Utah Logic Highlights (2009)

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2009 Meeting Index

(In reverse chronological order)

January 23 January 2009

Norwegien: Bokmal vs. Lansdsmal - LeRoy Eide
"Super Volcanos" - Lamar Timothy
Norweien Emigrant speech vs home country speech (+ stories) - LeRoy Eide
Rocks and farming - John Johnston
On unexpectedly encountering "The Bennett Voice" - LeRoy Eide
Possible developments with the "Four color map theorem" - David Bennett
"There is truth in lies properly interpreted, and therein lies the truth." - John Halleck quoting John Johnston
Photography workshop - John Johnston
- Focus - "By eye" or "By machine" Why machines do better now; Area and "point" focus.
- Photoshop, post processing, and other sins.
- Proper use of shallow focus lenses.
"Proof: Theory and Practice" (Review of AMS bulletin article) - John Halleck
"Handling the University budget cuts: Eliminate health care and let attrition cut personel costs."
University Budget Issues
Thoughts on keyboards with programmable graphics - LeRoy Eide
"The End of Philosophy" - David Bennett, Paul Hanstand, Clif Macintosh, etc.
Post Mortem - BOR Phishing attempt; Impact on campus administrators and users.
On being rejected by choirs just because they don't need a good monotone. - Lamar Timothy

January 12th, 2009:

Lamar Timothy and John Halleck: "University worth more than money" vs "A worth independent of money"
John Johnston: "Centers of excelence" and Berkley's having purchased faculty away from Harvard.
LeRoy Eide: What is the past tense of "Winging its way to you"? And why?
Yukio Kachi: Accepting the accent while rejecting the message.
John Halleck: Beth Sallay's aliens
Clif Macintosh: Teaching loads
LeRoy Eide: North Dakota's 1 billion dollar budget surplus
John Johnston: Portraiture hints and planning the group picture
John Johnston: NE China - History of Korian inmigrations.
Clif Macintosh: Student names
?: Bipacking students
Clif Macintosh: "How the mind works" - Pinkerton's book
"The mind body problem" vs. the "Bawdy mind problem".
Paul Hanstad (Quoting Fred Hagen quoting Burtrand Russel):
- What's the body? - Never mind
- What's the mind? - Never matter
Clif Macintosh: Witgenstien's notes on logic
Roundtable: Changing perceptions over time...
- Rodan: Garbage to art - Rodan
- Stoic Philosophy's logic
- ...
Damning with faint praise: "Bush disn't get caught having sex in the oval office."
[Unreadable] Logic in ?, Math: Fisher - statistics.
"Anybody can teach logic" vs. "The English can cook." - Same type of truth value?

January 9th, 2009:

What is an axiom? - John Halleck
Alternate and Modal Logic quick history - John Halleck
PC vs. Mac vs. usage - John Johnston and John Halleck
Management issues for skilled trades. [American tool makers case study] - John Johnston
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC): Just getting successfull as Laptops become irrelevant? - Dylan Pocock
Breakout session: Sugar Production in Utah, History and times - David Bennett and LaMar Timothy
Salt Lake Valley Earthquate risks at the University - Panel led by Clif Macintosh
Argument by Falsities: Clif Macintosh
Politically Correct speech vs. number and gender agreement - LeRoy Eide
Shel Silversteen: From porn to children's books. - John Halleck
Philosophy Department book shelving issues: 6 16" vs 8 11" - Clif Macintosh
Photography portrait workshop - Led by John Johnston
Options: Department student group websites, mailing lists, etc. - John Halleck
Screen Presence: Katherine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe - John Johnston

January 2nd, 2009 - No meeting, New years holiday

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