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| Session | Speakers | ||
| Friday 9/27/13 | |||
| 1.00-1.30 | Welcome and Introduction | Nick Huggett (Illinois, Chicago) and Christian Wüthrich (California, San Diego) – Why ‘Philosophical’ Foundations? (slides) | |
| 1.30-3.00 | Applications of Philosophy Chair: Nick Huggett | Sam Fletcher (California, Irvine) – Reduction and Causal Set Theory’s Hauptvermutung* Maria Kon (Sydney) Conceptual Analysis and Quantum Gravity*. |
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| 3.15-4.45 | Cosmological Insights Chair: Dave Baker |
Daniele Oriti (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) – Disappearance and Emergence of Space and Time in Quantum Gravity; Tom Pashby (Pittsburgh) – (No) Time for Quantum Gravity? | |
| 5.00-6.30 | Conservative or Radical? Chair: Christian Wüthrich |
James Mattingly (Georgetown) – Non-quantum Micro-gravity; Daniel Sudarsky (UNAM – Mexico City) – Interface of Quantum Theory and Gravity at the Origin of the Structure of the Universe. | |
| 7.00-10.00 | Dinner/Reception – Jak’s Tap, 901 W Jackson | ||
| Saturday 9/28/13 | |||
| 9.15-10.15 | Where is Canonical Quantum Gravity Today? | Bianca Dittrich (Perimeter Institute) | |
| 10.15-11.15 | Canonical Quantum Gravity for Philosophers (of Physics) | Christian Wüthrich (California, San Diego) | |
| 11.30-1.30 | Loop Quantum Gravity Chair: Nick Huggett |
Elise Crull (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – The Role of Decoherence in Quantum Loop Dynamics*; David Schroeren (Oxford) – Decoherent Histories of Spin Networks; Francesca Vidotto (Radboud University Nijmegen) – Atomism and Relationalism as Guiding Principles for Quantum Gravity. | |
| Lunch provided at the workshop | |||
| 2.30-3.30 | Where is String Theory today? | Jeff Harvey (Chicago) | |
| 3.30-4.30 | String Theory for Philosophers (of Physics) | Nick Huggett (Illinois, Chicago) | |
| 5-6.30 | Duality Chair: Christian Wüthrich |
Eleanor Knox (King’s College London) – The Dimensions of Duality*; Nicholas Teh (Cambridge) – Philosophical Perspectives on the Gauge-Gravity Duality*. | |
| Sunday 9/29/13 | |||
| 9.30-11.00 | Insights from Existing Physics Chair: James Harrington |
Jonathan Bain (Polytechnic Institute of New York University) – Three Principles of Quantum Gravity in the Condensed Matter Approach; J. Brian Pitts (Cambridge) – A First Class Constraint Generates Not a Gauge Transformation, But a (Bad) Physical Change: The Cases of Maxwell and GR. | |
| 11.15-12.45 | Quantum Gravity and Dynamical Spacetime Chair: Jon Jarrett |
Mark Shumelda (Toronto/Yukon College) – Back to Basics: Background Independence and Spacetime in Quantum Gravity*; Tiziana Vistarini (Rutgers University) – Some Remarks on the Emergent Character of Spacetime in String Theory*. | |
| 1.00-2.00 | Rapporteur session | Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge) | |
| * indicates a work-in-progress submission. | |||
This meeting is generously supported by the National Science Foundation (SES-1256646), the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the UIC Institute for the Humanities.
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