{"id":2608,"date":"2015-04-06T14:49:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?page_id=2608"},"modified":"2015-04-06T14:49:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:49:39","slug":"math-reps-space","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/ces\/seminars-conferences\/math-reps-space\/","title":{"rendered":"International Conference on Trends in the Mathematical Representation of Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 1-2, 2007<\/p>\n

BOSTON UNIVERSITY<\/p>\n

Location: Photonics Center, Colloquium Room 9th Floor,<\/p>\n

8 Saint Mary’s St, Boston, MA, 02215<\/p>\n

SCHEDULE of TALKS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Saturday, December 1<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
08:30 – 9:00<\/td>\nCoffee & Tea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 – 10:30<\/td>\n Pierre Cartier* <\/b> (Institut Des Hautes \u00c9tudes Scientifiques)
\nLiving in a contradictory world: categories vs sets<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30 – 10:45<\/td>\nDiscussion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:45 – 11:00<\/td>\nCoffee & Tea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:00 – 11:45<\/td>\n Colin McLarty <\/b> (Case-Western Reserve University)
\nGenerality versus unity in geometry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:45 – 12:00<\/td>\nDiscussion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00 – 2:00<\/td>\nLunch Break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:00 – 3:30<\/td>\nF. William Lawvere <\/b> (SUNY, Buffalo)
\nEuler, Maxwell, Grothendieck, and the nature of space<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:30 – 3:45<\/td>\nDiscussion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:45 – 4:00<\/td>\nCoffee break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:00 – 4:45<\/td>\nJean-Pierre Marquis <\/b>(Universit\u00e9 de Montreal)
\nFrom Klein to Kan: the algebra of space and the space of algebra.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:45- 5:00<\/td>\nDiscussion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:00-5:45<\/td>\n Mihaela Iftime <\/b>(Boston, MCPHS and CES)
\nGrothendieck’s Universe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunday, December 2<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
08:30 – 9:00<\/td>\nCoffee & Tea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 – 10:30<\/td>\nLouis Crane <\/b> (Kansas State University)
\nWhat does quantum gravity tell us about the nature of spacetime?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30 – 10:45<\/td>\nDiscussions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:45 – 11:00<\/td>\nCoffee Break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:00 – 11:45<\/td>\nGonzalo E. Reyes<\/b>(Universit\u00e9 de Montreal)
\nAn axiomatic approach to Einstein’s vacuum field Internal relativity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:30 – 3:45<\/td>\nCoffee break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:45 \u2013 5:30<\/td>\nRound Table Discussions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

2007 marks the 50th Anniversary of Alexandre Grothendieck<\/a>‘s Tohoku Lecture, today recognised as one of the great landmarks, only in the development of algebraic geometry, but in the broader history of 20th Century Mathematics!<\/p>\n

Organizers: Michael Wright (mpbw1879@yahoo.co.uk), John Stachel (stachel@bu.edu), Mihaela Iftime (miftime@gmail.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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