Center for Philosophy of Science ::: other conferences, gauge

Saturday-Sunday, 18-19 April 2009
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh , PA USA

     Saturday Morning
     Gauge Fields: What Isn't There?
     Chair: Oliver Pooley, University of Oxford

8:45-9:15

9:15-9:30

9:30-11:00

11:00-11:30

11:30-1:00

Continental Breakfast

Opening: John Earman, Richard Healey, and John Norton

Gauge Fields: What Isn't There?
Richard Healey, Philosophy, University of Arizona

Coffee Break

The Aharonov-Bohm Effect: Solved
James Mattingly, Philosophy, Georgetown University

1:00 - 2:30 Lunch Break

     Saturday Afternoon - First session
     Gauge Metaphysics
     Chair: Antigone Nounou, University of Minnesota

2:30-3:15

3:15-3:30

3:30-4:00

Intrinsic Geometrical Structure and Fiber Bundles
Tim Maudlin, Philosophy, Rutgers

Comments: Gordon Belot, Philosophy, University of Michigan

Discussion

4:00-4:30 Coffee Break

     Saturday Afternoon - Second session
     Quantum Gauging
     Chair: Antigone Nounou, University of Minnesota

4:30-6:00

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs Mechanism
Ward Struyve, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

     Sunday Morning
     New and Important Problems
     Chair: Katharine Brading, University of Notre Dame

9:30-10:00

10:00-12:00

Coffee

New and Important Problems
Panel discussion
Speakers plus Antigone Nounou and Oliver Pooley

Program Committee

John Earman, Dept of HPS
University of Pittsburgh

Richard Healey, Dept of Philosophy
University of Arizona
Congratulations to Richard for the 2008 Lakatos Award for his book Gauging What's Real: The Conceptual Foundations of Gauge Theories!

John D. Norton, Dept of HPS and Center for Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh

Sponsor

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh