Dear All, On behalf of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, it is my pleasure to invite you to the next edition of the Young Academy Distinguished Lecture Series, which will take place on Wednesday, 9th October 2024, at 5p.m. in the Festsaal of the main building of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2). The topic is: "The Boundaries of Mathematics: From Gödel to the Study of Large Infinities" Mathematics is known as an exact science: Every statement seems to be true or false in the sense that it can be proved or disproved. Kurt Gödel shocked the mathematical community in the 1930s by showing that there are mathematical statements that can neither be proved nor disproved. While his example was of theoretical nature, we now know several examples from mathematical practice. In particular, the study of large infinities is full of unprovable statements, thus pointing beyond mathematics into the realm of philosophy. The lecture will shed light on the origins of Gödel's incompleteness theorem and discuss the latest research on unprovable statements, especially in the study of large infinities. The speakers are: - Jan von Plato, logician and historian of science at the University of Helsinki, - W. Hugh Woodin, Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at Harvard University and expert in axiomatic set theory, - Sandra Müller, member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and mathematician at the TU Wien. The discussion will be moderated by Anne Sophie Meincke, philosopher at the University of Vienna and member of the Young Academy. The Young Academy Distinguished Lecture Series brings cutting-edge scientific topics to the public, presented by distinguished experts and a member of the Young Academy. More details are to be found in the attached booklet. Due to popular demand, the event has been relocated from the Sitzungssaal to the Festsaal of the main building of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Please register here: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/anmeldung/young-academy-distinguishe… We are looking forward to seeing you. Best wishes, Anne Sophie -- Recent publications: "Continuant Processes or Processual Continuants? Towards an Analytic Process Metaphysics", in: Objects and Properties: New Essays in Metaphysics, ed. by A. Moran & C. Rossi, Oxford University Press, forthcoming "Emergent Properties", in: The Routledge Handbook of Properties, ed. by A. Fisher & A.-S. Maurin (pp.347-357), Routledge 2024 "The Metaphysics of Development and Evolution: From Thing Ontology to Process Ontology", Human Development 67, 5-6 (2023), 233-256: https://doi.org/10.1159/000534421 "The Metaphysics of Living Consciousness: Metabolism, Agency and Purposiveness", Biosemiotics 16 (2023), 281–290: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-023-09531-0 -- www.annesophiemeincke.com Elise Richter Research Fellow Institute of Philosophy University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 1010 Vienna, Austria