Quantum Time
28 - 29 March 2014
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA
Everyone welcome. Registration is requested but not required.
To register, please contact cmg84@pitt.edu.
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Friday
12:50 |
Welcome, Introduction |
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Chair: Jenann Ismael, University of Arizona |
1:00 -
2:15
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Valia Allori, Northern Illinois University
What Does Quantum Mechanics Tell Us About Time? |
2:25 -
3:40
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Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois, Chicago
The Physics and Mathematics of Discrete Time |
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3:40 -
4:00
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Coffee Break |
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Chair: Tom Pashby, University of Pittsburgh |
4:00 -
5:15
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Adam Caulton, University of Cambridge
Adventures Off Mass-shell |
5:25 -
6:40
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Ken Wharton, San Jose State University
Dynamic Propagators vs Block-Universe Path Integrals |
Saturday
8:45 |
Breakfast |
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Chair: Giovanni Valente, University of Pittsburgh |
9:30 -
10:45
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Noel Swanson, Princeton University
Understanding the Algebraic PCT Theorem |
10:55 -
12:10
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Laura Ruetsche, University of Michigan
Warming Up to the Thermal Time Hypothesis |
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12:10 -
1:40
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Lunch on your own |
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Chair: Balázs Gyenis, University of Illinois |
1:40 -
2:55
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Tom Pashby, University of Pittsburgh
Introducing Temporally Extended Quantum Theory |
3:05 -
4:20
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Sean Gryb, Radboud University Nijmegen
Symmetry and Evolution in Quantum Gravity |
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4:20 -
4:40
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Coffee Break |
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Chair: Bryan Roberts, London School of Economics |
4:40 -
5:55
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Abhay Ashtekar, Pennsylvania State University
Time and Initial Conditions in Cosmology |
5:55 |
Concluding Discussion
Open for participants and audience |
Organizers
Thomas Pashby, History and Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh
Bryan W. Roberts, Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
Giovanni Valente, Philosophy, Pittsburgh
Sponsor
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
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