2008-2009
16 May 2009, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room
Topic: Chris Smeenk and Chris Wüthrich: “Time machines”
Readings: An electronic copy of the paper will hopefully be made available in time.
18 April 2009, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room
Topic: Giovanni Valente (Maryland, Paris, UC Irvine, Pittsburgh), “On the Persistence of Entanglement in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory”
Readings: An electronic copy of the paper can be found here. The paper is a draft and not fit for distribution.
21 February 2009, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room
Topic: Craig Callender, “Hot and Heavy Matters in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics”
Readings: An electronic copy of the paper can be found here. If you are on the email distribution list, you will have received from Craig a list of items to read (ordered by importance).
24 January 2009, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room
Topic: David Baker (Michigan), “Broken Symmetry and Spacetime”
Readings: An electronic copy of the paper can be found here.
15 November 2008, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room
Topic: Peter Byrne on the history of Hugh Everett’s PhD thesis
Readings: Peter suggested we read excerpts from the transcript of the Conference on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics that took place at Xavier University in 1962, where Everett presented his viewpoint to several other leading quantum mechanists. An electronic copy can be found here. Please focus on the exchange with Everett, pages 91-98 of the PDF file. As background reading, have a look at the paper Peter gave at the Everett conference at Oxford last year. Here it is.
25 October 2008, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room
Topic: John Earman on superselection
Readings: please read his paper “Superselection Rules for Philosophers”. An electronic copy can be found here.
28 September 2008, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room
Topic: Dennis Lehmkuhl on mass-energy-momentum in general relativity
Readings: Please read Dennis`s manuscript. Find an electronic copy here.