January 2011

5th-7th January 2011

I.C.A.T.T.A. 2011

International Conference on Algebra, Topology and Topological Algebra

Vera Cruz Mexico

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6th January 2011

REHSEIS/SPHERE Seminar “Histoire des Sciences, Histoire du Texte”

(Convenor : Karine CHEMLA)

Salle 612B KLEIN Bat. Condorcet Paris 7

9:30 – 18:30 Hrs

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6th-10th January 2011

Kolkata India (Calcutta)

S.N. BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES SILVER JUBILEE SYMPOSIUM

75 Years of Quantum Entanglement : Foundations and

Information-Theoretic Applications

Click here for Poster of Meeting : http://bose.res.in/~quantum2011/75Years.html

Click here for Program : http://bose.res.in/~quantum2011/program.pdf

The videos of these talks are the copyright

of the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences. The Archive for Mathematical Sciences

has been given permission to host these recordings.

Videos of The Conference :

Day 1 : January 6th 2011 :

Session One : Chair : Sir Roger PENROSE

11:00 – 11:50 : A.J. LEGGETT :

Testing Quantum Mechanics at The Level of Everyday Life : Recent Progress and Current Prospects

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11:50 – 12:35 : H. RAUCH :

Coherence and Decoherence in Neutron Particle Optics

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12:35 – 13:20 : G.S. AGARWAL : Quantum Interferometryof Independent Systems

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LUNCH

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Session Two : Chair : A. EKERT

14:30 – 15:15 : G. BRASSARD : Quantum Pseudo Telepathy

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15:15 – 16:00 : R. SIMON : Operator Sum Representataions for Bosonic Gaussian Channels

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Tea/Coffee Break

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Session Three : Chair : G.S. AGARWAL

16:30 – 17:10 : V. SCARANI : Information Causality as a new Physical Principle

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17:10 – 17:40 : G. BRENNEN : Nonlocality with Anyons

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Day 2 : Friday January 7th 2011

Session One : Chair : G. BRASSARD

09:30 – 10:20 : Alain ASPECT :

From Einstein’s Intuition to Bell’s inequalities and quantum bits : a new quantum age ?

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10:20 – 11:00 : Anil KUMAR : Recent Developments in Quantum Information processing by NMR

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Tea/Coffee Break

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Session Two : Chair : A.J. LEGGETT

11:30- 12:20 : Sir Roger PENROSE : Twistors, Cohomology and Quantum Non-Locality

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12:20 – 12:50 : S. BOSE : Quantum Entanglement and Indistinguishability : How one can aid in

probing/generating the other

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12:50 – 13:15 : ARVIND : Extremal Entanglement witnesses and bound entangled states.

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LUNCH

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Session Three

Chair : Alain ASPECT

14:30 – 15:20 : C.H. BENNETT ; Quantum Information, the ambiguity of the past and the complexity of the present

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15:20 – 16:05 : S.M. ROY : The Uncertainty Principle : Position – Symmetric Causal Qauntum Mechanics and Experimental Tests

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16:05 – 16:30 : U. SINHA : Born Rule(s)

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Tea/Coffee

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16:30 – 18:30 : POSTER SESSION

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18:30 – 19:30 : Film : “Rabinranath Tagore” Directed by Satyajit Ray

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19:30 – 21:30 : CONFERENCE BANQUET

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Day 3 : Saturday January 8th 2011

Session One : Chair : C.H. BENNETT

09:30 – 10:20 : A. EKERT : Entangled with Security

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10:20 – 10:55 : Y. HASEGAWA : Quantum contextuality and Uncertainty relations explored with Neutrons

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10:55 – 11:20 : J. TOLLAKSEN : Weak measurements and time – symmetry in Quantum Mechanics

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Tea/Coffee

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Session Two : Chair : Anil KUMAR

11:50 – 12:30 : L. – A. WU : Two-Photon Imaging with Entangled and Thermal Light

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12:30 – 13:00 : A. MATZKIN : Entanglement in the Classical Limit : Quantum correlations from Classical probabilities.

