May 2010

AGENDA : In May 2010 The Archive recorded the following events or made arrangements to link to recordings of events made by others :

3rd May 2010

Seminaire de Philosophie et Mathematiques d’ENS

(Convenors : Pierre CARTIER, Jean-Baptiste JOINET,  Giuseppe LONGO, Jean PETITOT, Bernard TEISSIER

Founded by Maurice Loi  :  Mondays 18:00 hrs : Salle : Amphi Rataud, Batiment Rataud, Etage – 1  45 Rue D’Ulm

David BESSIS (Mathematiques, CNRS)

Le probleme Netflix : 100, 000,000 donness et 1,000,000 dollars

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3rd May 2010

MSH Paris  54 Boulevard Raspail Salle 214  :

Seminaire Histoire des Geometries

Martina SCHNEIDER  (Leipzig) :  About Van der Waerden’s Spinor calculus

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6th May 2010  :  Oxford : Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Lecture Room 10 Merton Street

(Convenors : Chris TIMPSON and Harvey BROWN)

2nd Week of Hilary Term :  (6 May)

Andreas Doering “Some basics of the topos approach to the formulation of physical theories”

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10th MAY 2010 :

14:00 hrs Salle Atelier Observatoire de Paris/Seminaire “Temps et Espace” (Seminaire SYRTE – IMCCE – Observatoire de Paris)

S. Albrecht (MIT, Kavi Institute) :  Orbital Precession Relativistic Effects and large obliquities in the binay star system Di Herculis

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10th  May 2010 :

Seminaire de Philosophie et Mathematiques d’ENS

(Convenors : Pierre CARTIER, Jean-Baptiste JOINET,  Giuseppe LONGO, Jean PETITOT, Bernard TEISSIER

Founded by Maurice Loi  :  Mondays 18:00 hrs : Salle : Amphi Rataud, Batiment Rataud, Etage – 1  45 Rue D’Ulm

Annick LESNE (Physique CNRS-IHES)

Entropie de Shannon et Taux D’Entropie : A La Croisee des probabilites, des systemes dynamiques et de la physique statistique

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MAY 13th 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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13th MAY 2010 :

Univ. Paris 7  at. Condorcet (Salle TBA)  10:00 – 13:00 hrs

Sixth (and Final) Lecture in Course by René Guitart

 
titre du cours : 

Catégories et structures

 
but du cours : Théorie catégoricienne des structures et son usage pour la modélisation.
Le noyau de notions développées, accompagnées d’exemples en algèbre et en géométrie, sera : Catégories et foncteurs, foncteurs représentables,  problèmes universels. Limites et colimites, notions d’esquisse et de trame. Structures libres et monades, opérades. Diagramme localement libre. Sites et topos, univers, univers algébriques. Algèbres figuratives. 
 
dates des 6 séances : jeudi 25 février (première séance), jeudi 11 mars, jeudi 25 mars, jeudi 8 avril, jeudi 29 avril, jeudi 13 mai.
horaires :  de 10h à 13h. 
durée totale : 18 heures de cours.
lieu :  Université Paris Diderot Paris 7, Bâtiment Condorcet, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, Paris 75013 (la salle sera précisée ultérieurement)

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13th May 2010  : 

Oxford : Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Lecture Room 10 Merton Street

(Convenors : Chris TIMPSON and Harvey BROWN)

3rd Week of Hilary Term :  (13 May)

Keith Hannabuss “Some recent developments in Quantum Electrodynamics”

Abstract: This talk will review the history of electrodynamics and the problem of divergences, together with some of the more recent ideas on how those can be tamed. It will not assume any detailed knowledge of QED.

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15th MAY 2010 : 

10:30 am  :  ENS Paris Salle Cavailles :

MaMuPhi Seminar

Marci SEGALA : On the Notion of “Absolute Music” in the 19th Century

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15th MAY 2010 :

15:00 – 18:00 : Ecole MaMuPhi at IRCAM  1, Place Stravinsky :

Pierre CARTIER : Third in a Course of 3 Lectures

See http://www.entretemps.asso.fr/maths/ for details

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MONDAY 17th MAY – FRIDAY 21st MAY 2010

THE ROAD TO REALITY

CONFERENCE AT THE BANACH CENTRE OF THE POLISH ACADEDMY OF SCIENCES, WARSAW

and

THE JAGELLONIAN UNIVERSITY, CRACOW, POLAND

In Honour of Sir Roger PENROSE OM

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INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS, Banach Centre WARSAW POLAND

PART ONE

Monday 17th – Tuesday 18th MAY 2010

Monday May 17th 2010

Institute of Mathematics Sniadeich 8  Lecture Hall 321

10:00 – 10:15  ; Opening of Meeting

10:15 – 11:00 AM : Sir ROGER PENROSE OM

Dynamical Equations for the Big Bang

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11:15 – 12:00 : Prof.  ANDRZEJ TRAUTMAN :

The Rudiments of Twistor Theory

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Coffee Break

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12:30 – 13:15 : ABHAY ASHTEKAR :

The Many Faces of Black Holes

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Lunch Break

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15:15 -16:00 : Nick WOODHOUSE

Twistors and Special Functions

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16:15 – 17:00 : Iwo Bialynicki-Birula

Can the Homodyne Principle help us to understand Quantum Measurement ?

