Bose-Einstein Condensate Philosophy of Physics
University of Oxford

 

Philosophy of Physics Research Seminars

Michaelmas Term 2009

Convened by Prof H. R. Brown

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays, weeks 1-8, in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton St.

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

22 October: Prof Robin Dunbar, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford.

29 October: Dr Fay Dowker, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College

    The Deep Structure of Spacetime

5 November: Dr Erik Curiel, Dpeartment of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE

    On Tensorial Concomitants and the Non-Existence of a Gravitational Stress-Energy Tensor

12 November: Dr Charlotte Werndl, The Queen's College, Oxford

    Determinism versus indeterminism: some results on observational equivalence

19 November: TBA

26 November: Dr Stephen Lyle

    Self-Force and Inertia. Old Light on New Ideas

December 3rd (week 8):

Prof. Frank Arntzenius, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford

    TBA

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Tinity Term 2009

Convened by Prof F. Arntzenius

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays, weeks 1-8, in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton St.

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

30 April: Mr Luke Glynn, Oxford

    Title: Probability-Lowering Causes and Probability-Raising Non-Causes

7 May: Dr Guido Bacciagaluppi, Aberdeen

    Title: Heisenberg on hidden variables

14 May: No talk.

21 May: Mr Peter Byrne, Independent

    Title: The Devil's Pitchfork: Multiple Universes, Mutually Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family -- The Life of Hugh Everett III

28 May: Dr Jos Uffink, Utrecht

    Title: Entanglement, entropy and utility: the analogy between axiomatic approaches to quantitative measures thereof.

4 June: Dr Oliver Pooley, Oxford

    Title: Relativity, Branching Spacetimes and the Passage of Time

11 June: Dr Cian Dorr, Oxford

    Title: Expressivism about chance

18 June: Prof Tien Cao, Boston University

    Title: TBA

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Hilary Term 2009

Convened by Dr C. Timpson

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays, weeks 1-8, in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton St.

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

22 January: Dr Jon Barrett, Department of Physics, University of Bristol

    Processing Information: Is Quantum Theory Special?

29 January: Dr David Wallace, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford

    The irrelevance of gravitational entropy in cosmological thermodynamics.

5 February: Dr Jonathan Tallant, Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham

    Existence Presentism.

12 February: Dr Bob Coecke, Comlab, University of Oxford

    High-level reasoning about the low-level scale.

19 February: Mr Dennis Lehmkuhl, Oriel College, University of Oxford

    Is matter an aspect of spacetime structure? On Classical Unified Field Theories.

26 February: Prof Katherine Brading, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame

    Title TBC.

5 March: Dr Mark Sprevak, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

    Are computations objective features of the world?

12 March: Prof Dennis Dieks, Institute for History and Foundations of Science, Utrecht)

    title TBC.

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Michaelmas Term 2008

Convened by Prof H. Brown

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays, weeks 1-8, in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton St.

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

23 October: Prof Michel Janssen, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota/Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin

    Pascual Jordan’s Resolution of the Conundrum of the Wave-Particle Duality of Light

30 October: Prof Décio Krause, Department of Philosophy, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

    Quantum (Non-) Individuality -- Logical aspects

6 Nov: Dr Alexei Grinbaum, LARSIM laboratory, CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission)-Saclay, France

    Which fine-tuning arguments are fine?

13 Nov: Prof Lane Hughston, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College

    Do we really need dynamical models for quantum state reduction ?

20 Nov: Prof Simon Saunders, Philosophy Faculty, Oxford University

    Chance in the Everett Interpretation

27 Nov: Dr David Frame, Department of Physics, Oxford University

    TBA

4 Dec Prof Nick E. Mavromatos, Department of Physics, King's College London

    Quantum Gravity, Microscopic Time Irreversibility and EPR Correlations

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Trinity Term 2008

Convened by Dr. D. Wallace

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays, weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton St.

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

24 April: Prof Paul Griffiths, Sydney and Exeter

    In what sense does “nothing make sense except in the light of evolution"?

1 May: Ms Eleanor Knox, Oxford

    Geometrizing gravity and vice versa: the force of a formulation

8 May TBC

15 May: Prof Frank Wilczek, MIT

    TBA

22 May: Dr Roman Frigg, LSE

    Typicality and the Approach to Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics.

