March 2009
March 2009
2nd/3rd MARCH 2009
REHSEIS : Salle de Reunion : Seminaire Histoire et Philosophie des Mathematiques
2 Day Workshop on Theories of Quantity and Measure
Monday 2nd March 2009 : 9:30-18:00
Talk 1 : Paolo CANTU (Milan)
On the foundations of the Theory of Magnitudes in the XIXth Century (bd 0309)
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Talk 2 : Olivier DARRIGOL (REHSEIS, CNRS)
Mesure Nombre et Espace chez Hermann Helmholtz (bd 0309)
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Talk 3 : Jose DIEZ (Barcelona)
A Conceptual Reconstruction of the History of Measurement Theory
1 hour 51 minutes 51 seconds
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Talk 4 : Sebastien GANDON (Clermont-Ferrand, PHIER et IUF)
Russell on Quantity (bd 0309)
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Tuesday 3rd March 2009
9:30 – 12:00
Talk 1 : Marco PANZA (REHSEIS)
Frege on Real Numbers, Quantities and the Application Constraints : Reflections on the Nature of his Logicism
245 MB 1 hour 37 minutes 20 seconds
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Talk 2 : Bob HALE (Sheffield) : Definitions and Applications of Mathematical Entities
2 hours 9 minutes 52 seconds 327 MB
3rd March 2009 REHSEIS : 17:00 hrs : Seminar on Modes, Levels and Orders of Description in the Physical Sciences
Talk 1 : Jerome SEGAL (Wien) : De L’Information pour decrier a l’information pour predire : Heurs et malheurs de la Theorie de l’information
Talk 2 : Oliver SCHLAUDT : Abstraction and Ideation : A Constructivist Approach to the Nature of Mathematical Concepts”
3rd MARCH 2009 : 15:00-18:00 hrs Salle 483A – Malevitch Batiment Condorcet Paris VII
Seminaire : “Categories et Physique”
Speaker : Lou CRANE
Title : Categorification and Quantum Gravity (First of a Series of Seminar Talks)
Recording : 1 hour 50 minutes 03 seconds See List of course of March – April 2009 L. Crane Seminars at bottom of this page
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3rd and 4th MARCH 2009
First 2 of 8 Lessons/Lectures on Incompleteness in Logic and in QM
By Guiseppe LONGO and Thierry PAUL
ENS Salle U/V Level -2 (Math Department) 45 Rue D’Ulm
3rd MARCH 2009 : PARIS/CEA-Saclay Seminaire De L’Institut de Physique Theorique
11:00 am : Salle Claude Itzykson Batiment 774 Orme des Merisiers
Special Invited Address by Prof. Alain CONNES (College de France)
THE STANDARD MODEL and GRAVITY : OBSERVATIONS ON THE SPECTRAL MODEL AND ITS PREDICTIONS
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2. Questions and Discussion following Talk :
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5th March 2009 : REHSEIS One Day Workshop Within IP Fellows Program
IDEAL ELEMENTS IN MATHEMATICS 9h30 à 18h
Programme is available here.
The following Talks in this Workshop were recorded :
David Rabouin (REHSEIS, CNRS) : Leibniz on infinitesimals
945 MB 1 hour 33 minutes 42 seconds
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Joint Talk by Karine CHEMLA Chemla and B. Belhoste (Main part) 1 hour 20 mins 57 seconds
Part i) Belhoste on Poncelet’s ideal Elements in Geometry : Between Carnot and Chasles
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Talk by Karine Chemla (Part) 22 mins 32 seconds
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Bruno Belhoste (Université Paris 1) & Karine Chemla (REHSEIS, CNRS) : Poncelet’s ideal elements in geometry : between Carnot and Chasles : Discussion Session after Lunch : 28 minutes 11 seconds
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Talk by : Brice Halimi (Université Paris 10) : Ideal elements and extensions : the case of nonstandard set theory. 1 hour 21 mins 47 seconds
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Talk by Ivahn Smadja (Université Paris 7) : Kronecker on ideal numbers and mathematical substance
Track : 1.02 GB 1 hour 43 minutes 58 seconds
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7th March 2009 : ENS (Salle Weil) Seminaire MaMuPhi
Pierre LOCHAK : Etendre – ou pas – La Forme D’un tambour ? : Quelques Correspondances du Monde
Physico-mathematique
Do we hear the shape of a Drum ? : Thoughts on some correspondences in the World of Physics and Mathematics
Suggested accompanying Readings : Marc Kac : Do we hear the shape of a Drum ?
