December 2009
AGENDA : In December 2009 the Archive plans/hopes to record the following events :
1st DECEMBER 2009 : REHSEIS UMR 7210 Salle 483A Malevitch Bat. Condorcet Paris VII
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Physics
Alexander AFRIAT : Hermann Weyl and the Description of Gauge Invariance 1918-1929
Click here to hear recording of Alex AFRIAT’s Talk.
and Here for recording of Discussions/Q&A Session following his Talk
REHSEIS Seminaron Early Modern Mathematics : Salle 412B Rothko Bat. Condorcet Univ Paris 7
Mercredi 2 décembre, 10h-12h30 : “The interpretation of induction in early modern mathematics”.
Sean Walsh (ANR chaire d’excellence “Ideals of Proof”)
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December 3rd 2009 : OXFORD Philosophy of Physics Seminar 10 Merton Street Lecture Room
4:30 PM : Professor Frank ARNTZENIUS (Philosophy, Oxford)
Title TBA
Click here to hear recording of Frank ARNTZENIUS’s Talk
8th DECEMBER 2009 : REHSEIS UMR 7210 Salle 483A Malevitch Bat. Condorcet Paris VII
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Physics
Alexandre GUAY (Bourgogne) : Internal and External Symmetries : Properties in search of A Formalism
Click here to hear Part 1 of Recordings of Alexandre GUAY’s Talk
Here for Part 2
Here for part 3
Here for part 4 (including discussions /Q&A Session following Talk)
10th – 11th December 2009 : Bristol UK Philosophy Department
Workshop on Abstraction and Criteria of Identity
(Not recorded)
Programme :
11th-12th December 2009 : Bristol UK Philosophy Department
Mathematical and Geometrical Explanation in Physics : A Workshop to Mark the 25th Anniversary of The Berry Phase. To include talks by BJ HILEY, James LADYMAN and Others.
Friday December 11th. Nanoscience and Quantum Information seminar room
10.00-11.30 : Professor James Ladyman (Bristol): introduction
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Dr David Wallace (Oxford): comment
11.30-1:00 : Professor Basil Hiley (Birkbeck): title to be supplie
Click here to hear recording of Basil HILEY’s Talk
1.00-2.00 : Lunch
2.00-3.15 : Professor Lev Vaidman (Tel Aviv): All is Ψ
3.15-3.30 : coffee
3.30-5.00 : Professor John Hannay (Bristol): Geometry in Action
5.00-7.00 : drinks at the Highbury Vaults
Saturday 12th December: 3.21, Department of Physics
10.00-11.30 : Professor Robert Batterman (Western Ontario): title to be supplied
Click here to hear recording of Prof. BATTERMAN’s Talk plus recording of commentary by
Dr Eleanor Knox (London): and subsequent discussion.
11.30-1.00 : Dr Jonathan Robbins (Bristol): Indistinguishable Particles and The Spin-Statistics Relationship in
Relativistic and Nonrelativistic QM
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3.30-3.45 : coffee in the common room
3.45-5.00 ; Professor Tim PALMER (EMRWF Centre Reading) ; A New Geometric Approach to Quantum Theory and The Role Played by Gravity
A programme is available to download.
Sir Michael Berry’s Talk on the 11th December was not recorded. All other Talks in the Meeting were recorded.
