Summer School on the History of Space in Mathematics and Physics
Program
All talks will be held in room E1 05 (Leibniz-Saal),
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Inselstr. 22).
| Monday, July 24, 2023 | ||
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| 08:30 - 09:00 | Welcome Coffee | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Jürgen Jost: Welcome Address | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Vincenzo De Risi (Laboratoire SPHère, France) The Birth of Space in the Renaissance | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 10:45 - 11:45 | David Marshall Miller (Auburn University, USA) Representing Space and the Structure of Science | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University, USA) Mach | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch at the Institute | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Jeffrey Weeks (Geometry Games, USA) The Shape of Space | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Claus Kiefer (University of Cologne, Germany) Concepts of Space in Special and General Relativity | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Brigitte Falkenburg (TU Dortmund, Germany) Kant's Early Cosmology (1755/56) | |
| Tuesday, July 25, 2023 | ||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome Coffee | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Jürgen Jost (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) Riemannian Geometry and its Development | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 10:45 - 11:45 | Brigitte Falkenburg (TU Dortmund, Germany) Kant's Argument of Incongruent Counterparts (1768) | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Brigitte Falkenburg (TU Dortmund, Germany) Kant's Antinomy of Pure Reason (1781) | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch at the Institute | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Vincenzo De Risi (Laboratoire SPHère, France) The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Jeffrey Weeks (Geometry Games, USA) Experiencing Non-Euclidean Space | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Jeffrey Weeks (Geometry Games, USA) Play Billiards in Curved-Space VR | |
| Wednesday, July 26, 2023 | ||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome Coffee | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University, USA) Helmholtz and Poincaré | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 10:45 - 11:45 | Brigitte Falkenburg (TU Dortmund, Germany) From Kant to Cohen and Natorp | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Brigitte Falkenburg (TU Dortmund, Germany) The Role of Intuition in Physics | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch at the Institute | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Claus Kiefer (University of Cologne, Germany) Concepts of Space in Quantum Theory and Quantum Gravity | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | David Marshall Miller (Auburn University, USA) Celestial Spaces I: Copernicus and the Problem of Centers | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | David Marshall Miller (Auburn University, USA) Celestial Spaces II: Gilbert and Kepler and the Problem of Direction | |
| Thursday, July 27, 2023 | ||
| 08:30 - 20:00 | Excursion | |
| Friday, July 28, 2023 | ||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome Coffee | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Jeffrey Weeks (Geometry Games, USA) Visualizing Four Dimensions | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 10:45 - 11:45 | Jürgen Jost (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) The Geometric Formulation of Modern High Energy Physics | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Jürgen Jost (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) The Geometry of Data | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch at the Institute | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | David Marshall Miller (Auburn University, USA) Terrestrial Spaces: Galileo and Inertia | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Vincenzo De Risi (Laboratoire SPHère, France) Space as a Mathematical Structure | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University, USA) Neopositivists: Carnap, Reichenbach, Schlick | |
| Saturday, July 29, 2023 | ||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome Coffee | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | David Marshall Miller (Auburn University, USA) Composition and Synthesis: Descarte's Critics and Newton | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 10:45 - 11:45 | Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University, USA) Hermann Weyl I | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University, USA) Hermann Weyl II | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch at the Institute | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Vincenzo De Risi (Laboratoire SPHère, France) The Discovery of non-Euclidean Geometry | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Jeffrey Weeks (Geometry Games, USA) Geometry of Spacetime | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Jürgen Jost (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) The Geometrization of Modern Mathematics | |
Date and Location
July 24 - 29, 2023
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
E1 05 (Leibniz-Saal)
Inselstr. 22
04103 Leipzig
Scientific Organizers
Vincenzo De Risi, Laboratoire SPHère, Paris (France) & MPIWG, Germany
Jürgen Jost
MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig (Germany)
Administrative Contact
Antje VandenbergMPI for Mathematics in the Sciences (Germany)
Contact by Email