March 2001

The Archive holds the following Recordings for March 2001 :

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1st March 2001 : OXFORD : Philosophy of Physics Seminar : Old Library All Souls College :

Professor Graeme SEGAL (Oxford) :  Some Ways of Understanding QFT

Seminar Talk followed by Discussion with (principal participants) : Simon SAUNDERS, Tin Y. CAO, David WALLACE, Lev VAIDMAN, and Others

Link to Recording of Seminar

Link to recording of following Discussion

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2nd March 2001 : OXFORD : Clarendon Laboratory Lecture Theatre

Gerald T’HOOFT (Utrecht) :  Quantum Speculations on Physics (and Mathematics) at the Planck Scale

Link to recording of G. T’HOOFT’s Talk

Link to Subsequent Discussions

Links to be added

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Saturday 3rd March  2001 : Seminaire MaMuPhi  ENS PARIS

o Georges BLOCH (musicologue) : Lettre à Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

o Olivier LARTILLOT (informaticien) : L’analyse musicale par la machine (ou la problématique de l’induction sous l’angle de la théorie des modèles et des probabilités)

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4th March 2001 :  Notes of Meeting of Discussion/Reading Group (Cambridge and London) on Topics in Foundations of Mathematics and Physics

Discussion of Following Text : Guiseppe LONGO : The Continuum : Between Foundations and Applications

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5th March 2001 :  TPRU Seminar Group (Birkbeck College London)

Speaker : Ioannis RAPTIS (Imperial College London) : An Algebraic Model of Curvature and Quantum Causality :

Rota Algebras and Quantum Causal Sets from A Sheaf-theoretic Standpoint

Link to recording of talk

Link to subsequent discussion

Link to Copy of I. RAPTIS’s paper and overheads and contemporaneous notes of talk.

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7th March 2001 : OXFORD : Queens College Taberdar Room : Philosophy of Physics Discussion Group (Convenor : Chris Timpson)

Two Talks :

1.  (AM)  Steve FRENCH (Leeds) and James LADYMAN (Bristol) : A Presentation (and Defence) of the Ontic version of Structural Realism

With Subsequent Discussion : Participants : Simon Saunders, David Wallace, Chris Timpson, Jeremy Butterfield, Oliver Pooley and Elaine Landry

Link to Recording of Talk

Link to Recording of Discussion

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2.  (PM) Part II of Talk by Elaine LANDRY :  The Philosophical Significance of Category Theory

(see 7th February 2001 for Part I )

Link to Recording of Talk

Link to subsequent Discussion

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7th March 2001 : CPNSS Room T 206 Lakatos Building Tynes Court London WC 1. CPNSS Philosophy of Physics Seminar : 3:00 – 5:00 pm :  Convenor and Chair : Prof. Michael REDHEAD.

Speaker :  Prof. Ray STREATER : An Introduction to and An Interpretation of Haag’s Theorem.

Link to Talk

Link to subsequent discussions

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8th March 2001 : OXFORD : Philosophy of Physics Seminar : Old Library All Souls College

Speaker : Professor John EARMAN (Pittsburgh) : Lambda : The Constant that refused to die.

Link to Recording of Talk

Link to Recording of subsequent Discussion

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10th March 2001 :  Birkbeck TPRU Discussion Group and Seminar : Discussion of Paper by Hiley and Papatheodorou

on Process, Temporality and Quantum Space-Time

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13th March 2001 : BRISTOL : Bristol Physics Colloquium

Speaker : David WALLACE (Oxford) ; Everrett and Structure

Link to recording of david Wallace’s talk

Link to subsequent Discussion

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17th March 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 (further) Discussion on G. LONGO’s Papers :

“The Continuum : Foundations and Applications”

“The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics and Its Cognitive Roots”

Link to 2 papers by Guiseppe LONGO

Link to Notes of Discussions

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26th March 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 on Discussion of A Series of papers in “Process Studies” including Hiley and Papatheodorou : “Process, temporality and Models of Quantum Space-Time” 

Link to Paper by Hiley and Papatheodorou

Link to Notes/transcripts of Discussions

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Many more recordings for March 2001 to be added