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Conference "Philosophical and Formal Foundations of Modern Physics", Les Treilles, April 23-28 (organized by Michel Bitbol and Alexei Grinbaum)
See http://www-drecam.cea.fr/Phocea/Vie_des_labos/Ast/ast_visu.php?id_ast=762"
Monday, April 23
7:30 pm Alexei Grinbaum and Michel Bitbol Introduction and welcoming remarks
Tuesday, April 24
Morning session. Chair: Jean Petitot
9:30 am Hermann Nicolai Quantum gravity: an introductory survey
10:30 am Oliver Pooley Background independence
12 noon Lucien Hardy The causaloid formalism: a tentative framework for quantum gravity
Afternoon session. Chair: Hermann Nicolai
4 pm John Baez Quantum quandaries: a category-theoretic perspective
5:30 pm Marc Lachièze-Rey Remarks on categories and physics (tentative title)
Wednesday, April 25
Morning session. Chair: Michel Bitbol
9:30 am Michael Friedman Einstein and the relativized a priori
10:30 am Katherine Brading Hilbert, the foundations of physics, and Einstein's general theory of relativity
12 noon Thomas Ryckman Weyl, Cartan and la méthode du repère mobile
Afternoon session. Chair: Brigitte Falkenburg
4 pm Paolo Parrini Epistemological conventionalism beyond the geochronometrical problems
5:30 pm Patricia Kauark-Leite Transcendental philosophy and quantum theory
Thursday, April 26
Morning session. Chair : Alexei Grinbaum
9:00 am Jeffrey Bub Information and objectivity in quantum mechanics
10:00 am Howard Barnum Toward information-processing characterizations of quantum and classical theory
11:15 am Matteo Smerlak Relational quantum mechanics and EPR
12 noon Christopher Timpson What kind of theory is quantum information theory?
Friday, April 27
Morning session. Chair: Michael Friedman
9:30 am Brigitte Falkenburg Wave-particle duality: a neglected topic in the philosophical discussion of quantum theory
10:30 am Rob Spekkens Insights into wave-particle duality from an epistemic interpretation of quantum states
12 noon Jean Petitot TBA
Afternoon session. Chair: Thomas Ryckman
4 pm Paul Teller Provisional knowledge in physics and elsewhere
5 pm General discussion
See http://www-drecam.cea.fr/Phocea/Vie_des_labos/Ast/ast_visu.php?id_ast=762"
Monday, April 23
7:30 pm Alexei Grinbaum and Michel Bitbol Introduction and welcoming remarks
Tuesday, April 24
Morning session. Chair: Jean Petitot
9:30 am Hermann Nicolai Quantum gravity: an introductory survey
10:30 am Oliver Pooley Background independence
12 noon Lucien Hardy The causaloid formalism: a tentative framework for quantum gravity
Afternoon session. Chair: Hermann Nicolai
4 pm John Baez Quantum quandaries: a category-theoretic perspective
5:30 pm Marc Lachièze-Rey Remarks on categories and physics (tentative title)
Wednesday, April 25
Morning session. Chair: Michel Bitbol
9:30 am Michael Friedman Einstein and the relativized a priori
10:30 am Katherine Brading Hilbert, the foundations of physics, and Einstein's general theory of relativity
12 noon Thomas Ryckman Weyl, Cartan and la méthode du repère mobile
Afternoon session. Chair: Brigitte Falkenburg
4 pm Paolo Parrini Epistemological conventionalism beyond the geochronometrical problems
5:30 pm Patricia Kauark-Leite Transcendental philosophy and quantum theory
Thursday, April 26
Morning session. Chair : Alexei Grinbaum
9:00 am Jeffrey Bub Information and objectivity in quantum mechanics
10:00 am Howard Barnum Toward information-processing characterizations of quantum and classical theory
11:15 am Matteo Smerlak Relational quantum mechanics and EPR
12 noon Christopher Timpson What kind of theory is quantum information theory?
Friday, April 27
Morning session. Chair: Michael Friedman
9:30 am Brigitte Falkenburg Wave-particle duality: a neglected topic in the philosophical discussion of quantum theory
10:30 am Rob Spekkens Insights into wave-particle duality from an epistemic interpretation of quantum states
12 noon Jean Petitot TBA
Afternoon session. Chair: Thomas Ryckman
4 pm Paul Teller Provisional knowledge in physics and elsewhere
5 pm General discussion
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