Conference Program

Conference Poster - Format A4 or Format Letter

There will be two book exhibitions during the conference - by

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The Welcome reception will start at 19:30 on May 29, 2016 at the terrace of the main restaurant of hotel Lilia.

I. Talks

Invited talks - 45 min + 15 min questions
Talks - 25 min + 5 min questions
Only laptops and projectors for the presentations will be available

Monday, May 30, 2016

8:30 - Registration

9:15 - 9:30 Welcome Remarks

Chair: Pablo Acuna (Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso)

9:30-10:30 - Invited talk - Francesca Vidotto (Radboud University), The ontology of quantum spacetime

10:30-11:00 - Dennis Dieks (Utrecht University), Holography and Emergence

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and free discussions

11:30-12:00 - F. A. Muller (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Utrecht University), Space-Time Structuralism

12:00-12:30 - Anguel S. Stefanov (Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at BAS), About the Substantive Nature of Space-Time

12:30-13:00 - Antonella Foligno (University of Urbino), Incongruent Counterparts and the Nature of Space

13:00-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-16:00 - Free discussions on the beach or around the swimming pool on the roof of hotel Lilia (9th floor)

Chair: Petr Svarny (Charles University, Prague)

16:00-16:30 - James P. Binkoski (Dartmouth College), What is a Classical Field?

16:30-17:00 - Louis Vervoort (Minkowski Institute), Unification of theories in Hilbert Space and in Minkowski Space: Remark on some fundamental theorems

17:00:17:30 - Coffee break and free discussions

17:30-18:00 - Juliusz Doboszewski (Jagiellonian University), On the fate of "indeterministic" spacetimes beyond classical general relativity

18:00-18:30 - Adan Sus (University of Valladolid), How to be a realist about relativistic spacetime without believing in magical explanations: The Dynamical Approach?

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Chair: Raymond Aschheim (Quantum Gravity Research)

9:30-10:30 - Invited talk - Oliver Pooley (University of Oxford), Spacetime and the passage of time

10:30-11:00 - James Owen Weatherall (University of California, Irvine), Some Philosophical Prehistory of the (Earman-Norton-Stachel) "Hole Argument"

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and free discussions

11:30-12:00 - Vincent Lam (University of Lausanne) and Christian Wuthrich (University of Geneva), Spacetime is as spacetime does

12:00-12:30 - Joshua Norton (American University of Beirut), Spin-networks, as Real as Spacetime

12:30-13:00 - Marcelo M Amaral (Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, Pennsylvania State University), Raymond Aschheim (Quantum Gravity Research), Klee Irwin (Quantum Gravity Research), Quantum Walks On Spin Networks

13:00-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-16:00 - Free discussions on the beach or around the swimming pool on the roof of hotel Lilia (9th floor)

Chair: Louis Vervoort (Minkowski Institute)

16:00-16:30 - Petr Svarny (Charles University, Prague), Copernican turn in temporal logic

16:30-17:00 - Ruward Mulder and Dennis Dieks (Utrecht University), Paradoxes of Time Travel Revisited

17:00:17:30 - Coffee break and free discussions

17:30-18:30 - Invited talk - Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht University), Black holes and particle physics: on the topology of space-time

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Chair: Anguel S. Stefanov (Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at BAS)

9:30-10:30 - Invited talk - Marco Giovanelli (University of Tuebingen), 100 Years of Point-Coincidences. Adventures and Misadventures of the Point-Coincidence Argument

10:30-11:00 - Emily Fox-Penner (Harvard College), Spacetime and the Patchwork Theory of Laws of Nature

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and free discussions

11:30-12:00 - Mayeul Arminjon (CNRS and Universite Grenoble-Alpes), Is Spacetime as Physical as Is Space?

12:00-12:30 - Thomas Benda (National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan), An abstract ontology of relativistic spacetime

12:30-13:00 - Marcoen J.T.F. Cabbolet (Free University of Brussels), On the Nature of Spacetime: Special Relativity in Five Dimensions

13:00-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-16:00 - Free discussions on the beach or around the swimming pool on the roof of hotel Lilia (9th floor)

Chair: Mayeul Arminjon (CNRS and Universite Grenoble-Alpes)

16:00-16:30 - Maaneli Derakhshani (Utrecht University), Probing a Gravitational Cat State: Experimental Possibilities

16:30-17:00 - Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica (National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering - Horia Hulubei, Bucharest), The meaning of spacetime singularities

17:00:17:30 - Coffee break and free discussions

17:30-18:00 - Pablo Acuna (Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso), Minkowski Spacetime and Lorentz Invariance: the cart and the horse or two sides of a single coin?

18:00-18:30 - Marc Holman (Utrecht University), How Problematic is the Near-Euclidean Nature of the Universe's Spatial Geometry?

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Chair: Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica (National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering - Horia Hulubei, Bucharest)

9:30-10:00 - Reserved for eventual late submissions

10:00-10:30 - Vittorio Giovannetti (NEST-INFM and Scuola Normale Superiore), Seth Lloyd (RLE and Dept. of Mech. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Lorenzo Maccone (Dip. Fisica "A. Volta" and INFN Sez. Pavia, Universita di Pavia), Quantum Time

10:30-11:00 - Louis Marchildon (Universite du Quebec, Trois-Rivieres), Spacetime in Everett's interpretation of quantum mechanics

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break and free discussions

11:30-12:00 - Samuel Fletcher (University of Minnesota), On the Alleged Incommensurability of Newtonian and Relativistic Mass

12:00-12:30 - Antonio Dobado (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Unruh effect

12:30-13:00 - Vesselin Petkov (Minkowski Institute), Might have Minkowski discovered the cause of gravity before Einstein?

13:00-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-16:00 - Free discussions on the beach or around the swimming pool on the roof of hotel Lilia (9th floor)

Chair: Adan Sus (University of Valladolid)

16:00-16:30 - John Byron Manchak (University of California, Irvine), Is Spacetime Inextendible?

16:30-17:00 - Sung-Won Kim (Ewha Womans University, Seoul), Can the wormhole spacetime be detected?

17:00:17:30 - Coffee break and free discussions

17:30:18:30 - Poster Presentations:

II. Poster presentations (confirmed participation)

Ivan A. Karpenko (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow), What is time in some modern physics theories: interpretation problems

Natalia Sanchez-Kuntz, Eduardo Nahmad-Achar (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Apdo), Spacetime and Factuality: The physics that makes the quantum become local while satisfying Bell's inequality

Federico Silvagni (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Spacetime in Language

Antoine A.J. van de Ven (University of Twente), On Simultaneity and Quantum Gravity

If needed - Guidelines for Session Chairs: APS; IMRA

Conference room:

Fourth International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime

Conference program

I. Talks

II. Poster presentations (confirmed participation)

Fourth International Conference
on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime