Philosophy of Physics Seminar

23 Jan

Anders Sandberg | Oxford | Physical eschatology: how much can we say about the far future of the universe, and...

Anders Sandberg | Oxford | Physical eschatology: how much can we say about the far future of the universe, and how much does it matter?

(Lecture Room)

Past Terms

Week 1 (17th January)	Laurenz Hudetz (LSE)	'The conceptual-schemas account of interpretation'
Week 2 (24th January)	Patrick Dürr (Oxford)	'Philosophy of the Dead: Nordström Gravity'
Week 3 (31st January)	Yang-Hui He (City, London)	'Exceptional and Sporadic'
Week 4 (7th February)	Casey McCoy (Stockholm)	'Why is h-bar a universal constant?'
Week 5 (14th February)	Joanna Luc (Cambridge)	'Generalised manifolds as basic objects of General Relativity'
Week 6 (21st February)	Katie Robertson (Birmingham)	'Reducing the second law of thermodynamics: the demons and difficulties'
Week 7 (28th February)	Alex Franklin (KCL)	'On the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories'
Week 8 (7th March)	Karen Crowther (Geneva)	'As Below, So Before: Synchronic and Diachronic Conceptions of Emergence in Quantum Gravity'

Week 1 (11th October)	David Wallace (USC)	'Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Finite Quantum Systems: a decoherent-histories approach'
Week 2 (18th October)	Simon Saunders (Oxford)
Week 3	No seminar
Week 4	No seminar
Week 5 (8th November)	Tushar Menon (Oxford)	'Rotating spacetimes and the relativistic null hypothesis'
Week 6 (15th November)	Jonathan Barrett (Oxford)	'Quantum causal models'
Week 7 (22nd November)	James Nguyen (IoP/ UCL)	'Interpreting Models: A Suggestion and its Payoffs'
Week 8	No seminar

Week 1 (26th April)	Doreen Fraser (Waterloo)	"Renormalization and scaling transformations in quantum field theory"
Week 2 (3rd May)	Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge)	"On Dualities and Equivalences Between Physical Theories"
Week 3 (10th May)	Matt Farr (Cambridge)	"The C Theory of Time"
Week 4 (17th May)	Seth Lloyd (MIT)	"The Future of Quantum Computing"
Week 5 (24th May)	Emily Thompson (Durham)	"John Locke: Newtonian Absolutist about Time"
Week 6 (31st May)	Minhyong Kim	"Three Dualities"
Week 7 (7th June)	Owen Maroney (Notre Dame)	"What's Fine for Leggett and Garg? About Measurements and Macrorealisms"

Hilary Term 2020 - Term Card