Philosophy of Mechanics: Mathematical Foundations

February 12, 2014 - February 14, 2014
University of Paris Denis Diderot and the ERC Philosophy of Canonical Quantum Gravity

Condorcet building 10, rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet
Paris
France

Sponsor(s):

  • Université Paris Diderot - Laboratoire SPHERE
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  • This workshop has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme

Speakers:

Mathieu Anel
ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Department of Mathematics
Gordon Belot
University of Michigan, Department of Philosophy
Daniel Bennequin
(unaffiliated)
Jeremy Butterfield
Cambridge University
Gabriel Catren
CNRS, Université Paris Diderot
John Alexander Cruz Morales
IMPA - Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Andreas Doering
University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science
Frédéric Hélein
Université Paris Diderot, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu
Joseph Kouneiher
Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, ESPE
Klaas Landsman
Radboud University, Nijmegen, Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particles Physic
Shahn Majid
(unaffiliated)
Charles-Michel Marle
(unaffiliated)
Thierry Masson
Univeristé d
Urs Schreiber
Radboud University Nijmegen, Department of Mathematics

Organisers:

Christine Cachot
Laboratoire SPHERE, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
Gabriel Catren
Laboratoire SPHERE, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France;
Julien Page
Laboratoire SPHERE, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz
Laboratoire SPHERE, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
Dimitri Vey
Laboratoire SPHERE, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France;
Federico Zalamea
Laboratoire SPHERE, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France;

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The aim of the workshop is to explore, from a philosophical standpoint, new answers to old and fundamental questions concerning the nature of both classical and quantum mechanics. The chosen approach is to focus on mathematical formalisms that have not yet played a major role when trying to address these conceptual questions. Important examples of these formalisms are :

- Symplectic and Poisson geometry,
- Noncommutative geometry 
- Geometric quantization,
- Group representation theory 
- Topos theory,
- Equivariant cohomological methods (e.g. BRST cohomology, stacks)

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February 9, 2014, 4:00am CET

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