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LUNCH

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Session Three : Chair : R. SIMON

14:30 – 15:15 : N. MUKUNDA : Quantum Optical Nonclassicality for Single Mode Radiation Fields and conversion to Entanglement

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15:15 – 15:50 : C.S. UNNIKRISHNAN : Quantum Mechanics of Spatially Separated Systems :

Insights, Conflicts and New Results

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15:50 – 16:15 : J. CORBETT : The Quantum Spatial Continuum is Not Classical

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Tea/Coffee

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Session Four : Chair : N.D. HARI DASS

16:40-17:00 : D. HOME : Generalized uncertainty realtions as a tool for measuring mixedness of two qubit states

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17:00 – 17:20 : A.S. MAJUMDAR : Single particle entanglement as a resource for information processing

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17: 40 – 21:30 : CULTURAL PROGRAMME FOLLOWED BY DINNER AT THE CALCUTTA CLUB.

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Day 4 : Sunday January 9th 2011

Session One : Chair : S. CHATURVEDI

09:30 – 10:20 : S. BRAUNSTEIN : Entangled Black Holes as ciphers of hidden information

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10:20 – 10:50 : A.K. PATI : Quantum States, Entanglement and Closed Timelike Curves

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10:50 – 11:15 : S. GHOSH : Quantum to Classical transition and Entanglement :

sudden death in Gaussian states under local heat bath dynamics

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Tea/Coffee

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Session Two : Chair : H. RAUCH

11:35 – 12:20 : P. MATALONI : Using hyperentanglement in quantum information

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12:20 – 12:50 : D. GOSWAMI : Towards using molecular states as qubits

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12:50 – 13:15 : T.S. MAHESH : Nuclear Singlets as Quantum Triads

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LUNCH

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Session Three : Chair : S.M. ROY

14:30 – 15:15 : N.D. HARI DASS : Experimental Tests for a Pragmatic Interpretation of Protective Measurements

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15:15 – 16:00 : S. CHATURVEDI :

Non-classicality and entanglement in multimode radiation fields under the action of classicality preserving systems

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16:00 – 16:20 : R. NAIR : Where is the knowledge we have lost in information ? An informational interpretataion of quantum mechanics

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Tea/Coffee

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Session Four : Chair : A. SUDBERY

16:45 – 17:15 : P. PANIGRAHI : Sub-Planck structures in phase-space of kitten and cat states : Applications to quantum metrology.

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17:15 – 18:00 : J. GRUSKA : The role entanglement plays in a new perception of Informatics.

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Day 5 : Monday January 10th 2011

Session One : Chair : S. BRAUNSTEIN

09:30 – 10:20 : A. SUDBERY : Philosophical Lessons of Entanglement

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10:20 – 10:55 : K. MODI : A Unified View of Quantum and Classical Correlations and Potential Applications

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10:55 – 11:25 : I. BOSE : Quantum Discord in the Ground and Thermal States of Molecular Magnets

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Tea/Coffee

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Session Two : Chair : N. MUKUNDA

11:45 – 12:15 : P. JONG : A Geometric measure of quantum discord for an arbitrary state of a bipartite quantum system.

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12:15 – 12:45 : A. PATEL : Efficient energy transfer in photosynthesis : The Roles of coherence and entanglement

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12:45 – 13:20 : F. PIACENTINI : Foundations of Quantum Mechanics : Recent developments at INRIM.

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LUNCH

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Session Three : Chair : P. MATALONI

14:30 – 15:05 : V. KOREPIN : Measure of Entanglement in Spin Chains

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15:05 – 15:35 : R.SHANKAR : Maniplulating Majorana fermions for quantum computation

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15:35 – 16:05 : A. LAKSHMINARAYAN : Entanglement transitions in random states.

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Tea/Coffee

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Session Four : Chair : J. GRUSKA

16:30 – 17:00 : D. ANGELAKIS : Photonic Quantum Simulators : Mimicking Condensed matter Physics using Photons.

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17:00 – 17:25 : M. KUCHEROV : NMR Modelling of hyperdeterminants.

