February 2010
AGENDA : In February 2010 The Archive recorded the following events or seeks to instal links to recordings made of them by others
1st February 2010 :
14:00 hrs Salle Atelier Observatoire de Paris
Seminaire “Temps et Espace” (Seminaire SYRTE – IMCCE – Observatoire de Paris)
F. Delefu : Artificial Satellites and Spatial Debris
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1st February 2010 :
ENS Seminar in Philosophie et Mathematiques
18:00 hrs Amphi. Rataud Level -1 45 Rue D’Ulm Paris
Daniel BENNEQUIN : (Paris 7) : Topologies, Probabilities and Information.
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2nd February 2011
REHSEIS Histoire et Philosophie des mathématiques
Lieu : Bâtiment Condorcet, salle Mondrian (646A), Université Paris Diderot. Métro Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand. Plan
La démonstration de correction d’algorithmes
Karine Chemla (SPHERE, CNRS-Un. Paris Diderot)
Démonstration de la correction d’algorithmes dans les traditions anciennes
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Jeremy Avigad (Dep. Philo. Hist. Math., Carnegie Mellon Univ. Microsoft Research – INRIA Joint Centre)
Formal verification of algorithms
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Gilles Dowek (Ecole Polytechnique)
Axiomes v.s. algorithmes : qu’est-ce qu’une théorie ?
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Benjamin Werner (INRIA (DR) et Professeur Chargé de Cours à l’Ecole Polytechnique)
Prouver des algorithmes pour prouver des théorèmes
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2nd February 2010 :
OXFORD/Computer Science Lab Lecture Theatre A : 4:00 pm
Philip GOYAL (Perimeter Institute) : Why Quantum Theory is Complex
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Wednesday 3rd February 2011
14:00 hrs : IREM Seminar IHP Salle 201 :
Seminar on Historical and Epistemological Approaches to the Study of Mathematical Concepts
Jean-Pierre KAHANE (French Academy of Sciences) : Le Mouvement Brownien, Carrefour des Disciplines
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3rd FEBRUARY 2010 : Bar Des Sciences Cafe du Pont Neuf
14 Quai du Louvre : Qu'est-ce que L'Epigenetique ?
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4th February 2010 :
ASSOMAT Seminars Paris (Association pour les etudes materialistes)
Séminaire 2009-2010 : Un Univers de Variables Cachées ? La question des (in)déterminismes en sciences
Place and time of Seminar : Centre Cavailles ENS 3e etage 29 Rue D’Ulm 75005 Paris
First Thursday of each month 18:00 – 20:00 hrs
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Thursday 4th February 2010
La question des (in)déterminismes en sociologie de la connaissance
Dominique Raynaud (maître de conférences en sociologie à l’Université Pierre-Mendès-France, Grenoble)
D. Raynaud, La Sociologie et sa vocation scientifique (Paris, 2006) ; Optics and the Rise of Perspective. A Study in Network Knowledge Diffusion (Oxford, sous presse).
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Thursday 4 February 2010 :
OXFORD/Philosophy of Physics Seminar
Dr Julian Barbour, Independent:
Reflections on the Foundations of Geometry
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4th February 2010
I.H.E.S. (Institute Des Hautes Etudes, Burres-sur-Yvette, Greater Paris)
Special Invited Lecure :
Thibault DAMOUR (Permanent Professor IHES and Academie des Sciences) :
Does Time Exist ?
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Saturday 6th February 2010 ENS Salle Weil 10:30 hrs
Seminaire MaMuPhi
René Guitart : Du passage du ternaire au binaire et réciproquement dans la modélisation mathématique
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8th February 2010 :
ENS Seminar in Philosophie et Mathematiques
18:00 hrs Amphi. Rataud Level -1 45 Rue D’Ulm Paris
Jacques Droulez (LPPA, Collège de France) : De la cognition aux interactions moléculaires: une approche probabiliste.
