philosophy of physics in Paris: update and reminder

Sun Nov 13 10:28:03 CET 2005

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

below you will find:

1) the corrected and updated programme for our next few
philosophy of physics seminars.

2) A reminder of other seminars in the next two weeks.

3) The announcement of a quantum information workshop in Paris,
on 8 & 9 December ( http://se10.comlab.ox.ac.uk:8080/FOCS/QdayII_en.html ).

4) The announcement of a summer school at the Central European University
( http://www.ceu.hu/sun/SUN_2006/Downloads/Recruitment/Descrying.pdf ).

As usual, copies of my e-mails go to the philphys list
( http://philosophy.elte.hu/philphys.html ).

			All the best,
					Guido

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1) Philosophy of physics seminars
(organisers: G. Bacciagaluppi, M. Bitbol, A. Grinbaum)

Unless otherwise noted: sessions marked IHPST take place in
the Grande Salle at IHPST (13, rue du Four), those marked CREA
in the library (salle 315) at CREA (25, rue de la Montagne
Sainte-Genevieve [due to the possibility of checks at the
entrance, please have a form of ID with you]).

	Friday 18 Nov, 16:30-18:30 (CREA)
	Guido Bacciagaluppi (Paris),
	Probability, Arrow of Time and Decoherence

	Friday 25 Nov, 16:30-18:30 (CREA)
	Gilles Cohen-Tannoudji (Orsay),
	Quantum Field Theory, a way out of the EPR antinomy?

	Presumably no seminars in December.

	Friday 6 Jan, time and place TBA
	JOINT SESSION WITH THE
	SEMINAIRE DE PHILOSOPHIE DES SCIENCES DE L'IHPST
	Gordon Belot (Pittsburgh),
	Title TBA

	Friday 13 Jan, time and place TBA
	Manuel Baechtold (Ecole Polytechnique),
	Cinq formulations du probleme de la mesure
	en mecanique quantique'
	(in French)

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2) REMINDER FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS:

a) From the programme of the
Seminaire de philosophie des sciences de l'IHPST
at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Salle Weil
(organiser: A. Barberousse <barberou at heraclite.ens.fr>).
Le seminaire a lieu tous les lundis de 11h a' 13h.

- Lundi 14 novembre :
Sara Franceschelli, ENS LSH et REHSEIS
Cultures epistemologiques et questions theoriques dans la
correspondance Thom/Waddington de 1967

b) SEMINAIRE : HISTOIRE ET PHILOSOPHIE DE LA PHYSIQUE
'Les raisons de l'a'-peu-pres'
Informations :
Nadine de Courtenay decourtenay at wanadoo.fr
Olivier Darrigol darrigol at paris7.jussieu.fr

REHSEIS: Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot
Dalle "Les Olympiades" - Centre javelot
105, rue de Tolbiac ou 59 rue Nationale
75013 PARIS
1er etage gauche
http://www.rehseis.cnrs.fr/recherche/semingroupe/physique.htm

15 Novembre 2005, 17h00 - 19h00
Paul Humphreys (University of Virginia)
Theoretical and experimental models in probability

Mardi 22 Novembre 2005, 17h00 - 19h00
Karine Chemla (CNRS, REHSEIS)
Les enjeux de l'approximation dans les textes mathematiques
de la Chine ancienne

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3) "Quantum information"-workshop in Paris, 8 & 9 December:

http://se10.comlab.ox.ac.uk:8080/FOCS/QdayII_en.html

A second (informal) workshop on Mathematical Structures in Quantum
Informatics is to be held in Paris, this time two days and at the IHP
[Institut Henri Poincare] (room 314, 3rd floor) on the 8th and the 9th of
December 2005.  Among the proposed talks re-occuring topics are
Measurement Based Approaches, Categorical Structures and Higher-Order
Features in Quantum Informatics.

We plan to have a (minimal) reception on the evening of Wednesday the 7th
(for those already in Paris), have a full day of talks and discussions on
Thursday the 8th, and will continue this on Friday, but not untill too
late in the afternoon giving participants the opportunity to travel home
on Friday. If you are interested in participating, and perhaps give a 40'
talk or a shorter 15' one, just contact us:

 * Vincent Danos [PPS - Paris 7] <vincent.danos at pps.jussieu.fr>
 * Bob Coecke [OUCL - Oxford] <coecke at comlab.ox.ac.uk>

Please feel free to circulate this invitation further to whomever you
think might be interested, especially students, and also those in an early
stage of their work who can use the 15' slots to present their research
projects. Those who intend to participate thus far (some tentatively):

Samson Abramsky (Oxford), Pablo Arrighi (Grenoble), Howard Barnum (Los
Alamos), Dan Browne (Oxford), Bob Coecke (Oxford), Vincent Danos (PPS -
Paris 7), Ross Duncan (Oxford), Chris Heunen (Nijmegen), Elham Kashefi
(Oxford & Perimeter Inst.), Math Leifer (Perimeter Inst.), Eric Paquette
(Montreal), Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Montreal & Oxford), Sonja Smets (Brussels
& LSE), Isar Stubbe (Coimbra), Mike Varnava (Imperial College).

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4) Two-week summer school in philosophy of physics/metaphysics at the
Central European University in Budapest on "Descrying the world in
Physics" organised by Barry Loewer (Rutgers). David Albert, Tim Maudlin,
Carl Hoefer, Kati Balog, David Papineau are on the faculty. It is
appropriate for graduate students and post docs. URL for the course:

http://www.ceu.hu/sun/SUN_2006/Downloads/Recruitment/Descrying.pdf

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Guido Bacciagaluppi
Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques
(IHPST)
13, rue du Four
F-75006 Paris
France
Fax: +33 / 1 / 43 25 29 48

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