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17:25 – 17:30 : CONCLUDING REMARKS and CLOSURE OF CONFERENCE

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7th January 2011

Paris University Denis Diderot Paris 7 Batiemnt Condorcet Salle Klein 612B 14:00 – 17:00 hrs

Groupe Philosophie et Physique

(Convenors Alex AFRIAT Alexis de SAINT-OURS and Elie DURING)

Daniel BENNEQUIN (Institut Mathematique de Jussieu)

On The Spacetimes of Quantum Particles. Reconceiving Spacetime Structure on the

basis of an Information-theoretic understanding of Irreducible Representations of the

Poincare Group.

Click here for Link to Program of Seminar.

Click here for Link to Recording of D. Bennequin Talk.

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8th – 10th January 2011

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A KALEIDOSCOPIC VIEW OF MODERN MATHEMATICS

A Three Day Conference at The I.H.E.S. (Institut des Hautes Etudes, Burres-sur-Yvette)

and The Institut Henri Poincare. Paris

With talks by leading researchers and Fields Medallists

Click here for Poster and Program http://www.ihes.fr/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?document_id=2605&portlet_id=1106

Links to follow to Video Recordings (and some audio recordings) of talks plus slides of

presentations, notes and other information. Permission to insert these link has been requested

from the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques who hold copyright in these recordings.

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PROGRAM :

Saturday 8th January 2011 at IHES

10:15 – 11:15 : Horng- Tzer YAU : Random matrices and the Conjectures of Wigner and Dyson

Link to Recording

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11:30 – 12:30 : Gerhard HUISKEN : Rigidity Results for Curvature Flows

Link to Recording

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Buffet Lunch

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14:00 – 15:00 : Alain CONNES : Sur Les Anneaux de Witt

Link to Recording

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Pause cafe

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15:30 – 16:30 : Cedric VILLANI : regulairity of Optimal Transport, Curvature and Cut Locus.

Link to Recording

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Sunday 9th January 2011 at IHP (Amphitheatre Darboux)

14:00 – 15:00 : Tom MROVKA : Khovanov Homology as seen by Instantons

Link to Recording

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15:15 – 16:15 : Jean-Yves WEISCHINGER : Exponential rarefaction of real curves with many components

Link to Recording

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16:30 – 17:30 : Jean-Pierre DEMAILLY : Asymptotic Cohomology : a converse to the Andreotti-Grauert theorem.

Link to Recording

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Monday 10th January 2011 at IHP (Amphitheatre Hermite)

9:30 – 10:30 : Philippe BIANE : From Fourier transform to orthogonal polynomials and discrete Painleve equations

Link to Recording

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Pause cafe

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11:00 – 12:00 : Pierre RAPHAEL : On blow-up for some critical dispersive models

Link to Recording

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LUNCH

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14:00 – 15:00 : Hiraku NAKAJIMA :

Donaldson = Seiberg-Witten from Mochizuki’s formula and instanton counting

Link to Recording

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15:15 – 16:15 : Benjamin ENRIQUEZ : Braid groups, Drinfeld associators and the Kashiwara-Vergne conjecture

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Pause cafe

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16:45 – 17:45 : Gerard LAUMON : La fibration de Hitchin et le lemme fondamental

Link to Recording

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Close of Meeting

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Monday 10th January 2011

a) SPHERE/REHSEIS Seminar in History and Philosophy of Mathematics

Salle Mondrian 646A Bat. Condorcet Paris 7

b) Prof. Lou Crane (KSU)

Informal Seminar/Discussion : Continuation of 20th December 2010

15 :00 hrs Batiment Condorcet Univ Paris 7

“Categories en Physique” Seminar :

Further thoughts on the MacKay Correspondence

as a heuristic guide in functorial approaches to the construction of a Theory of

Quantum Gravity (continued)

Click here for Link to Recording and Notes of Lou Crane Seminar

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c) 19:00 hrs ENS Paris Sale Info 5 Niveau -1 Batiment Rataud

