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International
Symposium on
Foundations in Mathematics
and Biology
Problems, Prospects, Interactions
Pontifical Lateran University – Rome (Italy), November 26 –27, 1998
General Chairman:
Giovanni Prodi, Università di Pisa (Italy).
Program Committee
Gianfranco Basti, Pontifical Lateran University (Vatican); George Coyne, Specola Vaticana (Vatican); Marco Forti, Università di Pisa (Italy); Ludovico Galleni, Università di Pisa (Italy); Furio Honsell, Università di Udine (Italy) Antonio Luigi Perrone, Pontifical Lateran University (Vatican); Ichiro Tsuda, Hokkaido University (Japan).
FINAL PROGRAM
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Proceedings Published as a Special Issue of Aquinas 43(2)2000 Available online (select title of each paper) |
| THURSDAY,
26 NOVEMBER, MORNING: CHAIRMAN: Giovanni Prodi, University of Pisa |
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| 9:30 | Mgr.
Angelo Scola, Rector of the Pontifical Lateran
University: INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS |
| 10:00 | Francesco
Paolo Casavola, Director of the Italian Enciclopedy
Institute: PRESENTATION OF THE COLLECTED WORK: "L'Uomo e la Vita" ("Man and Life") |
| 10:30 | Gianfranco
Basti, Director of IRAFS: THE MANIFOLD MEANING OF THIS CONFERENCE |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 | Marco
Forti, University of Pisa, Italy: THE FOUNDATIONAL THEORIES OF ENNIO DE GIORGI |
12:15 |
General Discussion |
12:45 |
End of the Session |
| THURSDAY, 26
NOVEMBER, AFTERNOON: CHAIRMAN: Marco Forti, University of Pisa |
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| 15:00 | Francisco
Ayala, University of California - Irvine, USA: EVOLUTION AND THE AUTONOMY OF BIOLOGY |
| 16:00 | Ludovico
Galleni, University of Pisa, Italy: AXIOMATIZATION OF BIOLOGY WITHIN THE FOUNDATIONAL THEORY OF ENNIO DE GIORGI |
17:00 |
Discussion |
| 17:15 | Coffee Break |
| 17:45 | Antonio
Luigi Perrone, PUL Research Laboratory, Italy: A NEW AXIOMATIC APPROACH TO CHAOTIC SYSTEMS CHARACTERIZIATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR BIOLOGY |
| 18:45 | Discussion |
| 19:00 | End of the Session |
| FRIDAY,
27 NOVEMBER, MORNING: CHAIRMAN: Ludovico Galleni, University of Pisa |
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| 9:00 | Giuseppe
Longo, CNRS et Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris,
France: THE 'OTHER WAY ROUND': FROM BIOLOGY TO MATHEMATICS |
| 10:00 | Discussion |
10:15 |
Coffee Break |
10:30 |
Kalevi
Kull, University of Tartu, Estonia: THEORETICAL BIOLOGY - GENERALISING AXIOMS, OR SPECIFYING SOLUTIONS? |
11:30 |
Marie
Claire Groessens Van Dyck, Université de Louvain,
Belgium: IS THE PALEONTOLOGY FAR AWAY FROM BIOLOGY? |
12:30 |
Discussion |
12:45 |
End of the Session |
FRIDAY,
27 NOVEMBER, AFTERNOON: |
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15:00 |
Michael
Ruse, University of Guelph, Canada: IS BIOLOGY A DIFFERENT KIND OF SCIENCE? |
16:00 |
Discussion |
16:15 |
Coffee Break |
16:30 |
Round
Table: FOUNDATIONS IN MATHEMATICS AND BIOLOGY WHICH PROSPECTS? |
18:30 |
End of the Symposium |
Aim Of The Symposium
In the second anniversary of his untimely death, we want to commemorate Prof. Ennio De Giorgi of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy), one of the most important scholars in Mathematical Analysis of this century. We want to commemorate him by promoting an International and Interdisciplinary Symposium on a particular and not yet sufficiently known topic of De Giorgi's research and teaching work, during last ten years. The "basic theory" on the foundations of logic and mathematics he was developing with his collaborators, was aimed indeed to favorite the interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars of different disciplines, both scientific and humanistic. Ultimately, the theory was developed for giving a contribution to one of the most fascinating debates on foundations. It concerns the theoretical and mathematical basis of the biological sciences, main topic of our meeting.
This symposium is also the first public initiative organized by the International Research Area on Foundations of the Sciences (IRAFS), founded on October 1997 at the Pontifical Lateran University. This institution was originally promoted by Prof. Ennio De Giorgi and by Prof. Edward Nelson, from the Dept. of Mathematics of Princeton University (USA), actually General Scientific Advisor of the Area. The aim of this institution is to encourage the international debate on Foundations, as well as the education of young scientists and humanists on these themes.
For any question, please contact
Gianfranco Basti, Director of IRAFS, Pontifical Lateran University, Piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano 4, 00120 Vatican City, Ph.-Fx.: +39 06 4742529, e-mail: basti@pul.it
Antonio Luigi Perrone, Secretary of IRAFS, Pontifical Lateran University, Piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano 4, 00120 Vatican City, Ph-Fx: +39 06 4742529, e-mail: perrone@pul.it.
