lectures/ideas: 02/21/17

2017-02-21

Judith Butler. Distinctions on violence and nonviolence. 2016

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures 2017年2月20日
http://www.egs.edu Judith Butler, Hannah Arendt Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS.
Distinctions on violence and nonviolence. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School EGS, Saas-Fee/Switzerland, August 12 2016.
Judith Butler holds the Hannah Arendt Chair at The European Graduate School / EGS and is the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a philosopher and one of the most challenging thinkers of our time. She rose to prominence in 1990 with Gender Trouble, which caused an unexpected stir as it unearthed foundational assumptions both in philosophy and in feminist theory, namely the facticity of sex. Controversial debate on the subject(s) extended far beyond academia to which Butler responded, in part, in Bodies that Matter (1993). Butler’s academic rigor is pursued through innovative and critical readings of a wide range of texts in philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature, challenging the confines of disciplinary thinking. Within, and beyond that, Judith Butler is also known for her critical voice in socio-political discourse and debate. Her qualities as a thinker are reflected in her openness to what is at stake in the present and in her passionate engagement in conversations with contemporaries in and outside academia.
In recent lectures and writings, Judith Butler embarks on new terrain. Focusing on political collectives, the coming together of people in public assembly–– the people, citizenship, and public space––Butler revives her sentiment for the performative. Expanding beyond the speech act, she offers a new perspective to her concept of the performative as it is the appearance of corporeal life that establishes performatively a field of the political and supports concerted action. It is the appearance of bodies not only being precarious, but also resistant and persistent. A first systematic approach to these lines of thought can be found in Judith Butler's recent publication, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (2015).

"Two incompatible sacred values in American universities" Jon Haidt, Hayek Lecture Series

source: Duke University Department of Political Science 2016年10月15日
On October 6, 2016, Professor Jonathan Haidt gave a Hayek Lecture at Duke. The event was co-sponsored by the programs in the History of Political Economy (HOPE), Philosophy, Politics, & Economics (PPE), and American Values and Institutions (AVI). The event was open to the public, but also served as a guest lecture in Professor Jonathan Anomaly’s PPE course.
Professor Haidt argues that conflicts arise at many American universities today because they are pursuing two potentially incompatible goals: truth and social justice. While Haidt thinks both goals are important, he maintains that they can come into conflict.
According to some versions of social justice, whenever we observe a disparity of outcomes between races, genders, or other groups, we should infer that injustice has been done. Haidt challenges this view of social justice and shows how it sometimes leads to violations of truth, and even justice.
Haidt concludes that universities should be free to pursue whatever goals – truth or social justice – they want, but that they should make it clear which of these two goals is their “telos” – their highest purpose. He ends with a discussion of his initiative, HeterodoxAcademy.org, to bring more viewpoint diversity to universities in order to improve research and learning.
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Modern Interactions between Algebra, Geometry and Physics (2016)

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source: Tohoku University 2016年8月17日
[TFC] Modern Interactions between Algebra, Geometry and Physics (2016AGP)
2016 @ Tohoku University

