[PhilPhys] Notre Dame Philosophy of Physics workshop this week

[Katherine Brading]

All welcome:

University of Notre Dame Philosophy of Physics Workshop
April 20th-21st, 2016, 400 Geddes Hall, University of Notre Dame

Wednesday April 20th
12:00-1:00 Lunchtime brown bag talk: Bryan Roberts (LSE)
Unreal observables
1:15-2:00 Jeremy Steeger
Sheaves, generalized probability, and the hierarchy of quantum contextuality
2:00-2:45 Laura Wells
Kapustin’s rigidity theorem for quantum mechanics
3:00-3:45 Pablo Ruiz de Olano
Intimate connections: symmetries and conservation laws in quantum versus classical mechanics
3:45-4:30 Jamee Elder
Black hole complementarity and the information loss paradox
5:00-6:00 Elise Crull (CCNY)
Loop quantum gravity and decoherence

Thursday April 21st
10:00-11:00 Don Howard
Decoherence and complementarity
11:00-11:45 Martin Beers
How to teach special relativity
12:00-1:00 Lunchtime brownbag talk: Nick Huggett (UIC)
‘Emergent’ spacetime in non-commutative geometry
1:15-2:00 Sebastián Murgueitio Ramirez
Ontic versus epistemic quantum states, and the PBR theorem
2:00-2:45 Corey Dethier
Quantities of centripetal force in Newton’s Principia
2:45-3:30 Monica Solomon
Newton's mathematical forces: the curious case of cycloid motion
4:30-6:00 Cushing Prize Lecture: Eleanor Knox (KCL)
Spacetime functionalism

Please contact the organizers, Katherine Brading (kbrading at nd.edu) and Nic Teh (NicholasJoshua.Y.Teh.2 at nd.edu) for further information.