November 2009

In the course of November 2009 The Archive recorded the following events :

November 4th -6th 2009 : parts of the Conference   

 Conference “Mathematical methods in General Relativity and Quantum Field Theories”, November 4 – 6, 2009, 

Institute de Mathematiques  de Jussieu Paris

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Wednesday November 4th   2009   – Room  2E01  – chairman P. LeFloch

 

1. : 56 minutes 45 seconds : 10h00 – 10h50 :  Mihalis Dafermos The black hole stability problem

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2.  1 minute 39 seconds :  Discussions after Dafermos’s talk

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3. : 1 hour 00 minutes 51 seconds :  11h30 – 12h20 :  Luc Blanchet Post-Newtonian methods and applications

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4.  3 minutes 59 seconds : Discussions after Blanchet’s talk

Lunch break    chairman J. Kouneiher

5.  45 minutes 31 seconds :  14h00 – 14h50 :   Dan Freed Dirac charge quantization, K-theory, and orientifolds

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6. : 2 minutes 54 seconds : Discussions after Freed’s talk

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7. :  52 minutes 36 seconds :  15h30 – 16h20 :   Lars Andersson Hidden symmetries and linear fields on Kerr

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8. : 6 minutes 46 seconds : Discussions after Andersson’s talk

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Thursday November 5, 2009  –  Room 0C02  – chairman F. Helein

9. : 56 minutes  04 seconds :  9h00 – 9h50 : Alan Weinstein Groupoid symmetry and initial value constraints for the Einstein equations

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10. : 4 minutes 11 seconds : Discussions after Weinstein’s talk

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11.  : 50 minutes 52 seconds : 10h30 – 11h20 :  Alan Rendall Relations between Gowdy and Bianchi spacetimes

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12. : 2 minutes 33 seconds : Discussions after Rendall’s talk

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13 :  1 hour  1 minute 57 seconds :  11h30 – 12h20 :  Daniel Bennequin “Geometry of duality on curves, surfaces and moduli” (Lecture given on blackboard.)

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 Chairman C. Barbachoux 

14. : 47 Minutes 37 seconds  :  4h00 – 14h50 :   Jérémie Szeftel Around the bounded L2 curvature conjecture in general relativity

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15. : 4 minutes 24 seconds : Discussions after Szeftel’s talk

16. : 1 hour 6 minutes 30 seconds : 15h30 – 16h20 :  Gabriele Veneziano Black holes from transplanckian-energy collisions of ultra-relativistic sources

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17.  ( 13 minutes 13 seconds ) : Discussions after Veneziano’s talk

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 Friday November 6, 2009  –  Room 1C18  – chairman P. LeFloch

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Coffee break

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Invited speakers

Alan Weinstein, Berkeley 

 
  

 Links to the recordings to be posted later subject to the agreement of the speakers and conference organisers

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November 5th 2009 : OXFORD Philosophy of Physics Seminar 10 Merton Street Lecture Room

4:30 pm :  DrErik CURIEL (LSE) :
On Tensorial Concomitants and the non-existence of a Gravitational Stress-Energy Tensor

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Thursday 5 novembre  2009   10h-13h :  REHSEIS Seminar on Early Modern Mathematics

Salle 412B Rothko Bat. Condorcet Univ Paris 7

 « Le Triangle Arithmétique de Pascal ».

Dominique Descotes (CERHAC-CIBP)    mf06112009

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FRIDAY 6th November 2009

Ecole Normale Superieure PARIS  45  Rue D’Ulm

A Special day of Lectures and Rencontres around the Work of  Laureates of the Mathematical Section of the French Academy of Sciences

Jointly organised by ENS and The French Mathematical Society

AM : Survey Lectures by 3 younger researchers, designed to provide orientation in following the exposes in the afternoon by the Laureates

9:00 am  :  Benjamin SCHRAEN and Olivier WITTENBERG

Introduction to recent work on the interface between Number Theory and p-adic Geometry

Track 1 : Schhraen : 41 minutes 43 seconds

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Track 2 : Wittenberg : 42 minutes 45 seconds  

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11:00 am :  Sebastien BOUCKSOM : 

Introduction a la dynamique des applications polynomiales

Track 3  (Boucksom) : 1 hour 37 minutes 18 seconds.

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Lunch

14:00  :  Shorter presentations (approx 40 minutes each)

Jean-Louis Colliot-Thelene :  Homogeneous Forms in many variables

Track 4  (Thelene) : 29 minutes 26 seconds  plus

Track 5 : 1 minute 23 seconds : Questions following talk

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Nessim Sibony : Unique Ergodicity Theorems and Foliations by Riemann Surfaces

Track 6  (Sibony’s talk) :  32 minutes 53 seconds plus

Track 7 : Questions following Sibony.

