Convened by Simon Saunders
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays, weeks 1-8, EXCEPT for week 5, in the Lecture Room of Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG.
On Thu of week 5 (13 November), the first of the joint Bristol-London-Oxford-Cambridge (BLOC) seminars will take place at 5.30 p.m., Kings College, London. There will be no Oxford seminar on that date.
Abstracts are posted weekly.
Thu 16 Oct (week 1): Dennis Lehmkuhl (Oxford and Wuppertal):
Einstein, Cartan, Weyl, Jordan: The neighborhood of General Relativity in the space of spacetime theories
Thu 23rd Oct (week 2): Daniel Bedingham (Oxford):
Time reversal symmetry and collapse models
Thu 30th Oct (week 3): David Wallace (Oxford):
How not to do the metaphysics of quantum mechanics
Thu 6th Nov (week 4) : Vlatko Vedral (Oxford):
Macroscopicity
13th Nov (week 5) BLOC seminar: Huw Price (Cambridge):
Two paths to the Paris Intepretation
Thu 20th Nov (week 6): Boris Zilber (Oxford):
On the semantics of the canonical commutation relations
Thu 27th Nov (week 7): Owen Maroney (Oxford):
How epistemic can a quantum state be?
Thu 4th Dec (week 8): Tony Sudbery (York):
The logic of the future in the Everett-Wheeler understanding of quantum theory