29 May: Dr Oliver Pooley, Oxford

    How not to be a relationalist

5 June: Prof Joseph Silk, Oxford

    Some Current issues in Cosmology

12 June: Dr Jeremy Butterfield, Cambridge

    TBA

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Hilary Term 2008

Convened by Dr. O. Pooley

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays, weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton St.

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

17 January: Dr. Dharam Vir Singh Ahluwalia, Cantebury

    A spin one half quantum field with mass dimension one

A spin one half quantum field with mass dimension one

24 January: Dr Roberto Trotta, Oxford

    Shortcuts of anthropic reasoning in cosmology

31 January: Dr F.A. Muller, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and Utrecht

    Leibniz's Revenge: how to discern elementary particles in quantum mechanics

7 February: Prof Wayne Myrvold, Western Ontario and Oxford

    Physical Chances in a deterministic setting

14 February: Prof Robert Rynaziewicz, Johns Hopkins

    Simultaneity, convention, and gauge

21 February: Prof Frank Artnzenius and Dr Hilary Greaves, Oxford

    CPT, and all that jazz

28 February: Dr Jos Uffink, Utrecht

    Motivating outcome independence: locality versus sufficiency

6 March: Dr Matthew Parker, LSE

    Philosophical Method and the Concept of Motion

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Michaelmas Term 2007

Convened by Dr. S. Saunders

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 3 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton St.

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

25 October: Hilary Greaves, Oxford

    Everett and Evidence

8 November: Dr David Wallace, Oxford

    Postulate or Theorem? The Born rule, Everett-style

Dr Talal Debbs, LSE

    Objectivity, Invariance and Convention: Symmetry in Physical Science

15 November: Dr James Ladyman, Bristol

    The Bankruptcy of Analytic Metaphysics

22 November: Dr Christopher Timpson, Oxford

    Quantum Bayesianism: Pros and Cons

29 November: Prof Jonathan Halliwell, Imperial

    Decoherent Histories Analysis of Quantum Cosmological Models

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Trinity Term 2007

Convened by Prof. H. R. Brown and Dr. D. Wallace

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton St.

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

27 April: Prof Richard Healey, University of Arizona.

    Gauge Symmetry and the Theta-vacuum.

3 May: NO SEMINAR

10 May: Dr Simon Benjamen, Oxford

    Measurement as the fundamental mechanism in a quantum computer

17 May: Dr Simon Saunders, Oxford

    Probability and semantics for branching worlds

24 May: Prof Sandu Popescu, Bristol

    Entanglement and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics.

31 May. Prof Andrew Steane, Department of Atomic and Laser Physics, Oxford.

    TBA

7 June. Prof Tony Sudbery, Department of Mathematics, York.

    TBA

14 June. TBA

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Hilary Term 2007

Convened by Prof. H. R. Brown

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton St.

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

18 Jan: Prof Sandu Popescu, Bristol

    Entanglement and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics.

25 Jan: Dr David Wallace, Oxford (unconfirmed)

    The Ontology of the Quantum State.

1 Feb: Prof David Deutsch, Oxford

    Physics as Quantum Constructor Theory.

8 Feb: Dr Jan Broekaert, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels

    Towards a Lorentz-Poincaré type interpretation of General Relativity Theory.

15 Feb: Prof Stephan Hartmann, LSE and Tilburg

    Probability and decoherence.

22 Feb: Prof Ian Percival, Queen Mary, London

    Newton, Berkeley and quantum theory.

1 Mar: Dr Pieter Kok, Oxford and Sheffield

    Cluster states: a new class of entanglement.

8 Mar: Prof Jeffrey Bub, Maryland

    Two dogmas about quantum mechanics.

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Michaelmas Term 2006

Convened by Dr. S. W. Saunders

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton St.

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

12 October: Dr. Pedro Ferreira, Oxford University

    Solving the dark matter problem with the aether.

19 October: Dr Guido Bacciagaluppi, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, CNRS, Paris. .

    Non-equilibrium, Non-locality and Non-linearity

26 October: Dr. Rob Spekkens, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University

    Quantum coherence: fact or fiction?

