Convened by Tushar Menon
The following seminars will take place at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Lecture Room of Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG.
Abstracts are posted weekly.
Week 1 (17 Oct): Patricia Palacios (Philosophy, University of Salzburg)
Redefining equilibrium for long-range interacting systems
Week 2 (24th Oct): Francesca Chadha-Day (Physics, University of Cambridge)
Dark matter: understanding the gravity of the situation
Week 3 (31st Oct): NO SEMINAR
Week 4 (7th Nov): Jamee Elder (Philosophy, University of Notre Dame/University of Bonn).
The epistemology of LIGO
Week 5 (14th Nov): Adam Caulton (Philosophy, University of Oxford)
Is a particle an irreducible representation of the Poincaré group?
Week 6 (21st Nov): Radin Dardashti (Philosophy, University of Wuppertal)
Understanding Problems in Physics
Week 7 (28th Nov): NO SEMINAR
Week 8 (5th Dec): Karim Thébault (Philosophy, University of Bristol)
Time and background independence
The package deal account of fundamental laws