David Chalmers's version of two-dimensional semantics is an attempt at setting up a unified semantic framework that would vindicate both the Fregean and the Kripkean semantic intuitions. I claim that there are three acceptable ways of carrying out such a project, and that Chalmers's theory does not coherently fit any of the three patterns. I suggest that the theory may be seen as pointing to th...

In one-component Abelian sandpile models, the toppling probabilities are independent quantities. This is not the case in multicomponent models. The condition of associativity of the underlying Abelian algebras imposes nonlinear relations among the toppling probabilities. These relations are derived for the case of two-component quadratic Abelian algebras. We show that Abelian sandpile models wi...

This talk is about two-component Bose-Einstein condensate in a harmonic trap. The aim is to describe the shape and the spatial configuration of the ground state pairs. We will show links between our model and other mathematical problems : optimal partition problems and the Cahn-Hilliard model for phase transition. These links appear in our model in the limit when intercomponent particle interac...