89th Peripatetic Seminar on Sheaves and Logic
Louvain-la-Neuve
Saturday 12th December 2009
9:00–9:30 Jean Benabou (Universite Paris 13) : “Foliated Categories and Cartesian Functors”
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9:30–10:00 Jiri Rosicky (Brno) : “Definable orthogonality classes are Small”
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10:00–10:30 Dirk Hoffman (Aveiro) : “More on Completely Distributive Spaces”
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10:30–11:00 Coffee
11:00–11:30 Dimitri Chikladze (MacQuarrie, Sydney) : “Tannaka representation theorem for a category with a frobenius fiber functor”
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11:30–12:00 Gavin Seal (Lausanne) : “Kock-Zöberlein monads from order-adjoint monads on SET”
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12:00–12:30 Joao Xarez (Aveiro) : “Well-behaved epireflections in universal algebra”
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12:30–13:00 Mme Andre Ehresmann (Amiens) : “Roots and local colimits”
Click here to listen to Andre EHRESMANN’s Talk
13:00–14:30 Lunch
14:30–15:00 Andrei Akhvlediani (Oxford Comp. Lab) “Interacting Observables as composite PROPs”
Click here to listen to Andrei AKHVLEDIANI’s Talk
15:00–15:30 Apostolos Matzaris (Patras) : “Cofree Coalgebras in Accessible Categories”
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15:30–16:00 Jurgen Koslowki (Braunschweig) “Putting diagrams back into enriched category theory”
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16:00–16:30 Coffee
16:30–17:00 Grigoris Protsonis (Patras) “Left Kan extensions preserving finite products”
Click here to listen to Grigoris PROTSONIS’s Talk
17:00–17:30 Andrea Montoli (Milano) “Semidirect products of internal groupoids”
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17:30–18:00 Zurab Janelidze (Stellenbosch) “D. Bourn’s homological lemmas in normal categories”
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19:30 Conference dinner
Sunday 13th December 2009
9:00–9:30 Peter Johnstone (Cambridge) “Remarks on Punctual Local Connectedness”
9:30–10:00 Eugenia Cheng (Sheffield) “Iterated distributive laws via the Gray tensor product”
10:00–10:30 Nathan Bowler (Cambridge) “Composition in categories of games”
10:30–11:00 Coffee
11:00–11:30 Olivia Caramello (Cambridge and Pisa) “A characterization theorem for geometric logic”
11:30–12:00 Nelson Martins-Ferreira (Leiria) “Remarks on two commutators”
12:00–12:30 Rudger Kieboom (VUB, Busssels) “More results on the categories of loops, of neardomains, and
of nearfields”
12:30–13:00 Jiri Adamek (Braunschweig) “Sifted colimits”
13:00–14:30 Lunch
14:30 Additional activities
December 12th 2009 Universite de Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne Salle Cavailles Escalier C1st Floor
GALILEO and SPINOZA : 1st Part of 2 part Conference (See December 19th 2009 for Part II)
8:45-9:15 Introduction
9:15-10:30 : Mechanics,versus mechanism : Galileo, Spinoza and Newton
Stephen GAUKROGER (University of Aberdeen)
10:30-11:30 : Boyle, Spinoza and Galileo : Is Spinoza a strict Mechanical Philosopher ?
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11:30 – 12:30 Science, Demonstration and The Art of Hermeneutics in Spinoza and Galileo
Tamar RUDAVSKY (Ohio State University)
(All these Talks recorded)
PM Talks (unrecorded)
14:30-15:30 : Spinoza’s Library : Its Mathematical and Scientific Books
(Henri KROP Univ of Brussels)
15:30-16:30 ; Spinoza’s Critique of Galileo
Pietro REDONDI (Milan)
16:30-17:30 : Natura naturans and Natura Naturata in Spinoza
Herman De DIJN (Harvard)
17:30-18:00 : Questions and Discussions (Led by Theo Verbeek, Utrecht)
Monday 14th DECEMBER 2009 : Observatoire de Paris : 77 Avenue Denfert-Rocherau : Salle de L’Atelier
14:00 hrs : Seminaires “Temps et Espace”
J.P.PREVOST ( INLN/Universite Nice-Sofia Antipolis Nice)
Une Nouvelle Approche de la Dualite Inertie/Non-Inertie : Galilee, Newton, Einstein ……..
se seraint-ils trompes ?
14th-15th December 2009 Bristol UK Physics Department
Institute of Physics (IOP) Conference to Mark the 50th Anniversary of The Aharanov-Bohm Effect and The 25th Anniversary of The Berry Phase
With Invited talks by Sir Michael Berry, Sir Michael Atiyah, Professor Yakir Aharanov, Professor Leonard Susskind, Professor Akira Tonomura and Others
Monday 14 December 2009
09:30: Registration and refreshments
Session 1
10:15: Opening, welcome
10:30: Professor A Geim (Manchester, UK), “Of flying frogs, Berry phases and other stuff”
11:15: Professor A Tonomura (Hitachi, Japan), “Observation of Gauge Fields by Electron Waves”
12:00: Lunch
Session 2
13:00: Prof J Avron (Technion, Israel), “Swimming in Curved Space: the Baron, the Sir and the Cat”
13:45: Prof A Klein (Melbourne, Australia), “Topological and Geometric Phases Demonstrated With Neutron Interferometry”
14:30: Break and Refreshments
Session 3
15:00: Historical remarks: short talks from Professor R Chambers (Bristol, UK), “Remembering the Experiment, 50 years ago” and from Professor Michael Berry and Professor Yakir Aharonov
16:15: Break
17:00: Refreshments
17:30: Bristol University Centenary Lecture: Prof Sir Michael Atiyah OM, FRS (Edinburgh, UK), “Topology and Quantum Physics”
18:30: Reception
19:30 for 20:00 Dinner, Goldney Hall (for participants who have paid)
Session 4
09:30: Professor M Berry (Bristol, UK), “Semifluxon degeneracy choreography”
10:15: Prof N Nagaosa (Tokyo, Japan), “Berry phase and topology in condensed matter physics”
11:00: Break
11:30: Prof U Leonhardt (St Andrews, UK), “Geometry, Light and a Wee Bit of Magic”
12:15: Lunch and Poster Session
Session 5
14:15: Prof A Pines (Berkeley, USA), “Iterative Control of Spins and Vehicles”
15:00: Prof Y Aharonov (Tel Aviv, Israel), “Non-local phenomena in quantum mechanics”
15:45: Final remarks, close
16:00: Informal Discussion Session
The following 3 Talks of the above Meeting were recorded on Video :
14th December 2009 : Paris CEA – Saclay LARSIM Seminar on Foundations of Physics :
14:15 hrs : Richard HEALEY (Arizona) : What’s Wrong With “Measurement ?”
