Jonathan S. Perry, The

Review of Perry ’ s Knowledge , Possibility , and Consciousness ∗

Perry, in this lucid, deep, and entertaining book (based on his 1999 Jean Nicod lectures), supposes that type-identity physicalism is antecedently plausible, and that rejecting this thesis requires good reason (this is " antecedent physicalism "). He aims to show that experience gap arguments, as given by Jackson (the knowledge argument), Kripke (the modal argument), and Chalmers (the zombie ar...

Lecturer : Jonathan Katz Scribe ( s ) : Nikolai Yakovenko Jeffrey

In a previous lecture, we showed a zero-knowledge (ZK) proof system for the language of graph isomorphism. Our goal here is to show a ZK proof system for any language inNP . To do so, it suffices to show a ZK proof system Π for any NP-complete language L (note that graph isomorphism is not believed to be NP-complete); given such a Π and any L ′ ∈ NP , we then obtain a ZK proof for L by (1) redu...

ELIZABETH S . FENJVES , JONATHAN SMITH , ' SANDY ZARADIC , and LORNE B

Grafts of autologous keratinocytes genetically altered to secrete a new gene product are a potential vehicle for gene therapy. T o consider the feasibility of such an approach, w e have examined the ability of keratinocytes to secrete and deliver apolipoprotein E (apoE) to the circulation of mice bearing grafts of h u m a n keratinocytes. The grafted keratinocytes secreted two forms of apoE, an...

Modified traces on Deligne ’ s category Rep ( St ) Jonathan Comes

Deligne has defined a category which interpolates among the representations of the various symmetric groups. In this paper we show Deligne’s category admits a unique nontrivial family of modified trace functions. Such modified trace functions have already proven to be interesting in both low-dimensional topology and representation theory. We also introduce a graded variant of Deligne’s category...

John Perry (1929-1985) and the origins of the John Perry Prize.