June 2001

The Archive holds the following Recordings for June 2010

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3rd – 4th June 2001 : FOM Discussion/Reading Group (London/Cambridge) :  Notes and aide-memoire of  proceedings of informal Reading/Discussion Group on Foundational Issues in Mathematics and Physics (London and Cambridge members) : Notes of Discussion following reading of Robert Rosen’s “The Church-Pythagoras Thesis”

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Tuesday June 5th 2010 : OXFORD : John Locke Lectures : Lecture 6

Bas VAN FRAASSEN : Structure and Perspective : Metaphysics from A First -Person Standpoint

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6th June 2001 :  OXFORD : Philosophy of Physics Discussion Group : Queens College,  Old Taberdar Room :

Speaker : Orly SHENKER : Logic and Entropy in Landauer’s Dissipation Thesis

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10th June 2001 : FOM Discussion/Reading Group (London/Cambridge) :  Notes and aide-memoire of  proceedings of informal Reading/Discussion Group on Foundational Issues in Mathematics and Physics (London and Cambridge members) : Notes of Discussion following readings of papers by A. Peruzzi

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11th June 2001 : CPNSS : Room T 206 Lakatos Building Tynes Court London WC 1 : CPNSS Seminar :

Barry GOWER : Speculative Physics, Rationality and Relevance

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June 13th 2001 : Meeting at Harkness Hall, Birkbeck College London to Honour Professor Basil J. HILEY on his retirement from the Chair of Physics at Birkbeck College

Introductory Remarks by the Vice-Master of Birkbeck College

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Talk 1 : Michael REDHEAD : Surplus Mathematical Structure : Some issues concerning the relationship of Mathematics to Physics

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Talk 2 : Paavo PYLKAANEN :

Physics and the Mind

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Talk 3 : Professor Clive KILMISTER  (Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Kings College London)

Geometrical Physics : The Hamiltonian Formalism and the Geometrical Meaning of Bohm’s Quantum Potential.

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Talk 4 : C.J.S. CLARKE (Southampton) : What Can Be Learned From the Ontological Interpretation of the Quantum Formalism (The Bohm Programme)

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Talk 5 :  David BUTT (Birkbeck College) : Reminiscences of Basil HILEY at Birkbeck College

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Thursday 14th June 2001 : CPNSS T206 Lakatos Building Tynes Court London WC 1 : SIGMA CLUB Seminar

Speaker : Professor Fred KRONZ (University of Texas at Austin) : Emergence of Properties and Non-Separability of Hamiltonians in Quantum Mechanics

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15th June 2001 :  CPNSS Room T 206 : Lakatos Building Tynes Court London WC 1 : CPNSS Philosophy of Physics Seminar :

Heisenberg Groups, Holography and Quantum Information Theory

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17th June 2001 : FOM Discussion/Reading Group (London/Cambridge) :  Notes and aide-memoire of  proceedings of informal Reading/Discussion Group on Foundational Issues in Mathematics and Physics (London and Cambridge members) : Notes of Discussion following readings of papers by F.W. Lawvere.

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23rd June 2001 : Oxford Mathematical Institute : COLLOQUIUM ON NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY

Talk 1 :  Professsor Alain CONNES (College de France) :  Noncommutative Manifolds, Chern Characteristic and Homology

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Talk 2 : Jean-Pierre BOURGUIGNON (Director IHES) : Noncommutative Geometry, K Theory and Cyclic Cohomology

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June 24th 2001 :  FOM Discussion/Reading Group (London/Cambridge) :  Notes and aide-memoire of  proceedings of informal Reading/Discussion Group on Foundational Issues in Mathematics and Physics (London and Cambridge members) : Notes of Discussion following readings of papers by F.W. Lawvere.