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Quantum Time

28 - 29 March 2014
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

 

 

     Friday    

12:50

Welcome, Introduction

 

 

 

Chair: Jenann Ismael, University of Arizona

1:00 -
2:15

Valia Allori, Northern Illinois University
What Does Quantum Mechanics Tell Us About Time?

2:25 -
3:40

Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois, Chicago
The Physics and Mathematics of Discrete Time

 

 

3:40 -
4:00

Coffee Break

 

 

 

Chair: Tom Pashby, University of Pittsburgh

4:00 -
5:15

Adam Caulton, University of Cambridge
Adventures Off Mass-shell

5:25 -
6:40

Ken Wharton, San Jose State University
Dynamic Propagators vs Block-Universe Path Integrals

 

     Saturday     

8:45

Breakfast

 

 

 

Chair: Giovanni Valente, University of Pittsburgh

9:30 -
10:45

Noel Swanson, Princeton University
Understanding the Algebraic PCT Theorem

10:55 -
12:10

Laura Ruetsche, University of Michigan
Warming Up to the Thermal Time Hypothesis

 

 

12:10 -
1:40

Lunch on your own

 

 

 

Chair: Balázs Gyenis, University of Illinois

1:40 -
2:55

Tom Pashby, University of Pittsburgh
Introducing Temporally Extended Quantum Theory

3:05 -
4:20

Sean Gryb, Radboud University Nijmegen
Symmetry and Evolution in Quantum Gravity
 

 

4:20 -
4:40

Coffee Break

 

 

 

Chair: Bryan Roberts, London School of Economics

4:40 -
5:55

Abhay Ashtekar, Pennsylvania State University
Time and Initial Conditions in Cosmology

5:55

Concluding Discussion
Open for participants and audience

 

Organizers

Thomas Pashby, History and Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh
Bryan W. Roberts, Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE
Giovanni Valente, Philosophy, Pittsburgh

Sponsor

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 
 
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