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

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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

Click here for Program and further information relating to Meeting

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