In April 2007 The Archive recorded the following events 

 

27th MARCH – 6th APRIL 2007

CONNES@60

An International Conference to Celebrate The 60th Birthday of Professor Alain CONNES (College de France)

Sessions between 27th MARCH – 6th APRIL 2007 at the following Venues :  IHES/IHP/IMJ 

Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifique Burres-sur-Yvette

Institut Henri Poincare Paris

Institut Mathematique de JUSSIEU Paris

Details of Program and Speakers to be added.  A Total of 44 recordings Audio and Video were made of this event and will be detailed in this catalogue and uploaded to this Site in due course. Recordings are the copyright of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) Burres-sur-Yvette and of the Speakers

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2 April 2007

a)  ENS Paris : Stephen Schiffer (NYU Visiting ENS and Inst Jean Nicod) de 10h à 12h, Salle Beckett :

Psychological Theories of Vagueness: Field, Schiffer, Wright

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2nd April 2007 

Paris/REHSEIS

One Day Symposium : “Pensee Ensembliste/Pensee Geometrique”

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6th April 2007

a) Oxford/Computer Science Laboratory  :  2 Talks

Talk 1  :  Bob SPEKKENS : An Overview of Operational Approaches to The Formalism of QM

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Talk 2 :  Antony VALENTINI and Bob  HALVORSON :  On Local Algebras

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6th April 2007

Paris/IHP Amphitheatre Darboux

1  Day Symposium in IHP History of Mathematics Program  : Euclid in The Rennaissance

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6th April 2007

Notes/Memoranda of  2 Telephone Discussions with FW Lawvere concerning his Criticism of  The Research Program of Non-commutative Geometry. Particular criticisms directed against A.Connes suggestion of basing the general notion of a map between Spaces in the setting of Non-commutative “Geometry” on bimodules

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9th April 2007 :

Notes/Aide Memoire on some of the writings of the Late Robert ROSEN. List of Topics for possible further discussion. 

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10 April 2007

ENS Paris : Stephen Schiffer (NYU Visiting ENS and Inst Jean Nicod) 10h30 à 12h30, salle des Résistants : Vagueness, Concepts, and Properties: a Non-Semantic and Non-Psychological Account of Vagueness

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16th – 20th APRIL 2007

CARGESE/Corsica

A COLLOQUIUM ON TIME and IRREVERSIBILITY

Organised by Prof. Marc Lachieze-Rey

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16th – 21st April 2007 : International Unversity Centre Dubrovnik/Croatia

34th Annual Dubrovnik Conference on Philosophy of Science.

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16th – 19th April 2007

Notes/memoranda of a series of telephone conversations with FW Lawvere concerning the proposal that alternative fundamental notions are needed upon which to base the general definition of a topological space differerent from those of open set and neighbourhood.  The significance in connection wth the recognition of this need of the turning point in the development of topology after circa 1940 associated with the work of Fox, Steenrod and Hurewicz. FWL’s account of some discussions with Grothendieck in the 1980s connectedwith the motives for this search and its place within a broader re-synthesis of parts of mathematics.

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20th April 2007

Paris/ENS

One day Meeting on Hermann WEYL and The Program for the Geometrisation of Physics : Its Reception, Influence and Changing Shape over the course of 20th Century Physics.  With Talks by

Norman SIEROKA

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Tom RYCKMAN

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Erhard SCHOLZ

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21st April 2007

Aide-Memoire and Notes of Discussions with speakers in the above Meeting on Weyl and with Alexander AFRIAT concerning issues in the Foundations of Geometry and Physics.  The viewpoints of Klein and Weyl contrasted.

21st April 2007 : separate aide-memoire of discussion of standpoint of Saunders MacLane regarding the Legendre Transformation

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23rd – 28 th APRIL 2007

Les Treilles : INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON PHILOSOPHICAL AND FORMAL ISSUES IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Participants including :  M. LACHIEZE-REY, John BAEZ, Lucien HARDY, Oliver POOLEY and Others

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Day ONE : Monday April 23rd 2007

7:30 pm : Alexei GRINBAUM and Michel BITBOL : Introduction and Welcoming Remarks

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Day TWO : Tuesday 24th April 2007 :

Morning Session : Chair : Jean PETITOT

9:30 am : Hermann NICOLAI : Quantum Gravity : An Introductory Survey

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10:30 am : Oliver POOLEY : Background Independence

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11:30 am : Coffee Break

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12.00 noon : Lucien HARDY : The causaloid formalism : atentative framework for quantum gravity

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LUNCH

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Afternoon Session : Chair : Hermann NICOLAI

4:00 pm : John BAEZ : Quantum quandaries : A  Category-theoretic perspective

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Coffee break

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5:30 pm : Marc LACHIEZE-REY : Geometry and algebra around space-time

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Day THREE : Wednesday April 25th 2007

Morning Session : Chair : Michael FRIEDMAN

9:30 am : Brigitte FALKENBURG : Wave/particle duality : a latterly neglected topic in the philosophical discussion of quantum theory 

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10:30 am : Rob SPEKKENS : Insights into wave/particle duality from an epistemic interpretation of quantum states

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Coffee Break

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12:00 noon : Jean PETITOT : Non-commutative Geometry and Theoretical Physics

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LUNCH

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Afternoon Session : Chair : Thomas RYCKMAN

4:00 pm : Paul TELLER : Provisional knowledge in Physics – and elsewhere.

