In February 2007 the Archive recorded or made arrangements to share recordings made by others of the following events

 

1st February 2007 : 

Oxford UK : Oxford Philosophy of Physics Discussion Group

Hilary GREAVES on Time Reversal in Classical Electromagnetic Theory

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1st February 2007 : Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminar

David DEUTSCH on A Universal Quantum Constructor Theory

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2nd February 2007

Paris : CEA – Orme des Merisiers (LARSIM)

Etienne KLEIN on Causality and Time’s Arrow

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2nd February 2007

Bristol  UK :  Week 2 of Informal Seminar/Discussion Group on Category Theory – its role in the conceptual organisation of mathematics and its place in the analysis of the foundations of math

with the participation of John Mayberry, Richard Pettigrew and others.

Subject for Week 2 : Proving The Yoneda Lemma 

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5th February 2007 

Cambridge UK : Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Dr Edward ANDERSON (DAMTP Cambridge) : The problem of Time in Quantum Gravity     (mf050207)

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5th February 2007

Paris : Lecture 3 in Lecture Course given between 23rd January and 27th March 2007 as part of IHP Trimester on Stacks and Groupoids and Higher Stuctures in Geometry and Physics

Prof. Lawrence BREEN  :  Categorical Structures and Cohomology  : Lecture 3

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5th February 2007

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

Joel MERKER : Poincare’s Homotopy Spheres, Spherical Homotopy and Thurston’s “Geometrisation” Conjec ture : An Approach in the spirit of Lautmann and Cavailles to the Work of R.Hamilton and Perelman

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6th February 2007 

Paris : REHSEIS Seminar

David RUELLE :  Predictability – From Quality to Quantity

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7th February 2007

Notes of a Discussion between M. LACHIEZE-REY (Cosmology CNRS & Paris 7) and a Research Group of Russian Observational/Experimental Cosmologists and Astrophysicists led by Prof. G. BUGOSLOVSKY  on the design of an experiment to search for evidence of spatial anisotropy

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8th February 2007

Paris : Seminar on Categories en Physique (Marc LACHIEZE-REY) :

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8th February 2007

Oxford UK : Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Dr Jan BROEKAERT (Free University of Brussels) :  Towards a Lorentz-Poincare Type Interpretation of General Relativity

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9th February 2007 

Bristol, UK :  Week 3 of Informal Seminar/Discussion Group on Category Theory – its role in the conceptual organisation of mathematics and its place in the analysis of the foundations of math

with the participation of John Mayberry, Richard Pettigrew and others.

Subject for Week 3  : Further Discussion of The Yoneda Lemma

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9th February 2007

Paris Institut Henri Poincare  : Seminar IREM on Historical and Epistemological Approaches to Mathematical Concepts : Salle 201 

Michel SERFATI on Emil Post and the Role of Lattice Theory as a Bridge betwen Logic and Algebra : The part played by Lattice Theory in the Genesis, Crystallisation and Early Development of key notions of Category Theory, particular in bringing about an appreciation of the centrality and importance  of functorial constructions for 20th Century Structural Math in general.

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9th February 2007

Institut Henri Poincare Amphitheatre Darboux : Seminar in History of Mathematics

Probability Theory in Mathematics and Physics : An Overview 1865-1933

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9th February 2007

Paris : CEA Orme des Merisiers (LARSIM)

Alexei GRINBAUM : A Survey of Operational Approaches to QM

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10th February 2007

Paris:  ENS Salle Des Actes

One day Colloquium organised by the  Study Group “Metaphysique a L’ENS”

“Qu’y a’ t-il?” : “What Is There?”  A Comparative Study of Approaches to Ontological Inquiry and the Question of The Categories of Being

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10th February 2007 

Paris/ Seminaire MaMuX (IRCAM)

David RABOUIN : Mathesis Universalis : How much light does the development of mathematical symbolism and notation throw on the Nature of Mathematical Cognition ?