Seminaire Philosophie et Mathematique of the Ecole Normale Superieure Paris

2011 Series : Variational Principles in Historical and Conceptual Perspective

Talk 1 : Professor Pierre CARTIER (IHES, ENS, CNRS, IMJ). The Development

of Variational Principles from Fermat and Maupertuis to Lagrange : From Finalism to Determinism

Click here for Program of 2011 ENS Philosophie et Mathematique Seminar

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

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Tuesday 11th January 2011

a) Prof. Lou Crane (KSU)

14 :30 hrs Batiment Condorcet Univ Paris 7

Informal Seminar/Discussion : Continuation of 20th December 2010

“Categories en Physique” Seminar :

Further thoughts on the MacKayCorrespondence as a heuristic guide in functorial approaches to the

construction of a Theory of Quantum Gravity (concluded)

Click here for Link to Recording and Notes of Lou Crane Seminar

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b) Centre Francois Vieta University of Nantes

Philosophy of Science Seminar

Jean-Louis FISCHER (Centre Koyre)

Penser L’Embron Humaine au Siecle des Lumieres

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Wed 12th January 2011

a) ENS Paris Seminaire du Centre Cavailles (Convenor JJ KUPIER)

2011 Seminar Series : Sur les Rapports entre la physique et les Sciences de La Vie

Speaker : P. CHARBONNAL

Title : From Buffon to Lamarck : the Impact of Newtonianism on Natural History.

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b) ENS Paris Seminaire Pensee des Sciences 2011 Series

On The Philosophical Thought of Gilles Chatelet & Its Reception

Salle Des Actes 20:00 hrs

Yves ANDRE : De L’Evolution du Concept de Nombre : Meditations

Orthogonales sur la Symetrie et L’Infini dans L’œuvre de Gilles Chatelet

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Click here for link to Recording

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Thursday 13th January 2011

IHPST Paris 13 Rue du Four 10:00-12:00 hrs :

Logic in Epistemological and Ontological Perspective

Seminar Series led by Prof. Per Martin-Lof

Talk by Per Martin-Lof :

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Saturday 15th January 2011

a) ENS Amphtheatre Rataud

Seminaire MaMuPhi :

Speaker : Marco SEGATA : La Philosophie de La Musique de Schopenhauer

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b) ENS Amphi Rataud

Ecole de Musique (A. BONNET and F. NICOLAS)

Anton Webern : Concerto for Orchestra Opus 24 (1934) introduction and discussion by Antoine BONNET

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Monday 17th January 2011

a) 1st National Conference of L’Association Francaise Transhumaniste

Addresses by J-P BESNIER and R. SUSSAN

Click here to listen to recording of address by J-P. BESNIER

Click here to listen to recording of address by R. SUSSAN

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b) 19:00 hrs ENS Paris Sale Info 5 Niveau -1 Batiment Rataud

Seminaire Philosophie et Mathematique of the Ecole Normale Superieure Paris

2011 Series : Variational Principles in Historical and Conceptual Perspective

Talk 2 : Guy DAVID : Plateau’s problem for Soap Films

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Wed 19th January 2011

a) 10:00 – 13:00 hrs Salle Malevich 483A Batiment Condorcet Paris 7

Talk 1 of 3 Talks by Guiseppe LONGO : New Interfaces of Epistemology and Science.

The role of Variability and Modality in the Life Sciences : the Study of Phylogenesis

and Ontogenesis

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b) Institut Henri Poincare Paris 14:00 hrs Salle 201

Seminar in Historical and Epistemological Approaches to the Study of Mathematical Concepts

Jean-Paul ALLOUCHE (Univ of Paris)

« Qu’est-ce qu’une suite « compliquee ? »

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c) Bibliotheque National de France

Cours Methodique et Populaire de Philosophie

E. KLEIN : L’origine de L’Univers : Est-il Pensable ?

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d) Institut de Mathematique de Jussieu Salle 5A 92 16:0 – 18:00 Hrs

Paul-Andre MELLIES : To Proof theory from Knot Theory : The Theory of Proof and String Diagrams

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Thursday 20th January 2011

4:30 pm Oxford 10 Merton Street Lecture Room

Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Roman FRIGG (LSE) ; Explaining Thermodynamic Behaviour

In Terms of Epsilon-Ergodicity.

