»MPP Seminar Calendar

The MPP Seminar (SCI 700: Graduate Colloquium) is an occasion for graduate students in the MPP Program:

  • to meet with external scholars in mathematics, philosophy, and physics who have been expressly invited to Chapman,
  • to meet with members of Chapman faculty in these disciplines, and
  • to meet among themselves.

The program and periodicity of sessions will be determined in relation to the agenda of the current research seminars in these disciplines.

The MPP Seminar is composed of various seminars already existing at Chapman University: the OCIE Seminar in History and Philosophy of Mathematics, the IQS Seminar Series, the Analysis and Geometry Seminar (AGS), and the General Algebra, Logic and Artificial Intelligence Seminar (GALAI). 

Please see the MPP Seminar Calendar below for more information.

The calendar is updated continuously throughout the semester as more talks are announced. 

Spring 2025

Week Speaker Date Day Time Location Seminar
1/20-1/24 Thomas Seiller: "Logical structures arising from corpora" 1/23 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
1/24 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
2/3-2/7 Gigliola Staffilani: "What do I see from my corner of wave turbulence theory?" 2/6 Thursday 10 - 11:15 a.m. Keck Center 370 MPP
2/7 Friday 3 - 4:30 p.m. Keck Center 153 AGS
2/3-2/7 Silvia De Toffoli: "What Mathematical Explanation Need Not Be" 2/6 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
2/7 Friday 4:45 - 6:15 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
2/10-2/14 Søren Knudstorp: "Features of (Un)decidable Logics" 2/13 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
2/14 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 GALAI
2/17-2/21 Jacopo Emmenegger: "An Introduction to the Theory of Lawvere's Doctrines and its Recent Advances" 2/20 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
2/21 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
2/24-2/28 Carl Posy: "Infinity, Paradox, and the Fall of Hilbert’s Program" 2/27 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
2/28 Friday 9 - 10:45 a.m.  Hashinger 205 OCIE
3/3-3/7 Greg Restall: "Modal Logic and Contingent Existence" 3/6 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
3/7 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
3/10-3/14 Also this week: Paolo Mancosu Guest Lecture and Inauguration of Paolo Mancosu Library Collection 3/10 Monday 6 - 8:30 p.m. Hilbert Museum -
3/11 Tuesday 2:30 - 5 p.m. Leatherby Libraries -
3/10-3/14 Vincent Jullien: "Cavalieri's Indivisibles and its Followers" 3/13 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
3/14 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
3/17-3/21 Postponed: No sessions this week
3/24-3/28 Spring Break: No sessions this week
3/31-4/4 Giuseppe Rosolini: "Ultracompletions" 4/3 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
4/4 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
4/7-4/11 Otávio Bueno: "Dispensing with the Grounds of Logical Necessity" 4/10 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
4/11 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
4/14-4/18 Simon Santschi 4/15 Tuesday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
4/16 Wednesday 2:15 p.m. Keck Center 372 GALAI
4/21-4/25 Speaker TBA          
         
4/28-5/2 Speaker TBA          
         
5/5-5/9 Speaker TBA          
         
5/12-5/17 Melisa Vivanco: "On the Philosophy of Natural Numbers" 5/15 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
5/16 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE

 

Fall 2024

Week Speaker Date Day Time Location Seminar
8/26-8/30 Marco Panza: "Frege's definition of real numbers is consistent"

8/29

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

8/30

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
9/2-9/6

Guram Bezhanishvili: "The Gödel translation: history and new directions"

9/5

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

9/6

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
9/9-9/13

Carlos Alvarez: "A possible way to read (and interpret) Euclid's Elements"

9/12

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

9/13

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
9/16-9/20

Eli Levenson Falk: "Beating the Ramsey limit on sensing with Hamiltonian control"

9/18

 Wednesday 10 a.m. - 11 p.m. Keck Center 149 IQS

9/18

 Wednesday 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Keck Center 370 MPP
9/16-9/20

Stephen Mackereth: "The Philosophical Significance of Gödel’s Dialectica Translation"

9/19

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Hashinger 404

 OCIE
9/23-9/27

Andrew Moshier and Alexander Kurz: "Interestingness in Mathematics"

9/27

 Friday 10 - 11:15 a.m. Keck Center 370 MPP

9/27

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
9/30-10/4

Wesley H. Holliday: "From constructive mathematics and quantum mechanics to Fundamental Logic"

10/3

Thursday

 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

10/4

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
10/7-10/11

Marta Bilkova: "Belnapian logics for uncertainty"

10/8

 Tuesday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

10/9

 Wednesday 2:15 - 3:15 p.m. Keck Center 370 GALAI
10/14-10/18

Mateja Jamnik: "How can we make trustworthy AI?"

10/17

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

10/18

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
10/21-10/25

Benjamin Faltesek: "Can the necessity of mathematics be derived?"

10/24

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

10/25

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
10/28-11/1

Patrick Ryan: "A Reassessment of Gödel’s Doctrine: The Necessity of Infinity"

10/31

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

11/1

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
11/4-11/8

Walter Carnielli and Juliana Bueno-Soler: "How to Benefit from Uncertainty: An Introduction to Paraconsistent Bayesian Update"

11/7

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

11/8

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
11/11-11/15

Juliet Floyd: "The Turing Test as a View From Somewhere: Hilbert, Wittgenstein and Turing on 'Surveyability'"

11/14

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

11/15

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
11/18-11/22

Paolo Andrea Erdman: "Machine Learning Methods for Quantum Thermal Devices"

11/19

 Tuesday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

11/20

 Wednesday 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Keck Center 149 IQS
11/18-11/22

Also this week: Conference. Advances in Operator Theory with Applications to Mathematical Physics
11/25-11/29

Thanksgiving break: No session
12/2-12/6

Daniel Briseño-Colunga

12/3

 Tuesday 11:30am - 12:45pm Hashinger 404 MPP

12/4

 Wednesday 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Keck Center 149 IQS

 

CONTACT US

For more information about the OCIE Seminar series, please contact: 

Lisa Beesley
Graduate Program Coordinator – Math, Philosophy and Physics
beesley@chapman.edu

Marco Panza 
Provisional Program Director
panza@chapman.edu
(714) 997-5021