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JEAN-MARIE SOURIAU
In May 1969 the groundbreaking book of Jean-Marie Souriau appeared, Structure des Systèmes Dynamiques. We will celebrate, in 2019, the jubilee of its publication, with a conference in honour of the work of this great scientist.
Welcome to the conference !
LOCATION
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Paris-Diderot Université
4 Rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris
REGISTRATION
Just send us an email with your name and your affiliation (if any)…
SPEAKERS
Frédéric Barbaresco (Thales Group, France)
Daniel Bennequin (Université Paris Diderot, France)
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (European Research Council, Europe)
Pierre Cartier (IHES Paris, France)
Maurice Courbage (Université Paris Diderot, France)
Dan Christensen (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Thibault Damour (IHES Paris, France)
Paul Donato (Aix-Marseille Université, France) Souriau, a synthesis of his work
Paolo Giordano (Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Wien, Austria)
Serap Gürer (Galatasaray Üniversitesi, Turkey) Differential Forms on Stratified Spaces
Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour (Aix-Marseille Université, France) Symplectic Diffeology. Dissipative Thermodynamics in General Relativity
Yael Karshon (University of Toronto, Canada)
Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach (Paris, France)
Marc Lachieze-Rey (APC — Université Paris Diderot, France)
Martin Pinsonnault (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Elisa Prato (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
Urs Schreiber (Czech Academy of the Sciences, Czech Republic)
Jedrzej Sniatycki (University of Calgary, Canada)
Roland Triay (Aix-Marseille Université, France)
San Vũ Ngọc (Université de Rennes, France)
Jordan Watts (Central Michigan University, USA)
Alan Weinstein (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Enxin Wu (汕头大学Shantou University, China)
POSTERS
If you want to present a poster, just send us an email with your name, affiliation, the title of your poster and possibly a link on a pdf.
SYLLABUS
In May 1969 the groundbreaking book of Jean-Marie Souriau appeared, Structure des systèmes dynamiques. We will celebrate, in 2019, the jubilee of its publication, with a conference in honour of the work of this great scientist.
The influence of Souriau’s work is felt in the areas he has innovated or developed in his own way. It is important to take stock of it, in particular in order to make the current and future generations aware of his original and deep thought.
The main reasons for organising this conference are the singularity, and at the same time the scope, of the work of Souriau. He was able to create, in his time, a homogeneous group of “Souristes” who for the most part have reached maturity and are able today to convey the originality of this work. It is also time to take stock of the important work to which it has given rise among foreign researchers, many of whom we will invite to speak. The work of Jean-Marie Souriau lives on in different areas of the scientific world and, at different levels of depth, in the development of mathematics and physics, and therefore according to the different temporalities of the history of these disciplines.
All scholars, old and new, recognize this. Souriau’s work is particularly important work for the relationships he has established and developed between physics and geometry. He is one of the most important founders of symplectic geometry, and the theoretical exploitation of his work in this field is far from exhausted.
André Lichnerowicz has said that his work could belong to four international scientific unions: mathematics, mechanics, physics and astronomy. But what interests us is not only Souriau the scientist, but also the philosopher. What is striking is the unity of his thought through the variety of his fields of interest. It is likely true that this thought grows deeper as its areas of application expand. The object of our inquiry will be to analyse his thought insofar as it is related to the philosophy of science and even to pure philosophy.
This conference aims to review the entire work of Jean-Marie Souriau in the five areas in which he worked.
1. Symplectic mechanics. Symplectic structure of the space of the movements of a dynamic system, action of invariance groups, moment map, symplectic cohomology, barycentric decomposition theorem. Elementary systems (particles): homogeneous symplectic variety, classification by coadjoint orbits.
2. Geometric Quantization. Prequantization condition, pre-quantum bundle, polarizations, quantification of coadjoint orbits.
3. Thermodynamics. Geometric statistical equilibria in symplectic manifolds. Vector temperature and thermodynamic dissipative model in general relativity.
4. General Relativity and Cosmology. General Covariance Principle, Robertson-Walker universe model with cosmological constant.
5. Diffeology. Renewal of the formal framework of differential geometry by a stable space category by all natural set operations (i.e. complete, complete, Cartesian closed). This includes highly singular spaces that may not even be separated, infinite dimensional spaces, and so on.
6. Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, History of Science. History of each of the domains evoked (symplectic mechanics, quantification, cosmology and relativity, thermodynamics). In each of these areas Souriau introduced new ideas. These new views have not ceased to be relevant and fruitful. The task of a philosophy of science will be to highlight this novelty.
As far as philosophy is concerned, a new question has been raised about the importance of this work, in its variety and unity, and in its impact on the philosophy of science and philosophy in general, which we propose to deal with in this conference. Souriau’s originality manifested itself in his will and in his attempts to create new languages. We will analyze, in the philosophy section, this important aspect of his work, most evident in his work in geometry and relativity.
The Organizers: J.-J. Szczeciniarz & P. Iglesias-Zemmour
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