April 2008
In April 2008 The Archive recorded :
5 April 2008 : Seminaire MaMuPhi ENS : Stephan Schaub : Les implications de la formalisation mathématique dans les pratiques compositionnelles de Babbitt et Xenakis [1][7]
[1][7] Mon intervention sera centrée autour des implications de la formalisation mathématique dans deux démarches de compositeurs de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle : Milton Babbitt (1916) et Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001). Le terme d’« implication » sera ici entendu selon les deux sens qui lui sont généralement attribués. Il s’agira en effet, à partir d’exemples précis, de cerner les modalités « opératoires » de la formalisation chez ces deux compositeurs, la manière avec elle est, donc, impliquée dans les processus compositionnels. Dans un second temps, on s’interrogera sur les implications, dans le sens logique cette fois-ci, que nos observations pourrait avoir sur l’interprétation analytique des œuvres concernées, et sur celle des démarches plus générales de ces compositeurs.
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6th APRIL 2008 : REHSEIS : Seminaire sur Recherches sur L’Abstraction
Frederic JAECK (Bordeaux) : Maurice FRECHET et La Pratique De L’Axiomatique Abstraite en Analyse Fonctionelle
Frechet’ and the application of abstract axiomatics in Functional Analysis (mf 0408)
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11th April 2008 : REHSEIS Seminar : HERMANN MINKOWSKI and THE SCANDAL OF SPACETIME
April 11th, 2008 REHSEIS/ENS Workshop in Series “Seminaire Riemann” on “The Reception of Relativity”
Talk 1 by Scott WALKER : “Minkowski and the Scandal of Spacetime”
Click here for link to recording of Part 1 of Scott WALKER’s Talk
Click here for Link to Part 2 of his Talk plus Q&A Session
Click here for Link to File (File 20) of Overheads of talk by Scott Walker at 11th April 2008 ENS Workshop : Hermann Minkowski and the Scandal of Spacetime
Talk 2 : Jan LACKI (CNRS/REHSEIS) : The Logical Empiricist Reception(s) of Relativity Theory
Click here for link to the recording of Jan LACKI’s Talk (Incomplete)
Talk 3 : Alex AFRIAT (Urbino) : Mach’s Principle, Conservation Principles and Substantival Space-Time
Click here for link to recording of Alex AFRIAT’s Talk
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14th April 2008 : Duration : 49 mins 18 seconds :
Last Part (not alas, all) of Talk by Renaud CHORLAY at REHSEIS Workshop/Colloque of 14th April 2008 on the notion of a function (A Study of the notion of a function from the 18th to the early 20th Century)
Darbour and Weierstrass’s critique of Cauchy’s account of limits, maxima and convergence : A probe for exploring the transition from the framework of the theory of magnitudes to the modern understanding of the notion of function in the course of the 19th Century.
Click here to listen to recording of Renaud Chorlay’s Talk : Windows media Audio File 5.86 MB bitrate 16kbps Duration : 49 mins 18 seconds
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14th April 2008 : Paris/MSH : Seminar Series Histoire des Geometries (Organiser : DominiqueFLAMENT)
Michel PATY : Sur La Decidabilite de La Geometrie de L’Espace Physique : Einstein et Le Point deVue de Riemann
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15thApril 2008
Talk to Seminaire Categories en Physique : Salle Malevich Batiment Condorcet University Paris 7 by J-J. SZCZECINIARZ
Covariance and Invariants in GR and Theories of Spacetime Structure in general : Is General Covariance the same thing as Background Independence ?
Click here for link to recording of Jean-Jacques SZCZECINIARZ’s Talk : Duration : 1 hour 38 minutes 03 seconds File size : 11.6 MB
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16th April 2008 : REHSEIS Workshop on Philosophy of Mathematics : Title “Visions of Mathematical Reality and Accounts of Mathematical Practice” (Organiser ; Ivahn SMADJA)
Talk 1 by David CORFIELD : Narratives and Visions of Mathematical Rationality : With observations on the Program of Categorification and some remarks about ideas of Grothendieck concerning the Algebraisation of Notions of Space and of geometric notions in general.
Click here for link to recording of David CORFIELD’s Talk : Duration 1 hour 30 minutes 11 seconds
Talk 2 : Jamie TAPPENDEN : On the Objectivity of the Notion of Mathematical Natural Kinds
Click here for link to recording of Jamie TAPPENDEN’s Talk : Duration 1 hour 50 minutes 57 seconds
Third Talk : Jose FERREIROS : Details to be added.
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17th April 2008 : IHP 4:00 pm :
IHP 4:00 pm : Christian HOUZEL : Poincare et le Continu : Poincare, The Continuum and Types of Continuity.
Click here for link to recording of Christian HOUZEL’s Talk : 1 hour 48 minutes 16 seconds
Click here for edited version with enhanced sound
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22nd April 2008 : Seminaire Categories en Physique (M. Lachieze-Rey et al.) Salle 483A Batiment Condorcet Univ. Paris 7
Speaker : Alain PROUTE
“Qu’arrive-t-il a la logique si on oublie que les ensembles ont des elements ?” : An Examination of Logic in the setting of Topos Theory
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Many more entries to be added.