Emergent Gravity :: August 25-29, 2008 / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Center for Theoretical Physics (6-304)
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Program

Click on the name of the speaker to see the title and abstract of the talk. The whole list of talks can be found here.

The program of the excursion can be found here.

Most of the talks will be held in the large seminar room of the Center for Theoretical Physics (in the Helga and Eric Cosman seminar room, number 6C-442, 4th floor). Talks marked with the color will be held in the large seminar room of the physics department (Pappalardo room, room number 4-349, 3rd floor):

 

  CTP seminar room 6C-442, 4th floor
     
  Pappalardo room 4-349, 3rd floor

Maps showing the location of the two rooms can be found on the bottom if this page.

 

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9.00 - 9.45 Sachdev Hu Excursion Zaanen Hossenfelder
9.45 - 10.30 Lloyd Wen Finkelstein Girelli
10.30 - 11.00 coffee break coffee break coffee break coffee break
11.00 - 11.45 Markopoulou Gu Pullin Weinfurter
11.45 - 12.30 Hamma Blencowe Smolin Sotiriou
12.30 - 2.30 lunch break lunch break lunch break lunch break
2.30 - 3.15 Piazza Mottola

Wan

Sindoni
3.15 - 4.00 Oriti Steinacker

Premont-Schwarz

Iftime
4.00 - 4.30 coffee break coffee break coffee break coffee break/conclusion
4.30 - 5.15 Bluhm S. Wolfram
                
Panel discussion

"Time and background independence"
 
5.15 - 6.00 Kopeikin Panel discussion

"Emergence/Schmergence"
               
 
6.00 - 6.45 Xu      


7.00 - 9.30     conference dinner    

 


Panel discussion 1: "Emergence/Schmergence"

Tuesday 5.15 to 6.45 in the Pappalardo room.

The aim of this panel discussion is to discuss the merits of emergence.

Panel participants are:

Bei-Lok Hu

Max Tegmark

X.-G. Wen

S. Wolfram

Olaf Dreyer will moderate the panel discussion.

 

Panel discussion 2: "Time and background independence"

Thursday 4.30 to 6

The aim of this panel discussion is to discuss the tension between the presence of background structures like a preferred time direction or a lattice and background independence. Can these two be present at the same time?

Panel participants are:

Zhengcheng Gu

Fotini Markopoulou

Jorge Pullin

Lee Smolin

This panel discussion will be moderated by Daniele Oriti.

 

 

 

This map shows the location of the two seminar rooms that we are using for the conference:

 

 

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