2 November: Professor John Mayberry, University of Bristol.

    Extensional structuralism and the problem of indiscernibles

9 November: Dr. Ioannis Votsis, Philosophisches Institut Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

    Structural realism 2.0

16 November: Professor Samir Okasha

    Where Rational Choice and Evolution Part Ways

23 November: Dr. Antony Valentini, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo

    Inflationary cosmology as a probe of primordial quantum mechanics

30 November: Dr. Simon Saunders, University of oxford

    Newton’s Corollary VI, and all that: why absolute rotation is relational

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Trinity Term 2006

Convened by Dr. H. Brown

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.

April 27th Prof Michael Weissman, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Towards a rational account of quantum probabilities

May 4th Dr Klaas Landsman, Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Rethinking the Einstein-Bohr debate

11 May Prof Ian Walmsley, Head of Atomic and Laser Physics, Oxford University

Coherent control of decoherence.

18 May Prof. Oliver Johns, San Francisco State University

Analytical mechanics with time as a coordinate.

25 May Dr Hans Westman, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada.

General covariance and observables in general relativity

1st June Prof Nick Huggett, Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago.

TBA

8 June Mr Paul Mainwood, Philosophy Faculty, Oxford

Renormalization– a novel explanatory strategy?

15 June Prof. Christopher Isham, Theoretical Physics, Imperial College

Daseinization and the redemption of quantum theory

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Hilary Term 2006

Convened by Dr. J. Butterfield

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.

19 January: Dr James Ladyman and Dr Tony Short, Bristol

The Connection between Logical and Thermodynamical Irreversibility

26 January: Prof Brian Davies, King’s College London

Newton's Inductive Methodology

2 February: Mr Justin Pniower, Oxford

Thermodynamic Entropy and Permutation Symmetry

9 February: Prof Geoffrey Sewell, Queen Mary London

Can the Quantum Measurement Problem be Resolved within the Framework of Schroedinger Dynamics?

16 February: Dr Oliver Pooley, Oxford

General Covariance

23 February: Prof Graeme Segal, Oxford

Locality in Quantum Field Theory

2 March: Dr David Wallace, Oxford

Probability in the Everett Interpretation: the state of play

9 March; Dr Chris Timpson, Leeds

The Ontological Status of Quantum Information: progress and outstanding questions

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Trinity Term 2005

Convened by Dr O.E.E. Pooley

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.

28 April: Prof. Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Middlesex

Classical mechanics as formalisable sciences
abstract ]

5 May: Prof. Ruediger Schack, Royal Holloway, London

Subjective probability in quantum mechanics

12 May: Dr Katherine Blundell, Oxford

Evidence in astronomy and cosmology

19 May: Dr Alastair Rae, Birmingham

``Ceci n'est pas un quantum'' - Some Comments on the Consistent Histories Approach to Quantum Measurement
abstract ]

26 May: Paul Mainwood, Oxford

Phase Transitions in Finite Systems
abstract ]

2 June: Dr Jeremy Butterfield, Oxford

Conserved quantities and symplectic reduction: counting possibilities in classical mechanics
abstract ]

9 June: Prof. Ion Olimpiu Stamatescu, Heidelberg

Image and concept in modern physics
abstract ]

16 June: Prof. Jonathan Haliwell, Imperial College, London

Emergent Classicality via Commuting Position and Momentum Operators
abstract ]

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Hilary Term 2005

Convened by Dr J.N. Butterfield

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 6, and 8. The seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.

20 January: Dr Thomas Mueller, Bonn and Oxford

A space-time model for objective probabilities, with an application to quantum mechanics

27 January: Dr Oliver Pooley, Oxford

Haecceitism: Physics versus Metaphysics

3 February: Prof Samson Abramsky, Oxford

Abstract Quantum Mechanics

10 February: Prof Wayne Myrvold, Western Ontario and Oxford

Why I am not an Everettian

17 February: Prof Clive Kilmister, King's College London

Can Eddington be Rehabilitated?

24 February: Dr Harvey Brown, Oxford

The Strong Equivalence Principle in General Relativity, and in a Recent Modification

3 March: No meeting

10 March: Dr Richard Dawid, Vienna

How String Theory could matter in Philosophy of Science

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Michaelmas Term 2004

There will be no Philosophy of Physics Research Seminars this term.

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Trinity Term 2004

Convened by Harvey Brown

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 2-8, and at 4.30 on WEDNESDAY at 4.30 p.m. in week 1. All seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.

