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)

Click here for link to recording of  Paola CANTU’s Talk

and here for link to discussions/Q&A  Session folowing

Talk 2 : Olivier DARRIGOL (REHSEIS, CNRS)

Mesure Nombre et Espace chez Hermann Helmholtz              (bd 0309)

Click here for link to recording of Olivier DARRIGOL’s Talk

 and here for link to recording of Discussion/Q&A Session following his Talk

 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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 and here to listen to Discussions/Q&A Session following his Talk

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

Click here for link to recording of LOU CRANE’s Talk

 

 

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

Click Here for Recording of

1.  Alain Connes Talk : 

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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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and here for link to recording of Discussion/Q&ASession following his Talk

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

Click here for link to recording of Discussion Session following Joint Talk of Chemla and Belhoste

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

Click here for link to recording of Pierre LOCHAK’s Talk

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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

Click here for link to recording of Emily GROSHOLZ’s Talk

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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

Click here for link to recording of Jacqueline STEDAK’s Talk

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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

 Click here for link to recording of Lou CRANE’s Talk

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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”

Click here for link to recording of Miklos REDEI’s Talk

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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”

Click here for link to recording of Miklos REDEI’s Talk

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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Click here for link to recording of discussions/Q&A Session following his Talk

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

Click here for link to recording of Discussions/Q&A Session following this Talk 

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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

Click here for link to recording of Miklos REDEI’s Talk

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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

Click here for link to Francois Chargois’ Talk

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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

Click here for link to recording of Round Table Conversations

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27th March 2009 : ENS Seminaire Riemann :

Christophe SOULE (CNRS/IHES)

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Click here for link to recording of Christopher SOULE’s Talk

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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

Click here for link to recording of Alain PROUTE’s Talk

8th and 9th Sessions :  9th  & 10th MARCH 2009  (Missing : To be traced)

10th Session : 11th March 2009

Click here for link to recording of Alain PROUTE’s Talk

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