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Ideas of point

Subtitle: 
An elusive concept in mathematics and physics throughout history
Location: 
SISSA
Schedule: 
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 14:30 to Saturday, November 16, 2013 - 13:00

http://www.math.sissa.it/workshop/ideas-point

Research Group: 
Geometry and Mathematical Physics
Additional Information: 

 

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The list of pre-registered participants is now available

Contact the organizers ar ideasofpoint@gmail.com

Organizing and scientific committee:

Claudio Bartocci (Università di Genova), Ugo Bruzzo (SISSA), Boris Dubrovin (SISSA), Giulio Giorello (Università di Milano) Monica Ugaglia (Università di Udine).

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Thursday 14/11/2013

  • 14:30-15:00: Boris Dubrovin (SISSA, Trieste), Welcome address
  • 15:00-16:00: Yuri Manin (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn), Point, atom, letter
  • 16:00-16:30: Coffee break
  • 16:30-17:30: Carlo Rovelli (Centre de Physique Théorique de Luminy), Points do not exist
  • 17:30-18:30: Luca Barbieri Viale (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Milano), Points, cycles & classes

Friday 15/11/2013

  • 9:30-10:30: Ramon Masià (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), How Greek Geometry Denotes Points
  • 10:30-11:00: Coffee break
  • 11:00-12:00 Stefano Gattei (IMT, Lucca), Bruno′s "minima" and Kepler′s snowflakes. The birth of atomistic imagery
  • 12:00-13:00: Giovanni Landi (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Trieste): The point of pointless geometry
  • 14:15-15:15: Cecilia Trifogli (All Souls College, University of Oxford), Aristotelian ideas of point and of the continuum
  • 15:15-15:45: Coffee break
  • 15:45-16:45: Vincenzo De Risi (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin), “Constitui, dico, non componi”. Leibniz on points and space
  • 16:45-17:45: Sergio Doplicher (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università “La Sapienza”, Roma), From point spaces to quantum spaces. Fates of an idealisation

Saturday 16/11/2013

  • 09:30-10:30: Luca Guzzardi (Università di Pavia), Boscovich's material points
  • 10:30-11:00: Coffee break
  • 11:00-12:00: Eberhard Knobloch (Technische Universität, Berlin), On the relation between point, indivisible, and infinitely small

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