October 2012
In October 2012 The Archive plans to record the following events or to make arrangements to share recordings of them made by others.
4th – 6th OCTOBER 2012
Paris : IHPST 13 Rue du Four
FRANCE PHILMATH WORKSHOP, IV
Thursday October 4th 2010 – IHPST — Grande Salle
9h30 Welcome Address
Friday October 5th 2010 – Univ. Paris Diderot — Salle Klimt (Bât. Condorcet)
Saturday October 6 2012 – IHPST — Grande Salle
9h45-11h15 Emmylou Haffner (Paris and Notre Dame),
Dedekind on the generality of Arithmetic
Rigor and the nature of Reasoning.
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More Information to be added with links to Video Audio and Speakers overheads
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Monday 15th OCTOBER 2012
Boston USA
An International Colloquium :
PERSPECTIVES ON QUANTUM GRAVITY : 40 YEARS ON FROM THE OSGOOD HILL CONFERENCE
An International Colloquium forming part of the 2012 Program of The Boston Colloquium in The Philosophy of
Science
40th Anniversary of the First Osgood Hill Conference on Quantum Gravity
Monday, October 15, 2012, 9:00am–5:00pm
Barristers Hall, Law School, 765 Commonwealth Ave.
9:00am -12:00pm
“Introduction: Forty Years After”
John Stachel (Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University)
“The Meaning of Background Independence”
Tian Yu Cao (Philosophy, Boston University)
“Emergence: Some Key Physical Issues”
Bei-Lok Hu (Physics, University of Maryland)
“The Problem of Space in Quantum Gravity”
Christian Wüthrich (Philosophy, Science Studies, UC San Diego)
“Simplicial Gravity and Strings”
John Swain (Physics, Northeastern University)
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2:00pm-5:00pm
“Some Features of a Good Quantum Gravity Theory”
George Ellis (Mathematics, University of Cape Town)
“Quantum Gravity Phenomenology”
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia (Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza)
“Meaning and Measurement in Quantum Gravity”
John Stachel (Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University)
“Unimodular Conformal and Projective Relativity”
Kaća Bradonjić (Physics, Wellesley College)
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