牛津大学近年物理哲学讨论会议题公告
2007-10-10
Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar
Trinity Term 2007
Convened by Prof. H. R. Brown and Dr. D. Wallace
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton St.
27 April: Prof Richard Healey, University of Arizona.
Gauge Symmetry and the Theta-vacuum.
10 May: Dr Simon Benjamen, Oxford
Measurement as the fundamental mechanism in a quantum computer
17 May: Dr Simon Saunders, Oxford
Probability and semantics for branching worlds
24 May: Prof Sandu Popescu, Bristol
Entanglement and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics.
31 May. Prof Andrew Steane, Department of Atomic and Laser Physics, Oxford.
TBA
7 June. Prof Tony Sudbery, Department of Mathematics, York.
TBA
14 June. TBA
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Hilary Term 2007
Convened by Prof. H. R. Brown
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton St.
18 Jan: Prof Sandu Popescu, Bristol
Entanglement and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics.
25 Jan: Dr David Wallace, Oxford (unconfirmed)
The Ontology of the Quantum State.
1 Feb: Prof David Deutsch, Oxford
Physics as Quantum Constructor Theory.
8 Feb: Dr Jan Broekaert, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels
Towards a Lorentz-Poincaré type interpretation of General Relativity Theory.
15 Feb: Prof Stephan Hartmann, LSE and Tilburg
Probability and decoherence.
22 Feb: Prof Ian Percival, Queen Mary, London
Newton, Berkeley and quantum theory.
1 Mar: Dr Pieter Kok, Oxford and Sheffield
Cluster states: a new class of entanglement.
8 Mar: Prof Jeffrey Bub, Maryland
Two dogmas about quantum mechanics.
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Michaelmas Term 2006
Convened by Dr. S. W. Saunders
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton St.
12 October: Dr. Pedro Ferreira, Oxford University
Solving the dark matter problem with the aether.
19 October: Dr Guido Bacciagaluppi, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, CNRS, Paris. .
Non-equilibrium, Non-locality and Non-linearity
26 October: Dr. Rob Spekkens, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University
Quantum coherence: fact or fiction?
2 November: Professor John Mayberry, University of Bristol.
Extensional structuralism and the problem of indiscernibles
9 November: Dr. Ioannis Votsis, Philosophisches Institut Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Structural realism 2.0
16 November: Professor Samir Okasha
Where Rational Choice and Evolution Part Ways
23 November: Dr. Antony Valentini, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo
Inflationary cosmology as a probe of primordial quantum mechanics
30 November: Dr. Simon Saunders, University of oxford
Newton’s Corollary VI, and all that: why absolute rotation is relational
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Trinity Term 2006
Convened by Dr. H. Brown
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.
April 27th Prof Michael Weissman, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Towards a rational account of quantum probabilities
May 4th Dr Klaas Landsman, Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Rethinking the Einstein-Bohr debate
11 May Prof Ian Walmsley, Head of Atomic and Laser Physics, Oxford University
Coherent control of decoherence.
18 May Prof. Oliver Johns, San Francisco State University
Analytical mechanics with time as a coordinate.
25 May Dr Hans Westman, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada.
General covariance and observables in general relativity
1st June Prof Nick Huggett, Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago.
TBA
8 June Mr Paul Mainwood, Philosophy Faculty, Oxford
Renormalization– a novel explanatory strategy?
15 June Prof. Christopher Isham, Theoretical Physics, Imperial College
Daseinization and the redemption of quantum theory
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Hilary Term 2006
Convened by Dr. J. Butterfield
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.
19 January: Dr James Ladyman and Dr Tony Short, Bristol
The Connection between Logical and Thermodynamical Irreversibility
26 January: Prof Brian Davies, King’s College London
Newton's Inductive Methodology
2 February: Mr Justin Pniower, Oxford
Thermodynamic Entropy and Permutation Symmetry
9 February: Prof Geoffrey Sewell, Queen Mary London
Can the Quantum Measurement Problem be Resolved within the Framework of Schroedinger Dynamics?
16 February: Dr Oliver Pooley, Oxford
General Covariance
23 February: Prof Graeme Segal, Oxford
Locality in Quantum Field Theory
2 March: Dr David Wallace, Oxford
Probability in the Everett Interpretation: the state of play
9 March; Dr Chris Timpson, Leeds
The Ontological Status of Quantum Information: progress and outstanding questions
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Trinity Term 2005
Convened by Dr O.E.E. Pooley
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.
28 April: Prof. Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Middlesex
Classical mechanics as formalisable sciences
5 May: Prof. Ruediger Schack, Royal Holloway, London
Subjective probability in quantum mechanics
12 May: Dr Katherine Blundell, Oxford
Evidence in astronomy and cosmology
19 May: Dr Alastair Rae, Birmingham
``Ceci n'est pas un quantum'' - Some Comments on the Consistent Histories Approach to Quantum Measurement
26 May: Paul Mainwood, Oxford
Phase Transitions in Finite Systems
2 June: Dr Jeremy Butterfield, Oxford
Conserved quantities and symplectic reduction: counting possibilities in classical mechanics
9 June: Prof. Ion Olimpiu Stamatescu, Heidelberg
Image and concept in modern physics
16 June: Prof. Jonathan Haliwell, Imperial College, London
Emergent Classicality via Commuting Position and Momentum Operators
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Hilary Term 2005
Convened by Dr J.N. Butterfield
Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 6, and 8. The seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.
