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