Convened by Patrick Durr and James Read
All seminars will take place in person at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Lecture Room of Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG. Talks will also be streamed, recorded, and (with speaker’s consent) published on our new You Tube channel
Those on the philosophy of physics mailing list will receive an invitation to join the meetings online; others should contact the convenors directly.
Abstracts are posted weekly.
Week 1 (27th April): Sebastian de Haro (Amsterdam)
Dualities and quasi-dualities: on solitons and phases of quantum field theories
Week 2 (4th May): Johannes Fankhauser (Oxford/Innsbruck)
Quantum uncertainty and empirical completeness
Week 3 (11th May): Renate Loll (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Questions on quantum gravity
:Week 4 (18th May): Paul Skokowski (Stanford)
Superpositions and beliefs about superpositions
Week 5 (25th May): Fedele Lizzi (Naples)
Quantum Observers for Quantum Spacetime
Week 6 (1st Jun): Doreen Fraser (Waterloo)
Philosophical implications of measurement in QFT
Week 7 (8th June): Dennis Lehmkuhl (Bonn)
TBA
Week 8 (15th June): Natasha Oughton (Oxford)
Why quantum theory? Understanding and explanation through reconstruction