Conference programme 3-4 July

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08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00	Coffee 8:40 - 9:00 (20min) Coffee Opening 9:00 - 9:05 (05min) Opening Welcome A qualified defense of orthodoxy 9:05 - 10:20 (1h15) A qualified defense of orthodoxy Richard HEALEY Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism: Lifting the veil of gauge 10:20 - 10:55 (35min) Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism: Lifting the veil of gauge Ward STRUYVE Coffee 10:55 - 11:10 (15min) Coffee Shadows of symmetry: Absolute and relative in quantum theory 11:10 - 11:45 (35min) Shadows of symmetry: Absolute and relative in quantum theory Leon LOVERIDGE Symmetries and indexicals 11:45 - 12:20 (35min) Symmetries and indexicals Quentin RUYANT Lunch 12:20 - 14:00 (1h40) Lunch What symmetries with DES look like and how gauge symmetries are useful for the DES 14:00 - 15:15 (1h15) What symmetries with DES look like and how gauge symmetries are useful for the DES Valeriya CHASOVA Two divisions of symmetries and some of their consequences 15:15 - 15:50 (35min) Two divisions of symmetries and some of their consequences Joanna LUC Coffee 15:50 - 16:05 (15min) Coffee In what sense, if any, of 'direct empirical consequences' do local symmetries have them, and why does it matter, if at all? 16:05 - 17:20 (1h15) In what sense, if any, of 'direct empirical consequences' do local symmetries have them, and why does it matter, if at all? James LADYMAN Dinner 18:30 - 22:00 (3h30) Dinner	Coffee 8:40 - 9:05 (25min) Coffee Direct empirical significance and physical identity 9:05 - 9:40 (35min) Direct empirical significance and physical identity Simon FRIEDERICH On symmetry and observability 9:40 - 10:55 (1h15) On symmetry and observability David WALLACE Coffee 10:55 - 11:10 (15min) Coffee Equivalent and inequivalent spacetimes 11:10 - 11:45 (35min) Equivalent and inequivalent spacetimes Juliusz DOBOSZEWSKI Approximate space-time symmetries 11:45 - 12:20 (35min) Approximate space-time symmetries Samuel FLETCHER Lunch 12:20 - 14:00 (1h40) Lunch Why gauge? Rovelli and Teh on electrodynamics 14:00 - 15:15 (1h15) Why gauge? Rovelli and Teh on electrodynamics Alexandre GUAY The metaphysics of invariance 15:15 - 15:50 (35min) The metaphysics of invariance David SCHROEREN Coffee 15:50 - 16:05 (15min) Coffee Taking it to the limit 16:05 - 17:20 (1h15) Taking it to the limit Gordon BELOT Closing 17:20 - 17:25 (05min) Closing Thanks

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