Dear all: (apologies for cross posting) We will have a philosophy of physics mini meeting on Monday 17 June (next Monday) from 2.00 pm onwards in Meeting Room 14, CMS. Details as follows (in part rehearsals of conference talks, in part repeat performances of conference talks). Hope to see you there! Best, Jeremy B ---------------------------------------- 2.00 Jeremy Butterfield: Reduction and Emergence in Symmetry Breaking and Renormalization
2.45 B Pitts: Real Change Happens in Hamiltonian General Relativity; Just Ask the Lagrangian (about Time-like Killing Vectors, First-Class Constraints, and Observables). 3.30 tea 4.00 Lena Zuchowski The two notions of emergence in complexity science 4.45: Nazim Bouatta Easing into Fields and Strings: Emergence, Background Independence and all that. 5.30: Oliver Pooley To be confirmed; title to be announced. ------ Jeremy Butterfield: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield Homepage: http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/butterfield/ Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Tel: 01223 761524 (office); 07557-668413 (mobile); NB: new mobile number. Visit the journal, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13552198 _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
