»MPP Seminar Calendar


The MPP Seminar (SCI 700: Graduate Colloquium) is an occasion for graduate students in the MPP Program:
  • to meet with external scholars in mathematics, philosophy, and physics who have been expressly invited to Chapman,
  • to meet with members of Chapman faculty in these disciplines, and
  • to meet among themselves.

The program and periodicity of sessions is determined in relation to the agenda of the current research seminars in these disciplines.

The MPP Seminar is composed of various seminars already existing at Chapman University: the OCIE Seminar in History and Philosophy of Mathematics, the IQS Seminar Series, the Analysis and Geometry Seminar (AGS), and the General Algebra, Logic and Artificial Intelligence Seminar (GALAI). 

MPP students are encouraged to attend these seminars, which generally take place during the Fall and Spring semesters at the times and locations listed below. These times and locations are subject to change. Please refer to each seminar's webpage for the most current information.

Seminar Day Time Location
 

IQS Seminar (Physics)

 Wednesdays 10 - 11 a.m.  Killefer Conference Room B
 

OCIE Seminar (History and Philosophy of Mathematics)

 Fridays 4 - 6 p.m. AF 209C or KC 153
 
GALAI Seminar (Mathematics)

 Wednesdays 1 p.m. or 2:30 p.m. Keck Center 370
 
See the MPP Seminar Calendar below for more information. The calendar is updated continuously throughout the semester as more talks are announced.

Fall 2026 Calendar

Week

 Speaker

 Date

 Day

 Time

 Location

 Seminar
 
8/24-8/28 Book Presentations by Daniele C. Struppa and Marco Panza:

Three Infinities in Mathematics

Reals by Abstraction. An Inquiry about Epistemic Economy in Mathematics

 8/27 Thursday 11:30am-12:45pm Hashinger 222 MPP
8/28 Friday 5:00pm-7:00pm Argyros Forum 209C OCIE
 
8/31-9/4 Emily Adlam (Chapman University): 

"Deconstructing Beauty"

 9/3 Thursday 11:30am-12:45pm Hashinger 222 MPP
9/4 Friday 4:00pm-6:00pm Argyros Forum 209C OCIE
 
9/7-9/11 Dissertation Defense by Benjamin Faltesek:

"Arithmetic and Necessity: A Quasi-Concrete Modal Structuralist Account"




 9/10 Thursday 11:30am-12:45pm Hashinger 222 MPP
9/11 Friday 4:00pm-6:00pm Argyros Forum 209C OCIE
 
9/14-9/18 Ahmed Sebbar (Chapman University): 

"May-July 2026: From Erdös to Keller, New Mathematical Ideas from Artificial Intelligence"



 9/17 Thursday 11:30am-12:45pm Hashinger 222 MPP
9/18 Friday 4:00pm-6:00pm Keck Center 153 OCIE
 
9/21-9/25 Polona Durcik (Chapman University):

"Some Open Problems in Harmonic Analysis"

 9/24 Thursday 11:30am-12:45pm Hashinger 222 MPP
9/25 Friday 4:00pm-6:00pm Keck Center 153 OCIE
 
9/28-10/2 Seminar with Jose Gil-Ferez


 10/1 Thursday 11:30am-12:45pm Hashinger 222 MPP
 
10/5-10/9 Carlo Angiuli (Indiana University):

"Dependently Sorted Syntax and its Semantics"







 10/8 Thursday 11:30am-12:45pm Hashinger 222 MPP
10/9 Friday 4:00pm-6:00pm Keck Center 153 OCIE
 
10/12-10/16 Matilde Marcolli (Caltech):

"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Linguistics"







 10/15 Thursday 11:30am-12:45pm Hashinger 222 MPP
10/16 Friday 4:00pm-6:00pm Keck Center 153 OCIE
 
10/19-10/23 Lizhen Ji (University of Michigan)







 10/22 Thursday 11:30am-12:45pm Hashinger 222 MPP
10/23 Friday 4:00pm-6:00pm Keck Center 153 OCIE
 
10/26-10/30 Agustín Rayo (MIT)







 10/29 Thursday 11:30am-12:45pm Hashinger 222 MPP
10/30 Friday 4:00pm-6:00pm Keck Center 153 OCIE
 
11/2-11/6 Sebastian De Haro (University of Amsterdam) 






 11/5 Thursday 11:30am-12:45pm Hashinger 222 MPP
11/6 Friday 4:00pm-6:00pm Keck Center 153 OCIE
 
11/9-11/13 Mark Balaguer (Cal State LA)







 11/12 Thursday 11:30am-12:45pm Hashinger 222 MPP
11/13 Friday 4:00pm-6:00pm Keck Center 153 OCIE
 
11/16-11/20 Guillaume Massas (Chapman University)






 11/19 Thursday 11:30am-12:45pm Hashinger 222 MPP
11/20 Friday 4:00pm-6:00pm Keck Center 153 OCIE
11/23-11/27 No seminars this week: Thanksgiving recess: Mon-Sat, 11/23-11/28. 
Monday-Wednesday: Students only. Thursday-Friday: University closed 
11/30-12/4 Speaker TBA






 12/3 Thursday 11:30am-12:45pm Hashinger 222 MPP
12/4 Friday 4:00pm-6:00pm Keck Center 153 OCIE

 

 

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Spring 2026 Calendar

 

Week Speaker Date Day Time Location Seminar
2/2-2/6
2/6
Friday
8 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Killefer Conference Room A
MPP
2/9-2/13
Alain Connes (Collège de France. Fields Medal, 1982):

"The Topos River and the Scaling Site"
2/12
Thursday
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
HSC 222
MPP
Book Presentation:
The Philosophical and Mathematical Legacy of Alexander Grothendieck
2/12
Thursday
3 - 6 pm.
AF 209C
-
Colin McLarty (Case Western Reserve University):

"Childish simplicity, the importance of Grothendieck for philosophy"
2/12
Thursday
3 - 4:15 p.m.
AF 209C
-
Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz (University Paris Diderot Paris 7):

"What philosophical forms are at work in Grothendieck's mathematical thinking?"
2/12
Thursday
4:15 - 5:30 p.m.
AF 209C
-
Colin McLarty (Case Western Reserve University):

"The role of proof in proof theory, focussing on Fermat's Last Theorem"
2/13
Friday
4 - 6:50 p.m.
AF 209A
OCIE
2/16-2/20
Balthasar Grabmayr (Tübingen University):

"Fixing Montague's Problem"
2/19
Thursday
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
HSC 222
MPP
2/20
Friday
4 - 6:50 p.m.
KC 153
OCIE
2/23-2/27
MPP Seminar with Marco Panza (no external guest)
2/26
Thursday
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
HSC 222
MPP
3/2-3/6
Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute)
3/5
Thursday
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
HSC 222
MPP
3/6
Friday
4 - 6:50 p.m.
KC 153
OCIE
3/9-3/13
Brice Halimi (Université Paris Cité)

Walter Carnielli (Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science, University of Campinas, Brazil)
3/12
Thursday
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
HSC 222
MPP
Double session
3/13
Friday
3 - 6 p.m.
KC 153
OCIE
Brice Halimi (Université Paris Cité):

"Iterated modalities"
3/13
Friday
3 - 4:30 p.m.
KC 153
OCIE
Walter Carnielli (Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science, University of Campinas, Brazil):

"Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Beyond the Classical: LFIs and Provability Logic"
3/13
Friday
4:30 - 6 p.m.
KC 153
OCIE
3/16-3/20
3/19
Thursday
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
HSC 222
MPP
3/20
Friday
4 - 6:50 p.m.
KC 153
OCIE
3/23-3/28
Spring Break: No seminars
3/30-4/3
James Read (Oxford University):

