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| Thursday, 12 March 2015 |
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| 7:00 | Informal Welcome: Bistro café at Del Mar Inn [map]. Not covered by the conference. | |
| Friday, 13 March 2015: UC San Diego Philosophy Dept. Seminar Room, HSS 7077 [map] | ||
| 8:30 | Shuttle from Del Mar Inn to conference location | |
| 9:15 – 9:30 | Welcome by John Dougherty, Nick Huggett, David Rideout, Chris Wüthrich | |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Background Independence as a Constraint on Fundamental Theories | Alyssa Ney (University of Rochester) |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45 – 11:30 | Making Time for Quantum Gravity | Thomas Pashby (University of Southern California) |
| 11:30 – 1:00 | The Influence Network: A New Foundation for Emergent Physics | Newshaw Bahreyni (Kenyon College), Kevin Knuth (University at Albany), James Lyons Walsh (University at Albany) |
| 1:00 – 2:30 | Lunch: Click here for dining options on campus. | |
| 2:30 – 3:30 | Time as Unfolding of Process | David Rideout (UC San Diego) |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 4:00 – 4:45 | The Case for Classical Spacetime | Ken Wharton (San Jose State University) |
| 4:45 – 5:30 | The geometry of black hole entropy | John Dougherty (UC San Diego) |
| 5:30 – 6:30 | A tale of two times | Craig Callender (UC San Diego) |
| 6:30 | Shuttle back to Del Mar Inn | |
| 7:30 | Dinner for registered participants at En Fuego Cantina Del Mar [map]. Cash bar. | |
| Saturday, 14 March 2015: Munk Lecture Hall 303, IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography [map] | ||
| 8:30 | Shuttle from Del Mar Inn to conference location | |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Musings on (Space-)Time from a Gravitational String Theorist | Amanda Peet (University of Toronto) |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45 – 11:30 | Some reflections on a possible holographic description of time | Tiziana Vistarini (University of Illinois, Chicago) |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | AdS/CFT duality beyond emergence of spacetime: A case for unification | Ioan Muntean (University of Notre Dame and University of North Carolina, Asheville) |
| 12:15 – 1:00 | Dualities and spacetime | Keizo Matsubara and Chris Smeenk (Western University Canada) |
| 1:00 – 2:30 | Lunch: catered lunch for speakers and registered participants. Non-registered attendees can get lunch at the nearby Caroline’s [map]. |
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| 2:30 – 3:30 | Time in the geometrogenesis scenario of quantum gravity | Daniele Oriti (Albert Einstein Institute) |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 4:00 – 4:45 | No time for problems | Joshua Norton (University of Illinois, Chicago) |
| 4:45 – 5:30 | First-Class Constraints, Gauge, and the Wheeler–DeWitt Equation | Oliver Pooley (Oxford University) |
| 5:30 – 6:15 | Roundtable discussion | |
| 6:15 | Shuttle back to Del Mar Inn | |
| Dinner: No scheduled dinner, but some options near the hotel: En Fuego has a bar, as does Bully’s, which is just a few steps further north. Both serve food. There are a number of places at the Del Mar Plaza, which is just a few steps further, such as Pacifica del Mar (swanky spot for seafood), Shimbashi Izakaya, and El Agave, which has a rather remarkable tequila menu. See also [this map of restaurants near the hotel] |
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| Cancelled talks | ||
| The Shape of Space and Trace of Time: Machian Approaches to Quantum Gravity | Mark Shumelda (University of Toronto and Yukon College) | |
Sponsors
This meeting was generously supported by
- ‘New Agendas for the Study of Time’ at the Center for Time at the University of Sydney
- Division of Arts and Humanities, UCSD
- Department of Philosophy, UCSD
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