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Home > Archives > Seminars: September 1996–July 2012 > Seminars: programs 2011-2012 > programmes mensuels 2011-2012 > Events: program of March 2012

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 
9:30 – 12:30, room Gris, 734A


Reading Mathematical Texts


Robert Englund on Mesopotamian Texts 




Thursday and Friday March 8, 9
Brussells


Séminaire International d’Etudes sur le Soin (SIES)




Fri. March 9
9:30 – 18:00, room Mondrian, 646A


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
14:00 – 16:00, room Malevitch, 483A


Averroes’s Cosmology: The Middle Commentary on the De Caelo of Aristotle




Mon. March 12
9:30 à 17:00, room Mondrian, 646A


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
17:00 – 19:00, room 483A-Malevitch


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 
10:00 – 13:00, !! room Klimt, 366A !!


Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries

TBA 




Wed. March 14
14:30 – 17:30, room Klimt, 366A


Mathematics at Modern Age



Andrew Arana, Sébastien Maronne and David Rabouin

Imagination and geometry on Descartes




Wed. March 14
17:00 – 19:30, Tolbiac


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
10:30 – 12:00, room Kupka, 512A


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
10:00 – 17:00, room Klein, 612B


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
9:30 – 12:30, room Gris, 734A


Reading mathematical texts


Gregory Chambon on Mesopotamian Texts 




Thurs. March 22
9:30 – 17:00, room Mondrian, 646A


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
morning, room 366A-Klimt, afternoon, room 483A-Malevitch


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
17:00 – 19:00, room 483A-Malevitch


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
10:00 – 13:00, room Rothko, 412B


Mathematics and Philosophy, 19th and 20eth Centuries


:: Concepts ??


Around Cavaillès’ philosophy
Sylvain Cabanacq et Baptiste Mélès




Thurs. March 29 
10:30 – 12:00, room Gris, 734A


Reading Group "Analogy, Patterns, Representation"












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