A microlocal category associated to a symplectic manifold 1:34:30
An introductory course on Real and Complex Microlocal Analysis [1] 1:24:48
An introductory course on Real and Complex Microlocal Analysis [2] 1:21:43
An introductory course on Real and Complex Microlocal Analysis [3] 1:24:48
Arnold conjecture, Floer chain complexes, and the augmentation ideals of finite groups 1:00:45
Asymptotic behaviour of certain families of harmonic bundles on Riemann surfaces 1:36:44
Dual Artin monoids and zero loci of their skew-growth functions 1:32:45
Exact WKB analysis for continuous and discrete Painlev'e equations 1:24:17
General relativity and important physical quantities 1:15:00
Geometry and Physics 1:28:40
Hamiltonian Floer theory and a theorem of Ekeland and Lasry [1] 1:30:10
Hamiltonian Floer theory and a theorem of Ekeland and Lasry [2] 1:30:47
Hofer’s metric and wrapped Floer homology 53:55
Holomorphic Floer quantization [1] 1:29:49
Holomorphic Floer quantization [2] 1:29:33
Holomorphic Floer quantization [3] 1:16:48
Homological algebra of knots and BPS states [1] 1:39:42
Homological algebra of knots and BPS states [2] 1:31:55
Homological algebra of knots and BPS states [3] 1:30:31
Mock modularity and categorification of 3-manifold quantum group invariants 1:36:23
Moduli spaces in gauged linear sigma model (GLSM) [1] 1:25:10
Morse theory with symmetries and applications 56:12
Non-contractible orbits found by the Floer theory on contractible orbits 55:04
Non-contractible periodic orbits in Hamiltonian dynamics [1] 1:23:41
Non-contractible periodic orbits in Hamiltonian dynamics [2] 1:26:29
Non-contractible periodic orbits in Hamiltonian dynamics on tori 59:00
On additive Deligne-Simpson problem 1:35:52
On analytic construction of the group three-cocycles 1:11:03
On Legendrian submanifolds [1] 1:05:50
On Legendrian submanifolds [2] 1:08:27
Periodic Points of Hamiltonian Systems: the Conley Conjecture and Beyond [1] 1:34:45
Periodic Points of Hamiltonian Systems: the Conley Conjecture and Beyond [2] 1:31:28
Periodic Points of Hamiltonian Systems: the Conley Conjecture and Beyond [3] 1:31:33
Periodic Points of Hamiltonian Systems: the Conley Conjecture and Beyond [4] 1:30:02
Perverse sheaves, microlocal sheaves and perverse Schobers [1] 1:27:10
Perverse sheaves, microlocal sheaves and perverse Schobers [2] 1:29:51
Perverse sheaves, microlocal sheaves and perverse Schobers [3] 1:31:59
Rabinowitz Floer homology and symplectic deformations [1] 59:06
Rabinowitz Floer homology and symplectic deformations [2] 1:05:51
Resurgence and wall-crossing via complexified path integral 1:34:21
Riemann-Hilbert correspondence for quantum torus 1:32:56
Riemann-Hilbert correspondence for difference equations in higher dimensions 1:25:23
Riemann-Hilbert correspondence in dimension 1 1:34:12
Some remarks on D-modules with a large parameter and their Stokes geometry 1:22:45
Subanalytic topologies and filtrations on the sheaf of holomorphic functions 1:18:27
Symplectic displacement energy for exact Lagrangian immersions 58:11
The Floer fundamental group for monotone Lagrangian submanifolds 59:12
Twisted wild character varieties 1:22:09

Indian Political Thought by M. N. Thakur & Satish Kr. Jha (Jawaharlal Nehru U, New Delhi)

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source: Cec Ugc 2016年3月18日

Indian Political Thought 1:00:24
Indian Political Thought 59:53
Brahminic and Sraminic Tradition in Indian Political Thought 56:50
Islamic and Syncretic Tradition 56:56
Indian Political Thought 50:33
Kautilya's Political Thought 57:14
Political Ideas of Kabir 58:24
Political Ideas in Buddhism and Agganna Sutta 56:24
Gandhi's Ideas of Swaraj 55:55
Political Thought of Ziauddin Barni 59:07
Abu farzl and his Political Thought 55:29
Political Thought of Rammohun Roy 1:01:38
Political Thought of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar 57:59
Political Thought of Jayaprakash Narayan 58:58
Secularism 50:14
Political Thought of Iqbal 53:01
India as Federal Polity - I 56:47
India as Federal Polity - II 57:39

(हिन्दी / in Hindi) Hindi Anuvaad by P. C. Tandon (University of Delhi)

