The Constructible Universe, the Naive Conception, and Intensional Logic

Speaker: 

Sean Walsh

Institution: 

Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine

Time: 

Monday, November 25, 2013 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH 440R

This talk looks at the relationship between three foundational systems: Goedel's Constructible Universe of Sets, the naive conception of set found in consistent fragments of Frege's Grundgesetze, and the intensional logic of Church's Logic of Sense and Denotation. One basic result shows how to use the constructible sets to build models of fragments of Frege's Grundgesetze from which one can recover these very constructible sets using Frege's definition of membership. This result also allows us to solve the related consistency problem and joint consistency problems for abstraction principles with limited amounts of comprehension. Another basic aim of this paper is to show how to "factor'' this result via a consistent fragment of Church's Logic of Sense and Denotation: so one may use the constructible sets to build models of Church's Logic of Sense and Denotation, from which one may then define models of the consistent fragments of Frege's Grundgesetze.
Preprint: https://www.dropbox.com/s/afhcz8bzy4pdsoc/walsh-sean-CU%2BNC%2BIL-11-19-...
 

Lattice Boltzmann Method: Alternative Numerical Approach to the Navier-Stokes Equations

Speaker: 

Yuehong Qian

Institution: 

Shanghai University

Time: 

Monday, December 9, 2013 - 4:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

 
In this short talk, we will present an alternative approach to computational fluid dynamics,reaction-diffusion and flows in porous media. We outline its physical basis and mathematical derivation along with numerous applications. Some strengths and limitations of the method will be also pointed out.

An efficient boundary integral method for 3D free-surface flow with surface tension

Speaker: 

Michael Siegel

Institution: 

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Time: 

Monday, February 24, 2014 - 4:00pm

Location: 

Rowland Hall 306

A nonstiff boundary integral method for 3D free-surface flow with
surface tension is presented, with applications to porous media flow,
water waves, and hydroelastic waves. The velocity of the interface is
given in terms of the Birkhoff-Rott integral, and we present a new
method to compute this efficiently in doubly-periodic problems by
Ewald summation. The stiffness is removed by developing a small-scale
decomposition, in the spirit of prior work for 2D flow by Hou,
Lowengrub and Shelley. In order to develop this small scale
decomposition, we formulate this problem using a generalized
isothermal parameterization of the free surface.

 

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