Videos of the talks by Adam Koberinski and Rawad El Skaf have now been posted to our YouTube channel.
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Crowther and Lam videos posted
The videos of the December talks in Geneva by Karen Crowther and Vincent Lam have just been posted to our YouTube channel. Please visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_VhTJBl6Mpmfjj5q832rjg to find them! We apologize for the poor sound quality in the Crowther video.
2017-18 Essay Prize Winners
We’re very happy to announce our two prize winners of the 2017-18 essay prize. As always, the papers are being made available on the philsci archive.
• Adam Koberinski (Western): Problems with the cosmological constant problem
• David Wallace (Southern California): Why black hole information loss is paradoxical
Congratulations!
Call for Applications: Junior Visiting Fellowship to visit Geneva
Call for Applications:
JUNIOR VISITING FELLOWSHIPS in PHILOSOPHY OF QUANTUM GRAVITY
University of Geneva
The philosophy of physics group at the Department of Philosophy in Geneva (the Geneva Symmetry Group) solicits applications for short- to medium-term junior visiting fellowships for advanced PhD students and recent PhDs, to visit the group anytime between now and June 2018. The fellowships are funded by the John Templeton Foundation grant ‘Space and Time after Quantum Gravity’.
Continue reading Call for Applications: Junior Visiting Fellowship to visit Geneva
Conference videos online
The videos of our conference, which was held near Geneva 27-30 June 2017, are now available on our YouTube channel on their separate playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVzK6UpZmNq3UwRcBtgkRs0xXFug6PjVK
New videos: Dowker and Palmer
Two recent talks are now available on our YouTube channel – follow the links above (or look at the speakers page. Enjoy!
Fay Dowker: Being and Becoming in Quantum Gravity (or The Birth of a Baby is not a Baby)
Tim Palmer: What physics needs is not a quantum theory of gravity – but rather a gravitational theory of the quantum
Speakers this Fall at UIC and Geneva announced
We have put together the program with talks at UIC and Geneva this fall semester. More details, including titles and abstracts for the talks, will follow shortly and will be updated, as always, on the speaker page, where you will also find more information:
https://beyondspacetime.net/space-and-time-after-quantum-gravity/speakers/
Looking forward to seeing many of you there. For those who will have to miss the talks, we will make the videos available as soon as they are ready!
Livestreaming planned
We plan to live stream all of the talks this week on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_VhTJBl6Mpmfjj5q832rjg) — as we think we have solved the tech problems. In the menu of options, select ‘live streams’ at around 16:15 Swiss time tomorrow, and you should see it.
New predocs at Geneva
The Geneva Center welcomes our two new predoctoral fellows, who have started earlier this week: Radin Dardashti, who is completing his PhD at the LMU Munich, and Juliusz Doboszewski, who is working on his PhD at the Jagiellonian University of Cracow. Both of them will participate in the various activities of the Templeton-funded project Space and Time After Quantum Gravity and will also give talks during spring semester. Watch this space for more on their activities!
Postdoc at Geneva
Call for Applications:
POSTDOC POSITION in PHILOSOPHY OF QUANTUM GRAVITY
University of Geneva
The philosophy of physics group at the Department of Philosophy in Geneva solicits applications for a two-year postdoctoral research position, starting 1 September 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter. A start after 1 September 2016 would shorten the postdoc to less than two years; an earlier start may be possible. The position is funded by the John Templeton Foundation grant ‘Space and Time after Quantum Gravity’. Continue reading Postdoc at Geneva
