XX - Spacetime and Quantum Physics

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)

Istituto di Studi Filosofici, Università di Lugano, FNS Project: Quantities
 
 
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
 
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The XXVII International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics of the University of Urbino will focus on a crucial topic of research in physics and philosophy: Dark Energy. 

The Summer School will be held in Urbino from June 3rd to June 7th 2024.

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