XX International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics
SPACETIME AND QUANTUM PHYSICS
Urbino 10th- 13th July, 2017
10th July
09.00 Registration
09.30-10.00 Gino Tarozzi and Vincenzo Fano (University of Urbino)
Opening
10.00-11.00 Christian Wüthrich (University of Geneva)
Quantum gravity: motivations and implications
11.00-11.30 coffee break
11.30-13.30 Francesca Vidotto (Radboud University)
Principles of Quantum Gravity: Discreteness
15.30-17.30 Carlo Rovelli (CPT, Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS)
TBA
11th July
9.00-11.00 Christian Wüthrich (University of Geneva)
The structure of causal sets
11.00-11.30 coffee break
11.30 -13.30 Francesca Vidotto (Radboud University)
Principles of Quantum Gravity: Relationality
15.30 – 16.50 F.A. Muller (Erasmus University Rotterdam; Utrecht University)
Quantum Mechanics and Space-Time. Review with a Structuralist Finale
12th July
9.00-11.00 Christian Wüthrich (University of Geneva)
Spacetime is as spacetime does
11.00-11.30 coffee break
11.30 -13.30 Christian Wüthrich (University of Geneva)
When the actual world is not even possible
17.30 – 18.50 Tiziana Vistarini (University of Colorado Boulder)
No time for strings, nor space. Being a mechanical philosopher at the Planck Scale
13th July
9.00-11.00 Francesca Vidotto (Radboud University)
Principles of Quantum Gravity: Finiteness
11.00-11.30 coffee break
11.30 -12.30 Francesca Vidotto (Radboud University)
Principles of Quantum Gravity: Confirmation?
Closing