February 2009

February 2009

 

2nd February 2009  14:15 hrs : Séminaire LARSIM (CEA-Saclay Bâtiment 774, Salle Itzykson)

Giovanni Valente (Maryland) :

“On the Persistence of Entanglement in Relativistic QFT”

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2nd February 2009 : REHSEIS Seminar on Abstraction :  Laurent JAFFRO (Clermont-Ferrand)

L’Abstraction dans l’empirisme anglaise classique

See Link to REHSEIS Presentation of the Seminar,  Abstract and other Information

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2nd February 2009  : ENS Salle Simone Weil  6:00 PM 

SÉMINAIRE DE PHILOSOPHIE ET MATHÉMATIQUES 

De L’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

Pierre CARTIER, Jean-Baptiste JOINET, Giuseppe LONGO, Jean PETITOT, Bernard TEISSI
Salle Weil  45, rue d’Ulm, ParisThème of 2009 Series  : “CONTRADICTION, NEGATION ET RAISONNEMENT PAR L’ABSURDE”
2nd February 2009  :  Pierre Cartier    (Maths, CNRS-IHES)
“Vivre avec une contradiction invisible”.
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 4th |February 2009, 16h00-18h00
IHPST, Grande salle
Séminaire “Philosophie des Sciences du Paysage”
Details to be added
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4TH  February 2009, 18h00-20h00
IHPST, Grande salle
Séminaire “Cognition, comportement, conduites humaines”
Details to be added
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5th February  2009, 17h00-19h00
IHPST, Grande salle
Séminaire Décision et Rationalité – Dov SAMET (Tel-Aviv, Amsterdam) : “The sure-thing principle and independence of irrelevant knowledge”
Details to be added
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5th February 2009 :  Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminar  Thursday 16:30 Lecture Room 10 Merton Street

Dr Jonathan TALLANT  (Nottingham) 

Existence Presentism

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6th February 2009, 14h00-16h00
IHPST, Grande salle : IHPST Seminar on Proobability, Uncertainty and Decision Theory
Jan-Willem ROMEIJN (Univ. of Groningen) : “Just what is a statistical hypothesis ?”
Details to be added
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6th February  2009, 16h15-18h15
IHPST, Grande salle
Séminaire “Décision et Rationnalité”
Details to be added
Link to abstract of Talk                    (mf0209)
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6th February 2009, 16h30-18h30
IHPST, Grande salle
Master Class in Modal Logic
Details to be added. 
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6th February 2009, 18h30-20h00
IHPST, Grande salle
Conférence du Professeur Richard Gaskin de l Université de Liverpool : «The Unity of the Proposition »
Details to be added
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6th February 2009, 11h00-13h00
IHPST, Grande salle : IHPST General weekly Seminar
F. Guala (Università San Raffaele, Milan) “Are There Lewis Conventions?”
Details to be added
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7th February 2009 (ENS : Salle S. Weil) 11 :00 am Seminar MaMuPhi
Response to Christian Houzel’s Seminar of 17th january 2009 by
Moreno Andreatta and Frederic Patras

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7th February 2009 ENS 15:00-18:00 hrs : Ecole MaMuPhi
“Des Infinis Subtils”
7 février 2009 : « Des infinis subtils »
Texte de la leçon (pdf)
Ensemble des leçons données par Yves André (pdf)
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2009 ENS Seminar Philosophie et Mathematiques

Theme for 2009 : Contradiction, Negation et Raisonnment par L’Absurde

9 February 2009

Jean-Baptiste JOINET :  Negation et Infini

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9th February 2009 : REHSEIS  Study Day in History and Philosophy of Mathematics :
The Emegence of Projective Geometry in the 17th Century
Histoire et Philosophie Des Mathematiques :
Emergence du projectif au XVIIème s. (Axe « Constitution de l’objectivité mathématique »)
Erwan Penchèvre (Université Paris 7 – CHSPAM)
Géométrie et projections dans les mathématiques arabes