William Thurston : On Proof and Progress in Mathematics
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9th March 2009 : REHSEIS Seminaire sur Recherches sur L’Abstraction
Emily GROSHOLZ (Penn State) : Abstraction as the Search for Rules of Succession in Series :
Cassirer’s Substance and Function
See Link to REHSEIS Presentation of the Seminar, Abstract and other Information
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9th March 2009
Seminaire de Philosophie et Math ENS Salle Weil 1800 hrs
Alain PROUTE (Paris 7) : Le raisonnement par L’Absurde
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10th MARCH 2009
Batiment Condorcet Univ Paris 7 Salle 483 A
Second Seminar Talk of A Series by Louis CRANE (Kansas) on
CATEGORIFICATION and QUANTUM GRAVITY
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11th MARCH 2009 : IHP Paris Room 201 : 2:00 pm : Seminaire Epistemologie et L’Histoire des Idees mathematiques
Speaker : Jacqueline STEDAL (Oxford) : Tschirnhaus Transformations
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Friday 13th March 2009 : Seminaire Riemann (ANR Phys&Geometrie)
Salle R Level -2 Math Dept ENS 45 Rue D’Ulm PARIS
Christophe SOULE (CNRS/IHES)
“Geometrie des Nombres : de Minkowski a Arekelov” : Nombres Entiers, Nombres Reels : La Geometrie des Nombres
Part II of 2 part seminar See 13th February 2009 for Part I (mf 0209)
Also 13th March 2009 REHSEIS Seminaire Riemann
talk by Alain PROUTE (IMJ) (Get further details)
Saturday 14th March 2009 : Cite des Sciences Paris
Conference : Mathematiques : Inventer/Decouvrir ?
With Talks by
Jean-Christophe YOCOZ Prof. Math College de France
Michel MORANGE (Biologist Paris VI)
Pierre Zaoui (Philosopher, Coll. International de La Philosophie)
Pierre CASSOU-NOGUES (Philosopher CNRS)
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16th MARCH 2009
Seminaire de Philosophie et Math ENS Salle Weil 1800 hrs
Imre TOTH (Ratisbon)
Plato’s Sophist : Being and Non-Being and the logical and ontological foundations of irrational numbers
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17th March 2009
1700-1900 hrs REHSEIS Seminaire en Histoire et Phil. De Physique
Benjamin WARDHAUGH (ASC Oxford)
Numbers, Lines, Instruments and Sounds : Thomas Salmon (1648-1706) and the Representation of Musical Sound
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17th MARCH 2009
3:00 pm Batiment Condorcet
Univ. Paris VII
Session 3 of Series of
Seminar/Lectures by Louis CRANE
Categories, Categorification and Quantum Gravity
11.7 MB 1 hour 24 minutes 34 seconds
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17th March 2009 : Séminaires au LARSIM (CEA-Orme des Merisiers, bât. 774, salle 50)
Miklos Rédei (LSE) : “Operational separability and operational independence in Quantum Field Theory”
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18 march 2009, 17h, ENS, salle Celan
Jeremy Butterfield (University of Cambridge) “Mixing physics and logic: is a quantum system an object?”
18 mars 2009, 19h, ENS, salle Celan
Miklos Rédei (LSE) “Von Neumann’s lifelong struggle with quantum mechanics”
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3 hours 26 mins 49 seconds ( 1 folder with recordings of both talks plus discussions following each talk)
18th March 2009
18:30 hrs Grand Auditorium Bibliotheque National de France
Un Texte Un Mathematicien
Patrick DEHORNY on CANTOR
18th MARCH 2009 2:00 pm IHP Seminar on Histoire et Epistemologie des Idees Mathematiques
Mini-Workshop on Leibniz as a Mathematician : Talks by Michel SERFATI and E. KNOBLOCH on Descartes, Leibniz and the Computational and Conceptual Impact of 17th Century Developments in Mathematical Notation
TALK 1 : Eberhard KNOBLOCH : 12.1 MB : 1 hour 27 minutes 52 seconds
Leibniz’s fully formed view of Infinitesimals : The Paris Manuscript of 1695/96 : Leibniz’s Paris Manuscript on The Quadrature of the Circle, the Ellipse and other curves as a key to the Understanding of his Mature Theory of Infinitesimals
Talk 2 : 4:00 pm : Michel SERFATI : 1 hour 13 minutes 50 seconds
More on Leibniz on Infinitesimals : The role of Notation in Leibniz’s conceptualisation of infinitesimal quantity : Mathematics and Symbolic Thought in the Novo Algebra Promotio
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19th March 2009 : Conference in Honour of 100th Birthday of Simone WEIL
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20 March 2009 : Séminaires au LARSIM (CEA- bât. 774, salle 50)
Talk 1 : Jeremy BUTTERFIELD (Cambridge) :
On The Structural Information in A Quantum State
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20 March 2009 14h30 Adam Caulton (Cambridge) :
“Symmetries and Paraparticles as a Motivation for Structuralism”
See Link to Recording of this Talk and to Abstract to Overheads and to further Information about LARSIM Seminars
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20th MARCH 2009 : LARSIM Seminar Bat. 774 Salle 50 CEA-Orme des Merisiers
Miklos REDEI : Operational Separability and Operational Independence in QFT
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20th MARCH 2009 : Seminaire RIEMANN : Level : Salle R Level – 2 Dept. of Mathematics ENS :
10:30 – 4:30 pm : Working Group on the Reception of Riemann’s Work
Talk 1 by JJ SZCZECINIARZ : The Reading of Riemann, esp. the 1854 Habilitationschrift, in Spivak’s Texts on Differential Geometry
2 hours 18 minutes 18 seconds : Click here for link to recording of JJ Szczeciniarz’s Talk.
