Program

Friday, April 24
9:00 Breakfast
9:30 David Baker

Broken Symmetry and Spacetime (preprint)

10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Gordon Belot

The Wave-Function for Primitive Ontologists

12:15 Lunch
2:00 Steve Weinstein

Decoherence and the Emergence of Classicality (arXiv)

3:15 Coffee Break
3:30 Hilary Greaves

Towards a Geometrical Understanding of the CPT Theorem (PhilSci)

5:00 Panel discussion
Saturday, April 25
9:00 Breakfast
9:30 Jon Bain

Intertheoretic Implications of Non-Relativistic Quantum Field Theories (preprint)

10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Laura Ruetsche

Why be normal?

12:15 Lunch
2:00 David Wallace

Taking particle physics seriously: a critique of the algebraic approach to the foundations of QFT

3:15 Coffee Break
3:30 Doreen Fraser

Interpreting Quantum Field Theories: The Significance of Variant Formulations (Part II)

5:00 Panel discussion
Sunday, April 26
9:00 Breakfast
9:30 Nick Huggett

Are Quarticles Discernible?

10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Gordon Fleming

Observations on Unstable Quantons, Hyperplane Dependence and Quantum Fields (arXiv)

12:15 Lunch
1:00 Panel (on morning session)
1:45 Concluding Panel Discussion

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Location: Somerville House, Room 2355 (campus maps)
Lunch will be provided for workshop participants. All participants are also invited to a dinner and party on Saturday night, 7:00 - 11:00 p.m.