All talks are at 4 pm in Skinner 1115, unless otherwise noted. For current events in foundations of physics, see http://carnap.umd.edu/philphysics/calendar.html. 

"Probability and Symmetry" 
Jill North (Philosophy, NYU) 
November 30 

"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Formalism" 
Mark Wilson (Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh) 
February 1 

"Causally Productive Activities" 
Jim Bogen (HPS, University of Pittsburgh) 
February 15 

"How to Situate Cognition: Letting Nature Take its Course" 
Rob Wilson (Philosophy, University of Alberta) 
April 26 

"Identity of Indiscernibles for Every Kind of Quarticle" 
Nick Huggett (Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago) 
May 8 

"Ideology and Technique in Recent Physics" 
Joan Lisa Bromberg (Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University) 
May 15 3:00 pm  

New Directions in the Foundations of Physics 
American Institute of Physics, College Park, April 28 - April 30, 2006 
The fifth annual conference sponsored by the Foundations of Physics Group (University of Maryland College Park, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, Elizabethtown College).

Speakers:

Guido Bacciagaluppi (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris): "TBA"
Paul Busch (Mathematics, University of York): "TBA"
Craig Callender (Philosophy, University of California, San Diego): "Time is the Simplest and Strongest Thing"
Robert Geroch (Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago): Topic on special relativity and faster than light signals
Nico Giulini (Physics, University of Freiburg): "Symmetries, Redundancies, and Superselection"
Hilary Greaves (Philosophy, Rutgers): Topic on probability in Everett's interpretation of quantum mechanics
Meir Hemmo (Philosophy, Haifa University) and Orly Shenker (Philosophy, London School of Economics): Topic in statistical mechanics
Jonathan Oppenheim (Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge): "Quantum Information Can Be Negative"
Itamar Pitowsky (Program for History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Hebrew University): "TBA"
Simon Saunders (Philosophy, Oxford): "Classical and Quantum Indistinguishability"

For further information, see Conference.