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source: Cec Ugc 2016年3月23日

Lecture 2 : Anuvaad Ki Taknik Avam Anuvadak 58:08
Lecture 1 : Anuvaad : Swaroop 58:07
Prayojan Mulak Hindi aur Anuvaad 49:09
Anuvaad 48:37
Media and Translation 1:13:41
Bhashan Vigyan aur Anuvaad 59:18
Bhasha, Shiksha aur Anuvaad 57:44
Anuvaad ke Kshetra 51:28
Anuvaad ke Kshetra -II 1:00:15
Jansanchar Madhyam aur Anuvaad 51:31
Anuvaad Punrikshan 53:37
Anuvaad ke Sadhan 50:20
Kosh Vigyan aur Anuvaad 57:44
Bhasha Prayukti Aur Anuvaad 56:35
Bhasha ka Adhunikikaran 40:32
Samachar Lekhan aur Anuvaad 59:33
Media ki Bhasha aur Anuvaad 52:19
Tatkal Bhashantaran 59:36
Kosh Nirman ke Siddhant aur Prakriya 58:41
Kaaljaye Rachna : Padmavat 40:50
[private video]
Mahila Kathakar aur Naari Samasiyaen 56:17
Paribhashik Shabdawali aur Anuvaad 57:38
Shabdavali Nirman ke Siddhant 55:01
Usha Priyamvada 56:50
Bharat mein Bahubhasikta aur Anuvaad 57:07
Usha Priyamvada- II 53:43
Kosh Parampara ka Aaklan 52:30
Samaj-Bhasha, Sanskriti aur Anuvaad 59:11
Bhumandalikaran aur Anuvaad 59:31
Bhoomandalikaran aur anuvaad soochna Prodyogiki 58:50
Bhasha ka Adhunikikaran, Mankikaran aur Anuvaad 59:36
Anuvaad ki Parampara 1:00:00
Anuprayut Bhashavigyan, Vyatireki Vishleshan aur Anuvad 59:31
Karyalayi Bhasha, Padnam, Vibhagiya Naam, Sankshiptakshar aur Anuvad 1:00:01
Anuvad mein Shabdavali ka Satik Chayan Tatha Vidhi aur Prashasnik Shadavali mein Antar 1:01:15
Anuvad ki Samasyayen aur Samadhan 1:00:57
Chandrakiran Sonreksa 48:30
Anuvaad ki Vyauharik Samasyaen 59:16
Rashtriya Ekta aur Anuvaad 1:01:47
Electronic, Nav Electronic Madhyam aur Anuvaad 1:00:44
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan 1:00:55
Natya Anuvaad ki Pravidhi, Prakriya aur Samasyaen 1:01:17
Swatantra Bharat mein Hindi aur Anuvaad 45:19
Sahitya aur Mulya 59:04

(בעברית / in Hebrew) מבוא לכלכלה (Introduction to Economics)

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source: Technion 2012年8月8日
מבוא לכלכלה
מרצה: ד"ר מירה ברון
מס' קורס: 094591

(בעברית / in Hebrew) מבוא לסטטיסטיקה - פרופ' אילה כהן (Introduction to Statistics)

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source: Technion 2012年8月20日
מבוא לסטטיסטיקה - פרופ' אילה כהן
מבוא לסטטיסטיקה
מרצה: פרופ' אילה כהן
מס' קורס: 094423

Scattering Without Space Time (1-3) by Nima Arkani Hamed

source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences 2013年3月28日
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
25 Sep 2012, 04:00 PM
Seminar Hall, ICTS, IISc campus, Bangalore

The Information Paradox, Entanglement and Black Holes (ICTS, Bangalore)

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source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences 2013年10月28日
LINK: http://www.icts.res.in/discussion_mee...
DATES: Sunday 22 Sep, 2013 - Monday 23 Sep, 2013
VENUE: ICTS, Bangalore
This meeting which is ICTS-IISc joint program will discuss recent progress on the black-hole information paradox, and the question of whether AdS/CFT can provide a useful description of the interior of black holes.
Long ago, Hawking found that the thermal radiation from black-holes appeared to be in conflict with the unitarity of quantum mechanics. It was believed, especially after the advent of the AdS/CFT correspondence, that Hawking's calculation was not precise enough to provide a paradox, and that small effects in the CFT would reconcile Hawking radiation with unitarity.

Recently, there have been several claims, starting with the work of Mathur, and followed by the work of Marolf, Polchinski and others that this is impossible; rather unitarity implies that quantum effects modify the structure of the horizon of the black-hole.
This meeting will take stock of the claims and counter-claims in the literature. Broadly speaking, the following positions have been articulated:
1) quantum effects modify the horizon structure, and the interior of a black-hole has a firewall, or that AdS/CFT does not describe the interior at all.
2) quantum effects modify the horizon structure, but the black-hole is described not by the smooth Schwarzschild geometry, but by various fuzzball solutions.
3) subtle non-local effects restore unitarity, so that the interior of the black-hole is in, some sense, a rewriting of the degrees of freedom that reside in the far-away radiation.
4) Information loss really does occur in gravity.