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18:00 SPECIAL EVENING LECTURE

Auditorium Starej Biblioteki Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28

Sir Roger PENROSE :

Aeons Before the Big Bang

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TUESDAY MAY 18th 2010 

Institute of Mathematics Sniadeich 8  Lecture Hall 321

9:10 – 10:00 AM : Artur EKERT

LessReality, More Security ?

 

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10:15 – 11:00 : Jerzy KIJOWSKI :

The Quasi-Local Enerrgy of The Gravitational Field

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11:15 – 12 :00 Guiseppe MARMO :

Geometry and Quantum Mechanics

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Coffee Break

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12:30 – 13;15 : Dominique LAMBERT :

The Mathematical Road to Biology : Speedway or Holzweg ?

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Lunch Break

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15:00 – 15:45 : Marek KUS :

Quantum Entanglement and Identical Particles

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16:00 – 16:30 : Michael HELLER :

General Relativity and Von Neumann Algebras

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16:45 – 17:15 : Shahn MAJID :

A Lie Theory of Finite Simple Groups

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End of Part One of The Congress

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Part TWO of The Congress at The Jagellonian University, Cracow

Thursday May 20th 2011 and Friday May 21st 2011 :

Recordings To Be Added

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17th MAY 2010

Seminaire de Philosophie et Mathematiques d’ENS

(Convenors : Pierre CARTIER, Jean-Baptiste JOINET,  Giuseppe LONGO, Jean PETITOT, Bernard TEISSIER

Founded by Maurice Loi

Mondays 18:00 hrs : Salle : Amphi Rataud, Batiment Rataud, Etage – 1  45 Rue D’Ulm

Herve LA BRAS (EHESS, Paris)

Quatre problemes a la carte : Peuplement multifractal, lissage eliptique, modele de segregation de Schelling, modeles d’allocation des migrations et des mariages

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17th May 2010

 MSH Paris  54 Boulevard Raspail  Salle 214 :

Seminaire Histoire des Geometries

 Jean-Pierre BOURGUIGNON : Sur la Courbure de Ricci –  Entre Math et Physique.

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18th May 2010

REHSEIS Histoire et Philosophie des Mathématiques

Bâtiment Condorcet, salle Mondrian (646A), Université Paris Diderot. Métro Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand. Plan

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18 May 2010

Le statut et l’usage des projections en géométrie
(exceptionnellement jusqu’à 19H)

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Philippe Abgrall (CEPERC, CNRS-Université de Provence)
Le rôle des coniques dans les études sur les projections au 10e siècle

Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidault, (service d’astrophysique, CEA)
Projection methods under the Tang : the case of the Dunhuang star chart

Judith Field (Birkbeck, Univ. London)
Desargues : projection et géométrie projective

Kirsti Andersen (Aarhus University)
Lambert’s perspective geometry

Ken Manders (Pittsburgh University)
Projection and the role of diagrams in Poncelet

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 18th May 2010

CREA Seminar  (New Venue : 32 Bd. Victor  75015 Paris : Salle 28  132 :  1st Floor :  17:00 – 18:30 hrs)

Seminar in Theoretical Biology

Paul BORGINE  :  Title TBA

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19th May 2010

IHP Seminar on Historical and Epistemological Approaches to Mathematical Topics/Concepts

(Convenor M. Serfati) : Room 201 Institut Henri Poincare Paris

14:00 hrs ;  Dirk SCHLIMM on

Pasch and Klein on Intuition and Proof

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20th May 2010 :

Oxford : Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Lecture Room 10 Merton Street

(Convenors : Chris TIMPSON and Harvey BROWN)

4th Week of Hilary Term (20 May)

Harvey Brown “Boltzmann’s H-theorem and its discontents”

Abstract: A comparison is made of the traditional Loschmidt (reversibility) and Zermelo (recurrence) objections to Boltzmann’s H-theorem, and its simplified variant in the Ehrenfests’ 1912 wind-tree model. The little-cited 1896 (measure-theoretic) objection of Zermelo (similar to an 1889 argument due to Poincaré) is also analysed. Significant differences between the objections are highlighted, and several old and modern misconceptions concerning both them and the H-theorem are clarified. Particular emphasis is given to the radical nature of Poincaré’s and Zermelo’s attack, and the importance of the shift in Boltzmann’s thinking in response to the objections taken together.

