New fundamental physical theories can, so far a posteriori, be seen as emerging from existing ones via some kind of deformation. That is the basis for Flato’s “deformation philosophy”, of which the main paradigms are the physics revolutions from the … Continue reading Colloquium: Tuesday, May 15, 2 pm. Speaker: Daniel Sternheimer (Keio University). Title: “The reasonable effectiveness of mathematical deformation theory in physics”.