********************************************************************** PAST CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS ********************************************************************** Boston University, December 1 - 2, 2007 "TRENDS IN THE MATHEMATICALREPRESENTATION OF SPACE" Location: Photonics Center, Colloquium Room 9th Floor, 8 Saint Mary's St., Boston, MA, 02215 Organizers: Michael Wright(mpbw1879@yahoo.co.uk), John Stachel(stachel@bu.edu), Mihaela Iftime (miftime@bu.edu ) Schedule of the talks: Saturday, December 1 08:30 - 9:00 Coffee & Tea 9:00 - 10:30 Pierre Cartier (Institut Des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Paris) Living in a contradictory world: categories vs sets 10:30 - 10:45 Discussion 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 11:45 Colin McLarty (Case-Western Reserve University) Generality versus unity in geometry 11:45 - 12:00 Discussion 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break 2:00 - 3:30 F. William Lawvere (SUNY, Buffalo) Euler, Maxwell, Grothendieck, and the nature of space 3:30 - 3:45 Discussion 3:45 - 4:00 Coffee break 4:00 - 4:45 Jean-Pierre Marquis (Universite de Montreal) From Klein to Kan: the algebra of space and the space of algebra. 4:45- 5:00 Discussion 5: 00-5:30 M. Iftime (Boston University & MCPHS) Grothendieck's Universe Sunday, December 2 08:30 - 9:00 Coffee & Tea 9:00 - 10:30 Louis Crane (Kansas State University) What does quantum gravity tell us about the nature of spacetime? 10:30 - 10:45 Discussion 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 11:45 Gonzalo E. Reyes (Universite de Montreal) An axiomatic approach to Einstein's vacuum field equations 11:45 - 12:00 Discussions 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break 2:00 - 2:30 Shawn Westmoreland (Kansas State University) The twin paradox without acceleration 2:30 - 3:00 F. Markopoulou(Perimeter Institute) Geometrogenesis 3:00 - 3:30 O. Dreyer (MIT) Internal relativity 3:30 - 3:45 Coffee break 3:45 - 5:30 Round Table Discussion The workshop is dedicated to the 2007 marks the 50th Anniversary of Alexandre Grothendieck's Tohoku Lecture, today recognised as one of the great landmarks, not only in the development of algebraic geometry, but in the broader history of 20th Century Mathematics!