10:00

Welcome & Introduction

Morning Session Chair: Nora Boyd

10:10

Marian J. R. Gilton (UC Irvine), “Whence the Eigenstate-Eigenvalue Link?”

10:50

Laura Felline (RomaTre), “It's a Matter of Principle: Explanation in Axiomatic Quantum Information Theory”

11:30

Coffee Break

11:50

Ben Feintzeig (UC Irvine), “Topological Considerations in the Construction of Quantum Theories”

12:30

Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session Chair: Giovanni Valente

2:30

Dana Matthiessen (U of Pittsburgh), “Einstein and the Foundations of Geometry: A Deflationary Approach”

3:10

Neil Dewar (Oxford U), “Maxwell-Cartan Gravitation”

3:50

Coffee Break

4:10

Casey D. McCoy (UC San Diego), “Can Typicality Arguments Dissolve Cosmology's Flatness Problem?”

Keynote Chair: John D. Norton

4:50

Keynote talk: Lena Zuchowski (U of Salzburg), “On the Faithfulness of Chaotic Models"

6:20

Adjourn

9:00

Breakfast

Morning Session Chair: Jim Weatherall

9:30

Thomas Barrett (Princeton U), “Equivalent and Inequivalent Formulations of Classical Mechanics"

10:10

Laurenz Hudetz (U of Salzburg), “Categorical Equivalence and Constructibility"

10:50

Coffee Break

11:10

Patricia Palacios (U of Munich), “The Role of Approximation in a Reductive Explanation of Phase Transitions”

11:50

Alexander Franklin (King's College London), “Universality Explained”

12:30

Adjourn