"Everettian chance in no uncertain terms"
4/2
Thursday
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
HSC 222
MPP
4/3
Friday
4 - 6:50 p.m.
KC 153
OCIE
4/6-4/10
Otávio Bueno (University of Miami):

"Is Absolutely General Quantification Possible?"
4/9
Thursday
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
HSC 222
MPP
4/10
Friday
4 - 6:50 p.m.
KC 153
OCIE
4/14-4/17
4/16
Thursday
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
HSC 222
MPP
4/17
Friday
4 - 6:50 p.m.
KC 153
OCIE
4/20-4/24
Michael Shulman (University of San Diego): 

"Coinductive Universes and Higher Observational Type Theory"
4/23
Thursday
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
HSC 222
MPP
4/24
Friday
4 - 6:50 p.m.
KC 153
OCIE
4/27-5/1
No sessions this week (Agustín Rayo postponed to the following semester)
5/4-5/8
Luke Burns (Chapman University):
5/7
Thursday
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
HSC 222
MPP
5/8
Friday
4 - 6:50 p.m.
KC 153
OCIE
5/11-5/15
 Alejandro Díaz-Caro (Inria — Mocqua team, LORIA, France; Universidad de la República, CENUR Suroeste, Uruguay):"Towards a Computational Quantum Logic: From Quantum Control to Algebraic Linear Logic" 5/14 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. HSC 222 MPP
5/15 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. KC 153 OCIE
 

Fall 2025 Calendar

Week Speaker Date Day Time Location Seminar
8/25-8/29 Louis Vervoort (Higher School of Economics, Moscow):
"Contextual (Hidden) Variables in Quantum and Fluid Mechanics"		 8/28 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Baldwin Pavilion 1107 MPP
8/29 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Argyros Forum 209A OCIE
9/1-9/5 Marco Panza (Chapman University):
"Zeno, Aristotle and Achilles: Infinity and Continuity"
(Joint work with Giovanna Giardina and Chiara Martini)		 9/4 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Baldwin Pavilion 1107 MPP
9/5 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Argyros Forum 209A OCIE
9/8-9/12 Emily Adlam, Kelvin McQueen, and Cai Waegell (Chapman University):
"Agency cannot be a purely quantum phenomenon"		 9/11 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Baldwin Pavilion 1107 MPP
9/12 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Argyros Forum 201 OCIE
9/15-9/19 Eddy Keming Chen (UCSD):
"Exchangeability and Algorithmic Randomness: A New Proof of the Principal Principle"		 9/19 Friday 2 - 3:15 p.m. Keck Center 370 MPP
9/19 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
9/22-9/26 Alexander Kurz and Michael Robinson (Chapman University):
"AI and Education: Friends or Foes?"		 9/26 Friday 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Keck Center 370 MPP
9/26 Friday 2 - 4 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
9/29-10/3

 No MPP or OCIE Seminar sessions this week 10/2 Thursday - - -
10/3 Friday - - -
10/6-10/10 MPP Seminar with Marco Panza (no external guest) 10/9 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Baldwin Pavilion 1107 MPP
No OCIE Seminar this week 10/10 Friday - - -
10/13-10/17 Jean-Pierre Marquis (Université de Montréal):
"What is Mathematical Structuralism? A categorical narrative"		 10/16 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Baldwin Pavilion 1107 MPP
10/17 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
10/20-10/24 Gila Sher (UCSD):
"On the Connection between Invariance and Structural Necessity in Logic, Mathematics, and Physics"		 10/23 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Baldwin Pavilion 1107 MPP
10/24 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
10/27-10/31 Jonathan Weinberger (Chapman University):
"Universes and higher algebra in synthetic ∞-category theory"		 10/30 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Baldwin Pavilion 1107 MPP
10/31 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
11/3-11/7 Marta Bílková (Institute of Computer Science): "Epistemic Logic of Crash Failures" 11/6 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Baldwin Pavilion 1107 MPP
11/7  Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
11/10-11/14

Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon University)

Thursday: "Univalence, Invariance, and Intensionality"

Friday: "What is HoTT?"

