Quantum Gravity: Physics and Philosophy" ERC Project Philosophy of Canonical Quantum Gravity

24 oct. 2017, 09:30 → 27 oct. 2017, 16:00 Europe/Paris

Marilyn and James Simons Conference Center (IHES)

"Quantum Gravity: Physics and Philosophy"
ERC Project Philosophy of Canonical Quantum Gravity

 

List of speakers includes:

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Costas BACHAS (Department of Physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Michel BITBOL (Archives Husserl, CNRS)
Steven CARLIP (Department of Physics, University of California Davis)
Alain CONNES (IHES)
Erik CURIEL (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy)
Dennis DIEKS (University of Utrecht)
Yuval DOLEV (Department of Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University)
Sebastian de HARO (University of Amsterdam)
Gary HOROWITZ (Department of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara)
Theodore JACOBSON (Department of Physics, University of Maryland)
Claus KIEFER (Institut of Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne)
Carlo ROVELLI (Center of Theoretical Physics, Luminy)
Gabriele VENEZIANO (Theoretical Physics Department, CERN)
Tiziana VISTARINI (Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder)

 

Organising Committee:

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Gabriel CATREN (CNRS, Laboratoire SPHERE)
Thibault DAMOUR (IHES)
Elie DURING (Université Paris Nanterre, Laboratoire IRePh)
Federico ZALAMEA (CNRS, Laboratoire SPHERE)

 

 

 

mardi 24 octobre

1 Quantum Gravity or Gravity for the Quantum: String Theory's Lesson

Orateur: Gabriele Veneziano

tuesday24

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

2 Why We Need Quantum Gravity and Why We Don't Have It

Orateur: Steven Carlip

13:00 LUNCH

3 Physics and Philosophy of Quantum Gravity: What I Think We Have Understood and What We Do Not Know

Orateur: Carlo Rovelli

16:00 COFFEE BREAK

4 A Philosophy of Physics in the First Person

Orateur: Michel Bitbol

mercredi 25 octobre

5 Holographic Dualities. and Quantum Gravity

Orateur: Costas Bachas

wednesday 25

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

6 Dualities and Emergence

Orateur: Sebastian de Haro

13:00 LUNCH

7 Why Four Dimensions and the Standard Model Coupled to Gravity - A Tentative Explanation From the New Geometric Paradigm of NCG

Orateur: Alain Connes

jeudi 26 octobre

8 Physical and Experiential Time

Orateur: Dennis Dieks

thursday26

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

9 Time, Experience and Quantum Gravity

Orateur: Yuval Dolev

13:00 LUNCH

10 Spacetime in String Theory

Orateur: Gary Horowitz

16:00 COFFEE BREAK

11 Modality after String Theory

Orateur: Tiziana Vistarini

vendredi 27 octobre

12 What Can Black Holes Teach Us . About Quantum Gravity?

Orateur: Ted Jacobson

friday 27

11:00 COFFEE BREAK

13 Continuum Spacetime as the Limit of Discrete Structure

Orateur: Erik Curiel

13:00 LUNCH

14 Conceptual Issues in Quantum Cosmology

Orateur: Claus Kiefer