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26th May 2010 

IHP Seminar on Historical and Epistemological Approaches to Mathematical Topics/Concepts

(Convenor M. Serfati) : Room 201 Institut Henri Poincare Paris

14:00 hrs :  Christian BRACCO  on Poincare and Relativity in 1905 : A Pioneer of 20th Century Theoretical Physics

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27th MAY and 31st MAY 2010 :

First Two of A Series of Bi-Weekly Research Seminars in The Philosophy ofMathematics organised by

Prof. Jamie TAPPENDEN

(Visiting Professor University of Paris)

27th May  – 5th July 2010 

Univ Paris 7  :  Batiment Condorcet  14:00 – 17:00  hrs

27th May 2010 :

Salle 483A Malevich

Speaker : Jamie Tappenden

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31st May 2010 :

Salle 646A Mondrian

Speaker : Jamie Tappenden

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27th MAY 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

Click here to listen to recording of Luciano BOI’s Lecture

Click here for Notes/Overheads of talk

Click here for Information about the Course

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27th May 2010 :

Oxford : Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Lecture Room 10 Merton Street

(Convenors : Chris TIMPSON and Harvey BROWN)

5th Week of Hilary Term :   (27 May)

Nancy Cartwright (LSE) “Who’s afraid of external validity?”

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29th-31st MAY 2010 : Concordia University MONTREAL, Canada

2010 General Meeting of

THE CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS

Full Details of Program to be added.

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31st MAY 2010 :

14:00 hrs Salle Atelier Observatoire de Paris/Seminaire “Temps et Espace” (Seminaire SYRTE – IMCCE – Observatoire de Paris)

SPEAKER and TOPIC   T.B.A.

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31st May 2010  : 

Seminaire de Philosophie et Mathematiques d’ENS

(Convenors : Pierre CARTIER, Jean-Baptiste JOINET,  Giuseppe LONGO, Jean PETITOT, Bernard TEISSIER

Founded by Maurice Loi  :  Mondays 18:00 hrs : Salle : Amphi Rataud, Batiment Rataud, Etage – 1  45 Rue D’Ulm

Miora MUGUR-SCHACHTER (Physics, Paris)

Proposition d’une organisation de la situation actuelle oncerant les concepts de “hazard”, “statistique” et “probabilite”

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31st May 2010

MSH Paris  54 Boulevard Raspail  Salle 214  :

Seminaire Histoire des Geometries

June BARROW-GREEN :  450 Years of Euclid in English

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31st MAY 2010 :

Second of A Series of Bi-Weekly Research Seminars in The Philosophy of Mathematics organised by Prof. Jamie TAPPENDEN (Visiting Professor University of Paris)

27th May  – 5th July 2010 

Univ Paris 7  :  Batiment Condorcet  14:00 – 17:00  hrs

27th May 2010 : Salle 483A Malevich

31st May 2010 : Salle 646A Mondrian

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IDEALS OF PROOF SUMMER SCHOOL AND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

“FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS TODAY”  17th MAY – 25th JUNE 2010

In Association with a Satellite Workshop organised in Paris

“CATEGORY THEORY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS TODAY”

The Provisional Programs of the Summer School and The Satellite Workshop are set out here and repeated in the June 2010 Page of The Archive Catalogue/Agenda.  Fuller details of the Topics dealt with successive sessions, and the full programs of both Workshops, will be added.  

The Full Program of Both Events, together with links to the recordings of talks and to the .pdf of speakers overheads and other related documentation wil be added to the May and June 2010 pages of this catalogue and also to the Sub- Section devoted to The Ideals of Proof Program within the Conferences Workshops and Other Special Events Section of this website

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A.  Ideals of Proof Summer School and International Workshop on Foundations of Mathematics Today

17 th MAY – 25th JUNE 2010

Provisonal List of Speakers

WEEK 1 :  May 18th and May 21st : Speakers : Prof. Yuri T. MANIN and A.N.Other : Details of Topics to be advised

WEEK 2 :  May 25th and 28th : Speakers : Prof John MAYBERRY (Bristol) and A.N. Other : Details of Topics to be advised.

WEEK 3 :  June 1st and 4th : Speakers : Prof. John L. BELL (University of Western Ontario) : and A.N. Other : Details of Topics to be advised.

WEEK 4 : June 8th and 11th : Speakers : Professor Solomon FEFERMAN  and A.N. Other : Details of Topics to be advised.

WEEK 5 : June 15th and 18th : Speakers and Topics  T.B.A.

WEEK 6 / June 22nd and 25th : 2 All Day Meetings with 4 Talks each day and Discussions, including Round Table.  Speakers include Prof Colin McLARTY (CWRU) and Others TBA

B.  Satellite Workshop : Category Theory and The Philosophy of Mathematics Today

Provisional Program : Details to follow :

WEEK 1 :  Session 1 /May 17th 2010 : Speakers : Professor Yuri T. MANIN and Rene GUITART

WEEK 2 : Session 2 / May 24th 2010 : Speakers TBA

WEEK 3 : Session 3/ May 31st  2010 : Speaker : Prof Alberto PERUZZI, University of Florence

WEEK 4 : Session 4 / June 7th  2010 : Speaker(s) TBA

WEEK 5 : Session 5 / June 14th 2010 : Speakers Prof. Alain PROUTE and Prof. Christian HOUZEL

Speakers at both Workshops to participate in June 22nd and 25th Colloquia

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Tappenden PhilMath Workshop
May-June 2010 – Program

Many more events and details to be added