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> From: Andrei Rodin 
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> Date: 3 Mar 2011 15:09:50 GMT+01:00
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> Subject: categories: CFP: Sets Within Geometry (Nancy, 27-30 July 2011)
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> Sets Within Geometry, An International Symposium
> 
> Nancy, France 27-30 July 2011, Archives Henri Poincare Maison Sciences De 
> L’Homme
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> 
> First Announcement and Call for Submitted Papers
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> 
> The Theory of Sets, founded in the last quarter of the 19th Century by 
> Georg Cantor, underwent rapid development at the hands of many contributors.
> 
> Within that develoment, several distinct lines can be traced, and these 
> have connected in contrasting ways with the subsequent overall development 
> of mathematical knowledge.  The aim of this Symposium is to study and 
> compare these, with particular focus on the question how far set theory 
> might be re-conceived as a fragment of Geometry
> For  a more extended discussion of the manner in which this question 
> naturally arises from the study of these various lines of development,  see 
> the website of this Meeting at
> 
> http://www.archmathsciphil.com/conferences-and-workshops/symposium-sets-within-geometry-nancy-france-27-30-july-2011-2/.
> 
> 
> The confirmed Speakers so far are:
> 
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> Professor FW Lawvere.(Buffalo)
> Professor Yuri I. Manin (Bonn and IHES)
> Professor Anders Kock (Aarhus)
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> Professor Christian Houzel (Paris)
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> Professor Colin McLarty (CWRU Cleveland)
> Professor Jean-Pierre Marquis (Montreal)
> Professor Alberto Peruzzi (Florence)
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> 
> By way of orientation, the organisers of the Symposium offer the following 
> statement of aims
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> 
> —oOo—
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> Those who have come together to organise this Symposium believe that the 
> ultimate aim of foundational efforts is to provide clarifying guidance to 
> teaching and research in mathematics, by concentrating the essential 
> aspects of past such endeavors. By mathematics we mean the investigation of 
> the Relations between Space and Quantity, of the reflected relations 
> between quantity and quantity and between space and space, and the 
> development of our knowledge of these in other words Geometry.
> Using tools developed by Cantor and his contemporaries, much more explicit 
> forms of the relation between space and quantity were developed in the 
> 1930s in the field of functional analysis by Stone and Gelfand, partly 
> through the notion of Spectrum (a space corresponding to a given system of 
> quantities). In the 1950s Grothendieck applied those
> same tools, around the notion of Spectrum, to algebraic geometry by using 
> and developing the further powerful tool of category theory . Further 
> developments have strongly suggested that it is now possible to incorporate 
> the whole set-theoretic “foundation” of  Geometry, explicitly as part of 
> that space-quantity dialectic, in other words as a chapter in an extended 
> Algebraic Geometry.
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> 
> 
> —oOo—
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> 
> 
> Details of Registration and Titles and Abstracts of the Invited Speakers 
> and other information about the venue and arrangements for the Symposium 
> will be available shortly on
> http://www.archmathsciphil.com/conferences-and-workshops/symposium-sets-within-geometry-nancy-france-27-30-july-2011-2/.
> 
> 
> 
> —oOo—
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> 
> 
> The  Topics of the Symposium fall under three broad headings : Mathematics 
> – Conceptual Analysis – History
> 
> 
> 
> 1. Mathematics
> Examination of Mathematical Developments yielding a deeper understanding of 
> the place of sets in mathematics.
> 
> 2. Conceptual Analysis
> The connection between these Mathematical developments and broader analysis 
> of the epistemological sources of mathematical ideas. One illustration of 
> such analysis is the investigation of the meaning of Extensionality and 
> Choice principles in the setting of Topos Theory
> 
> 3. History
> Related Historical investigations such as a re-examination of the work of
> Cantor and Dedekind and other figures and discussion of different
> approaches to the Continuum Hypothesis.
> 
> —oOo—
> 
> 
> CONTRIBUTED TALKS and POSTER SESSIONS
> Proposals for Talks relevant to the Themes of the Meeting are welcome and 
> Titles and Abstracts of such proposed talks should be sent no later than 
> May 1st to the Secretary of the Organising Committee  Michael Wright,
> Archive of Mathematical Sciences:
> 
> 
> Abstracts should be no more than 400 words but can be shorter.
> Anyone submitting a proposed talk is asked first to study the extended 
> announcement on the website for guidance as to whether their proposed talk 
> may be relevant to the themes of the Symposium.
> 
> In order to accommodate as many Speakers as possible, Contributed Talks 
> (Talks by other than the Invited Speakers ) will be of 30 minutes,  
> including discussion time. There will be no parallel sessions.
> 
> A Second Announcement will be made by May 1st 2011. The site will be 
> regularly updated with Titles and Abstracts of Invited Talks and other 
> Information.
> 
> Those submitting proposals for Contributed Talks will be advised no later 
> than May 30th 2011 if their talks have been accepted for inclusion in the 
> Program.