These scenarios often require some departure from accepted principles. For example, in the first two, effective field theory is violated. In the third one, we require that the operator identified as the "local field" depends on the microstate of the black-hole. The fourth one is difficult to reconcile with AdS/CFT or even energy-momentum conservation.
ICTS Discussion Meeting

Gautam Mandal - Hawkings derivation of Black-hole entropy and Hawking radiation 1:40:35
Sandip Trivedi - The AMPS firewall and related topics 1:58:34
Discussion - 1 1:23:54
Justin David - Entanglement Entropy - (I) 1:37:23
Aninda Sinha - Entanglement Entropy (II) 1:44:18
Suvrat Raju - An infalling observer and the information paradox in AdS/CFT 1:42:33
Dileep Jatkar - Quantum error correction and the information paradox 1:41:34
Discussion - 2 1:25:47

Black Holes - The Harmonic Oscillators - Andrew Strominger (Harvard University)

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source: International Centre for Theoretical Sciences 2013年3月28日
Speaker : Andrew Strominger (Harvard University)
Date and Time : 04 Jan 2010, 04:00 PM
Venue : AG 66, TIFR, Mumbai
In the twentieth century, many problems across all of physics were solved by perturbative methods which reduced them to harmonic oscillators. Black holes are poised to play a similar role for the problems of twenty-first century physics. They are at once the simplest and most complex objects in the physical world. They are maximally complex in that the number of possible microstates, or entropy, of a black hole is believed to saturate a universal bound.They are maximally simple in that, according to Einstein's theory, they are featureless holes in space characterized only by their mass, charge and angular momentum. This dual relation between simplicity and complexity, as expressed in black holes, has recently been successfully applied to problems in a disparate variety of physical systems.In the first lecture I will give an introduction to the subject intended for a general audience.Subsequent lectures will describe recent developments.
ICTS Chandrasekhar Lectures

Black Holes- The Harmonic Oscillators ( 1 ) 1:15:08
Black Holes- The Harmonic Oscillators ( 2 ) 1:21:17
Black Holes- The Harmonic Oscillators ( 3 ) 1:33:40

Rose McDermott: The Genetics of Politics | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2017年1月25日
"While traditionally social factors have been considered to have primary influence on political behaviors and preferences, more recent research shows that there's also a strong heritable component to ideological attitudes. Rose McDermott, professor of International Relations at Brown University and a 2015-16 CASBS fellow, will discuss her research on the influence of genetic contributions to political and social behavior. McDermott has described her work as intended to offer “…a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to the interaction of psychological processes and political outcomes.""
McDermott studies the biological influences which interact with environmental factors to shape ideology across the political spectrum in cultures around the world. Her research has included conducting embedded experiments on attitudes toward gender equality in numerous countries including Lebanon, Jordan, Uganda, Indonesia, Mongolia and India.
The author of Political Psychology in International Relations and co-editor of Man Is by Nature a Political Animal , McDermott was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 02013. McDermott is the David and Mariana Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University and a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received her Ph.D.(Political Science) and M.A. (Experimental Social Psychology) from Stanford University and has taught at Cornell, UCSB and Harvard. She has held numerous fellowships, including the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Women and Public Policy Program, all at Harvard University. She is also a past and current fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences.
She is the author of three books, a co-editor of two additional volumes, and author of over a hundred academic articles across a wide variety of disciplines encompassing topics such as experimentation, emotion and decision making, and the biological and genetic bases of political behavior."
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Drones: The Next Game-changer for Development Aid? | RSA Replay

source: The RSA 2017年1月24日
In this special event in partnership with Crown Agents Foundation, RSA Chief Executive Matthew Taylor discusses how we fulfil the humanitarian promise of technological advance with Tamara Giltsoff, Head of Innovation at the Department for International Development, whose ambition it is to bring tech innovation into day-to-day leadership and delivery of UK aid; and former Africa Correspondent at the Economist, Jonathan Ledgard, whose vision is to transform drones into agents of hope, utilizing the lower skies of African cities under-served by infrastructure networks, to revolutionize cargo delivery for those who need it most. Marie Staunton, Chair of Crown Agents, SOAS and former Chief Executive of Plan International joins the debate to challenge developers and innovators to show that the market for new tech understands the development problems it wants to solve, and be able to show real, measurable added value.
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Mind Field (Lectures from Vsauce)

