philosophy of physics in Paris

[Guido Bacciagaluppi]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

here is the usual reminder/update about philosophy and foundations
of physics activities in Paris. (Copies of my announcements are to
be found under http://philosophy.elte.hu/philphys.html ).

This week and the next we shall have:

a) a talk by Alexandre Guay on 9 Feb.,
b) two philosophy of physics seminars:
    on 10 Feb. (Th. Schulte-Herbrueggen, note corrected title)
    and 17 Feb. (D. Gottesman).

To be added to the schedule of events:

c) a talk by Alexei Grinbaum on 24 Feb.

Details below.
 		Best regards,
 				Guido Bacciagaluppi


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a) Jeudi 9 fevrier 2006 à 16h30 au

Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies
( http://www-lpnhep.in2p3.fr/ ), Campus de Jussieu
tour 33, rez-de-chaussée

"Pourquoi des théories de Yang-Mills ?"

Alexandre Guay (IHPST)



b) 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-Geneviève [due to the possibility of checks at the
entrance, please have a form of ID with you]).


 	Friday 10 Feb, 16:00-18:00 (IHPST)
 	Thomas Schulte-Herbrueggen (TU Muenchen)
 	Foundations and Applications of Quantum Control Theory:
 	from Time Optimal to Decoherence-Protected Quantum Compilation

 	Friday 17 Feb, 16:30-18:30 (CREA)
 	Daniel Gottesman (Perimeter Institute)
 	Quantum statistics with classical particles
 	(cond-mat/0511207)

 	Friday 24 Feb, NO SEMINAR



c) Alexei GRINBAUM
(CREA-École Polytechnique)
« Le rôle de l.information dans la théorie quantique »
Vendredi 24 Février 2006
20 HEURES
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Salle Paul Celan
www.ens.fr/pense-science



-- 
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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