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Conference Program - First Frame
Wednesday 16 September 2009
Location: University of Potsdam at New Palace, house 8, room 0.60 (Foyer)
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| Session I: |
Historical contexts of Grassmann’s Creativity |
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| Session Chairs: |
Ivor Grattan-Guinness (UK),
Roman Murawski (PL)
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| Registration desk: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm |
| 09:00 to 09:30 | Welcoming Speeches / Opening remarks
Opening:
- Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Petsche
Words of Welcome:
- Dr.
Manfred Stolpe – Patron of the Conference (Premier of the State of
Brandenburg, 1990-2002 / German Federal Minister, 2002-2005)
- Jann Jakobs, Chief Burgomaster of Potsdam (invited)
- Birgit Müller, Vice-chairman of the Potsdam City Council Assembly
- Prof. Dr. Andrzej Witkowski, Vice-Rector for Science and International Cooperation of the University of Szczecin
- Prof. Dr. Dieter Wagner, Vice-President for Knowledge and Technology Transfer of the University of Potsdam
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| 09:30 to 10:00 | Ivor Grattan-Guinness: The house that Robert Grassmann built |
| 10:00 to 10:30 | Paola Cantù: The epistemological conception of Hermann Günther Graßmann | | 10:30 to 11:00 | Coffee Break / Morning Tea | | 11:00 to 11:30 | Michael Otte: Die Unterscheidung des Analytischen und Synthetischen bei Graßmann, Riemann und Peirce | | 11:30 to 12:00 | Marie-Luise Heuser: Graßmann und die Naturphilosophie | | 12:00 to 12:30 | Johann Ev. Hafner: Graßmanns Sicht auf Religion und Glauben |
| 12:30 to 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 to 14:00 | Steve Russ: Concepts and Contrasts: Graßmann and Bolzano |
| 14:00 to 14:30 | Henry Crapo: On Hermann Graßmann's Regressive Product (together with Andrea Brini, Francesco Regonati, Bill Schmitt) |
| 14:30 to 15:00 | Joerg Liesen: Hermann Graßmann's spectral theory of matrices | | 15:00 to 15:30 | Mario Harz: Graßmann und die geometrische Charakteristik nach Leibniz | | 15:30 to 16:00 | Coffee Break / Afternoon Tea | | 16:00 to 16:30 | Volker Peckhaus: Robert and Hermann Graßmann's influence on the development of formal logic |
| 16:30 to 17:00 | Mircea Radu: Hermann and Robert Graßmanns Contributions to Axiomatics |
| 17:00 to 17:30 | Jacques Riche: Graßmann's contribution to Whitehead's foundations of logic and mathematics | | 17:30 to 18:00 | Claus Michael Ringel: Einfluss Graßmanns auf das Spätwerk A.N.Whiteheads | | 18:15 to 19:00 | Walking tour around the New Palace of Sanssouci | | 19:00 | Candlelight Evening with ancient flute music and some fine food from Poland |
Thursday 17 September 2009
Location: University of Potsdam at New Palace, house 8, room 0.60 (Foyer)
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| Session II: |
Diversity of Grassmann’s Influence |
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| Session Chairs: |
Peter Simons (IE),
Volker Peckhaus (DE) |
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| 09:00 to 09:30 | Peter Simons: Graßmann and the Algebra of Space |
| 09:30 to 10:00 | José Ferreirós: Graßmann and axiomatic thinking: on his Arithmetik and Peano's axioms | | 10:00 to 10:30 | Paolo Freguglia: The H. Graßmann's work and the Peano school | | 10:30 to 11:00 | Filippo Demonte-Barbera: How Lev Solomonovič Polak 'deceived' himself (The influence of Gibbs and Graßmann on Peano's "Calcolo Geometrico ...") | | 11:00 to 11:30 | Coffee Break / Morning Tea | | 11:30 to 12:00 | Hans-Joachim Petsche: Ernst Abbe's reception of Grassmann in the light of Grassmann's reception of Schleiermacher | | 12:00 to 12:30 | Mirja Hartimo: Graßmann's influence on Husserl | | 12:30 to 13:00 | John Ohala: The Phonetic work of Hermann Graßmann – the Graßmann’s law |
| 13:00 to 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 to 14:30 | Maria Kozianka: Graßmanns "Wörterbuch zum Rig-Veda" - ein Jahrhundertwerk im Nebenjob |
| 14:30 to 15:00 | Maria Schetelich: Übersetzung als Interpretation - Hermann Graßmanns Rigveda-Übersetzung im Vergleich |
| 15:00 to 15:30 | Toshifumi Goto: Das Wörterbuch zum Rigveda aus heutiger Sicht |