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10th February 2010 : 10:00-13.00 Hrs REHSEIS Seminar on Early Modern Mathematics (XVII Century) : Seminaire de Groupe de Travail sur Mathematique a L’Age Classique
Salle 734A Gris Bat. Condorcet Univ Paris 7
Andre WARUSFEL Inspection Generale de Mathematiques)
Descartes et Le De Solidorum Elementis
10th February 2010 : 18:30 Hours : Grand Auditorium, Bibliotheque National de France
Un texte, un mathématicien
Cycle de conférences organisées par la
Bibliothèque nationale de France et la Société mathématique de France
Speaker : Jean-Pierre BOURGUIGNON (Directeur de recherche au CNRS, professeur à l’École Polytechnique, directeur de l’Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques)
Title of Talk : Espaces Courbes de Gauss a Perelman, en passant par Einstein
Text under Discussion :
Karl Friedrich Gauss, Disquisitiones generales circa superficies curvas, Comm. Soc. Göttingen Bd. 6 (1825)
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Thursday February 11 2010 :
OXFORD/Philosophy of Physics Seminar
Dr Miklos Redei, LSE:
Operational independence and operational separability in algebraic quantum field theory
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11th February 2010 : Paris/EHESS 17:00 – 20:00 Hrs
Mathematical Structures and Philosophical Concepts of Spacetime in Contemporary Physics
A Lecture Course delivered by Luciano BOI. Salle 206 MSH 54 Bd Raspail 17:00 – 20:00 hrs
2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month from14th January until 10th June 2010
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Friday 12 February 2010
Seminar in Philosophie & Physique ENS : Les Constructions de L’Espace-Temps
« Relativité » Jean-Marc LEVY-LEBLOND (Prof. émérite, Université de Nice)
9h30-12h30 . Salle de direction . ENS, 29 rue d’Ulm – Paris 5e
12th February 2010 : 14:00 – 17:00 Hrs Univ Paris 7 Batiment Condorcet Salle 483A Malevich
REHSEIS Seminar in Philosophie et Physique
Pierre MARTINETTI (Gottingen)
L’Hypothese du Temps Thermodynamique
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15th February 2010 : 14:00-17:40 hrs : Univ Paris 7 Bat. Condorcet Salle 454A Klee
REHSEIS Seminar in Philosophie des Mathematiques
MiniColloquium on Bayesianism Today
Andrew GALMAN (Columbia Univ NY) : Philosophy and Bayesianism in the Social Scences
Isabelle DROUET (IHPST) : Causal Inference from Statistical Data : What is New with Bayesian Networks ?
15th February 2010 : 14:00 hrs Salle Atelier Observatoire de Paris/Seminaire “Temps et Espace” (Seminaire SYRTE – IMCCE – Observatoire de Paris)
G.CLIFTON (Royal Observatry Greenwich) : The Astronomers-Royal at Greenwich and Their Contibutions to the Sciences in the 18th and 19th Centuries
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15th February 2010 :
18:00 hrs Amphi. Rataud Level -1 45 Rue D’Ulm Paris
ENS Seminar in Philosophie et Mathematiques
Jean-Jacques Kupiec : (Biologie, Centre Cavalliès, ENS)
“Ontophylogenèse”.
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15th and 16th February 2010
JOURNEES DE PHILOSOPHIE DE LA PHYSIQUE PARIS
15th February 2010 : 11:00 am : LARSIM – CEA-Saclay Foundations of Physics Seminar Batiment 774 Salle 50 Orme des Merisiers
John MANCHAK (Washington) : What counts as a Physically Reasonable Spacetime ?
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15th February 2010 :
ENS Paris Salle des Actes
17:00 hrs : Craig CALLENDER (UC at Irvine) : Does Time Flow ? : Explaining the common “Now”
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15 th February 2010 :
IHPST : Seminaire PHILMATH : Rescuing Kant : The Role of Intuition in Mathematical Knowledge
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16th February 2010 :
11:00 : LARSIM Batiment 774 Salle 50 Orme des Merisers
James WEATHERALL (UC Irvine) On The Status of the Geodesic principle in Newtonian and in Relativistic Physics
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14:30 : Craig CALLENDER (UC San Diego) : What Makes Time Special ?
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16th February 2010 : Atelier Simondon : Individuation et Technique
Sebastien BOURBONNAIS : Simondon et Le Domaine De L’Architecture Numerique
16th February 2010 : CREA Seminar (New Venue : 32 Bd. Victor 75015 Paris : Salle 28 132 1st Floor : 17:00 – 18:30 hrs)
Seminar in Theoretical Biology
Kepa RUIZ-MIRAZO : Emergence of Functional Constraints In a Protocell Model
Wednesday 17th February 2010 : 14:00 hrs IHP IREM Seminar : Historical and Epistemological Approaches to the Study of Mathematical Concepts
Regine DOUADY
Jeux de cadres en didactique des mathématiques
REHSEIS Seminar on Early Modern Mathematics (Batiment Condorcet Univ Paris 7)
Mercredi 17 février 2010, 10h-13h : « Descartes et le De Solidorum Elementis ».
