Talks: Laura Felline

Laura Felline ( Rome 3) will be visiting the Geneva Symmetry Group (GSG) next week. The GSG is happy to present two talks by her, a more formal talk on Wednesday, and an informal seminar on Thursday (abstracts below):

Wednesday, 2 October 2019, at 18:15 in Room L208 (Landolt):

Laura Felline (Rome 3): Quantum theory is not only about information

Thursday, 3 October 2019, at 16:15 in room B111 (Bastions):

Laura Felline (Rome 3): Mechanistic explanation in physics: the measurement problem

Anyone who wishes to attend is welcome.

Job: Scientific Collaborator

Call for Applications:

SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATOR
in the project ‘To and Fro: Scientific Metaphysics at Physics’s Frontiers’

University of Geneva

The Department of Philosophy in Geneva solicits applications for a research position (‘collaborateur scientifique’), starting 1 September 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation grant ‘To and Fro: Scientific Metaphysics at Physics’s Frontiers’. The position will be funded for up to 9 months from the starting date.

Talks: Patricia Palacios

Patricia Palacios (University of Salzburg) will be visiting the Geneva Symmetry Group (GSG) this week. The GSG is happy to present two talks by her, a more formal talk on Wednesday, and an informal seminar on Thursday (abstracts below):

Wednesday, 15 May 2019, at 18:15 in Room L208 (Landolt):

Patricia Palacios (University of Salzburg, with Lapo Casetti): Re-defining equilibrium for long-range interacting systems

Thursday, 16 May 2019, at 16:15 in room B002 (Bastions):

Patricia Palacios (University of Salzburg, with Sean Gryb and Karim Thébault): On the universality of Hawking radiation

Anyone who wishes to attend is welcome.

Talks this week: Giovanni Valente

Giovanni Valente (Politecnico di Milano) will be visiting the Geneva Symmetry Group (GSG) this week. The GSG is happy to present two talks by him, a more formal talk on Wednesday, and an informal seminar on Thursday (abstracts below):

Wednesday, 8 May 2019, at 18:15 in Room L208 (Landolt):

Giovanni Valente (Politecnico di Milano): Spontaneous symmetry breaking and physical inequivalence: the case of quantum statistical mechanics

Thursday, 9 May 2019, at 16:15 in room B002 (Bastions):

Giovanni Valente (Politecnico di Milano): On the paradox of reversible processes in thermodynamics

Anyone who wishes to attend is welcome.

Talks this week: Miklos Redei

Miklos Redei (London School of Economics) will be visiting the Geneva Symmetry Group (GSG) this week. The GSG is happy to present two talks by him, a more formal talk on Wednesday, and an informal seminar on Thursday (abstracts below):

Wednesday, 17 April 2019, at 18:15 in Room L208 (Landolt):

Miklos Redei (London School of Economics): Categorial local quantum physics

Thursday, 18 April 2019, at 16:15 in room B002 (Bastions):

Miklos Redei (London School of Economics): Some features of Bayesian learning based on conditioning using conditional expectations

Anyone who wishes to attend is welcome.

Seminar this week: Cristian Mariani

The Geneva Symmetry Group is happy to present a seminar this Thursday by Cristian Mariani, who currently visiting from the University of Milan:

Thursday, 11 April 2019, at 16:15 in room B002 (Bastions):

Cristian Mariani (Milano): The indeterminate present and the open future

Talk this week: Hans Christian Oettinger

The Geneva Symmetry Group is happy to present a seminar by Hans Christian Oettinger (ETH Zürich) this Thursday (no abstract):

Thursday, 28 March 2019, at 16:15 in room B002 (Bastions):

Hans Christian Oettinger (ETH Zürich): Are the fundamental equations of Nature irreversible?

Anyone who wishes to attend is welcome.

Seminar this week: Karen Crowther

The Geneva Symmetry Group is happy to present a seminar by our own Karen Crowther this Thursday:

Thursday, 21 March 2019, at 16:15 in room B002 (Bastions):

Karen Crowther (Geneva): Levels and fundamentality in the metaphysics of physics

Talks this week: Bryan Roberts

Bryan Roberts (London School of Economics) will be visiting the Geneva Symmetry Group (GSG) this week. The GSG is happy to present two talks by him, a more formal talk on Wednesday, and an informal seminar on Thursday (abstracts below):

Wednesday, 13 March 2019, at 18:15 in Room L208 (Landolt):

Bryan Roberts (London School of Economics): Time reversal

Thursday, 14 March 2019, at 16:15 in room B002 (Bastions):

Bryan Roberts (London School of Economics): On the future of the weakly interacting arrow of time

Anyone who wishes to attend is welcome.

Seminar this week: Claudio Calosi

The Geneva Symmetry Group is happy to present a seminar by our own Claudio Calosi this Thursday:

Thursday, 7 March 2019, at 16:15 in room B002 (Bastions):

Claudio Calosi (Geneva): Relativistic persistence

Abstract: The paper presents a rigorous formulation of different metaphysics of persistence in relativistic spacetimes. Then, it addresses whether relativistic physics favors one metaphysics of persistence over another. It is argued that the relativistic argument is not conclusive, yet it puts considerable pressure on different variants of endurantism, roughly the view that objects persist by being wholly present at each time of their existence.