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Center for Philosophy of Science
1008 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

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PROGRAM (subject to change)

Friday, April 12
1008 CL

 

Afternoon Session Chair: Porter Williams (USC)

2:00

Arianna Borelli (Leuphana): 
"The Interplay of Theory and Experiment in Early High Energy Physics and the Transformation of the Notion of Particle"

 

3:20

Coffee Break

4:10

Arthur Jaffe (Harvard): 
"Reflection Positivity Then and Now”

5:30

Adjourn

 

Saturday, April 13
1008 CL

9:30

Breakfast

 

Morning Session Chair: Jennifer Whyte (Pitt HPS)

10:15

Anthony Duncan (Pittsburgh):
"The Apparently Thermal Origins of Quantum Field Theory"

11:20

Coffee Break

11:50

Kerry McKenzie (UC San Diego): 
"What’s Essential to a Quantum Field"

 

1:10

Lunch (On Your Own)

 

Afternoon Session Chair: Michael Miller (Toronto)

2:30

David Wallace (University of Southern California): 
"Naturalness and Emergence"

3:50

Coffee Break

4:20

Adjourn

 

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