Program

Thursday, May 25th 2023

Amphipole, Room 315.1, Université de Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, VD, Switzerland

 [All times are CET]

09.30 - 10.15

Time reversing quantum systems

Cristian López (University of Lausanne)

10.15 – 11.00

Super-substantivalism, explanatory dependence, and general relativity

Manuel Herrera (University of Buenos Aires)

11.00 – 11.30

Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.30

Pure shape dynamics, self-subsisting structures, and the nature of time

Antonio Vassallo (WUT)

12.30 – 14.30

Lunch Break

14.30 – 15.00

Losing time in classical and quantum cosmology

Charlotte Erika Zito (University of Geneva) and Marta Pedroni (University of Geneva)

15.00 – 15.30

Burgess and the Bucket: The Emergence of Spacetime in Classical Theories of Gravitation

Lorenzo Cocco (University of Geneva) and Joshua Babic (University of Geneva)

15.30 – 16.00

Coffee Break

16.00 – 16.30

Is spacetime an accident? (joint work with Baptiste Le Bihan)

Christian Wüthrich (University of Geneva)

16.30 – 17.00

Baby Universes Need Parental Watch

Saakshi Dulani  (University of Geneva) and Baptiste Le Bihan (University of Geneva)

17.00 – 18.00

Causation and quantum gravity

Sam Baron (Australian Catholic University)