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Sébastien Maronne (REHSEIS, CNRS Paris, sebastien.maronne@orange.fr)
Pascal et l’émergence du projectif

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Massimo Galuzzi (Università di Milano)
Thématiques de géométrie pré-projective dans l’OEuvre de Newton

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Marie Anglade (CHSPAM, CNRS & Université Paris Diderot Paris 7)
Philippe De la Hire et l’émergence de la géométrie projective Histoire et philosophie des mathématiques

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11th February 2009 : IHP Paris Room 201 : 2:00 pm :Seminaire Epistemologie et L’Histoire des Idees mathematiques
In series “Descartes SAVANT”
 i) Michel BLAY (CNRS/CAPHES) : Descartes as Physicist-Mathematician : The Example of the genesis of the colours of the rainbow

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ii) Michel SERFATI (IREM/Paris VII) : Constructivism and the secret Strategy of Descartes “Geometrie” : Questions of Epistemology

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11th February 2009 18:30 hrs : Grand Auditorium BNF
Un Texte Un Mathematicien : Viviane BALADI
 Sous le Fer a Cheval, La Plage : Les Travaux de Steven Smale
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Thursday 12th February 2009   :  Oxford Philosophy of Physics  Seminar Comlab 4:30 pm  10 Merton Street
 Bob COECKE  (Oxford Compsci Lab)   :  High-Level Reasoning about the Low Level Scale

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Thursday 12 February 2009, 09h00-13h00  : Petite Salle LOPHIS Paris
Mise à niveau en philosophie
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12th February 2009, 13h00-14h30
IHPST, Grande salle
IHPST Seminar in Philosophy of Biology – Y. Boucher (MIT, Boston) : “Evolutionary Units: Breaking down Species Concepts”
Details to be added
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12th February 2009, 15h00 to Saturday 14th February14 2009, 17h30
IHPST, Grande salle
Paris Workshop (IHPST): Probability in Biology and Physics
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12th February 2009, 16h00-18h00
IHPST, salle 302
Séminaire Général de l’IHPST – Annalisa Coliva (Université de Modène)
Details to be added
Link to abstract of Talk                    (mf0209)

 

Friday 13 February 2009, 09h30-12h30
IHPST, Petite salle
Master 2 Lophiss “Les Conditionnels”
Details to be added
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13th February 2009, 16h30-18h30
IHPST, Petite salle
Master 1 Lophiss Logique modale
Details to be added
Link to abstract of Talk                    (mf0209)
 
13th February 2009 : ENS Seminaire Riemann : Christophe SOULE (CNRS IHES)
Journee Geometrie des Nombres : De Minkowski a Arakelov

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15th – 21 st FEBRUARY 2009
MF Oberwolfach Mini-Workshop on Category Theory and Related Fields : History and Prospects
RECORDINGS : 

Day 1 :  16th February 2009

Track 1 :  Opening Remarks and First  (AM) Talk by Pierre CARTIER   (CNRS & IHES)

Living in A Contradictory World:  Categories vs Sets

Duration :  1 hour 2 minutes 24 seconds :  Size :  57.1 MB

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Track 2 :  3:30 PM : 2nd Part of Talk  16/02 by Pierre CARTIER

Living in A Contradictory World:  Categories vs Sets

Duration : 2 hours 27 minutes 13 seconds :  Size :  134 MB  (with following Discussions)

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Day 2 : 17th February 2009

Track 3  :   Talk 1  17/02  Klaus VOLKERT  :  How Category Theory came to Germany

Duration :  1 hour 39 minutes 04 seconds :  Size :  90.7 Mb

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Track 4  :  Talk 2  17/02  : Renaud CHORLAY  :   Designing Mixed Structures:  Stages in The Development of Fibre Spaces and Sheaf Theory  1940-1957

