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Focus Session on "The Nature of Time on Fundamental Science"
November 9 - 10, 2009
320 Whitmore Lab
Focus Session Program
| Monday, November 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 8:50 - 9:00 | Welcome - Abhay Ashtekar | |||||||||||||||||||
| Session Chair: Murat Gunaydin | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:00 - 9:50 | Paul Steinhardt - "What Happened at the Big Bang and How It Affects Our View of Cosmic History and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge" | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10:30 - 11:20 | Paul Sommers - "There is a Future" | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Discussion | |||||||||||||||||||
| Session Chair: Jorge Pullin | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1:30 - 2:20 | Bill Unruh - "Time is Measured" | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2:30 - 3:20 | Karel Kuchar - "Reflections on Time in Canonical Gravity" | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Break | |||||||||||||||||||
| Session Chair: Abhay Ashtekar | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4:00 - 4:50 | Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin - "Evolving Constants as Clocks in Quantum Gravity" | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5:00 - 6:00 | Discussion
| Tuesday, November 10 | | Session Chair: John Earman | 9:00 - 9:50 | Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin - "The Role of Self-Adjointness in Selecting a Clock | and Multi-Fingered Time" 10:00 - 10:30 | Break | 10:30 - 11:20 | Romeo Brunetti - "Quantum Coordinates for Events" | 11:30 - 12:00 | Discussion | | Session Chair: Paul Sommers | 1:30 - 2:20 | Abhay Ashtekar - "Exploring the Issue of Time Through Quantum Cosmology" | 2:30 - 3:30 | Discussion | | ||