28 April. Prof Adam Elga, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University

Chances and Branches

6 May. Dr Katherine Blundell, Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford

Evidence in astronomy and cosmology

13 May. Dr Keith Hutchison, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne

Miracle or mystery: False hypotheses and novel predictions in Rankine's thermodynamics

20 May. TBA

27 May. Prof Philip Stamp, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia TBA

3 June. Dr. Jeremy Butterfield, All Souls College, Oxford

On the persistence of matter, in classical physics and in metaphysics

10 June. Prof Mark Wilson, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh: TBA

17 June. Dr Roman Frigg, Department of Philosophy and Scientific Method, London School of Economics

Collapse interpretations of quantum mechanics

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Hilary Term 2004

Convened by Jerremy Butterfield

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1-8. The seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.

22 January: Prof Gerard Emch, Florida and Oxford

Heuritsic and Logical Models in Theoretical Physics

29 January: Dr John Roche, Oxford

Seven Types of Ambiguity in the Formalism of Classical Physics

5 February: Prof Bill Demopoulos, Western Ontario and Oxford

Some Remarks on the Concept of an Elementary Proposition

12 February: Prof Lane Hughston, King's College London

Probability and Causality in Relativistic Quantum Theories

19 February: Prof Chris Fuchs, Bell Labs and Dublin

What is the Difference between a Quantum Observer and a Weatherman?

26 February: Prof Eli Zahar, Cambridge

Realism and Ramseyfication

4 March: Dr Stephan Hartmann, London School of Economics

Modelling High-Temperature Superconductors: Correspondence at Bay?

11 March; Dr Chris Philippidis, Bath

Bohm's Physics in the Context of Twentieth Century Thought

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Trinity Term 2003

Convened by Harvey Brown, Jerremy Butterfield, and Simon Saunders

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 and 3-8. The seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.

NOTE LATER TIME OF 4.30 PM

1 May: Dr Oliver Pooley, Oxford

Descartes and Newton on Place, Space and Motion

8 May: No seminar

15 May: Prof Bas van Fraassen, Princeton and Oxford

The Ideal of a Purely Structural Description of Nature

22 May: Dr Harvey Brown, Oxford

Spacetime Structure from a Dynamical Perspective

29 May: Dr Janneke van Lith, Utrecht and Oxford

Models and Idealizations in Statistical Physics

5 June: Dr David Corfield, Oxford

How Natural is our Mathematics?

12 June: Chris Timpson, Oxford

Information is Physical? Reflections on foundational implications of quantum information

19 June: Prof Josep Pons, Barcelona and Imperial College

Constrained Systems and Dirac's Conjecture

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Hilary Term 2003

Convened by Harvey Brown, Jerremy Butterfield, and Simon Saunders

Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.

The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.

NOTE LATER TIME OF 4.30 PM

23 January: Dr Meinard Kuhlmann, Bremen and Oxford

On What There Is: Properties and Representations in Quantum Field Theory

30 January: Dr Carl Dolby, Oxford

Simultaneity and the Concept of `Particle'

6 February: Prof Michael Dickson, Indiana and Oxford

A View from Nowhere: Quantum Reference Frames and the Uncertainty Principle

13 February: Dr Keith Hannabuss, Oxford

Non-commutative Geometry in Physics

20 February: Prof Huw Price, Edinburgh and Sydney

New Thoughts on the Arrow of Radiation

27 February: Dr Jon Dorling,London

Why does the Universe exist?

6 March: TBA

13 March: Dr Jeff Ketland, Leeds University

Structuralism in Mathematics and Physics

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Michaelmas Term 2002

This term we are running a research seminar in philosophy of science (same place, same time). We revert to Philosophy of Physics in Hilary and Trinity Terms.

Previous Research Seminar Series

Trinity Term 2002

All meetings except the first are on Thursdays at 4.00 pm, in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.

