The Department of Philosophy gratefully acknowledges the support of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science in funding this conference.
|
Time |
Event |
| 9.30-10.00 | Coffee in the foyer |
| 10.00-11.30 | Professor James Ladyman (Bristol): introduction |
| Professor Sir Michael Berry FRS (Bristol): Emergence and asymptotics in physics: how one theory can live inside another | |
| Dr David Wallace (Oxford): comment | |
| 11.30-1.00 | Professor Basil Hiley (Birkbeck): The Geometric Structure behind the Quantum Formalism: the Role of Clifford Algebras |
| 1.00-2.00 | lunch |
| 2.00-3.15 | Professor Lev Vaidman (Tel Aviv): All is Ψ |
| 3.15-3.30 | coffee in the foyer |
| 3.30-5.00 | Professor John Hannay (Bristol): Geometry in action |
| 5.00-7.00 | drinks at the Highbury Vaults |
|
7.00 onwards. |
dinner at Sands |
|
Time |
Event |
| 10.00-11.30 | Professor Robert Batterman (Western Ontario): Mathematical explanations: geometric phases and singular idealizations |
| Dr Eleanor Knox (London): comment | |
| 11.30-1.00 | Dr Jonathan Robbins (Bristol): Indistinguishable particles: the spin-statistics relation in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics |
| 1.00-1.45 | lunch |
| 1.45-2.30 | Dr. Chris Philippidis (Bath): The glue and the lubricant (the AB effect: a single step towards Bohm's physical geometry) |
| 2.30-3.30 | Professor Steven French (Leeds): Distentangling mathematical and physical explanation |
| 3.30-3.45 | coffee in the common room |
| 3.45-5.00 | Dr Tim Palmer (Oxford and ECMWF): The Invariant Set Postulate: a new geometric framework for the foundations of quantum theory and the role played by gravity |
A programme is available to download (PDF, 66KB).
For inquiries about the conference, please contact Jess Dunton.