 11/13 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Baldwin Pavilion 1107 MPP
11/14 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
11/17-11/21 Teresa Kouri Kissel (Old Dominion University):
"Proof-Theoretic Pluralism and Harmony"		 11/20 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Baldwin Pavilion 1107 MPP

Double session:

Nico Formánek and Teresa Kouri Kissel

 11/21 Friday 3 - 6:45 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
Nico Formánek (High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart): "Computational power and model selection" 11/21 Friday 3 - 4:45 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
Teresa Kouri Kissel (Old Dominion University):
"Proof-Theoretic Pluralism and Harmony"		 11/21 Friday 5 - 6:45 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
11/27-11/28 Thanksgiving - Campus closed
12/1-12/5 Alain Yger (Université de Bordeaux) 12/4 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Baldwin Pavilion 1107 MPP
Double session:

Sophie d'Espalungue and Alain Yger		 12/5 Friday 3 - 6:45 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
Sophie d'Espalungue (IRIF, Paris): "Foundational Aspects of Size and Dimension in Higher Categorical Structures" 12/5 Friday 3 - 4:45 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
Alain Yger (Université de Bordeaux): "The Mathematical Concept of Residue and its Ubiquity" 12/5 Friday 5 - 6:45 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
12/8-12/12

Victor Pambuccian (Arizona State University)

 12/11 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Keck Center 370 MPP

Double session:

J. J. P. Veerman and Victor Pambuccian

 12/12 Friday 3 - 6:45 p.m. Killefer Conference Room A OCIE

J. J. P. Veerman (Portland State University): "Birkhoff Sums of Irrational Rotations"

 12/12 Friday 3 - 4:45 p.m. Killefer Conference Room A OCIE

Victor Pambuccian (Arizona State University): "The Fine Structure of the Parallel Postulate"

 12/12 Friday 5 - 6:45 p.m. Killefer Conference Room A OCIE

 

 

Spring 2025 Calendar

Week Speaker Date Day Time Location Seminar
1/20-1/24 Thomas Seiller: "Logical structures arising from corpora" 1/23 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
1/24 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
2/3-2/7 Gigliola Staffilani: "What do I see from my corner of wave turbulence theory?" 2/6 Thursday 10 - 11:15 a.m. Keck Center 370 MPP
2/7 Friday 3 - 4:30 p.m. Keck Center 153 AGS
2/3-2/7 Silvia De Toffoli: "What Mathematical Explanation Need Not Be" 2/6 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
2/7 Friday 4:45 - 6:15 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
2/10-2/14 Søren Knudstorp: "Features of (Un)decidable Logics" 2/13 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
2/14 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 GALAI
2/17-2/21 Jacopo Emmenegger: "An Introduction to the Theory of Lawvere's Doctrines and its Recent Advances" 2/20 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
2/21 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
2/24-2/28 Carl Posy: "Infinity, Paradox, and the Fall of Hilbert’s Program" 2/27 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
2/28 Friday 9 - 10:45 a.m.  Hashinger 205 OCIE
3/3-3/7 Greg Restall: "Modal Logic and Contingent Existence" 3/6 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
3/7 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
3/10-3/14 Also this week: Paolo Mancosu Guest Lecture and Inauguration of Paolo Mancosu Library Collection 3/10 Monday 6 - 8:30 p.m. Hilbert Museum -
3/11 Tuesday 2:30 - 5 p.m. Leatherby Libraries -
3/10-3/14 Vincent Jullien: "Cavalieri's Indivisibles and its Followers" 3/13 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
3/14 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
3/17-3/21 Postponed: No sessions this week
3/24-3/28 Spring Break: No sessions this week
3/31-4/4 Giuseppe Rosolini: "Ultracompletions" 4/3 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
4/4 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
4/7-4/11 Otávio Bueno: "Dispensing with the Grounds of Logical Necessity" 4/10 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
4/11 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
4/14-4/18 Simon Santschi: "Amalgamation in Varieties of Residuated Lattices" 4/15 Tuesday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
4/16 Wednesday 2:30 p.m. Keck Center 370 GALAI
4/21-4/25 Jemma Lorenat: "Axiomatic collaborations in the foundations of geometry at the University of Chicago, 1900 – 1905" 4/24 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
4/25 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
4/28-5/2 Charles "Chip" T. Sebens: "How Do Laws Produce the Future?" 4/30 Wednesday 2:15 - 3:30 p.m. Keck Center 370 MPP
5/2 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
5/5-5/9 M. Andrew Moshier: "Point Set Topology is a Disease from Which the Human Race Will Soon Recover" 5/8 Thursday 12 - 1:30 p.m. Hashinger 222 MPP
5/9 Friday 2 - 4 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
5/12-5/17 Melisa Vivanco: "On the Philosophy of Natural Numbers" 5/15 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP
5/16 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE

