9:00

Introduction

9:20

Nora Mills Boyd (Pittsburgh) 

"How to Kill a Phoenix: Problems for an eternal cyclic model of the universe"

Commentator: Jim Weatherall (Irvine)

10:10

Joseph Rachiele (Princeton)

"What QFT Says about the Building Blocks of Matter: A Cautionary Tale for No-Go results about Ontology"

Commentator: John Norton (Pittsburgh)

11:00

coffee break

11:20

Elay Shech (Pittsburgh)

"Can Idealization be essential?"

Commentator: Carsten Held (Erfurt)

12:10

Michael Cuffaro (Western Ontario)

"Is Entanglement Sufficient to Enable Quantum Speedup?"

Commentator: Jeff Barrett (Irvine)

1:00

lunch on your own

2:30

Karim Thébault (Munich)

"The role of time in relational quantum theories"

Commentator: Erik Curiel (Western Ontario)

3:20

Noel Swanson (Princeton)

"Can Quantum Thermodynamics Save Time?"

Commentator: Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge)

4:10

Samuel Fletcher (Irvine)

"Physicality and Topological Stability in Relativity Theory"

Commentator: Dennis Lehmkuhl (Wuppertal)

5:00

coffee break

5:30

Keynote speaker: Eleanor Knox (London)

"Effective Spacetime Geometry"

7:00

adjourn

9:20

Benjamin Feintzeig (Irvine)

"Hidden Variables and Commutativity in Quantum Mechanics"

Commentator: Giovanni Valente (Pittsburgh)

10:10

Thomas Barrett (Princeton)

"On the Scope of the PBR Result"

Commentator: Leah Henderson (Pittsburgh)

11:00

coffee break

11:20

Paniz Imani (Hamburg)

"The Locality Axiom in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory and Tensor Product between C*-algebras"

Commentator: Hans Halvorson (Princeton)

12:10

Thomas Pashby (Pittsburgh)

"Towards a Resolution of the Problem of Relativistic Localization"

Commentator: Miklos Redei (London)

1:00

adjourn