10th February  2007  Seminaire MaMuPhi ENS Paris – David Rabouin : Mathesis universalis, logique de l’imagination et écriture symbolique (Descartes / Leibniz …Badiou)

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12th February 2007

Paris/ REHSEIS :  1 Day Conference on “Recreations Mathematiques”

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12th – 16th February 2007

Paris/ Institut Henri Poincare

Workshop on Quantum Cohomology of Stacks

2nd of 3 Workshops within the IHP Trimester (January – March 2007) on Stacks and Groupoids in Geometry and Physics.  Details of Recordings to be added.

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12th February 2007

Antwerp, Belgium/ Course in Noncommutative Algebra, Geometry and Topology

2nd Session of Course  : Lectures by Prof. Fred Van OYSTAEYEN   :  Details to be Added.

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13th February 2007 

Paris/ Seminaire APC (Astrophysique, Particules et Cosmologie) Universite Paris 7 :  Section Theorie et Cosmologie

Jeff WEEKS : Spherical Spaces, Symmetries and the Cosmic Microwave Background

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14th February 2007  

Paris Institut Henri Poincare  : Seminar IREM on Historical and Epistemological Approaches to Mathematical Concepts : Amphitheatre Darboux 

i.  Claude IMBERT : Discussion of Michel Serfati’s Work on the Role of Mathematical Symbolism in the conceptual organisation of mathematics and the constitution of mathematical subject-matter 

ii.  (Speaker to be added) Jean Cavailles and L’Esprit Geometrique en rapport avec L’Esprit Ensembliste

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15th February 2007

Oxford UK :  Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Stephan HARTMANN (LSE) :  Probability and Decoherence.

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16th February 2007

Paris/ CREA (Centre pour Recherches en Epistemologie Applique)

Josi BERKOVITZ : On Causal Loops in Local retrocausal Interpretations of QM

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17th February 2007 

Aide-memoire/contemporaneous Notes of a Conversation with Erhard Scholz (Wuppertal) and Yuri Manin (IHES/Bonn) on the contrasting kinds of Justification to be expected from the Foundations of Mathematics as compared with the Foundations of Physics            (mf0207)

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17th February 2007

Notes and memoranda of a discussion with FW LAWVERE.

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20th February 2007

London / CPNSS T 206 Lakato Building : Sigma Club Meeting /

Speaker : Bob SPEKKENS : Quantum Coherence : Fact or Fiction ?

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22nd – 23rd February 2007 

Paris/ C.R.E.A.  2 Day Colloquium On Pragmatism

Day 1 : Pragmatism in relation to The Philosophy of Science in General

Day 2 : Pragmatism in relation to the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics

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23rd February 2007

Aide-memoire/contemporaneous notes of Discussion on Domain Theory : with particular attention to a suggestion that it may provide the appropriate machinery for representing Zeno’s reasoning in presenting the Paradoxes of Motion.

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24th February 2007

Workshop on Causality, Mechanisms and Psychology

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25th-27th February 2007

Texas : Austin College, Sherman, Texas :

A two day Symposium on The Nature of Time from the viewpoint of the Foundations of  Relativity and Quantum Theory

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25th February 2007

Notes and memoranda of discussion on the Article of Prof. Jose FERRREIROS (Sevilla) in Special Number of Philosophia Scientiae  : Fonder les Mathematiques Autrement 

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26th February 2007

Notes and memoranda of a discussion with FW LAWVERE.

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27th February 2007

Paris/IHP   Lecture 4 in Lecture Course given between 23rd January and 27th March 2007 as part of IHP Trimester on Stacks and Groupoids and Higher Stuctures in Geometry and Physics

Prof. Lawrence BREEN  :  Categorical Structures and Cohomology  : Lecture 4

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27th February 2007

Paris/ Philosophy of Physics Events in Greater Paris.

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28th February 2007 

Nancy :  Seminaire de Philosophie et D’Histoire des Scienes  University of Nancy 2 

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Further material recorded in February 2007 to be added to the catalogue.

 

February 2007 Paris (?) 

Pierre LIVET : Une Ontologie des Processus : An Ontology of Process

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February 2007

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Prof. Gary GIBBONS (Cambridge) : Brane Worlds : A New Paradigm in Cosmology ?

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