Click here for program of Seminar. Click here for R. Frigg Talk

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Thursday – Friday 20th-21st January 2011

Amsterdam The Netherlands. Free University of Amsterdam

International Graduate Workshop

The Notion of Form in 19th and Early 20th Century Logic and Metaphysics

Click here for Links to Poster, Conference Announcement and Program

http://thenotionofform.wordpress.com/abstracts/

http://thenotionofform.wordpress.com/programme/

see below for Links to recordings of talks and speakers slide presentations

Day One Thursday 20th January 2011

12:15-13:15 : 1st Invited Talk:

Catarina Dutilh Novaes (University of Amsterdam) : The Early History of the Form vs. Matter Distinction in Logic

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13 :15 – 14:00 : LUNCH

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14:00-14:45 : Johan Blok (University of Groningen)

Logical and Mathematical Notions of Form in Bolzano’s Early Work

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14:45-15:30 Anna-Sophie Heinemann (University of Paderborn)

An Analysis of Analyses of The Laws of Thought: “Form” and “Matter” in 19th Century British Logic

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15:30-15:45 : Coffeebreak

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15:45-16:30

Antje Rumberg (University of Utrecht) & Stefan Roski (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Bolzano’s Notion of Form and his Concept of Formal Grounding

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16:30-18:00 1st Keynote lecture: Danielle Macbeth (Haverford College)

Proof and Understanding in Mathematical Practice

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19:00 Conference Dinner

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Day Two Friday 21st January 2011

9:30 : 2nd Invited Talk: Anssi Korhonen (University of Helsinki)

Formality and Generality in Russell’s Logic

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10:30-11:15 Simon Summers (UEA Norwich)

Form Content and Unity of Russellian Propositions

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11:15-12:00 Ansten Mørch Klev (Leyden University)

Variables and Hilbert’s Grundlagen

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12:00-13:30 : Lunchbreak

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13:30-14:15 : Sergio Gallegos (City University New York)

Notions of Formality and Notions of Apriority

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14:15-14:30 : Break for announcements etc.

14:30-15:00 : Coffeebreak

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15:00-16:30 2nd Keynote lecture: Michael Beaney (York University)

Logical Form and Philosophical Analysis. John Cook Wilson and Gottlob Frege

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17:00 : Reception

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Friday 21st January 2011

a) CAMBRIDGE Centre for Mathematical Sciences 10:00 am

Lecture 1 in Mathematics Part III Tripos Course on TOPOS THEORY

by Prof. Olivia CARAMELLO (De Giorgi Institute Pisa and Jesus College Cambridge)

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First of Lecture Course running from 21st January to 18th March 2011. For Recordings of CompleteLecture Course

and detailed Lecture Notes of Course See link to this Section of Catalogue :

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b) Bristol University Philosophy Department : Departmental Philosophy Seminar

9 Woodlands Road Bristol

Speaker : Fraser MacBRIDE (Cambridge)

Details to be Added.

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Saturday-Sunday 22nd-23rd January 2011

Cambridge UK : The 4th Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on The

Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics

Details of Program and Records to follow

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Monday 24th January 2011

a) CAMBRIDGE Centre for Mathematical Sciences 10:00 am

Lecture 2 in Mathematics Part III Tripos Course on TOPOS THEORY

by Prof. Olivia CARAMELLO (De Giorgi Institute Pisa and Jesus College Cambridge)

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The Second of Lecture Course running from 21st January to 18th March 2011. For Recordings of CompleteLecture Course and detailed Lecture Notes of Course see link to this Section of Catalogue :

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b) Oxford University Computer Science Lab

Weekly Theoretical Computer Science Seminar

Noson YANOFSKY (C.U.N.Y.)

