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
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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”
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4TH February 2009, 18h00-20h00
IHPST, Grande salle
Séminaire “Cognition, comportement, conduites humaines”
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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”
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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 ?”
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6th February 2009, 16h15-18h15
IHPST, Grande salle
Séminaire “Décision et Rationnalité”
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6th February 2009, 16h30-18h30
IHPST, Grande salle
Master Class in Modal Logic
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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 »
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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?”
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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”
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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)
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Friday 13 February 2009, 09h30-12h30
IHPST, Petite salle
Master 2 Lophiss “Les Conditionnels”
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13th February 2009, 16h30-18h30
IHPST, Petite salle
Master 1 Lophiss Logique modale
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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”
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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
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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”
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Saturday 21st February 2009 : MaMuPhi Seminar
Francois NICOLAS
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Monday 23rd February 2009, 14h00-16h00
IHPST, Grande salle
Séminaire “PHILFORM”
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23rd February 2009 : Institute of Mathematics Jussieu : Talk by Prof. Pierre CARTIER
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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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