Fall 2024 Calendar

Week Speaker Date Day Time Location Seminar
8/26-8/30 Marco Panza: "Frege's definition of real numbers is consistent"

8/29

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

8/30

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
9/2-9/6

Guram Bezhanishvili: "The Gödel translation: history and new directions"

9/5

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

9/6

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
9/9-9/13

Carlos Alvarez: "A possible way to read (and interpret) Euclid's Elements"

9/12

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

9/13

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
9/16-9/20

Eli Levenson Falk: "Beating the Ramsey limit on sensing with Hamiltonian control"

9/18

 Wednesday 10 a.m. - 11 p.m. Keck Center 149 IQS

9/18

 Wednesday 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Keck Center 370 MPP
9/16-9/20

Stephen Mackereth: "The Philosophical Significance of Gödel’s Dialectica Translation"

9/19

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Hashinger 404

 OCIE
9/23-9/27

Andrew Moshier and Alexander Kurz: "Interestingness in Mathematics"

9/27

 Friday 10 - 11:15 a.m. Keck Center 370 MPP

9/27

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
9/30-10/4

Wesley H. Holliday: "From constructive mathematics and quantum mechanics to Fundamental Logic"

10/3

Thursday

 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

10/4

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
10/7-10/11

Marta Bilkova: "Belnapian logics for uncertainty"

10/8

 Tuesday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

10/9

 Wednesday 2:15 - 3:15 p.m. Keck Center 370 GALAI
10/14-10/18

Mateja Jamnik: "How can we make trustworthy AI?"

10/17

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

10/18

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
10/21-10/25

Benjamin Faltesek: "Can the necessity of mathematics be derived?"

10/24

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

10/25

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
10/28-11/1

Patrick Ryan: "A Reassessment of Gödel’s Doctrine: The Necessity of Infinity"

10/31

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

11/1

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
11/4-11/8

Walter Carnielli and Juliana Bueno-Soler: "How to Benefit from Uncertainty: An Introduction to Paraconsistent Bayesian Update"

11/7

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

11/8

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
11/11-11/15

Juliet Floyd: "The Turing Test as a View From Somewhere: Hilbert, Wittgenstein and Turing on 'Surveyability'"

11/14

 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

11/15

 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. Keck Center 153 OCIE
11/18-11/22

Paolo Andrea Erdman: "Machine Learning Methods for Quantum Thermal Devices"

11/19

 Tuesday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Hashinger 404 MPP

11/20

 Wednesday 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Keck Center 149 IQS
11/18-11/22

Also this week: Conference. Advances in Operator Theory with Applications to Mathematical Physics
11/25-11/29

Thanksgiving break: No session
12/2-12/6

Daniel Briseño-Colunga

12/3

 Tuesday 11:30am - 12:45pm Hashinger 404 MPP

12/4

 Wednesday 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Keck Center 149 IQS

 

 

 

 

CONTACT US

For more information, please contact: 

Lisa Beesley
MPP Program Coordinator
beesley@chapman.edu