MANY-WORLDS INTERPRETATION
Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca in Filosofia e Fondamenti della Fisica
(Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo; Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna; Università del Salento; Università degli Studi dell'Insubria; Comune di Cesena)
Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science (SILFS)
SNF's Project: Metaphysics of Time and Its Occupants
We invite to participation in the XIX International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics to be held in Urbino 5th- 8th September and in Cesena 9th September 2016.
The topic of the school is “MANY-WORLDS INTERPRETATIONS, Quantum mechanics, metaphysics and cosmology”. It will feature morning lectures given by Wayne Myrvold (Western University) and Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University); and afternoon seminars given by Claudio Calosi (University of Neuchatel), Gennaro Auletta (University of Cassino), and Marica Branchesi (University of Urbino) and F.A. Muller (Erasmus University Rotterdam). Lectures and seminars will be held in English, while the mock trial of September 9th will be in Italian.
Students, graduate students and early career researchers must apply for participation by sending
1) a CV
2) a cover letter explaining their reasons for applying.
Attendance is free of charge for all admitted participants.
The application must be sent to: cirfis.scuolaestiva@gmail.com
no later than 1st of August 2016. The subject line should be “Participation. XIX international summer school in philosophy of physics”.
Notification of acceptance is expected no later than 15th of August.
Venue:
University of Urbino, Palazzo Albani, room B3, via Timoteo Viti 10, Urbino (PU), 60129 Italy.
Download URBINO map: www.uniurb.it/msa/CartinaUrbino.pdf
Cesena (FC), Centro Culturale S. Biagio, via Aldini 24.
Info:
How to reach Urbino and Cesena
Where to sleep in Urbino and Cesena
For further info write to: cirfis.scuolaestiva@gmail.com
XIX International Summer School in Philosophy of Physics
MANY-WORLDS INTERPRETATIONS
Quantum mechanics, metaphysics and cosmology
Urbino 5th- 8th September, Cesena 9th September 2016
5th September - Urbino
15.00-15.30 Gino Tarozzi and Vincenzo Fano (University of Urbino)
Introduction to the School and Presentation of the Seminars
15.30-17:15 Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University)
Everett's 1957 thesis
17.30-19:15 Claudio Calosi (University of Neuchatel)
Wolds, numbers, properties and times
6th September - Urbino
9.00-11.00 Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University)
Decoherence and Worlds
11.30 -13.30 F.A. Muller (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
What is an interpretation of QM?
15.30 – 16.50 Claudio Calosi (University of Neuchatel)
Many but one
7th September - Urbino
9.00-11.00 Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University)
Probabilities
11.30 -13.30 F.A. Muller Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Understanding Everett: What It Takes
15.30 – 16.50 Gennaro Auletta (University of Cassino)
The MWI is not a solution to the Measurement Problem but… (I)
8th September - Urbino
9.00-11.00 Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University)
Locality and Spacetime
11.30 -13.30 Gennaro Auletta (University of Cassino)
The MWI is not a solution to the Measurement Problem but… (II)
15.30- 16.50 Filippo Martelli (University of Urbino)
Astrophysical implications from the detection of gravitational waves originating from a binary black-hole merger
9th September - Cesena
15:00 – 18.00 Processo popolare: Ci sono veramente molti mondi?
Avvocati difensori del sì: Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University), Andrea Borghini (College of the Holy Cross) e Giovanni Macchia (University of Urbino)
Avvocati difensori del no: Vincenzo Fano (University of Urbino), Flavia Marcacci (Pontifical Lateran University) e Gino Tarozzi (University of Urbino).
Giudice: Mario Alai (University of Urbino)
Giuria popolare: tutto il pubblico.