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Relativistic Causality in Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity

Friday - Sunday, 5-7 April 2013
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA
 

     Friday Afternoon     

3:30

Gathering and Introduction

3:45 - 5:30

Jeremy Butterfield, University of Cambridge, "Distinguishing varieties of causality"

 

     Saturday Morning     

9:00

breakfast

9:30

John Manchak, University of Washington, Seattle,  "Time Machines: Some Recent Work"

11:00

coffee break

11:30

Bob Geroch, University of Chicago, "Faster than Light?"

1:00

lunch on your own

 

     Saturday Afternoon      

2:30

Hans Halvorson, Princeton University, "Locality conditions as universal properties"

4:00

coffee break

4:30 - 6:00

Miklos Redei, London School of Economics, "Interdependence of independence, dependence and locality in local relativistic quantum field theory"

 

     Sunday Morning      

10:30

Round table in room 1001 CL of the Philosophy Department

3:00

adjourn

Organizing Committee

John Earman (University of Pittsburgh)
Giovanni Valente (University of Pittsburgh)
Jim Weatherall (UC Irvine)



 
 
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