21 May 2011, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room

Topic: Jim Weatherall

Readings: Please read Jim’s paper in preparation for the meeting. This paper by Joy Christian, where he outlines his model for EPR-Bohm correlations, served as a source of inspiration for Jim’s project.

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7 May 2011, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room

Topic: Tarun Menon on Landauer’s Principle

Readings: Please read Tarun’s paper in preparation for the meeting. As background reading, Tarun recommends Norton’s paper on the eaters of the lotus and Owen Maroney’s SEP entry.

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Cross-listed event: one-day workshop at UC Irvine, 9 April 2011

Speakers: Bob Geroch, Hans Halvorson, Miklos Redei, Jos Uffink

For more information, please visit the workshop’s website.

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19 February 2011, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room

Topic: Bryan Roberts on time-reversing a quantum system

Readings: Please read Bryan’s paper in preparation for the meeting.

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29 January 2011, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room

Topic: David Rideout on causal sets

Readings: David will present recent research related to his article with Maqbool Ahmed which serves as primary reading. To put this in context of the search for a dynamical law, use his joint article with Rafael Sorkin as background. For a classic reference to causal sets, see the paper by Bombelli, Lee, Meyer, and Sorkin.

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20 November 2010, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room

Topic: Dennis Lehmkuhl on unification in field theories

Readings: Please read Dennis’s paper in preparation for the meeting.

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30 October 2010, 3:00pm, LPS seminar room

Topic: Vincent Lam on the notions of energy, mass, and their conservation and localization in GR

Readings: Please read Vincent’s paper in preparation for the meeting.

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26 September 2010, 3:00pm (Sunday), LPS seminar room

Topic: Sam Fletcher on Norton’s dome

Readings: Please read Sam’s paper in preparation for the meeting.

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