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Charles Favre : Algebraic dynamics : Growth by degrees

Track 8  (Favre’s talk)  25 minutes 44 seconds plus

Track 9 : 1 :00 minute : Questions following Favre

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Raphael Roquier : Algebra, Categories and Topology

Track 10 : (Rouquier’s Talk) : 36 minutes 51 seconds  plus

Track 11 : 1 minute 34 seconds : Questions after Rouquier’s talk

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Laurent Fargues : P-adic geometry and moduli spaces

Track 12 :  (Fargues’ Talk)  : 28 minutes 37 seconds

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Artur Avila : Billiards,  interval exchanges and weak mixing theorems

Track 13 :  (Avila’s Talk) :  38 minutes 45 seconds plus

Track 14 :  2 minutes 09 seconds : Questions following Avila’s talk

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November 6th 2009

ENS 46 Rue D’Ulm : Salle de Conferences :  4 Part  Lecture Course on

“GODEL’S THEOREMS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES”

By Professor Mic DETLEFSEN   (IP  Chaire d’Excellence and University of  Notre Dame USA)

Lecture 3  :  Godel’s Theorems and Hilbert’s Program

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Monday 9th NOVEMBER 2009

IP Fellows Workshop :  ENS Paris, Salle Jules Ferry  29 Rue D’Ulm

Session 1 :  9:00 – 10:30  Andrei RODIN :  Renewing Foundations

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Session 2 :   10:45 – 12:15   Henri GALLISON : The Ideal of Truth as An Ideal of Proof

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LUNCH

Session 3 :  14:00 – 15:30  Davide CRIPPA : As Simple as Possible : Descartes algebraic interpretation of Pappus’  Norm

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Session 4 :  15:45 – 17:15  Richard PETTIGREW : Prospects for a foundation for Mathematics in Category Theory

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10th November 2009 Laboratoire   de Philosophie et d’Histoire des Sciences UMR 7219

Batiment Condorcet  Univ Paris-Diderot Salle Mondrian 646A

Seminar in History and Philosophy of Mathematics

10 November 2009

Workshop on the circulation of algebraic knowledge and techniques before the 17th Century

Speakers to be listed

November 12th 2009 : OXFORD Philosophy of Physics Seminar 10 Merton Street Lecture Room

4:30 pm : Charlotte WERNDL (Oxford) :

Determinism versus indeterminism : some results on observational equivalence

Forthcoming Events which it is hoped to record :

FRIDAY 13th NOVEMBER 2009 :

1.  Conference at Institut Henri Poincare Paris :

CONTROVERSIES IN THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS :

Organiser : Frederic Brechenmacher

AM (salle 201):
       
10h -12h :  Guillaume Jouve (IUFM de Lyon, Institut Camille Jordan):

Polemics on the subject of Vibrating Strings (1747-1770)»

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Maarten Bullynck (Université Paris 8 et UMR SPHERE):

 «Variations, Functions and Transformations : Controversies in late 18th Century German Mathematics about the nature and relationships of algebra and analysis»
        
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PM:
       
14:00  – 15:00hrs : – Caroline Ehrhardt (Service d´histoire de l´éducation, INRP):

«Une controverse de 1843 entre Guillaume Libri et Joseph Liouville»
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15:00 – 16:00

David Rowe (University of Mainz):

Zeuthen,  Study and Klein : Reflections on a Controversy in Mathematische Annalen of the 1890s :

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16h-16h30: Pause café

16 h 30 – 18 h: Table ronde:

«Controverses, conflits, litiges : réflexions historiographiques et méthodologiques»

General Panel Discussion on Controversies in Mathematics

Avec la participation de Christophe Prochasson (Centre de recherches historiques, EHESS)

Jeanne Peiffer (Centre A. Koyré, EHESS)

Philippe Nabonnand (Archives Henri Poincaré, Université Nancy 2)

Christian Gilain (Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu, Université  Pierre et Marie Curie)

Catherine Goldstein (Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu, Université Pierre et Marie Curie).

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2. ENS :  14:00-16:00 hrs :  LECTURE 4 in The Lecture Series :

Godel’s Theorems and Their Consequences

by Professor Mic DETLEFSEN  See Link to Poster.  See Section of Catalogue “Ideals of Proof Program 2008-2011”

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3.  14:00 – 18:00 hrs  University Paris 7 : Batiment Condorcet, Salle Malevitch

REHSEIS Working Group : Philosophie et Physique

Expose by Prof. March LACHIEZE-REY (CNRS-APC)

Temps et Covariance

Response by Alexis de Saint-Ours  (Paris 8) on 15th January 2010

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4.  IHPST 13 Rue du Four Paris :  17:30 – 19:30 hrs

Stewart SHAPIRO  (Ohio State University) :

VARIETIES OF RELATIVISM and PLURALISM IN LOGIC

 

Saturday 14th NOVEMBER 2009 :  Seminaire MaMuPhi, ENS 45 Rue D’Ulm  Salle S. Weil

Charles Alunni :  Le binome Lautman-Cavailles

Track 1 :  IC C 001 mp3 : 2 hours  21 minutes 31 seconds

Track 2 : IC C 007 wav.  1 hour 52 minutes 45 seconds

14th November 2009   :   IHP :  Seminaire BOURBAKI  14th-15th November 2009

14:00 hrs :  Sergiu KLAINERMANN (Princeton)

 On the Linear Stability of Black Holes  (of the extended Kerr Solution(s)in GR)

(following M. Dafermos and I. Rodnianski)

 Track 1 :  IC C 002 .mp3  :  1 hour 2 minutes  04 seconds

 

 

16th NOVEMBER 2009

ENS Paris  Salle Jules Ferry  29 Rue D’Ulm

L’Anneau des Disciplines :  A Memorial Conference for

Francis BAILLY   : 

 Track 1:  IC A 001 MP3 :  57 minutes 01 seconds

Opening Remarks by Giuseppe LONGO

 followedby Talk 1 By

Remy MOSSERI (Physique, CNRS) :  Symetrie et Brisures de Symetrie

Track 2 :  IC A 002 MP3 : 53 minutes 12 seconds

Herve La GUYADER, Biologie, UPMC, Paris :  Les difficiles relations

Entre La Physique et La Biologie : Une Nouvelle Discussion avec

Francis

Track 3 : IC A 003 MP 3 : 1 hour 18 minutes 18 seconds

Giuseppe LONGO (Informatique ENS et CNRS)

Principes de Preuve et Principes de Constructions Theoriques.

Complexite(s) Biologiques(s) et Evolution

Track 4 : IC A 004 MP3 :  55 minutes 51 seconds :

Thierry PAUL (Maths-Physique CNRS – Polytechnique)

Rapports Mathematiques/Physiques : L’Exemple de la transition

Quantique/classique

Track 5 : IC A 005 MP 3 : 13 minutes 04 seconds : Questions and Discussions

Following Thierry PAUL’s Talk

Track 6 : IC A 006 MP 3 : 41 minutes 36 seconds :

Jean-Michel SALANSKIS (Philosophie, Univ Paris 10)

 Quelques debats non-techniques avec Francis

Track 7 : ICA  A 007 MP 3 :  8 minutes 57 seconds

Questions and discussions following Jean-Michel SALANSKIS’s Talk

Track 8 : ICA A 008 MP 3 : 30 minutes 31 seconds “Fin et Ouverture”

Round Table and Panel Discussion by All Speakers at the Colloquium

Plus M. Montevil, M.Mossio, P.-E. Tendero, B. Saulnier

(Former Thesis Students of Francis Bailly).  Chaired by G.LONGO

Track 9 : ICA A 009 MP3 : 18 seconds : Thanks to the Colloquium

Speakers and organisers by Mme BAILLY

 Translation of Programme:

 L’Anneau des Disciplines

A Colloquium in Memory of Francis Bailly

Organiser : Giuseppe LONGO

 

Programme :

 

9:20 : Opening Ceremony

9:30 : Remy Mosseri (Physics CNRS)  :  Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking

10: 30 Herve Le Guyader (UPMC Paris)

The Difficult Relations between Physics and Biology : A Report on Discussions with Francis Bailly

11:45 : Giuseppe Longo : Principles of Proof and Principoles of Theoretical Construction :

Biological Complexities and Evolution

12:45 Lunch

14:45 : Thierry Paul (CNRS Polytechnique)

Relations between Mathematics and Physics : The example of the Quantum/Classical transition

15:45 : Jean-Michel Salanskis (Philosophy Paris 10)

Some (non-technical) debates with Francis Bailly

17:00 : Giuseppe Longo :  Fin et Ouverture : followed by panel discussion with speakers joined by 4 of Francis Bailly’s former doctoral students

 

17th NOVEMBER 2009 :  REHSEIS  UMR 7210 Salle 483A Malevitch Bat. Condorcet Paris VII

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Physics

Cyril IMBERT (IHPST) : Physics, Description and Complexity

 

November 19th 2009 : OXFORD Philosophy of Physics Seminar 10 Merton Street Lecture Room

4:30 pm : Speaker and Title TBA

 

November 23rd – 25th 2009

University of Granada, Spain : Focused Workshop on Algebraic Geometry over the Field with 1 Element   (F 1 – Geometry)

Lectures by :

 

Peter Arndt (Gottingen)

Javier Lopez Pena (QMU London)

Olivier Lorscheid (Wuppertal)

Snigdhayan Mahanta (John Hopkins)

Florian Marty (Max Planck Institute Bonn)

Jorge  Plazas  Vargas (Utrecht)

 

24th NOVEMBER 2009 :  REHSEIS  UMR 7210 Salle 483A Malevitch Bat. Condorcet Paris VII

Seminar on History and Philosophy of Physics

Ivahn SMADJA (REHSEIS) Pointillisme vs anti-pointillisme en Physique : Old Wine in New Bottles ?

 

24th NOVEMBER 2009  : College de Philosophie International

Carre des Sciences  1 Rue Descartes Pavilion Joffre

Emanuel Barot (Toulouse) : Dialectique en Mathematiques : Hegel, Lautman et Quelques Autres

Lecture 2 of a continuing course.  See 2010 Catalogue for further Lectures

 

November 26th 2009 : OXFORD Philosophy of Physics Seminar 10 Merton Street Lecture Room

4 :30 pm :  DrStephen LYLE :

Self – Force and Inertia : Old Light on New Ideas

 

 

 

 

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