Category Theory, Non-commutative Geometry and Quantum Theory Askloster July 9-12, 2006

Day ONE , Day TWO , Day THREE , Day FOUR

Day ONE: 9th JULY 2006

Opening of Meeting. General Introductory Remarks by Georg Wikman

A.M. Talks :

Basil Hiley, Emeritus professor of Physics, Birkbeck College, University of London
Concepts of Process as a Basis for Understanding Non-Commutative Geometry

Ernst Binz, Mathematics, University of Mannheim
Field Theoretic Weyl Quantization for Vector Fields in Three Space

P.M. Talks :

Nick Monk, University of Sheffield
Models for Space-Time and Pre-Space-Time

Bob Coecke, Oxford University Computing Laboratory
In The Beginning God Created The Tensors … as a Picture

Day TWO: 10th JULY 2006

A.M. Talks:

Andreas Doering, Theory Group, Physics Department, Imperial College London
On The Possible Relevance of Topos Theory to the Re-formulation and Understanding of Quantum Physics

Qui-Hong-Hu, Professor, University of Goteborg
On a Proposed New Understanding of Electron Spin Based on Topological Considerations

P.M. Talks:

Tim Palmer, Director, European Medium Range Weather Forecasting Centre, Reading, UK
Dissolving the Mysteries of Entanglement

Freddy Van Oystaeyen, Department of Mathematics, University of Antwerp
Dequantisation of Space via a Topological Blow-Up (Part I)

Day THREE : 11TH July 2006

A.M. Talks:

Maurice De Gosson, Max Planck Institute and University of Vienna
Symplectic Quantum Cells, Indistinguishability and the Gromov Squeezing Theorem : On The Topological Origins of Structure in The Phase Space of Quantum Dynamical Systems

Tim Palmer, Director, European Medium Range Weather Forecasting Centre, Reading, UK
Global Warming in a Chaotic Climate – Can We Be Sure?

Georg Wikman, S.H.I.R.D. and Founder of Askloster Meetings
Different but not Distinct : A Tentative Theoretical Framework for the Mathematical Representation of Indistinguishables

P.M. Talks:

Freddy Van Oystaeyen, Department of Mathematics, University of Antwerp
Dequantisation of Space via a Topological Blow-Up (Part II)

Stephen Wood, Theoretical Physics Research Unit, Birkbeck College London. Sometime Researcher Natural History Museum London
Complexity and Adjointness in the Structure of Biological Systems

Day FOUR: 12TH July 2006

A.M. Talks:

Malcolm Coupland, Department of Physics and Astronomy University College London
Where Would Gravity Be Without Newton’s Third Law?

Barbara Piechoconska, University of Uppsala
Some Reflection on Maximality Principles in Set Theory and their possible connection with a Research Program in Algebraic Physics

Ray Brummelhuis, Professor Department of Mathematics, Birkbeck College, London
On Some Aspects of the Structure of Time from a Mathematical Viewpoint

P.M.:

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION BY SPEAKERS

Closing Words by Basil Hiley and Georg Wikman

End of Meeting