| 15:30 to 16:00 | Thomas Krisch: Graßmann's
contribution to lexicography and the living on of his ideas in the
Salzburg Dictionary to the Rigveda (together with Christina Katsikadeli
and Stefan Niederreiter) |
| 16:00 to 16:30 | Coffee Break / Afternoon Tea | | 17:00 to 18:30 | Sightseeing tour around Potsdam | | 19:00 | Evening dinner in the traditional restaurant „Alter Stadtwächter“ |
Friday 18 September 2009
Location: Bootshaus “Seekrug”, Potsdam, An der Pirschheide 28
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| Session III: |
Through the ages:
Present and future of Grassmann’s Ideas |
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| Session Chairs: |
David Hestenes (US),
Michael Otte (DE) |
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| 09:00 to 09:30 | David Hestenes: Graßmann's Legacy | | 09:30 to 10:00 | Karin Reich: Der Briefwechsel von Rudolf Mehmke |
| 10:00 to 10:30 | Peter Sühring: Calculation
and feeling – rationality and imagination in music analysis. Hermann
Graßmann's mathematical role in Gustav Jacobsthal's investigation
methods | | 10:30 to 11:00 | Harald Gropp: Trees and "Stammbaeume" in science | | 11:00 to 11:30 | Coffee Break / Morning Tea | | 11:30 to 12:00 | Martin Erik Horn: Graßmann, Pauli, Dirac - Die Spezielle Relativitätstheorie in der Schule |
| 12:00 to 12:30 | John Browne: Grassmann, Geometry and Mechanics |
| 12:30 to 13:00 | Jochen Pfalzgraf: Graßmann Geometry in Robotics | | 13:00 to 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 to 14:30 | Dietmar Hildenbrand: Geometric Algebra Computers |
| 14:30 to 15:00 | Eckhard Hitzer: New views of crystal symmetry guided by profound admiration of the extraordinary works of Graßmann and Clifford |
| 15:00 to 15:30 | Hongbo Li: On Null Graßmann-Cayley Algebra | | 15:30 to 16:00 | Nikolay Marchuk: From Graßmann algebra to Kahler-Atyah algebra | | 16:00 to 16:30 | Coffee Break / Afternoon Tea | | 17:00 |
Guided excursion to Einstein’s Summerhouse in
Caputh
| | 19:30 | Evening dinner in the Havel Lake Restaurant „Bootshaus Seekrug“ |
Saturday 19 September 2009
Location: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Szczecin,
ul. Wielkopolska 15, Szczecin
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| 08:00 to 10:45 | Bus transfer to Szczecin | | 11:00 to 11:30 | Coffee Break / Morning Tea | | Session IV: | Grassmann and his hometown:
From Past to Future |
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| Session Chair: |
Andrzej Dabrowski (PL)
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| 11:30 to 12:00 | Welcoming Speeches / Opening remarks Videoconference to Potsdam
Opening:
- Prof. Dr. Piotr Krason, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Szczecin
Words of Welcome:
- Prof. Dr. Franco Ferrari
- Bartłomiej Sochański, German Honorary Consul in Szczecin (confirmed)
- Marcin Zydorowicz,Westpomeranian Voivode (invited)
- Piotr Krzystek, Mayor of Szczecin (invited)
- Wladyslaw Husejko, Marshal of the Province of Western (invited)
Videogreetings from Potsdam:
- Dr. Manfred Stolpe – Patron of the Conference (confirmed)
- Prof. Berhard Kroener, Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Potsdam (confirmed)
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| 12:15 to 13:00 |
Opening of an exhibition of strange handwritings
and previously unseen documents of Grassmann’s
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| 13:15 to 13:45 |
Pipe organ concert with music from Carl Loewe in
the St. Jacob's Cathedral
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| 13.45 to 14.30 |
Trip along the "Paths of H. G. Graßmann"
| | 14:30 to 15:00 | Fingerfood | | Lectures and discussion | | 15:00 to 15:30 | Roman Murawski: Graßmann's contribution to mathematics |
| 15:30 to 16:00 | Alvin Swimmer: An Investigation Of Golden Triangles And Their Associated Spirals Via Grassmann Algebra |
| 16:00 to 16:30 | Albert C. Lewis: Hermann Graßmann's influence on philosophy (Cassirer, Whitehead, Carus) | | 16:30 to 17:00 | Maciej Szukala: Grassmann and his hometown | | 17:30 | Farewell dinner and transfer back to Potsdam |
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Conference Patron:
Dr. Manfred Stolpe
Funded by:
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