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New Directions in the Foundations of Physics
Mathematical Association of America Carriage House
1781 Church Street NW, Washington, DC
May 11 - 13, 2012
Sponsored by the University of Maryland, College Park (College of Arts and Humanities, Logic and Philosophy of Science Research Group of the Philosophy Department, Institute for Physical Science and Technology), Georgetown University (Graduate School, Georgetown College, Philosophy Department), and Johns Hopkins University Philosophy Department, with the support of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and coordinated through the Foundations of Physics Group (University of Maryland at College Park, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University).
Friday, May 11
Session 1 (Morning):
Can the Quantum State be Interpreted Epistemically: I?
Chair :
TERRY RUDOLPH
Physics, Imperial College |
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9:30 - 10:50
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"On the reality of the quantum state" |
MATTHEW PUSEY
Physics
Imperial College
London |
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10:50 - 11:10
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Coffee Break |
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11:10 - 12:30
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"Is a system's wave function in one-to-one correspondence with its
elements of reality?" |
ROGER COLBECK
Institute for Theoretical Physics
ETH, Zurich |
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12:30 - 2:30
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Lunch |
Session 2 (Afternoon):
Can the Quantum State be Interpreted Epistemically: II?
Chair :
JON BARRETT
Mathematics, Royal Holloway |
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2:30 - 3:50
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"Poking and prodding the PBR result" |
ALLEN STAIRS
Philosophy
U Maryland |
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3:50 - 4:10
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Coffee Break |
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4:10 - 5:30
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"Why I am not a psi-ontologist" |
ROB SPEKKENS
Perimeter Institute
Waterloo, Canada |
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Buffet Party |
Saturday, May 12
Session 3 (Morning):
Space and Time
Chair :
WAYNE MYRVOLD
Philosophy, University of Western Ontario |
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9:30 - 10:50
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"Rethinking Principia" |
SIMON SAUNDERS
Philosophy of Physics
Oxford |
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10:50 - 11:10
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Coffee Break |
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11:10 - 12:30
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"‘Explaining’ inertial motion and the foundations of classical space-time theories" |
JAMES WEATHERALL
Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC-Irvine |
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12:30 - 2:30
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Lunch |
Session 4 (Afternoon):
Time and Quantum Mechanics: I
Chair :
HARVEY BROWN
Philosophy of Physics, Oxford |
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2:30 - 3:50
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"The limits of correspondence: How the methods of quantum mechanics proved insufficient in electrodynamics (1925-1932)" |
CRISTOPH LEHNER,
ALEXANDER BLUM
Max Planck Institute
for the History of Science, Berlin |
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3:50 - 4:10
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Coffee Break |
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4:10 - 5:30
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"Proper time before relativity – from Fermat's Principle to the Pauli phase" |
JÜRGEN RENN,
DON SALISBURY,
ALEXANDER BLUM
Max Planck Institute
for the History of Science, Berlin |
Sunday, May 13
Session 5 (Morning):
Time and Quantum Mechanics: II
Chair :
MATHIAS FRISCH
Philosophy, University of Maryland |
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9:30 - 10:50
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"The past of a quantum particle" |
LEV VAIDMAN
Physics
Tel Aviv University |
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10:50 - 11:10
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Coffee Break |
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11:10 - 12:30
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"Quantum theory without beables: a desert pragmatist view" |
RICHARD HEALEY
Philosophy
University of Arizona |
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Confirmed discussants include: Newshaw Bahreini (Physics, U Albany), Howard Barnum (Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico), Jonathan Barrett (Mathematics, Royal Holloway), Katherine Boyce-Jacino (Humanities Center, JHU), Howard Brandt (US Army Lab), Dieter Brill (Physics, UMD), Harvey Brown (Philosophy of Physics, Oxford), Jeffrey Bub (Philosophy and IPST, UMD), Eric Cavalcanti (School of Physics, University of Sydney), William Demopoulos (Philosophy, U Western Ontario), Rob DiSalle (Philosophy, U Western Ontario), Lucas Dunlap (Philosophy, UMD), Michael Fisher (Physics and IPST, UMD), Mathias Frisch (Philosophy, UMD), Shelley Goldstein (Mathematics, Rutgers), Philip Goyal (Physics, SUNY-Albany), Alexei Grinbaum (CEA-Saclay, SPEC/LARSIM), Genco Guralp (Philosophy, JHU), Melissa Jacquart (Philosophy, U Western Ontario), Michel Janssen (Hist of Science, U Minnesota), Michael Jarrett (Physics, UMD), Ruth Kastner, Adrian Kent (DAMTP, Cambridge), Michael Kiessling (Mathematics, Rutgers), Fred Kronz (NSF), Paul Lopata (LPS, UMD), Tracy Lupher (Philosophy, James Madison), James Mattingly (Philosophy, Georgetown U), Tim Maudlin (Philosophy, NYU), Vishnya Maudlin (Philosophy, Rutgers), Charles Misner (Physics, UMD), Florin Moldoveanu (LPS Research Group, UMD), Alberto Montina (Perimeter Institute), Wayne Myrvold (Philosophy, U Western Ontario), Tom Pashby (HPS, U Pittsburgh), Terry Rudolph (Physics, Imperial College), Rob Rynasiewicz (Philosophy, JHU), Steve Savitt (Philosophy, UBC), Michiel Seevinck (Quantum Probability Research Group, Radboud U, Nijmegen), Noel Swanson (Philosophy, Princeton), Morgan Tait (Philosophy, U Western Ontario), Jos Uffink (Philosophy, U Minnesota), David Wallace (Philosophy of Physics, Oxford), Ken Wharton (Physics and Astronomy, San Jose State), Adrian Wüthrich (HPS, U Pittsburgh).
The conference will take place at the Mathematical Association of America Carriage House Conference Center at 1781 Church Street NW in Washington, DC, a block from Dupont Circle. For general information about Washington, DC, see WashingtonInfo.
The number of participants is limited by available seating, so we regret that participation is by invitation only.
For further information, contact James Mattingly at jmm67@georgetown.edu.
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