Monday, July 3, 2017
Time | Event | |
08:40 - 09:00 | Coffee | |
09:00 - 09:05 | Opening - Welcome | |
09:05 - 10:20 | A qualified defense of orthodoxy - Richard HEALEY | |
10:20 - 10:55 | Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism: Lifting the veil of gauge - Ward STRUYVE | |
10:55 - 11:10 | Coffee | |
11:10 - 11:45 | Shadows of symmetry: Absolute and relative in quantum theory - Leon LOVERIDGE | |
11:45 - 12:20 | Symmetries and indexicals - Quentin RUYANT | |
12:20 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 15:15 | What symmetries with DES look like and how gauge symmetries are useful for the DES - Valeriya CHASOVA | |
15:15 - 15:50 | Two divisions of symmetries and some of their consequences - Joanna LUC | |
15:50 - 16:05 | Coffee | |
16:05 - 17:20 | In what sense, if any, of 'direct empirical consequences' do local symmetries have them, and why does it matter, if at all? - James LADYMAN | |
18:30 - 22:00 | Dinner |
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Time | Event | |
08:40 - 09:05 | Coffee | |
09:05 - 09:40 | Direct empirical significance and physical identity - Simon FRIEDERICH | |
09:40 - 10:55 | On symmetry and observability - David WALLACE | |
10:55 - 11:10 | Coffee | |
11:10 - 11:45 | Equivalent and inequivalent spacetimes - Juliusz DOBOSZEWSKI | |
11:45 - 12:20 | Approximate space-time symmetries - Samuel FLETCHER | |
12:20 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 15:15 | Why gauge? Rovelli and Teh on electrodynamics - Alexandre GUAY | |
15:15 - 15:50 | The metaphysics of invariance - David SCHROEREN | |
15:50 - 16:05 | Coffee | |
16:05 - 17:20 | Taking it to the limit - Gordon BELOT | |
17:20 - 17:25 | Closing - Thanks |