Duration :  1 hour 38 minutes 43 seconds : Size :  90.3 MB

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Track 5 :  Talk 3 17/02  : Pierre SCHAPIRA  :  Motives : The Case of Hyperfunctions and the (Disputed) Role of Category Theory in Contemporary Analysis

1 hour  28 minutes 19 seconds : Size :  80.8 MB   Plus Discussions of these 3 Talks :  56 minutes 52 seconds  Size :  52.0 MB

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Track 6  : 17th February 2009  PM Discussion Session of Workshop

57 minutes 46 seconds  :  Size  :  52.8 MB

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Track 7  :  17th February 2009 Evening Lecture by Ralf KROEMER on Samuel Eilenberg : A Mathematician of the 20th  Century (A Public Lecture for all those attending the then current workshops at the MFO)

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Day 3 : 18th February 2009

Notes : (not recordings) : Aide-memoire of Discussions with Steve AWODEY and Colin McLARTY on 17/02 1nd 18/02/2009 

Track 8 :  Talk 1  of 18/02 :  Pierre AGERON :  Charles EHRESMANN :  Influences, Interactions and Transmissions :

The Influence and Legacy of the Mathematical Work of  Charles EHRESMANN  (1905-1979)

PART 1

1 hour 32 minutes 36 seconds  Size :  84.6 MB                                                

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Track 9  :  Talk 2 of 18/02  :  Ralf KROEMER on Groupoids : Their Place in The Genesis and Development of Category Theory

1 hour  25 minutes 18 seconds :   Size  :  19.9 MB

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Day 4 : 19th February 2009

Track 10 :  Talk 1 of 19/02 :  Jean-Pierre MARQUIS : Some Links Between Homotopy Theory and Category Theory

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Track 11 :  Talk 2 of 19/02 : Norbert SHAPPACHER :  Grothendieck’s Motives

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With following Discussions of both Talks

(Tracks 10 and 11 together in 1 Folder :  Duration 3 hours  21 minutes 15 seconds      Size :  184 MB)

Track 12 :  Talk 3 of 19/02  : Jessica CARTER :  What is The Role of Category Theory in Contemporary Mathematics ?

1 hour 37 minutes 45 seconds  :  Size  :  89.4 MB

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Track 13 :  19th February 2009 PM Discussion Session of Workshop 

including a discussion of alternative notions of Abstraction within Mathematics and elsewhere..

Duration :  54 minutes 18 seconds  :  Size :  49.7 MB

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Track 14 : 19th February 2009  Evening Presentation by Jean-Pierre MARQUIS on his Book :
“From A Geometrical Point of View: A Study in the Historical and Philosophical Aspects of Category Theory”

Duration :  1 hour  3 minutes  15 seconds  :   Size  :  57.9 MB

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Day 5 :  20th February 2009

Track 15  : Talk 1  of 20/02  :  Steve AWODEY on Saunders Mac LANE and Modern Logic

Duration :   1 hour 37 minutes 41 seconds  :  Size  :  986 MB

Track 16 :  Talk  2 of 20/02  : Colin McLARTY  :
How AG (Alexandre Grothendieck) Simplified AG (Algebraic Geometry)

Plus Subsequent Discussions 
Duration  : 1 hour  26 minutes 51 seconds   Size :  79.5 MB
Track 17 :  Talk 3 of 20/02 :  Pierre AGERON (Caen)  : Part II of  Talk on Charles EHRESMANN (1905-1979)

Influences, Interactions and Transmissions   :  Part II : Ehresmann and The Philosophers

Duration :  1 hour 20 minutes 56 seconds    Size :  74.1 MB

Track 18 : Talk 4 of 20/02 : Renaud CHORLAY : Part II of his talk on The Development of Sheaf Theory :

Stages in the Emergence and Development of Sheaf Theory and the Theory of Fibre Spaces as an illustration of the impact of Category theoretic tools and perspectives in Mathematics in the 1940s and 50s