TUESDAY 23 April: Paul Humphreys, University of Virginia 5.00 pm IN THE OLD LIBRARY

Physical Chances

Thursday 25 April: David Lavis, Kings College London

Equilibrium and (Ir)reversibility in Classical Statistical Mechanics

Thursday May 2: No seminar

Thursday May 9: Tom Ryckman, Berkeley

Causality as a Condition of Possible Experience: Hilbert's 2nd Note on the "Foundations of Physics"

Thursday May 16: Subir Sakar, Oxford

Possible astrophysical tests of quantum gravity

Thursday May 23: Peter Holland, Oxford

TBA

Thursday May 30: Itamar Pitowsky, Hebrew University

Bayesian Quantum Probability

Thursday June 6: Orly Shenker, LSE

Logic and entropy: some presuppositions

June 13: Joseph Melia, Leeds

TBA

June 20: Bob Coecke, Oxford

Operational logicality of physical properties: Constructing quantum causality and informatics

Hilary Term 2002

All meetings are on Thursdays at 4.00 pm, in All Souls College

Note: this term meetings take place in the Old Library, not the Wharton Room.

17 January: Dr Leah Henderson, Bristol

Nonlocality of quantum operations

24 January: Prof Jeeva Anandan, South Carolina and Oxford

Laws and Symmetries

31 January: Dr Tim Palmer, ECMWF, Reading

Complex structure from self-similar permutations: implications for foundations of quantum theory

7 February: Prof Colin Howson, London School of Economics

A new Kind of Logic (Leibniz)

14 February: Dr Lionel Mason, Oxford

A beginners guide to twistor theory

21 February: Prof Michael Mackey, McGill

The Elusive Origin of Dynamic Irreversibility: Clues from the Second Law

28 February: Dr Adrian Kent, Bristol and Cambridge

On the cryptographic power of quantum information

7 March: Dr Andrew Warwick, Imperial College London

Pedagogical Underworlds: the culture of mathematical physics in Victorian Cambridge

Additional meeting ninth week (note Tuesday meeting:

Tues March 12: Dr Bob Coecke, Oxford

Operational logicality of physical properties: Constructing quantum causality and informatics

Michaelmas Term 2001

All meetings are on Thursdays at 4.00 pm, in All Souls College, Wharton Room

11 October: NO MEETING

18 October: David Wallace, Oxford

Localised Particles in Quantum Field Theory

25 October: Michaela Massimi and Prof Michael Redhead, London School of Economics

Weinberg's Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem

1 November; Prof John Cardy, Oxford

S-Matrix Theory Redux

8 November: Prof Colin Howson, London School of Economics

A New Kind of Logic' (Leibniz)

15 November: Dr Tim Spiller, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol

To be announced

22 November: Prof Rafael Sorkin, Syracuse and QMW London

General Covariance and the "Problem of Time" in a Discrete Cosmology

29 November: Dr Michael Teper, Oxford

Solving quantum field theory by computer simulation

Trinity Term 2001

All meetings are on Thursdays at 4.00 pm, in All Souls College; MOSTLY in Wharton Room. But Sometimes in Hovenden Room

April 26: Dr Robert Bishop (Fribourg)

Statistical Mechanics Brussels-Austin Style

Abstract:

For nearly forty years Ilya Prigogine and his collaborators have been pursuing a dynamical explanation for irreversibility and the second law of thermodynamics. After discussing some of the motivations animating this long search and some brief history of their work, I will describe the Brussels-Austin Group's recent approach to these questions involving the analysis of so-called Large Poincaré System in extended spaces. This will be followed by a critical assessment of what I think the Brussels-Austin Group has accomplished and what outstanding questions remain to be addressed.

3 May: Dr Fred Muller, Utrecht

Refutability Revamped: whether and how quantum mechanics saves the phenomena

10 May; Prof Ian Aitchison, Oxford

Topics in Thermal Field Theory

17 may: Dr Henrik Zinkernagel, Madrid

The cosmological constant problem - what do we really know about the quantum vacuum?

24 May: Prof Lee Smolin, Imperial College

TBA

31 May: Dr Yves Pierseaux, Louvain

TBA

7 June: Prof Guido Bacciagaluppi, UC Berkeley

TBA

14 June: Prof Joseph Silk, Oxford

TBA

The John Locke Lectures 2001

Professor B. van Fraassen (Princeton University): Structure and Perspective: an Empiricist View.

The lectures are on the following Tuesdays 5 - 7 in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford

24 April: The Visible World

01 May: Structural Realism and the Phenomena

15 May: Weyl's Paradox and Carnap's Lost World

22 May: Metaphysical Oblivion: Realism's Return

29 May: Metaphysics Abandoned: Realism Evaded

05 June: I, Structure/Perspective

Professor van Fraassen will lecture for approximately one hour. The remaining time will be available for open discussion

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