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5:00 pm : General Discussion

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Day FOUR : Thursday April 26th 2007

Morning Session : Chair : Michel BITBOL

9:30 am : Michael FRIEDMAN : Einstein and the relativized a priori 

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10:30 am : Katherine BRADING : Hilbert, the foundations of physics and Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity

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Coffee Break

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12:00 noon : Thomas RYCKMAN : Weyl, Cartan and the method of “repere mobile”

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LUNCH

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Afternoon Session : Chair : Brigitte FALKENBURG

4:00 pm : Paolo PARRINI : Epistemological conventionalism beyond the geochronological problems

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Coffee Break

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5:30 pm : Patricia KAUARK-LETTE : Transcendental philosophy and Quantum Theory

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Day FIVE : Friday April 27th 2007

Morning Session : Chair : Alexei GRINBAUM

10:00 am : Hoard BARNUM : Towards information-processing characterizations of quantum theory and classical theory.

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Coffee Break

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11:15 am : Matteo SMERLAK : Relational Quantum Mechanics and EPR

 

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12:00 noon : Chris TIMPSON : What kind of a theory is quantum information theory ?

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LUNCH

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Afternoon Program : Excursion or free time

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Day SIX : Saturday April 28th 2007

9:00 am : Jeffrey BUB : Information and Objectivity in Quantum Mechanics

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Close of Meeting

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23rd April 2007

Paris/ENS Seminaire Philosophie et Mathematique (Seminaire Cartier/Longo et al.)

2007 Theme of Seminar : The Legacy of Poincare

Richard TIESZEN : Poincare on Intution and Arithmetic – a “sane psychologism” ? 

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23rd April 2007

Paris/MSH Seminaire Histoire des Geometries

L. RODRIGUEZ on Riesz, Hausdorff and The Emergence of the Modern Treatment and Axiomatisation of The Notion of A Topological Space starting from Hilbert’s Treatment of Geometry.  With particular attention to the lessons to be drawn from F. RIESZ’s  reception of Hilbert’s Ideas.

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24th April 2007   

Paris/REHSEIS : Meeting of Informal REHSEIS Discussion Group on The Philosophy of Mathematics  (D. Rabouin, JJ Szczeciniarz, M. Panza, R. Chorlay, JM Salanskis and others)

Presentation by JM SALANSKIS of his forthcoming Book on The Philosophy of Mathematics (Publication due by L. VRIN) and following Discussion

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24th April  2007

Notes/Memorandum of further discussion with Alex AFRIAT on the Influence of “A Priori Prejudices” in Shaping Hermann Weyl’s (unintended) 1918 “Unification” of Gravitation and Electromagnetism

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24th April 2007

Paris/REHSEIS  SEminaire en Histoire de La Physique

S. SCHWEBER  : Models Approximations and Theories in The Work of Hans Bethe                         (mf0407)

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25th April2007

Paris/IHP Seminar on Historical and Epistemological Approaches to the Study of Mathematical Concepts.  Salle 201 IHP

Speaker : M. JOUBERT

What is the legitimate place of Mathematics Teaching in Education?

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26th April 2007

Oxford/Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminar :

Richard HEALEY (Arizona) on Gauge Theory and The Theta Vacuum

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26th April 2007 : Oxford/Jowett Society :

Richard HEALEY (Arizona) On Physics and Ontology

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26th April 2007

Paris/ENS  Seminaire Generale de Department de Physique :

Prof. Dima FELDMAN

Beyond Bosons and Fermions: Anyons – How to Detect them  and What They Are Good For

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28th April 2007

Paris/IHP  SEMINAIRE POINCARE

“QUANTUM SPACES : A COMPARISON OF

APPROACHES TO QUANTISING THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE”

Wth Talks by

V. PASQUIER

V. RIVASSEAU

A. POLYCHRONAKOS

J-M. MAILLET

Alain CONNES

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29th April 2007

Notes/Aide Memoire of Discussion of the role of the Notion of  (relative degees of) Cohesion (as of Space) and the clarification of the relationship of mathematical structures stemming from a viewpont  which treats this notion and that of Variation as central and primary : as presented and developed in the work of FW Lawvere. Discussion of Themes and Framework for a possible symposium on this topic.

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30th April 2007

Paris/IHPST

Richard TIESZEN on Intuitionism and Phenomenology

Also recorded in April 2007 but information on exact dates and locations of these recordings is not to hand and will be added later

Isadora STOJANOIC (CNRS – Philosophie)  “Ce Qui est Dit”

S. DUVAILLIER :  A Talk on the Dialogues of Plato :  “Platon Emporte dans ses Actes”

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Further entries and information for April 2007 to be added.