December 2001

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Discussions of 8th December 2001

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Discussions of 9th December 2001

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Tuesday 12th December 2001 : Imperial College London Room 507 Huxley Building : Theoretical Physics Seminar

Professor Anastasios MALLIOS (University of Athens) : An Abstract Algebraic Approach to Differential Geometry : with some thoughts on what it may suggest as a replacement for the Smooth Manifold- based picture of Spacetime Structure.

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12th December 2001 : TPRU Seminar Group Birkbeck College University of London :

A Presentation of recent work by Jean PETITOT on a Sheaf-theoretic approach to Mereology and a Re-examination of the Bohm-Aharanov Effect in the Light of his proposals

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13th December 2001 : TPRU Seminar Group Birkbeck College University of London :

A Presentation on Bogoliubov Transformations and Vacuum States in the Formalism of QFT

(Plus Following Discussion) : Name of Speaker missing.

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14th December 2001 : Further Notes of Discussions on Sheaf Theory and Mereology

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15th December 2001 : Further Notes of Discussions on Sheaf Theory and Mereology

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16th December 2001 : Further Notes of Discussions on Sheaf Theory and Mereology and other Topics

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December 19th 2001 : TPRU Seminar Group Birkbeck College University of London : Presentation on the Work of Mario SCHOENBERG on commuting quantum-mechanical quantities as algebraic idempotents and the relationship between algebraic and geometric structures within the Formalism of Quantum Theory.

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20th  December 2001 : Birkbeck College London : Mathematics Department :

Mini-Colloquium on the Work of Maurice DE GOSSON on the Role of the Metaplectic Group in the Study of Generalised Flows in Hamiltonian Dynamics and the Work of M. DE GOSSON.

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22nd – 30th December 2001

18 sets of Notes of Discussions on various topics in Foundations of Mathematics and Physics transcribed from earlier

dates in 2001

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30th December 2001 :  TPRU Seminar Group Birkbeck College :

Presentation on the role of Co-adjoint Orbits of the Symplectic and Metaplectic Groups and their Role in the Geometrization of Physics 

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Further Recordings for December 2001 to be Added.

End of  Catalogue Section of 2001 Recordings

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