Mechanics, mathematical physics and foundations of mathematics in the 18th and 19th Centuries
7 July 2008 - 12 July 2008Invited Speakers
Alexander Afriat
Università di Urbino7 July 2008 - 13 July 2008
June E. Barrow-Green
The Open University7 July 2008 - 13 July 2008
Seminar: A comparison between Laplace's Mécanique Céleste and that of Poincaré's
Claudio Bartocci
Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Genova7 July 2008 - 12 July 2008
Talk: Some remarks on the geometric ideas underlying Gödel's cosmological model
Olivier Bruneau
Centre François Viète - Université de Nantes6 July 2008 - 13 July 2008
Seminar: The Earth's shape in Maclaurin's works and in the D'alembert's Opuscules Mathematiques : some comparisons
Sandro Caparrini
Dipartimento di Matematica della Università di Torino6 July 2008 - 13 July 2008
Seminar: On the Origin of Vector Calculus in Geometry and Mechanics
Danilo Capecchi
Università di Roma La Sapienza8 July 2008 - 10 July 2008
Seminar: Gabrio Piola and continuum mechanics
Pierre Crépel
Université Lyon 17 July 2008 - 13 July 2008
Seminar: Mechanics in d'Alembert’s Opuscules Mathématiques
Constantine Dafermos
Brown University6 July 2008 - 13 July 2008
Talk: The Birth and Development of the Notion of Shock Wave in the 19th Century
François De Gandt
Université Ch De Gaulle Lille III7 July 2008 - 13 July 2008
Seminar: Variational problems and their classification by Euler
Luca Dell'Aglio
Università di Cosenza7 July 2008 - 13 July 2008
Seminar: Three-body problem, regularization and the concept of 'solution'