Perspectives on Time and Atemporality in Cosmology and Natural Sciences
The program of the PROTEUS Final Conference is out!
“Perspectives on Time and Atemporality in Cosmology and Natural Sciences”
Sala Napoleonica, Palazzo Greppi, via Sant’Antonio 12
20122 Milan
Monday 17 July 2023
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome
10:00 – 11:15 Jeremy Butterfield “En route to reduction: Lorentzian manifolds and causal sets”
11:30 – 12:45 Richard Dawid “Emergent time and exact dualities”
Lunch
14:00 – 15:15 Sebastian de Haro “On Time and Holes in de Sitter Spacetimes”
Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:00 Julian Barbour “Complexity and a Dynamical Arrow of Time”
17:00 – 19:00 Book Symposium
Enrico Cinti and Marco Sanchioni “I paradossi dei buchi neri. Una spiegazione elementare per comprendere l’universo” (Carocci 2022). Discussant: Mauro Dorato
The event is open to the public.
Tuesday 18 July 2023
9:30 – 10:45 Francesca Vidotto “Quantum Cosmology with no time from covariant Loop Quantum Gravity”
Coffee Break
11:15- 12:30 Presentation of results: PROTEUS Research Team
Lunch
14:30 – 15:45 Emily Adlam “The Temporal Asymmetry of Influence is Not Statistical”
Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:30 Giulia Rubino “Theory Independent Tests of Indefinite Causality”
Conference dinner
Wednesday 19 July 2023
9:30 – 10:45 Vincent Lam “Universality and Effective Temporal Dynamics: An Epistemic Approach Agnostic to Ontology”
Coffee Break
11:15- 12:30 Nick Huggett “Semi-Classical Time in Quantum Cosmology”
Lunch
14:30 – 15:45 Daniele Oriti “A Foundational Trefoil for Spacetime: Quantum Gravity, Hydrodynamics and Cosmology”
Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:30 Salvatore Capozziello “Noether Symmetries in Quantum Cosmology: A Selection Rule for Observable Universes”
Register for free by 5 July, 2023, please email silvia.debianchi@unimi.it