Galois Theory and Algorithms

See Link to Speakers Overheads and Notes of Talk

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c) 19:00 hrs ENS Paris Sale Info 5 Niveau -1 Batiment Rataud

Seminaire Philosophie et Mathematique of the Ecole Normale Superieure Paris

2011 Series : Variational Principles in Historical and Conceptual Perspective

Joel MERKER (ENS) : Irreversibility and The Synthetic A Priori : The

Dynamics of Equality in Calculi.

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24th-28th January 2011

Auditorium Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences University of Tokyo Japan

GCOE International Conference on Derived Categories 2011

Click here for Link to Conference Announcement and webpage

Click here for Conference program with links to recordings of Talks, speakers slides and

other information.

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Wed 26th January 2011

a) 10:00 – 13:00 hrs Salle Malevich 483A Batiment Condorcet Paris 7

Talk 2 of 3 Talks by Guiseppe LONGO : New Interfaces of Epistemology and Science.

The role of Variability and Modality in the Life Sciences : the Study of Phylogenesis

and Ontogenesis

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b) 9;30-17:30 : Institut Henri Poincare Paris

Seminar in Historical and Epistemological Approaches to the Study of Mathematical Concepts

A One day Conference in Honour of Ivor GRATTAN-GUINNESS

Click here for Conference Program

Click here for Links to recordings of talks slide presentataions and other information.

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c) CAMBRIDGE Centre for Mathematical Sciences 10:00 am

Lecture 3 in Mathematics Part III Tripos Course on TOPOS THEORY

by Prof. Olivia CARAMELLO (De Giorgi Institute Pisa and Jesus College Cambridge)

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Third of Lecture Course running from 21st January to 18th March 2011. For Recordings of CompleteLecture Course aand detailed Lecture Notes of Course see link to this Section of Catalogue :

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d) ENS Paris Seminaire Pensee des Sciences 2011 Series

Salle Des Actes 20:00 hrs

On The Philosophical Thought of Gilles Chatelet & Its Reception

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e) Salle 483A Malevitch Paris 7 15:00 – 17:00 hrs

Seminar Categories en Physique

Noson YANOFSKY (CUNY) : The Shape of An Experiment

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Click here for Link to Recording of Talk Plus Speakers slide presentation

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f) Bristol University Philosophy Department

9 Woodlands Road Bristol : Work in Progress Seminar

Alexander BIRD : The Ontology of Natural Kinds.

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Thursday 27th – Friday 28th January 2011

NANCY MSH Lorraine Salle Internationale

2 Day Conference on History and Philosophy of Geometry

Ecrire L’Histoire Des Espaces Geometriques : Une Approche Biographique

Click here http://www2.math.uni-wuppertal.de/~volkert/Programm_Nancy_Januar.pdf

for Program of Meeting

Program and Recordings :

Day One Thursday 27th January 2011

10:30 – 11:30 : Jean-Daniel VOELKE (Lauanne – AHP)

La naissance du Concept d’Espace Non-Euclidien

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11:10 – 11:50 : Klaus VOLKERT (Univ. Wuppertal – AHP)

Ways of Space-Making

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11:50- 12:45 : Discussion Session

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LUNCH BREAK

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14:30 – 15:30 : Philippe NABBONAND (Univ de Nancy 2 – AHP)

Les Espaces Generalises de Elie CARTAN

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15:10 – 15:50 : Alberto COGLIATI (Univ de Milano)

On the genesis of the Cartan-Kahler Theory

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16:00 – 16:40 : Erhard SCHOLZ (Univ Wuppertal)

Once more on Weyl’s Space problem

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17:00 – 17:40 : Philippe LOMBARD (Univ. Nancy 1 and AHP)

A Propos des Spheres

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17:40 – 18:40 : Discussion Session

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Day Two Friday 28th January 2011

09:00 – 09:40 : Olivier BRUNEAU (Univ Nancy 1 – AHP)

Les courbes podaires dans les journaux mathematiques au 19eme Siecle ; un object de recherche ou d’enseignment ?

