Upcoming Events
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Feb
21
Analysis and Probability Seminar
Masser’s Conjecture on Equivalence of Integral Quadratic Forms
Han Li (Wesleyan University)1:30pm -
Feb
21
Logic Colloquium: Eno Agolli2:00pm
Logic Colloquium: Eno Agolli
Friday, February 21st, 2020
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Storrs Campus Oak 110
Join us for a talk by Éno Agolli (UConn) in the Logic Colloquium!
Éno Agolli (UConn)
Logical Nihilism
Logical nihilism is the view that there is no logic, or more precisely that no single, universal consequence relation governs natural language reasoning. Here, I present three different arguments for logical nihilism from philosophically palatable premises. The first argument comes from a combination of pluralism with the desideratum that logical consequence should be universal, properly understood. The second argument is a slippery slope argument against monists who support weak logical systems on account of their power to characterize a vast range of true theories. The third argument is a general strategy of generating counterexamples to any inference rule, including purportedly fundamental ones such as disjunction introduction. I close by discussing why a truth-conditional approach to the meaning of the logical connectives not only does not force us to reject such counterexamples but also reveals that right truth-conditions are far more general than the classical ones, at the price of nihilism.
All welcome!
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Feb
21
Cluster Algeba Seminar
Speaker: Ozgur Esentepe
Title: Cluster categories and singularity theory3:00pm -
Feb
21
Analysis Learning Seminar
An Introduction to Gamma Convergence III
Michael Novack (UConn)3:30pmAnalysis Learning Seminar
An Introduction to Gamma Convergence III
Michael Novack (UConn)Friday, February 21st, 2020
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus MONT 214
Gamma convergence, originally introduced by De Giorgi, is a notion of convergence of variational problems which is commonly used in the calculus of variations. We will describe the general theory, and then focus on two examples: the Modica-Mortola problem and the Aviles-Giga problem. The former example is well-understood at this point and we will present several theorems along with (most of) the proofs. On the other hand, for the Aviles-Giga problem, the theory is partially developed, so we will discuss some important results along with a few difficult open questions. Part III of three lecture mini-course. -
Feb
24
Actuarial Science Seminar
Universally Marketable Insurance in a Multivariate Mixture Market
Ambrose Lo (University of Iowa)11:00am
