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.
Fall 2025
| 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) |
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 |
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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 |
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Double session: |
12/12 | Friday | 3 - 6:45 p.m. | Killefer Conference Room A | OCIE | |
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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 | |
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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 | |