Ideas of Point - Programme

[Ugo Bruzzo]

Ideas of point
An elusive concept in mathematics and physics throughout history

SISSA, November 14-16, 2013
Room 005, Building A

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): Opening lecture
16:00-16:30 Coffee break 
16:30-17:30  Carlo Rovelli (Centre de Physique Théorique de Luminy): ttba
17:30-18:30 Luca Barbieri Viale (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Milano): Points, cycles & classes

Friday 15/11/2013

9:30-10:30 Fabio Acerbi (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris): How Greek Geometry Denotes Points
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Pier Daniele Napolitani (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa): ttba
12:00-13:00 Giovanni Landi (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Trieste): ttba

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): ttba
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Achille Varzi* (Columbia University, New York): ttba
12:00-13:00 Eberhard Knobloch (Technische Universität, Berlin): On the relation between point, indivisible, and infinitely small


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)

Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, via Bonomea 265, Trieste
 ideasofpoint at gmail.com 

Project “More Geometrico” http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/moregeometrico/index.html