Laguna
Workshop
Methodology of Pure and Applied
Mathematics
March 5-7, 2004
Laguna Hotel
Laguna Beach, CA
Friday, March 5:
Aspects of Pure Mathematics
9:00
Jamie
Tappenden (Philosophy, Michigan),
'A case study in
mathematical explanation and
reasoning styles: why do elliptic
functions have two periods?'
10:30
Jeremy Avigad (Philosophy, CMU), 'Mathematical
method and proof'
2:00
Paolo Mancosu (Philosophy, UC Berkeley),
'Visualization in logic and mathematics'
3:30
Alasdair Urquhart (Philosophy,
Toronto), 'Non-rigorous mathematics -- is it really mathematics?'
Saturday, March 6:
Current Thinking on the Continuum
Hypothesis
9:00
Hugh Woodin (Mathematics, UC Berkeley) (transparencies)
10:30
John Steel (Mathematics, UC Berkeley)
(transparencies)
2:00
Matt Foreman (Mathematics, UC Irvine)
3:30
Tony Martin (Mathematics and
Philosophy, UCLA)
Sunday, March 7:
Aspects of Applied Mathematics
9:00
Sheldon
Smith (Philosophy, UCLA),
'Continuous bodies
and contact interactions: the view from
applied mathematics'
10:30
Mark Wilson (Philosophy, Pittsburgh), 'Something's
gotta give'
Sponsored by
UCI Department of
Logic and Philosophy
of Science
UCI Center for Logic
and its
Applications
UCI Interdisciplinary
Program in
History and Philosophy of Science
UCI School of Social
Sciences
UCI Office of Research
and
Graduate Studies
For more information,
contact
pjmaddy@uci.edu.