20 January: Dr Thomas Mueller, Bonn and Oxford
A space-time model for objective probabilities, with an application to quantum mechanics
27 January: Dr Oliver Pooley, Oxford
Haecceitism: Physics versus Metaphysics
3 February: Prof Samson Abramsky, Oxford
Abstract Quantum Mechanics
10 February: Prof Wayne Myrvold, Western Ontario and Oxford
Why I am not an Everettian
17 February: Prof Clive Kilmister, King's College London
Can Eddington be Rehabilitated?
24 February: Dr Harvey Brown, Oxford
The Strong Equivalence Principle in General Relativity, and in a Recent Modification
3 March: No meeting
10 March: Dr Richard Dawid, Vienna
How String Theory could matter in Philosophy of Science
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Michalemas Term 2004
There will be no Philosophy of Physics Research Seminars this term.
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Trinity Term 2004
Convened by Harvey Brown
Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 2-8, and at 4.30 on WEDNESDAY at 4.30 p.m. in week 1. All seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.
28 April. Prof Adam Elga, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
Chances and Branches
6 May. Dr Katherine Blundell, Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford
Evidence in astronomy and cosmology
13 May. Dr Keith Hutchison, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne
Miracle or mystery: False hypotheses and novel predictions in Rankine's thermodynamics
20 May. TBA
27 May. Prof Philip Stamp, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia TBA
3 June. Dr. Jeremy Butterfield, All Souls College, Oxford
On the persistence of matter, in classical physics and in metaphysics
10 June. Prof Mark Wilson, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh: TBA
17 June. Dr Roman Frigg, Department of Philosophy and Scientific Method, London School of Economics
Collapse interpretations of quantum mechanics
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Hilary Term 2004
Convened by Jerremy Butterfield
Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1-8. The seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.
22 January: Prof Gerard Emch, Florida and Oxford
Heuritsic and Logical Models in Theoretical Physics
29 January: Dr John Roche, Oxford
Seven Types of Ambiguity in the Formalism of Classical Physics
5 February: Prof Bill Demopoulos, Western Ontario and Oxford
Some Remarks on the Concept of an Elementary Proposition
12 February: Prof Lane Hughston, King's College London
Probability and Causality in Relativistic Quantum Theories
19 February: Prof Chris Fuchs, Bell Labs and Dublin
What is the Difference between a Quantum Observer and a Weatherman?
26 February: Prof Eli Zahar, Cambridge
Realism and Ramseyfication
4 March: Dr Stephan Hartmann, London School of Economics
Modelling High-Temperature Superconductors: Correspondence at Bay?
11 March; Dr Chris Philippidis, Bath
Bohm's Physics in the Context of Twentieth Century Thought
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Trinity Term 2003
Convened by Harvey Brown, Jerremy Butterfield, and Simon Saunders
Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 and 3-8. The seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.
NOTE LATER TIME OF 4.30 PM
1 May: Dr Oliver Pooley, Oxford
Descartes and Newton on Place, Space and Motion
8 May: No seminar
15 May: Prof Bas van Fraassen, Princeton and Oxford
The Ideal of a Purely Structural Description of Nature
22 May: Dr Harvey Brown, Oxford
Spacetime Structure from a Dynamical Perspective
29 May: Dr Janneke van Lith, Utrecht and Oxford
Models and Idealizations in Statistical Physics
5 June: Dr David Corfield, Oxford
How Natural is our Mathematics?
12 June: Chris Timpson, Oxford
Information is Physical? Reflections on foundational implications of quantum information
19 June: Prof Josep Pons, Barcelona and Imperial College
Constrained Systems and Dirac's Conjecture
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Hilary Term 2003
Convened by Harvey Brown, Jerremy Butterfield, and Simon Saunders
Abstracts, where available, will be posted on the Bulletin Board.
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in weeks 1 to 8. The seminars will be given in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.
NOTE LATER TIME OF 4.30 PM
23 January: Dr Meinard Kuhlmann, Bremen and Oxford
On What There Is: Properties and Representations in Quantum Field Theory
30 January: Dr Carl Dolby, Oxford
Simultaneity and the Concept of `Particle'
6 February: Prof Michael Dickson, Indiana and Oxford
A View from Nowhere: Quantum Reference Frames and the Uncertainty Principle
13 February: Dr Keith Hannabuss, Oxford
Non-commutative Geometry in Physics
20 February: Prof Huw Price, Edinburgh and Sydney
New Thoughts on the Arrow of Radiation
27 February: Dr Jon Dorling,London
Why does the Universe exist?
6 March: TBA
13 March: Dr Jeff Ketland, Leeds University
Structuralism in Mathematics and Physics
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Michaelmas Term 2002
This term we are running a research seminar in philosophy of science (same place, same time). We revert to Philosophy of Physics in Hilary and Trinity Terms.