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9:40 – 10:20 : Mechthild Ulrike KOHLER (Univ de Wuppertal)

Projective Space in Mobius and Plucker

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10:30 – 11:10 : Karine CHEMLA (CNRS – SPHERE)

Pratique de L’Histoire et reflection sur les mathematiques chez les practiciens de la geometrie projective

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11:10 – 12:15 : Discussion Session

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LUNCH BREAK

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13:30 – 14:10 : Christian GILAIN (Univ Paris 6 and IMJ) and Jean DELCOUT (Univ Cergy-Pontoise and AHP)

Presentation d’une Programme de Recherche : “Les Sciences mathematiques 1750-1850 : Continuites et ruptures)

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14:15 – 14:55 : Jan HENKE (Munich) : Half-Rotations verus Reflections

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14;55 – 15:35 : Jean Pierre FRIEDELMEYER (IREM de Strasbourg – AHP)

L’irruption de la notion de transformation dans la geometrie du 19eme siecle

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15:35 – 16:15 : Discussion Session

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Close of Meeting

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Thursday 27th January 2011

a) IHPST Paris 13 Rue du Four : Seminar Series led by Prof. Per Martin-Lof

“Logic : Epistemological or Ontological?”

Talk by Stewart SHAPIRO : TBA

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b) 4:30 pm Oxford 10 Merton Street Lecture Room

Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Carl HOEFER (Barcelona) : A Humean Account of Probabilities.

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Friday 28th January 2011

a) CAMBRIDGE Centre for Mathematical Sciences 10:00 am

Lecture 4 in Mathematics Part III Tripos Course on TOPOS THEORY

by Prof. Olivia CARAMELLO (De Giorgi Institute Pisa and Jesus College Cambridge)

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b) Salle 646A Mondrian Batiment Condorcet Paris 7

Half Day Seminar in “Ideals of Proof” Program

15:00 – 16:45 hrs : Stewart SHAPIRO : The Semantics of Indiscernibility

17:00-18:45 hrs : Jouko VAANANEN : Second Order Logic or Set Theory ?

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c) Seminaire KOYRE (Paris 7)

J-P. LUMINET

Les Formes de L’Espace

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d) Bristol University Philosophy Department : Departmental Philosophy Seminar

9 Woodlands Road Bristol

Speaker : Graham ODDIE (Colorado)

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Monday 31st January 2011

a) CAMBRIDGE Centre for Mathematical Sciences 10:00 am

Lecture 5 in Mathematics Part III Tripos Course on TOPOS THEORY

by Prof. Olivia CARAMELLO (De Giorgi Institute Pisa and Jesus College Cambridge)

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Archive for Mathematical Sciences & Philosophy

January 2011

5th-7th January 2011

International Conference on Algebra, Topology and Topological Algebra

6th January 2011

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6th-10th January 2011

S.N. BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES SILVER JUBILEE SYMPOSIUM

75 Years of Quantum Entanglement : Foundations and

Information-Theoretic Applications

Day 1 : January 6th 2011 :

Session One : Chair : Sir Roger PENROSE

11:00 – 11:50 : A.J. LEGGETT :

Testing Quantum Mechanics at The Level of Everyday Life : Recent Progress and Current Prospects

11:50 – 12:35 : H. RAUCH :

Coherence and Decoherence in Neutron Particle Optics

12:35 – 13:20 : G.S. AGARWAL : Quantum Interferometryof Independent Systems

Session Two : Chair : A. EKERT

14:30 – 15:15 : G. BRASSARD : Quantum Pseudo Telepathy

15:15 – 16:00 : R. SIMON : Operator Sum Representataions for Bosonic Gaussian Channels

Session Three : Chair : G.S. AGARWAL

16:30 – 17:10 : V. SCARANI : Information Causality as a new Physical Principle

17:10 – 17:40 : G. BRENNEN : Nonlocality with Anyons

Day 2 : Friday January 7th 2011

Session One : Chair : G. BRASSARD

09:30 – 10:20 : Alain ASPECT :

From Einstein’s Intuition to Bell’s inequalities and quantum bits : a new quantum age ?

