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Conference "Geometry in History"
IRMA, June 11-12 2015
The conference "Geometry in History" will take place at Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée (University of Strasbourg and CNRS) on June 11-12, 2015.
Organizers : S.G. Dani (Bombay) and A. Papadopoulos (Strasbourg)
Each talk will present a major geometrical idea in a historical context together with its modern ramifications. The talks are given by mathematicians.
The speakers will include :
N. A’Campo (Basel) J.-P Bourguignon (IHES) C. Frances (Strasbourg) L. Ji (Ann Arbor) K. Ohshika (Osaka) V. Poenaru (Orsay) N. Schappacher (Strasbourg) A. Sossinsky (Moscow) T. Sunada (Tokyo) J. Vargas (PST Associates, LLC, USA)
The talks will be in English and they are intended for a general audience.
Graduate students and young mathematicians are welcome. Registration is required (and free of charge) at this link. Hotel booking can be asked for through the registration link.
For practical matters and other questions please contact the organizers : Shrikrishna Dani : shrigodani@gmail.com Athanase Papadopoulos : athanase.papadopoulos@math.unistra.fr
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09h00 | Ken'ichi Ohshika - OsakaThe origin of the notion of manifold |
10h00 | Coffee Break |
10h30 | Alexey Sossinsky - Independent University of MoscowOn the approval of non-Euclidean geometries by the mathematical community |
11h30 | Charles Frances - StrasbourgCartan geometries : some classical and recent aspects |
14h00 | Lizhen Ji - Ann ArborA short history of moduli and Teichmueller spaces |
15h00 | Coffee Break |
15h30 | Valentin Poenaru - (Orsay)A fast glimpse into the big problems of four dimensions |
19h30 | Conference DinnerRestaurant "Au Petit Bois vert", quartier Petite France. Everybody is invited. We shall leave IRMA at 19:00 |
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09h00 | Jean-Pierre Bourguignon - IHES et BruxellesParallel Transport and Holonomy, between Mathematics and Physics |
10h00 | Coffee Break |
10h30 | Jose G. Vargas - PST Associates, LLC (USA)From Grassmann to Kaehler, through Clifford and Elie Cartan |
11h30 | Toshikazu Sunada - Meiji University, TokyoRiemann sums and near quasicrystals |
14h30 | Norbert Schappacher - StrasbourgCritical moments from the History of Intersection Theory, 1890 - 1990 |
15h30 | Coffee Break |
16h00 | Tom Archibald - (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada)Counterexamples in Weierstrass’ Work (This talk is part of the IRMA colloquium series talks) |
Dernière mise à jour le 23-03-2015
