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Events: program of March 2012
Thurs. March 1
13:00 – 15:00, CEMAf
Memory of Science
Eric Jennings (University of Toronto)
Vestiges en mutation. L’héritage thermalo-climatique français en Afrique, dans l’Océan Indien et en Asie : entre kitsch, nostalgie et utilité
Wed. March 7
Reading Mathematical Texts
Robert Englund on Mesopotamian Texts
Thursday and Friday March 8, 9
Séminaire International d’Etudes sur le Soin (SIES)
Fri. March 9
Seminar SAW : History of Mathematics, History of Economical and Financial Practices
:: 5. Grains and granaries
Grégory Chambon (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
Measuring grain in Mesopotamia : storing, controlling and delivering grain
Robert Englund (University of California, Los Angeles)
Grain and Time Calculations in 4th Millennium BC Mesopotamia
Karine Chemla (ERC Project SAW & SPHERE, CNRS–Université Paris Diderot) & Ma Biao (Yamaguchi University)
Management of grains, measuring units and the imperial policy of the Qin and the Han
Agathe Keller (ERC Project SAW & SPHERE, CNRS–Université Paris Diderot)
Introduction : grain problems in Sanskrit mathematical texts
Vasundhara Filliozat, historienne
Weights and Measures in south India from 6th to 16th century, with special reference to Karnataka
Fri. March 9
Averroes’s Cosmology: The Middle Commentary on the De Caelo of Aristotle
Mon. March 12
History and Philosophy of Mathematics
:: Groupes et algèbres de Lie
Joël Merker (Université Paris XI-Orsay)
La mathématique universelle de Lie
Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach (Ecole Polytechnique)
Sur la généralisation des transformations infinitésimales de Lie
Christophe Eckes (SPHERE)
Unité, généralité et méthode axiomatique dans l’article de Weyl sur les représentations des groupes de Lie (1925-1926)
Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz (SPHERE)
Modernité de J. Von Neumann. Quelques analyses de l’article : « Über die analytischen Eigenschaften von Gruppen linearer Transformationen und ihrer Darstellungen » (Mathematische Zeitschrift, 30, (1929), p. 3-42.
Tues. March 13
History and Philosophy of Physics
Luca Mari (Università Cattaneo)
Measurement uncertainty as a unifying concept for expressing the quality of measurement data.
Wed. March 14
Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries
TBA
Wed. March 14
Mathematics at Modern Age
Andrew Arana, Sébastien Maronne and David Rabouin
Imagination and geometry on Descartes
Wed. March 14
Analogy and Technics. Multidisciplinary approaches
Alexandre Guay (Université de Dijon)
Les usages de l’analogie dans la science des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Thurs. March 15
Reading Group "Analogy, Patterns, Representation"
Fri. March 16 9:30 – 12:00, room Gris, 734A
Sociétés savantes, amateurs et savoirs scientifiques
La Société d’Emulation d’Abbeville et l’ancienneté de l’homme.
Marie-Françoise Aufrère, COFHIGEO, Paris
Fri. 16 March
Machines and imaginations
:: Machines and Religion
Jelle Koopmans (Amsterdam)
Automated Assumptions: Early Modern Mary Machines
Koen Vermeir (Paris)
The Lord Of the Light. The religious significance of the magic lantern in 1688
Thomas Vercruysse (Paris)
La machine narcissique de Valéry contre la religion du "croire"
John Tresch (Philadelphia)
La machine romantique, ou les conversions Saint-Simoniennes
Marie-José Durand-Richard (Paris)
Charles Babbage (1791-1871), mathématiques et loi divine dans la Ninth Bridgewater Treatise (1827)
Tues. March 20
History and Philosophy of Physics
Oliver Schlaudt (Universität Heidelberg)
La protophysique : théorie pragmatiste de la mesure et de l’expérience.
Wed. March 21
Reading mathematical texts
Gregory Chambon on Mesopotamian Texts
Thurs. March 22
History of Science, History of Text
:: Workshop shared with the project « History of numerical tables »—Workshop on Chinese sources
Michael Nylan (Berkeley University)
Tables in the dynastic histories Shiji and Hanshu
Ma Biao (Yamaguchi University)
The tables found in excavated documents of the Qin and Han dynasties and the form of mathematical tables
Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHERE)
Texts of mathematical tables in China after the Han dynasty
Fri. March 23
Project "History of Numerical Tables"
::2nd day of worshop : Chinese Sources
Daniel Morgan (University of Chicago and Needham Research Institute)
The Planetary Visibility Tables in the Second Century B.C. Manuscript Wuxing zhan
Respondents:
Guy Le Meur (ingénieur retraité), Matthieu Husson (CNRS, SPHERE), Clemency Montelle (University of Canterbury)
Li Liang (CNRS, SPHERE, Project « History of numerical tables »)
The various versions of astronomical tables in the Muslim (huihui) calendar
Respondents:
Guy Le Meur (ingénieur retraité), Matthieu Husson (CNRS, SPHERE), Clemency Montelle (University of Canterbury)
Jeff Chen (St. Cloud State University, Minnesota)
The Making of trigonometric tables in China
Respondent: Catherine Jami (CNRS, SPHERE)
Tues. March 27
Histoire et philosophie de la physique
James Sumner
(University of Manchester)
The brewer’s pound: why the British beer industry bought an esoteric quantity in the eighteenth century
Wed. March 28
Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries
:: Concepts ??
Around Cavaillès’ philosophy
Sylvain Cabanacq et Baptiste Mélès
Thurs. March 29
Reading Group "Analogy, Patterns, Representation"
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