September 2014
8-12 SEPTEMBER 2014
CONCEPTUAL and TECHNICAL CHALLENGES FOR QUANTUM GRAVITY
An International Conference Held at ROME La Sapienza University
For Further Information About The Congress See
http://ctcqg2014.relativerest.org/
DAY 1 September 8 2014
9: 30 AM : Opening remarks and Welcome to Speakers and Participants
AM Plenary Talks
9:45 AM : Talk 1 Carlo ROVELLI
Planck Stars :
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15-16 SEPTEMBER 2014
University of Florence Italy
Department of Philosophy Via Bolognese 52 Florence
A WORKSHOP ON FOUNDATIONS OF DUALITIES
Organizers : Elena Castellani and Dean Rickles
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Monday, September 15
9:30-10:30 – Nick Huggett, “T-Duality and the Argument for Spacetime Emergence”
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10:30-11:30 – Nic Teh, “‘Duality’ as an Inter-theoretical Equivalence Between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics”
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- 11:30-12:00 – Tea/Coffee Break
- 12:00-1:00 – Dean Rickles, “Duality, Equivalence, and Physical Content”
- 1:00-2:00 – Lunch
- 2:00-3:00 – Doreen Fraser, “Mathematical and Physical Equivalence in Two Cases in Modern Physics”
- 3:00-4:00 – David Corfield, “Duality as a Category-Theoretic Concept”
Tuesday, September 16
- 9:30-10:30 – Peter Bokulich, “Complementarity, Dualities, and Domains of Applicability”
- 10:30-11:30 – Richard Dawid, “String Dualities and Empirical Equivalence”
- 11:30-12:00 – Tea/Coffee Break
- 12:00-1:00 – Eleanor Knox, “Dimensions of Duality”
- 1:00-2:00 – Lunch
- 2:00-3:00 – Sebastian de Haro, “Reduction and Emergence in Holographic Scenarios for Quantum Gravity”
- 3:00-4:00 – Elena Castellani, “Dualities and Ontological Democracy”
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15-19 SEPTEMBER 2014
Castiglioncello, Italy
DICE-2014
SPACETIME, MATTER and QUANTUM THEORY
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27-28 SEPTEMBER 2014
Imperial College London
Modern Issues in The Foundations of Physics
A Conferene to celebrate the 70th Birthday of Chris ISHAM