20th March 2009 : Seminaire RIEMANN ENS : Working Group
Talk 2 : Francois CHARGOIS (Nancy 2)
Hermann WEYL’s 1919 commentary and viewpoint on Riemann’s 1854 Habilitationschrift and Riemannian Geometry in General
2 hours 14 minutes 54 seconds
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March 20-22 2009 : Southern Regional Algebra Conference
University of South Alabama Mobile Alabama
Details to follow
24th MARCH 2009 : 3:00 pm : Batiment Condorcet : Univ. Paris VII
Session 3 of Series of Seminar/Lectures by Louis CRANE
Categories, Categorification and Quantum Gravity
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25th MARCH 2009 : Round table Discussions concerning Categorification and Quantum Gravity
Between Louis CRANE and Marc LACHIEZE-REY and others
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27th March 2009 : ENS Seminaire Riemann :
Christophe SOULE (CNRS/IHES)
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27th MARCH 2009 REHSEIS Seminar Riemann : Salle Cavailles ENS 2:00-6:00pm
« Kronecker, Algèbre, géométrie algébrique, arithmétique »
Talk 1 Jacqueline Boniface (Université de Nice)
« Concept et calcul chez Kronecker »
1 hr 21 mins 23 seconds : Click here for link to Recording of Jacqueline Boniface’s Talk.
Talk 2 : Frédéric Brechenmacher (Université d’Artois, LML, EA 2462)
« Articulations entre arithmétique et algèbre chez Kronecker »
1 hr 28 mins 39 seconds : Click here for link to recording of F. Brechenmacher’s Talk
(The Following cancelled his Talk : Erwan Penchèvre (CHSPAM)
30th MARCH 2009 : Seminaire de Philosophie et Math ENS Salle Weil 45 Rue D’Ulm 18 :00 hrs
Guiseppe LONGO : Negation Circularities and Dualities in the Analysis of Living States of Matter
CONTINUING LECTURE COURSE :
LECTURE COURSE 14th JANUARY 2009 – 8th APRIL 2009 Recorded in full. See also January-February & April 2009
Cours d’Introduction A La Logique Categorique a Paris-Diderot (Chevalaret) By Alain PROUTE
7th Session : 4th MARCH 2009
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8th and 9th Sessions : 9th & 10th MARCH 2009 (Missing : To be traced)
10th Session : 11th March 2009
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11th Session : 18th March 2009 (Missing : To be traced)
12th Session : 25th MARCH 2009 (Missing : To be traced)
NEW LECTURE COURSE : 3rd MARCH 2009 – 1st APRIL 2009
Huit leçons sur l’incomplétude : logique, mécanique quantique
By G. Longo, T. Paul CNRS – DI et DMA, ENS, Paris
8 Lessons on Incompleteness : in Logic and in Quantum Mechanics : A Lecture Course by G.LONGO and Thierry PAUL
Time : 17:30-19:30 hrs Tuesdays and Wednesdays : Place : Salle U/V Niveau -2 Dept of Mathematique ENS Paris
First Talk : 3rd March 2009
Second Talk : 4th March 2009
Third Talk : 10 March 2009
Fourth Talk : 11th March 2009
Fifth Talk : 17th March 2009
Sixth Talk : 18th March 2009
Seventh Talk : 31st March 2009
Eighth Talk : 1st April 2009
MARCH 29th – APRIL 14th 2009 : BRISTOL WORKSHOP
ON CATEGORY THEORY and TOPOS THEORY IN RELATION TO ISSUES IN THE FOUNDATIONS AND PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
With FW LAWVERE and Others
RECORDINGS :
Track 1 :
March 30th 2009 : Opening Session of Workshop 30/03/2009 AM
Present : FW Lawvere Davide Bernardini Matias Menei Richard Pettigrew John Mayberry Michael Wright
Track 2 :
March 30th 2009 : PM Session of Workshop :
Present : FW Lawvere Davide Bernardini Matias Menei Richard Pettigrew John Mayberry Michael Wright
Anders Kock
Track 3 : March 31st 2009 Day 2 of Workshop AM Session
Present : FW Lawvere Davide Bernardini Matias Menei Richard Pettigrew John Mayberry Michael Wright
Anders Kock
Track 4 : March 31st 2009 Day 2 PM Session of Workshop
Present : FW Lawvere Davide Bernardini Matias Menei Richard Pettigrew John Mayberry Michael Wright
Anders Kock
Track 5
31st March 2009 : 17.00 hours : Bristol Philosophy Department Talk by Andrei RODIN :
The Role of Category Theory in relation to Mathematical Structuralism