Paul Bernays Lectures 2012

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The Paul Bernays Lectures are a new, annual and three-part honorary lecture series about the philosophy of the exact sciences. This lecture series is established in honor of the eminent logician, mathematician and philosopher of logic and mathematics Paul Bernays who was engaged in teaching and research at the ETH from 1933 to 1959.

On 11 and 12 September 2012 Prof. Solomon Feferman, Stanford University, USA will hold the inaugurating lecture series “three problems for mathematics: consistency, the continuum, and categories”. The first lecture will present the research topics for a wider audience, the second lecture will address the research community, and a final seminar will offer to the members of the research community the opportunity to discuss with the invited speaker selected research topics and ideas.

ETH Zurich
Building CHN, Auditorium C14
Universitätstrasse 16
8092 Zürich

Programme

• Opening address by Prof. E. Engeler
  Tuesday, 11 September 2012
  16:30 h
  
  
• Lecture 1: Bernays, Gödel and Hilbert's consistency program
  Tuesday, 11 September 2012
  17:00 h
  
  
• Lecture 2: Is the Continuum Hypothesis a definite mathematical problem?
  Wednesday, 12 September 2012
  14:15 h
  
  
• Lecture 3: Foundations of Unlimited Category Theory
  Wednesday, 12 September 2012
  16:30 h