Duration :  1 hour  16 minutes  14 seconds   Size :  69.8 MB

(Last talk of the Workshop)

Plus File of Overheads of Speakers 824 KB

Incomplete. Further overheads need to be added

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Wednesday 18th February 2009, 18h00-20h00
IHPST, Grande salle
Séminaire “Cognition, comportement, conduites humaines”
Details to be added
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February 19th – 20th 2009 :  PhDs in LOGIC : A Conference at Ghent University Belgium
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19th February 2009   14h30 : Séminaire LARSIM (CEA-Saclay Bâtiment 774, Salle 50)
Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg,) : “Probability and Decoherence”
  
Friday 20th February  2009, 09h30-12h30
IHPST, Grande salle
Master Class on the Logic of Conditionals
Details to be added
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20th February 14h00-15h30
IHPST, Grande salle
IHPST Monthly Séminaire Philosophy of Biology – Elsa Romfeld (Univ. of Heidelberg) “Are Ethicists Moral Experts? The Case of Clinical Ethics Committees”
Details to be added
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Saturday 21st February 2009  :  MaMuPhi Seminar

Francois NICOLAS

Details to be added

 

Monday 23rd February 2009, 14h00-16h00
IHPST, Grande salle
Séminaire “PHILFORM”
Details to be added
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23rd February 2009 : Institute of Mathematics Jussieu  :  Talk by Prof. Pierre CARTIER

Details to be added.

 

24th February 2009  LARSIM Seminar  Bat. 774 Salle 50  CEA-Orme des Merisiers
 Stephanie CHIFFLET  : L’Imaginaire technoscientifique : Cas de la convergence NBIC
 
Thursday 26th February 2009, 09h00-13h00
IHPST, Grande salle
Lophiss Mise à niveau en philosophie
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Friday 27th February 2009, 09h30-12h30
IHPST, Grande salle
Master 2 Lophiss : The Logic of Conditionals             (mf0209)
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February 27th 2009 :  3rd Ideals of Proof (IP) Fellows Workshop   9:30 am  in Salle17B of the Halle aux Farines building on the Grands Moulins Campus of University Paris 7 -Diderot. The program is available here.

February 27th 2009 : 3rd IP Fellows Workshop. Session I 9:30 – 11:00 : Sebastian MARONNE :

Ideal Elements and Projective Geometry in Modern Mathematics

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Session II : 11:15 – 12:45 : Oliver SCHAUDT :

Abstraction and Ideation : A Constructivist Approach to the Nature of Mathematical Concepts

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Session III (Focus Session) 14:00 – 15:30 : Paul McCALLION :

Ideal Numbers –vs- Numerical Properties

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Session IV (Focus Session) 15:45 – 17:15 : John MUMMA :

Contentful reasoning and Rigor in Elementary Geometry

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CONTINUING LECTURE COURSES : 
LECTURE COURSE  14th JANUARY 2009 – 8th APRIL 2009  Recorded in full. See also January and March – April 2009
Cours d’Introduction A La Logique Categorique a Paris-Diderot (Chevalaret) By Alain PROUTE
4th Session :  4th February 2009
5th Session :  11th February 2009
6th Session :  18th February 2009
 PLUS CONTINUING LECTURE COURSE :   
Histoire des savoirs mathématiques et de leurs pratiques culturelles
 Course organised and directed By Jean DHOMBRES Director of Studies Centre Alexandre Koyre Paris
  8 Sessions.  See Catalogue for December 2008 to April 2009
 Session of 19th February 2009
 
 TO BE ADDED : Information about recordings of  Seminaire RIEMANN (REHSEIS/ENS) 2008-2009 :  ANR Phys&Geometrie
PLUS Information about Recordings of LECTURE COURSE
Commencing 27th February 2009  :  9 Lectures on Incompleteness in Logic and in QM
By Giuseppe LONGO & Thierry. PAUL  To be continued on 3&4 March  10&11 March  17&18 March 24&25 March 2009