27-28 Oct 2012
Notre Dame IN, U.S.A.
Dear Friends & Colleagues, This is an invitation to the thirteenth annual Midwest PhilMath Workshop (MWPMW 13), to be held at Notre Dame the weekend of Saturday, October 27th and Sunday, October 28th, 2012. As usual, the plan is to schedule a full day of talks and discussions for Saturday and a half day for Sunday. Also as usual, there will be a workshop dinner Saturday evening, with all participants invited to attend as guests of the university. A website for the workshop will soon be up, and you'll be able to keep up with developments there. You can get to it by following the obvious links on the Philosophy Department's web page (http://www.nd.edu/~ndphilo/). In due course, the location of the sessions, the schedule of talks and abstracts for them will also be posted there. The purpose of this note is twofold. The first is to remind you that if you would like to give a talk, you should email a pdf of your talk or a substantial summary of it to Paddy (blanchette.1@nd.edu), Tim (bays.5@nd.edu), Curtis (cfranks@nd.edu) and me (mdetlef1@nd.edu). We would like to have all proposals for talks by September 3rd so that we can set the program by September 12th. Talks should be 35--40 minutes, with 15--20 minutes left for discussion. The second purpose of this note is to announce that the first meeting of the new Philosophy of Mathematics Association (PMA) will be held Friday, October 26th on the Notre Dame campus. Invited speakers and their themes are: Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon U): "Homotopy Type Theory and Univalent Foundations" Danielle Macbeth: "The Puzzle of Logic in Relation to Mathematics" Jeremy Heis (U of California-Irvine): "Why did geometers stop using diagrams?" Mrs. Harriet Baldwin (baldwin.1@nd.edu) is the manager of the workshops. Please contact her with any questions you may have concerning rooms, meals, etc.. She has booked a block of rooms for the workshops. Since there are other conferences going on the same weekend, demand for rooms may be high and it would thus be a good idea to reserve a room with Harriet as soon as possible. Please also indicate to her whether you will be joining us for dinner Saturday evening, and let her know if you have any special dietary requirements. She can also point you to pertinent travel information, maps, etc.. Finally, I'd ask that you share this announcement with others you know who might be interested, including both students and faculty. We are fortunate once again to have limited funds to help defray expenses for student participants coming from out of town whose departments do not have funds to cover their costs. These funds will generally take the form of subventions for lodging. If you are interested in applying for a subvention, please notify Mrs. Baldwin of that fact as soon as you can. Please also have an appropriate faculty member from your department email me to confirm that it cannot meet your expenses. That's it for now. I hope you're enjoying the end of summer, and I look forward to seeing you at the PMA workshop and MWPMW 13 in October. Cordially, Mic Detlefsen Director, MWPMW 13