Over several decades the Archive Trust has sponsored and recorded a series of conferences, workshops and symposia on foundational topics in mathematics, physics and philosophy of science. These events bring together researchers from around the world in settings that foster the kind of informal, sustained intellectual exchange that rarely survives in formal publications.
Every event is recorded in full. The recordings — lectures, responses, discussions and corridor conversations where permitted — form part of the Archive's permanent holdings and will be made freely available online.
A workshop at the renowned Oberwolfach Research Institute exploring the intersection of quantum information theory with foundational questions in physics and the philosophy of science. The meeting brought together mathematicians, physicists and philosophers working at the frontier of quantum theory.
A series of intimate symposia held at Askloster in Sweden, bringing together a small group of researchers each year for sustained discussion on foundational topics spanning the mathematical and physical sciences. The informal format encouraged deeper engagement than is possible at larger conferences, and the recordings capture unusually candid and searching discussion.
An international conference on category theory and its ramifications across mathematics, logic and physics. The Florence meeting assembled many of the most important figures in categorical mathematics, with sessions on topos theory, categorical logic, quantum groups and the applications of category theory to theoretical physics.
A conference exploring mereological questions — the theory of wholes and parts — across mathematics and physics, with category theory as a unifying framework. Held in Bolzano, the birthplace of Bernard Bolzano, the meeting drew on both contemporary research and the rich philosophical tradition of that region.
"The informal discussions and spontaneous exchanges that happen at events like these are irreplaceable — and almost never recorded. The Archive Trust makes it possible to preserve them."
From the Trust's programme notes