Science and Ideology

Monday, September 23, 2024 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm

Alan Sokal

University College London

Location

University of Pennsylvania

402 Cohen Hall

cosponsored by Penn's Mathematics and Philosophy departments

I will discuss some recent developments in which social and political ideology threatens to corrupt truth-seeking in the natural sciences.

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Interactions and cooperation in bacterial systems

MathBio Seminar

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How to get to Penn's Mathematics Department

The Mathematics Department Office is located on the fourth (top) floor of David Rittenhouse Laboratory ("DRL"). The building is at 209 South 33rd Street (the Southeast corner of 33rd. and Walnut Streets). Note 33rd Street runs one way north while Walnut runs one way west.

Local Buses & Trains

SEPTA [Skookul]
National Trains: Amtrak [telephone: 1 800 872-7245]

Maps and Directions

We are about a 15 minute walk from the main 30th Street Station and 5 minutes from the University City Rail Station at 32nd and Spruce (=South Street & Convention Avenue). Coming from the airport by train (about 15 minutes): the University City Rail Station is the second stop after you leave the airport.

If you drive, the most convenient public parking is in the pay lot whose entrance is on 34th Street between Market and Chestnut Streets.

Alan Sokal

Other Events on This Day

Finite Structures Embedded in Infinite Ones, Then and Now

(Lots of) Unstable cohomology of moduli spaces of curves with marked points

Interactions and cooperation in bacterial systems