10:20 – 11:00 : Anil KUMAR : Recent Developments in Quantum Information processing by NMR

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Session Two : Chair : A.J. LEGGETT

11:30- 12:20 : Sir Roger PENROSE : Twistors, Cohomology and Quantum Non-Locality

12:20 – 12:50 : S. BOSE : Quantum Entanglement and Indistinguishability : How one can aid in

probing/generating the other

12:50 – 13:15 : ARVIND : Extremal Entanglement witnesses and bound entangled states.

Session Three

Chair : Alain ASPECT

14:30 – 15:20 : C.H. BENNETT ; Quantum Information, the ambiguity of the past and the complexity of the present

15:20 – 16:05 : S.M. ROY : The Uncertainty Principle : Position – Symmetric Causal Qauntum Mechanics and Experimental Tests

16:05 – 16:30 : U. SINHA : Born Rule(s)

16:30 – 18:30 : POSTER SESSION

Day 3 : Saturday January 8th 2011

Session One : Chair : C.H. BENNETT

09:30 – 10:20 : A. EKERT : Entangled with Security

10:20 – 10:55 : Y. HASEGAWA : Quantum contextuality and Uncertainty relations explored with Neutrons

10:55 – 11:20 : J. TOLLAKSEN : Weak measurements and time – symmetry in Quantum Mechanics

Session Two : Chair : Anil KUMAR

11:50 – 12:30 : L. – A. WU : Two-Photon Imaging with Entangled and Thermal Light

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12:30 – 13:00 : A. MATZKIN : Entanglement in the Classical Limit : Quantum correlations from Classical probabilities.

Session Three : Chair : R. SIMON

14:30 – 15:15 : N. MUKUNDA : Quantum Optical Nonclassicality for Single Mode Radiation Fields and conversion to Entanglement

15:15 – 15:50 : C.S. UNNIKRISHNAN : Quantum Mechanics of Spatially Separated Systems :

Insights, Conflicts and New Results

15:50 – 16:15 : J. CORBETT : The Quantum Spatial Continuum is Not Classical

Session Four : Chair : N.D. HARI DASS

16:40-17:00 : D. HOME : Generalized uncertainty realtions as a tool for measuring mixedness of two qubit states

17:00 – 17:20 : A.S. MAJUMDAR : Single particle entanglement as a resource for information processing

Day 4 : Sunday January 9th 2011

Session One : Chair : S. CHATURVEDI

09:30 – 10:20 : S. BRAUNSTEIN : Entangled Black Holes as ciphers of hidden information

10:20 – 10:50 : A.K. PATI : Quantum States, Entanglement and Closed Timelike Curves

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10:50 – 11:15 : S. GHOSH : Quantum to Classical transition and Entanglement :

sudden death in Gaussian states under local heat bath dynamics

Session Two : Chair : H. RAUCH

11:35 – 12:20 : P. MATALONI : Using hyperentanglement in quantum information

12:20 – 12:50 : D. GOSWAMI : Towards using molecular states as qubits

12:50 – 13:15 : T.S. MAHESH : Nuclear Singlets as Quantum Triads

Session Three : Chair : S.M. ROY

14:30 – 15:15 : N.D. HARI DASS : Experimental Tests for a Pragmatic Interpretation of Protective Measurements

15:15 – 16:00 : S. CHATURVEDI :

Non-classicality and entanglement in multimode radiation fields under the action of classicality preserving systems

16:00 – 16:20 : R. NAIR : Where is the knowledge we have lost in information ? An informational interpretataion of quantum mechanics

Session Four : Chair : A. SUDBERY

16:45 – 17:15 : P. PANIGRAHI : Sub-Planck structures in phase-space of kitten and cat states : Applications to quantum metrology.

17:15 – 18:00 : J. GRUSKA : The role entanglement plays in a new perception of Informatics.

Day 5 : Monday January 10th 2011

Session One : Chair : S. BRAUNSTEIN

09:30 – 10:20 : A. SUDBERY : Philosophical Lessons of Entanglement