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

Europe/Paris
Marilyn and James Simons Conference Center (IHES)

Marilyn and James Simons Conference Center

IHES

35, route de Chartres, 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette (France)
Description

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

 

List of speakers includes:


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:


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

 

 

 

    • 1
      Quantum Gravity or Gravity for the Quantum: String Theory's Lesson
      Speaker: Gabriele Veneziano
    • tuesday24
    • 11:00 AM
      COFFEE BREAK
    • 2
      Why We Need Quantum Gravity and Why We Don't Have It
      Speaker: Steven Carlip
    • 1:00 PM
      LUNCH
    • 3
      Physics and Philosophy of Quantum Gravity: What I Think We Have Understood and What We Do Not Know
      Speaker: Carlo Rovelli
    • 4:00 PM
      COFFEE BREAK
    • 4
      A Philosophy of Physics in the First Person
      Speaker: Michel Bitbol
    • 5
      Holographic Dualities. and Quantum Gravity
      Speaker: Costas Bachas
    • wednesday 25
    • 11:00 AM
      COFFEE BREAK
    • 6
      Dualities and Emergence
      Speaker: Sebastian de Haro
    • 1:00 PM
      LUNCH
    • 7
      Why Four Dimensions and the Standard Model Coupled to Gravity - A Tentative Explanation From the New Geometric Paradigm of NCG
      Speaker: Alain Connes
    • 8
      Physical and Experiential Time
      Speaker: Dennis Dieks
    • thursday26
    • 11:00 AM
      COFFEE BREAK
    • 9
      Time, Experience and Quantum Gravity
      Speaker: Yuval Dolev
    • 1:00 PM
      LUNCH
    • 10
      Spacetime in String Theory
      Speaker: Gary Horowitz
    • 4:00 PM
      COFFEE BREAK
    • 11
      Modality after String Theory
      Speaker: Tiziana Vistarini
    • 12
      What Can Black Holes Teach Us . About Quantum Gravity?
      Speaker: Ted Jacobson
    • friday 27
    • 11:00 AM
      COFFEE BREAK
    • 13
      Continuum Spacetime as the Limit of Discrete Structure
      Speaker: Erik Curiel
    • 1:00 PM
      LUNCH
    • 14
      Conceptual Issues in Quantum Cosmology
      Speaker: Claus Kiefer