»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 will be 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). 

Please see the MPP Seminar Calendar below for more information. The calendar is updated continuously throughout the semester as more talks are announced.

Spring 2026 Calendar

Week Speaker Date Day Time Location Seminar
2/2-2/6 AI Epistemology Workshop 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) 2/19 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. HSC 222 MPP
2/20 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. TBA OCIE
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. TBA OCIE
3/9-3/13 Speaker TBA 3/12 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. HSC 222 MPP
3/13 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. TBA OCIE
3/16-3/20

 Thomas Barrett (UCSB) 3/19 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. HSC 222 MPP
3/20 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. TBA OCIE
3/23-3/28 Spring Break: No seminars
3/30-4/3 James Read (Oxford University) 4/2 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. HSC 222 MPP
4/3 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. TBA OCIE
4/6-4/10 Otavio Bueno (University of Miami) 4/9 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. HSC 222 MPP
4/10 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. TBA OCIE
4/14-4/17 Speaker TBA 4/16 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. HSC 222 MPP
4/17 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. TBA OCIE
4/20-4/24 Michael Shulman (University of San Diego) 4/23 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. HSC 222 MPP
4/24 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. TBA OCIE
4/27-5/1 Agustín Rayo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 4/30 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. HSC 222 MPP
5/1 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. TBA OCIE
5/4-5/8

Speaker TBA

 5/7 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. HSC 222 MPP
5/8 Friday 4 - 6:50 p.m. TBA OCIE
5/11-5/15

Alejandro Díaz-Caro (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes)

 5/14 Thursday 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. HSC 222 MPP
5/15 Friday 3 - 6:45 p.m. TBA 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 about the OCIE Seminar series, please contact: 

Lisa Beesley
Graduate Program Coordinator – Math, Philosophy and Physics
beesley@chapman.edu

Marco Panza 
Provisional Program Director
panza@chapman.edu
(714) 997-5021