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source: Vsauce

Remote Viewing Psychology with Charles T. Tart

source: New Thinking Allowed 2017年1月18日
Charles T. Tart, PhD, is emeritus professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, as well as the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He is a past-president of the Parapsychological Association. He has published over 100 scientific papers in parapsychology. He is editor of several anthologies including Altered States of Consciousness, Transpersonal Psychologies, Mind at Large, and Body Mind Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality. Books that he has authored include Psi: Scientific Studies in the Psychic Realm, States of Consciousness, The End of Materialism, Learning to Use Extrasensory Perception, On Being Stoned, Waking Up, and Open Mind – Discriminating Mind.
Here he discusses the events that took place during his year long work as a consultant to the remote viewing program of Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at SRI International, funded by the U.S. military intelligence community. He describes the unique psychological conditions at SRI that seemed to be extremely conducive to psi functioning. He notes that judging remote viewing transcripts is just as important as the viewing itself; and he offers details regarding different judging protocols. He also points out the care to which the researchers took to improve their work when methodological criticisms were offered.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is past-vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and is the recipient of the Pathfinder Award from that association for his contributions to the study of consciousness. He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.
(Recorded on November 9, 2016)

External World Skepticism - What if you're in the Matrix? (Conor McHugh)

source: Philosophical Overdose 2017年1月22日
Conor McHugh discusses an argument for radical skepticism which purports to demonstrate the impossibility of knowing the external world. He then proposes an answer to the argument. This talk was given in 2012 as part of a series called Philosophy Cafe at the University of Southampton.

Controlling Flight Manuevers in Flies - Dickinson Lab

source: caltech 2017年1月26日
More Information: http://www.caltech.edu/news/small-mig...
Theodore Lindsay explains how flies control their three-dimensional movements using relatively few neurons, in a video abstract created for the Dickinson Lab's publication in Current Biology.

Multisensory integration under the yoke of attention

source: SchAdvStudy 2013年3月6日
22-02-13 Institute of Philosophy
http://www.sas.ac.uk/
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/...
Professor Salvador Soto Faraco (ICREA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) -- Multisensory integration under the yoke of attention
The beneficial consequences of perceiving and integrating information across different sensory systems have been profusely described in recent literature. For example, we often find it easier to hear someone at a noisy party when we can see their face or, can react more accurately to the blare of a siren if we can also see the ambulance. Multisensory phenomena like these have been extensively studied in the laboratory, but often under conditions where attention can be easily focused on the critical stimuli. However, these focused attention conditions are very different from most everyday life environments, where many relevant and irrelevant sensory events can co-occur within a short time window and perhaps at close locations in space. What is more, multisensory coincidences may occur at completely unexpected moments and places. In these cases, segregation, selection and, the detection of true inter-sensory coincidences from spurious correlations are essential to be able to benefit from multisensory integration. But, is multisensory integration robust to attentionally demanding situations? I will present the results of recent studies from our laboratory that address precisely this issue by looking at the interplay between attention and multisensory integration. These studies span across various domains of perception where multisensory integration plays a paramount role. In the domain of audio-visual integration of speech, I will show examples of how selective attention can modulate behavioural and physiological expressions of multisensory integration. In the domain of temporal processing, I will illustrate how expectation to different points in time can alter the way information is bound across sensory modalities. Finally, in the domain of body representation, I will present some studies that attempt to track how the perception (and perhaps awareness) of touch in space unfolds as information from different modalities is orchestrated through integration. Altogether, the (modest) conclusion of this talk is that multisensory integration cannot be understood without its interplay with attention systems, and that this interplay may lead to have radically different perceptions of otherwise similar sensory combinations.

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