André Warusfel (Inspection générale de mathématiques)
Thursday 18 February 2010 :
OXFORD/Philosophy of Physics Seminar
Dr John Manchak, Paris and Washington:
‘What is a Physically Reasonable Spacetime?’
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18th February 2010 : IHPST Seminar 13 Rue du Four Paris : Michael BEANEY (York) :
The Roots of Rational Reconstruction : The History of Philosophy in Analytic Philosophy and The History of Analytic Philosophy
19TH FEBRUARY 2010 : Paris 7 Seminar : Jean-Jacques SZCZECINIARZ and Others
Is there any role for the notion of Observation in Mathematics ? : The First of Three Round Table Discussions
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19th February 2010 : NANCY-WUPPERTAL WORKSHOP in History of Mathematics : Qu’est-ce qu’une courbe ?
Talks by Rene GUITART
Evelyne BARBIN
Jean DELCOURT
22nd February 2010 : ENS Seminar in Philosophie et Mathematiques
18:00 hrs Amphi. Rataud Level -1 45 Rue D’Ulm Paris
22 février : Alain Desrosieres (INSEE)
“Analyse des données et sciences humaines”.
24th February 2010 :
ENS Rue D’Ulm Paris Salle W 15:00 hrs
Special Seminar in Foundations of Physics in Greater Paris Region Series arranged by The Archive for Mathematical Sciences and Philosophy
Julian Barbour (Oxford) “Shape Dynamics as the Physical Core of General Relativity”
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24 février 2010, 15h, ENS, Salle W
Julian Barbour (Oxford) “Shape Dynamics as the Physical Core of General Relativity”
After an brief historical review of the concept of geometry developed by Riemann and employed by Einstein, I will discuss in more detail Weyl’s desire to replace Riemannian geometry by one in which length is not absolute. This led Weyl in 1918 to introduce additional geometrical structure that he used to define transport of length. His great hope of thereby unifying gravity and electromagnetism foundered on physical objections by Einstein and the mathematical complexity of his theory. The basic idea was later subtly transformed by Weyl in 1929 into the precursor of the Yang-Mills gauge principle. Weyl’s original aspiration of eliminating length was never forgotten and inspired numerous alternative attempts, including one by Dirac, to achieve the same goal. These too failed. I shall argue that in fact Weyl made a mistake in adding extra structure; he should simply have used less of the structure in Riemannian geometry, namely only its conformal part. This is determined solely by angles and is directly related to the observations that can actually be made. An analysis of the true physical degrees of freedom in general relativity in terms of three-dimensional conformal geometry then leads to the surprising conclusion that general relativity achieves everything that Weyl could have asked of it. In its core, lengths play no role. Everything is determined by shapes in the form of conformal geometry. Apart from its intrinsic interest and possible relevance to cosmology, this demonstration could have considerable implications for the programme of creating a quantum theory of gravity. For example, it suggests that in the quantum mechanics of the universe there will be a uniquely defined notion of simultaneity that is still compatible with lack of simultaneity in classical general relativity.
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25th February 2010 :
Batiment Condorcet Univ Paris 7 : 14:00 hrs
Jean-Jacques SZCZECINIARZ : “Where Is The Universe?”
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Thursday 25 February 2010 :
OXFORD/Philosophy of Physics Seminar
Dr Antony Eagle, Oxford:
‘Can We Read Metaphysics Off Physics? Or, what presentists should say about special relativity
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25th February 2010
Math
Paris/EHESS 17:00 – 20:00 hrs
Mathematical Structures and Philosophical Concepts of Spacetime in Contemporary Physics
A Lecture Course delivered by Luciano BOI.
Salle 206 MSH 54 Bd Raspail 17:00 – 20:00 hrs 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month from14th January until 10th June 2010
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25th February 2010 :
Paris 7 Bat. Condorcet ( Room TBA) 10:00-13:00 hrs
titre du cours : Catégories et structures
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Nb The whole of this Lecture Course by Prof. Rene Guitart and the following Course for 2011 may be studied, including both sound recordings and detailed Contemporaneous Notes of his presentation in the Section of The Archive Catalogue entitled “Courses, Conferences, Interviews and Workshops”
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