Conference programme 3-4 July
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Event |
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08:40 - 09:00
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Coffee |
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09:00 - 09:05
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Opening - Welcome |
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09:05 - 10:20
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A qualified defense of orthodoxy - Richard HEALEY |
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10:20 - 10:55
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism: Lifting the veil of gauge - Ward STRUYVE |
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10:55 - 11:10
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Coffee |
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11:10 - 11:45
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Shadows of symmetry: Absolute and relative in quantum theory - Leon LOVERIDGE |
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11:45 - 12:20
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Symmetries and indexicals - Quentin RUYANT |
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12:20 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:15
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What symmetries with DES look like and how gauge symmetries are useful for the DES - Valeriya CHASOVA |
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15:15 - 15:50
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Two divisions of symmetries and some of their consequences - Joanna LUC |
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15:50 - 16:05
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Coffee |
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16:05 - 17:20
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In what sense, if any, of 'direct empirical consequences' do local symmetries have them, and why does it matter, if at all? - James LADYMAN |
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18:30 - 22:00
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Dinner |
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Event |
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08:40 - 09:05
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Coffee |
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09:05 - 09:40
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Direct empirical significance and physical identity - Simon FRIEDERICH |
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09:40 - 10:55
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On symmetry and observability - David WALLACE |
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10:55 - 11:10
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Coffee |
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11:10 - 11:45
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Equivalent and inequivalent spacetimes - Juliusz DOBOSZEWSKI |
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11:45 - 12:20
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Approximate space-time symmetries - Samuel FLETCHER |
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12:20 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:15
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Why gauge? Rovelli and Teh on electrodynamics - Alexandre GUAY |
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15:15 - 15:50
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The metaphysics of invariance - David SCHROEREN |
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15:50 - 16:05
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Coffee |
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16:05 - 17:20
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Taking it to the limit - Gordon BELOT |
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17:20 - 17:25
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Closing - Thanks |
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