XIX - Many Worlds Interpretation

Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca in Filosofia e Fondamenti della Fisica

(Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo; Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna; Università del Salento; Università degli Studi dell'Insubria; Comune di Cesena)

 

 Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science (SILFS)

SNF's Project: Metaphysics of Time and Its Occupants

 

We invite to participation in the XIX International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics to be held in Urbino 5^th- 8^th September and  in Cesena 9^th September 2016.

 

 

 

The topic of the school is “MANY-WORLDS INTERPRETATIONS, Quantum mechanics, metaphysics and cosmology”.  It will feature morning lectures given by Wayne  Myrvold (Western University) and Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University); and afternoon seminars given by  Claudio Calosi (University of Neuchatel), Gennaro Auletta (University of Cassino), and Marica Branchesi (University of Urbino) and F.A. Muller (Erasmus University Rotterdam). Lectures and seminars will be held in English, while the mock trial of September 9th will be in Italian.

 

Students, graduate students and early career researchers must apply for participation by sending 

        1) a CV

        2) a cover letter explaining their reasons for applying.

 

Attendance is free of charge for all admitted participants.
 

The application must be sent to: cirfis.scuolaestiva@gmail.com

no later than 1^st of August 2016. The subject line should be “Participation. XIX international summer school in philosophy of physics”.

Notification of acceptance is expected no later than 15^th of August.

 

Venue: 

University of Urbino, Palazzo Albani, room B3, via Timoteo Viti 10, Urbino (PU), 60129 Italy.

Download URBINO map: www.uniurb.it/msa/CartinaUrbino.pdf

Cesena (FC), Centro Culturale S. Biagio, via Aldini 24.

Info:

How to reach Urbino and Cesena

Where to sleep in Urbino and Cesena

For further info write to: cirfis.scuolaestiva@gmail.com 

 

 

XIX International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics

 

MANY-WORLDS INTERPRETATIONS

Quantum mechanics, metaphysics and cosmology

 

Urbino 5^th- 8^th September, Cesena 9^th September 2016

 

 

5th September - Urbino

15.00-15.30 Gino Tarozzi and Vincenzo Fano (University of Urbino)

Introduction to the School and Presentation of the Seminars

15.30-17:15 Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University)

Everett's 1957 thesis 

17.30-19:15 Claudio Calosi (University of Neuchatel)

Wolds, numbers, properties and times

 

6th September - Urbino

9.00-11.00 Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University)

Decoherence and Worlds

11.30 -13.30 F.A. Muller (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

What is an interpretation of QM?

15.30 – 16.50 Claudio Calosi (University of Neuchatel)

Many but one

 

7th September - Urbino

9.00-11.00 Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University)

Probabilities

11.30 -13.30 F.A. Muller Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Understanding Everett: What It Takes 

15.30 – 16.50 Gennaro Auletta (University of Cassino)

The MWI is not a solution to the Measurement Problem but… (I)

 

8th September - Urbino

9.00-11.00 Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University)

Locality and Spacetime

11.30 -13.30 Gennaro Auletta (University of Cassino)

The MWI is not a solution to the Measurement Problem but… (II)

15.30- 16.50 Filippo Martelli (University of Urbino)

Astrophysical implications from the detection of gravitational waves originating from a binary black-hole merger

 

9th September - Cesena

15:00 – 18.00 Processo popolare: Ci sono veramente molti mondi?

Avvocati difensori del sì: Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University), Andrea Borghini (College of the Holy Cross) e Giovanni Macchia (University of Urbino)

Avvocati difensori del no: Vincenzo Fano (University of Urbino), Flavia Marcacci (Pontifical Lateran University) e Gino Tarozzi (University of Urbino).

Giudice: Mario Alai (University of Urbino)

 

Giuria popolare: tutto il pubblico.