[PhilPhys] Workshop "Discrete and Precision in Physics", November 8-10 IHPST (Paris)

[Vincent Ardourel]

Workshop "Discrete and Precision in Physics"
8-10 November, IHPST, Paris (France)

This three-day workshop brings together philosophers of science and
physicists, on discreteness and precision in physics (classical physics,
quantum mechanics, and quantum field theories).

You will find the program below and more information on this website
<https://sites.google.com/view/discrete-precision-phys>. The workshop will
be in-person.

Admission is free, but registration is mandatory as places are limited. To
attend the workshop, please contact vincent.ardourel at univ-paris1.fr
indicating the half-days you will be there (or the entire conference).

The organizers: Vincent Ardourel and Mike Miller


*******************************************
*Programme*

*Wednesday 8*

14:00-14:10 Welcome and Introduction

*Session: Quantum mechanics, indeterminacy, and indeterminism*
14:10-15:10 "Indeterminism in physics and intuitionistic mathematics" -
Nicolas Gisin (Geneva)
15:10-16:10 "Potential realism: A realistic and indeterministic physics
based on propensities" - Flavio del Santo (Geneva)
16:10-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 "Precision and quantum mechanical indeterminacy" - Patrick
Fraser and Michael Miller (Toronto)

*Thursday 9*

*Session: Discrete in Quantum Field Theory*
9:15-10:15 “An explanatory framework for the Standard Model” - Yanis Pianko
(IHPST)
10:15-11:15 “Infinite scale skepticism” - James Fraser (Wuppertal)
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 "Why go discrete? Lessons from the early history of lattice
quantum field theory" - Sébastien Rivat (LMU Munich)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

*Session: Rethinking Infinity*
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. “Countabilism” (online) – Jessica Wilson (Toronto)

*Session: Discrete in quantum field theory (continued)*
15:00-16:00 "The continuum limit in Lattice QCD - what it means and why we
need it" - Nico Formanek (Stuttgart)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 “Lee’s discrete quantum field theory” - Étienne Ligout and
Vincent Ardourel (IHPST)

*Friday 10*

*Session: Discrete time and continuous time*
9:15-10:15 “Merely dense time in the representational theory of
measurement” - Marissa Bennett and Michael Miller (Toronto)
10:15-11:15 “On the Aristotelian foundations of time” - Tom Pashby (Chicago)
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 “Is spacetime discrete?” - Pierre Martin-Dussaud (Penn State)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

*Session: Probability and possibility*
14:00 - 15:00 "Measurement problem in cosmology: infinitesimal probability
to the rescue?" - Sylvia Wenmackers (KU Leuven)
15:00 - 16:00 "Lebesgue Necessity" - Holly Andersen (Simon Fraser)
16:00 - 16:15 Conclusion

**************************************
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listbox.elte.hu/pipermail/philphys/attachments/20231027/b4a89493/attachment-0001.html>