PERSP Workshop on Space-time and the Wave Function
Barcelona, 19–20 April, 2013.
Organized by Albert Solé
* There are no registration fees but if you are attending, please send a message to Albert.Sole@uab.cat
+ info: http://pagines.uab.cat/psts/wavefunction
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Jeffrey A. Barrett (UC Irvine)
Craig Callender (UC San Diego)
Tim Maudlin (New York)
Alyssa Ney (Rochester)
Xavier Oriols (UAB)
Carlo Rovelli (Marseille)
Mauricio Suárez (Complutense)
Henrik Zinkernagel (U. de Granada)
PROGRAM
Friday 19 April 2013
09:50 – 10:00 Presentation – Albert Solé (UAB)
10:00 – 11:15 Tim Maudlin (New York)
How to Think Non-Local Entities
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 13:00 Carlo Rovelli (Marseille)
The Wave Function Is Not Reality
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:15 Xavier Oriols (UAB)
Many-particle Bohmian Trajectories Without Many-particle Wave Functions: Conceptual Discussion and Practical Computation
16:15 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:45 Henrik Zinkernagel (U. de Granada)
Are We Living in a Quantum World? Bohr on the Wave Function and the Classical/Quantum Divide
17:45 – 18:00 Coffee break
18:00 – 19:15 Alyssa Ney (Rochester)
Does an Adequate Physical Theory Demand a Primitive Ontology?
Saturday 20 April 2013
10:00 – 11:15 Mauricio Suárez (Complutense)
Bohmian Dispositions
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 13:00 Craig Callender (UC San Diego)
Lost in (Hilbert) Space
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:15 Jeffrey A. Barrett (UC Irvine)
Pure Wave Mechanics and the Very Idea of Empirical Adequacy
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 – 18:15 Round table
21:00 Workshop dinner
Venue
Residència d’Investigadors, c/Hospital 64, 08001 Barcelona.
Sponsored by PERSP S1, GRECC and MINECO.