Program and participants

1. The use of analogies in physics: historical and philosophical perspectives

• Don Howard (Notre Dame)

• John Norton (Pittsburgh)

2. Gravity and thermodynamics

• Bob Wald (Chicago)

• Erik Verlinde (Amsterdam)

3. Analogy across physics: from theory to experiment I

• George Pickett (Lancaster)

• Bill Unruh (Vancouver)

4. Analogy across physics: from theory to experiment II

• Gordon Semenoff (Vancouver)

• Leo Kadanoff (Chicago)

5. Dualities in string theory

• Gary Horowitz (UC Santa Barbara)

6. Philosophical reflections

• Dualities: Elena Castellani (Florence)

• Analogies: Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge)

Discussants

• Jeroen van Dongen (Utrecht)

• Paul Bartha (Vancouver)

Non-speaking Board members

• Geoffrey Hellman (Minnesota)

• Michel Janssen (Minnesota)

• Serge Rudaz (Minnesota)

• Philip Stamp (Vancouver)

• Jos Uffink (Minnesota)

List of participants

Slides from talks