The Archive holds the following recordings for February 2001 : 

 

Saturday 3 February 2001 : Seminaire MaMuPhi  ENS (Paris)

o René GUITART (mathématicien) : Modalités : Discours et images. Musique?

o Compte rendu de la session philosophique de l’ENS (13 janvier, rue d’Ulm) sur Logique et philosophie.

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5th February 2001 :  Meeting of TPRU Seminar (Theoretical Physics Research Unit Birkbeck College, University of London)

Seminar Talk by Professor Basil HILEY

An Alternative Approach to Twistors (Part 1)

An approach to the Twistor via Clifford Algebra and Hyperspherical Geometry : how its origin and motivation – particularly w.r.t. the incorporation of Spinors – differs from the standard approach of Penrose.

Link to recording of Talk and subsequent discussion with TPRU Members

Link to be installed.

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7th February 2001 : Oxford : Old Taberdar’s Room, Queen’s College 2:00 – 4:15 pm

Elaine LANDRY : The Philosophical Significance of Category Theory

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7th February 2001 : CPNSS Room T 206 Tynes Court (Lakatos Building) London WC 1. CPNSS Philosophy of Physics Seminar (chaired by Professor Michael REDHEAD) :

Speaker : Michaela MASSIMI (LSE) : Weinberg’s Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem

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7th February 2001 : CPNSS Room T 206 Tynes Court (Lakatos Building) London WC 1. CPNSS General Philosophy of Science Seminar : 4:15 pm

George ZOUROS (LSE) : The Kim-Shih Version of Popper’s Experiment

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8th February 2001 :  Meeting of TPRU Seminar (Theoretical Physics Research Unit Birkbeck College, University of London) :

Seminar Talk by Professor Basil HILEY : An Alternative Approach to Twistors (Part 2)

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13th February 2001 : OXFORD : The Examination Schools : Invited University Lecture by Professor Saul KRIPKE :

The Road to Godel’s Theorem

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13th February 2001 : Oxford : Aide-Memoire of A Discussion following Saul Kripke’s Lecture on Godel :
Discussion between Prof. Michael DUMMETT, Prof. Alex WILKIE and Dr John MAYBERRY (Bristol) on different views as to how the Axiom of Comprehesnion should be restricted

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15th February 2001 : Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminar  All Souls 4:00 – 6:15 pm

Roger PENROSE : Objective State Reduction in Q.M. as a Real (Gravitational) Phenomenon.

With following discussion including contributions from Lev VAIDMAN, Jeremy BUTTERFIELD, Simon SAUNDERS, Harvey BROWN, Joy CHRISTIAN and others.

Link to recording of talk

Link to recording of Discussion

Link to Overheads/Contemporaneous notes

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15th February 2001 :   Meeting of TPRU Seminar (Theoretical Physics Research Unit Birkbeck College, University of London) :

Seminar Talk by Professor Basil HILEY : The Quantum Potential and a proposed Ontology of the Vacuum

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16th February 2001 : Oxford : Nuclear Physics Lecture Theatre 2:15 pm

Michael GREEN : New Developments in String Theory

Link to Michael GREEN’s Talk

Link to subsequent Questions/Discussion

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17th February 2001 : Further aide-memoire of discussions and notes made on Proceedings of impromptu Cambridge/London Reading/Discussion Group (See entries for January 2001)

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21st February 2001 : CPNSS Room T 206 Tynes Court (Lakatos Building) London WC 1. CPNSS Philosophy of Physics Seminar (chaired by Professor Michael REDHEAD) :

(1)  Jean-Michel BELHOTEL (LSE) : Quantum Teleportation

Link to recording of talk

Link to recording of subsequent Discussion

Link to contemporaneous Notes/Overheads

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Wednesday 21st February 2001 CPNSS Room T 206 Tynes Court (Lakatos Building) London WC 1. CPNSS Philosophy of Physics Seminar (chaired by Professor Michael REDHEAD) :

(2)  Roman FRIGG (LSE) :  The Counting Paradox in GRWP Reduction Models

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22nd February 2001 : 

Meeting of TPRU Seminar (Theoretical Physics Research Unit Birkbeck College, University of London) :

Seminar Talk by Professor Basil HILEY  (Part 1) :  The role of the Heisenberg and Dirac Algebras in relation to the structure of the Schroedinger Equation.

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26th February 2001 : 

Meeting of TPRU Seminar (Theoretical Physics Research Unit Birkbeck College, University of London) :

Seminar Talk by Professor Basil HILEY  (Part 2)  : The Role of Left and Right Ideals of Algebras in a suggested interpretation of the Quantum Potential in terms of “Pre-Geometry”

Link to Recording of this Seminar

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Many more recordings for February 2001 to be added