Previous Research Seminar Series
Trinity Term 2002
All meetings except the first are on Thursdays at 4.00 pm, in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.
TUESDAY 23 April: Paul Humphreys, University of Virginia 5.00 pm IN THE OLD LIBRARY
Physical Chances
Thursday 25 April: David Lavis, Kings College London
Equilibrium and (Ir)reversibility in Classical Statistical Mechanics
Thursday May 2: No seminar
Thursday May 9: Tom Ryckman, Berkeley
Causality as a Condition of Possible Experience: Hilbert's 2nd Note on the "Foundations of Physics"
Thursday May 16: Subir Sakar, Oxford
Possible astrophysical tests of quantum gravity
Thursday May 23: Peter Holland, Oxford
TBA
Thursday May 30: Itamar Pitowsky, Hebrew University
Bayesian Quantum Probability
Thursday June 6: Orly Shenker, LSE
Logic and entropy: some presuppositions
June 13: Joseph Melia, Leeds
TBA
June 20: Bob Coecke, Oxford
Operational logicality of physical properties: Constructing quantum causality and informatics
Hilary Term 2002
All meetings are on Thursdays at 4.00 pm, in All Souls College
Note: this term meetings take place in the Old Library , not the Wharton Room.
17 January: Dr Leah Henderson, Bristol
Nonlocality of quantum operations
24 January: Prof Jeeva Anandan, South Carolina and Oxford
Laws and Symmetries
31 January: Dr Tim Palmer, ECMWF, Reading
Complex structure from self-similar permutations: implications for foundations of quantum theory
7 February: Prof Colin Howson, London School of Economics
A new Kind of Logic (Leibniz)
14 February: Dr Lionel Mason, Oxford
A beginners guide to twistor theory
21 February: Prof Michael Mackey, McGill
The Elusive Origin of Dynamic Irreversibility: Clues from the Second Law
28 February: Dr Adrian Kent, Bristol and Cambridge
On the cryptographic power of quantum information
7 March: Dr Andrew Warwick, Imperial College London
Pedagogical Underworlds: the culture of mathematical physics in Victorian Cambridge
Additional meeting ninth week (note Tuesday meeting:
Tues March 12: Dr Bob Coecke, Oxford
Operational logicality of physical properties: Constructing quantum causality and informatics
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Michaelmas Term 2001
All meetings are on Thursdays at 4.00 pm, in All Souls College, Wharton Room
11 October: NO MEETING
18 October: David Wallace, Oxford
Localised Particles in Quantum Field Theory
25 October: Michaela Massimi and Prof Michael Redhead, London School of Economics
Weinberg's Proof of the Spin-Statistics Theorem
1 November; Prof John Cardy, Oxford
S-Matrix Theory Redux
8 November: Prof Colin Howson, London School of Economics
A New Kind of Logic' (Leibniz)
15 November: Dr Tim Spiller, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol
To be announced
22 November: Prof Rafael Sorkin, Syracuse and QMW London
General Covariance and the "Problem of Time" in a Discrete Cosmology
29 November: Dr Michael Teper, Oxford
Solving quantum field theory by computer simulation
Trinity Term 2001
All meetings are on Thursdays at 4.00 pm, in All Souls College; MOSTLY in Wharton Room. But Sometimes in Hovenden Room
April 26: Dr Robert Bishop (Fribourg)
Statistical Mechanics Brussels-Austin Style
Abstract:
For nearly forty years Ilya Prigogine and his collaborators have been pursuing a dynamical explanation for irreversibility and the second law of thermodynamics. After discussing some of the motivations animating this long search and some brief history of their work, I will describe the Brussels-Austin Group's recent approach to these questions involving the analysis of so-called Large Poincaré System in extended spaces. This will be followed by a critical assessment of what I think the Brussels-Austin Group has accomplished and what outstanding questions remain to be addressed.
3 May: Dr Fred Muller, Utrecht
Refutability Revamped: whether and how quantum mechanics saves the phenomena
10 May; Prof Ian Aitchison, Oxford
Topics in Thermal Field Theory
17 may: Dr Henrik Zinkernagel, Madrid
The cosmological constant problem - what do we really know about the quantum vacuum?
24 May: Prof Lee Smolin, Imperial College
TBA
31 May: Dr Yves Pierseaux, Louvain
TBA
7 June: Prof Guido Bacciagaluppi, UC Berkeley
TBA
14 June: Prof Joseph Silk, Oxford
TBA
The John Locke Lectures 2001
Professor B. van Fraassen (Princeton University): Structure and Perspective: an Empiricist View.
The lectures are on the following Tuesdays 5 - 7 in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford
24 April: The Visible World
01 May: Structural Realism and the Phenomena
15 May: Weyl's Paradox and Carnap's Lost World
22 May: Metaphysical Oblivion: Realism's Return
29 May: Metaphysics Abandoned: Realism Evaded
05 June: I, Structure/Perspective
Professor van Fraassen will lecture for approximately one hour. The remaining time will be available for open discussion