14th December 2009 :
SÉMINAIRES “Temps & Espace”
(IMCCE SYRTE)
Le lundi à 14h00 – Salle de l’Atelier
Observatoire de Paris
77 Av. Denfert-Rochereau, F-75014 PARIS
Contacts
Jean Souchay (SYRTE)
01.40.51.23.22, Jean.Souchay @obspm.fr
&
Daniel Hestroffer (IMCCE)
01.40.51.22.60, Daniel.Hestroffer @imcce.fr
Lundi 14 décembre 2009 – 14h Salle de l’Atelier :
J.P. Provost (INLN/Université Nice-Sofia Antipolis, Nice)
Une nouvelle approche de la dualité inertie/non inertie : Galilée, Newton, Einstein… se seraint-ils trompés ?
15th DECEMBER 2009 : REHSEIS UMR 7210 Salle 483A Malevitch Bat. Condorcet Paris VII
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Physics
Jordi CAT (Indiana) : Concretenesss Construction and Convention in Maxwell’ Natural Philosophy
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15th December 2009 : Paris CEA – Saclay LARSIM Seminar on Foundations of Physics
11:00 am : Harvey BROWN (Oxford) : Boltzmann’s H-Theorem
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15th December 2009 : Paris CEA – Saclay LARSIM Seminar on Foundations of Physics
14:30 hrs : Giovanni VALENTE (LARSIM) : “Will someone say what exactly Lanford’s Theorem proves ?”
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15th December 2009 : Laboratoire de Philosophie et d’Histoire des Sciences UMR 7219
Seminar on History and Philosophy of Mathematics : Pratiques des problemes
Talks by Andy ARANA (IP Fellow)
The Identity of Problems
Jens HOYRUP (Roskilde)
Revisiting categories : sub-scientific and scholasticized mathematical knowledge
Sebastien MARONNE (IP Fellow)
Pascal verus Descartes on Geometrical Problem Solving
Caroline EHRHARDT
Problems and practices in Galois Theory (1850 – 1910)
Followed by General Discusion
17th December 2009 : Paris ENS : Salle des Actes : 17: 00 hrs
Harvey BROWN (Oxford) : Dynamical Interpretation of Relativity
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17th December 2009 : Paris ENS : Salle des Actes : 18:30 hrs :
Richard HEALEY (Arizona) : Physics and The Search for Ultimate Building Blocks
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18th December 2009 : Paris IHPST : 15:00 hrs
Mathias FRISCH (Maryland) : Relativity : A Principle Theory or A Constructive One ?
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18th December 2009 : Paris IHPST : 16: 30 hrs
Angelo CEI : (Leeds) : Title TBA
Angelo CEi’s Talk was cancelled.
December 19th 2009 Universite de Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne Salle Cavailles Escalier C 1st Floor
GALILEO and SPINOZA
2nd Part of 2 part Conference (see December 12th 2009 for Part I)
9:30-10:00 : Introduction
10:00-11:00 Galileo and Spinoza : Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Franco BIASUTTI (Padova)
11:00 – 12:00 : Joseph Solomon Dalmedigo : The Student of Galileo, The Teacher of Spinoza
Jacob ADLER (Arkansas)
PM Talks
13:30-14:30 : Conceptions of the Infinite in Spinoza and Galileo
Epaminondas VAMPOULIS (University of Patras, Greece)
14:30-15:30 : Spinoza : L’Unite individuelle et Le principe de movement relatif
15:30-16:30 : From Italy to the Hague : Optics and Optical Instruments
Rienk VERMIJ (University of Oklahoma)
16:30-17:00 : General Discusson and Questions