February 2023 - philphysmunich

CfR: Foundations of Observational, Classical and Semi-Classical Gravitational Physics and The Problem of Agency and Laws of Nature (MCMP/LMU Munich, 28-31 March 2023)
by Erik Curiel Feb. 17, 2023

Feb. 17, 2023

********************************************* The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy invites registration for the following event: Foundations of Observational, Classical and Semi-Classical Gravitational Physics and The Problem of Agency and Laws of Nature MCMP, LMU Munich 28-31 March 2023 https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/events/workshops/container/fnd… ********************************************* *Idea and Motivation* The conference of "Foundations of Gravitational Physics and The Problem of Agency and Laws of Nature" will address various topics in theoretical physics and foundations of physics, focusing on gravitational physics and on agency and physical laws. Invited physicists and philosophers have been chosen to represent different approaches to such topics (semi-classical gravity, holography, quantum gravity theories, foundations of physics) and to discuss different kinds of issues (locality, the nature of black hole entropy, approaches to the Information-Loss Paradox, the emergence of classicality in approaches to QG, quantum reference frames, epistemology and methodology of theory and of observation, ontology, inter alia), in an attempt to foster a dialogue among the different fields. Contributed talks from theoretical physicists, observational astronomers and philosophers will be chosen in part so as to complement the perspectives of the invited speakers. Such a gathering will spur new, innovative approaches to the above mentioned problems, as well as connecting and invigorating work on existing approaches. It will also provide young researchers with a comprehensive introduction to the state of the art of the various central fields of research, and established researchers with a comprehensive overview. * * *Confirmed Speakers * Ana Alonso Serrano, <https://www.aei.mpg.de/305032/ana-alonso-serrano> Goncalo Araujo-Regado <https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/person/ga365> Ali Barzegar <https://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/lsluest/oriti_group/members/post…> Jibril Ben Achour <https://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/lsluest/oriti_group/members/post…> Časlav Brukner <https://www.iqoqi-vienna.at/people/staff/caslav-brukner> Eugenia Colafranceschi <https://www.physics.ucsb.edu/people/eugenia-colafranceschi> Gemma De las Quevas <https://www.uibk.ac.at/th-physik/staff/de-las-cuevas/> Shep Doeleman <https://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/people/shep-doeleman> John Dougherty <https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/people/faculty/dougherty_john/…> Jamee Elder <https://bhi.fas.harvard.edu/people/jamee-elder> Felix Finster <https://www.uni-regensburg.de/mathematik/mathematik-1/startseite/index.html> Henrique Gomes <https://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/people/henrique-de-andrade-gomes/> Anne-Catherine de la Hamette <https://www.iqoqi-vienna.at/people/staff/anne-catherine-de-la-hamette> Vincent Lam <https://www.philosophie.unibe.ch/about_us/staff/lam/index_eng.html> Niels Martens <https://martensniels.wordpress.com/> Prahar Mitra <https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/person/pm729> Siddharth Muthukrishnan <https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/phys/student_display.cfm?Person_ID=1036025> Ramesh Narayan <https://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/people/ramesh-narayan> Daniele Pranzetti <https://inspirehep.net/authors/1052680> Renato Renner <https://itp.phys.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.html?persid=59275> Marika Taylor <https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x927j/professor-marika-taylor> Jos Uffink <https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/jbuffink> * * *Registration and venue* The conference will be held in person at LMU Munich, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, room (D) Z003, 80539 München Please send registration requests by 15 March 2023 using the following form: https://forms.gle/gqaxG15547yoHfu1A There are no fees for the conference as well for the conference dinners. *Dates and Deadlines* Registration Deadline: 15 March 2023 Conference dinners will take place on Tuesday, the 28th of March and Thursday, the 30th of March. *Organizers* Erik Curiel <http://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/people/faculty/curiel/index.html> Daniele Oriti <https://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/lsluest/members/asc/sci_mem/orit…> Manus Visser <https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/person/mv551> Aron Wall <https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/research/hep/person/aw846> For information about practical matters and registration, please contact one of the organisers. -- Erik Curiel http://strangebeautiful.com wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität http://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de Distinguished Scholar Black Hole Initiative Harvard University http://bhi.fas.harvard.edu Principal Investigator Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime Consortium https://www.qiss.fr

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2nd CFP - Third Hermann Minkowski Meeting on the Foundations of Spacetime Physics
by vpetkov＠minkowskiinstitute.org Feb. 16, 2023

Feb. 16, 2023

Dear Colleagues, The Third Hermann Minkowski Meeting on the Foundations of Spacetime Physics will be held in the famous Black Sea resort "Albena" (near Varna, Bulgaria) from 15 to 18 May 2023: http://www.minkowskiinstitute.org/meetings/2023/ It will commemorate the 115th anniversary of Minkowski's 1908 world-view-changing lecture "Space and Time," which presented the novel ideas of the spacetime structure of the world and the four-dimensional physics of spacetime. In addition to technical papers on areas related to Minkowski's contributions to the foundations of spacetime physics, papers on closely related topics, including on conceptual issues of spacetime physics, will be also welcome. There will be a special session on how Hermann Minkowski, had he been alive in 1915, might have reformulated Einstein's general relativity: whether gravitational phenomena can be fully accounted for by the non-Euclidean geometry of spacetime without the need to assume that gravitation is a physical interaction; in 1921 Eddington even mentioned this possibility explicitly - "gravitation as a separate agency becomes unnecessary" (A. S. Eddington, The Relativity of Time, Nature 106, 802-804, 17 February 1921). Deadline for abstract submission: February 28, 2023 Contributed papers in the form of extended abstracts of up to two pages should be emailed to minkowski2023(a)minkowskiinstitute.org by February 28, 2023. Submissions will be reviewed and notification of acceptance will be sent by March 15, 2023. Scientific Organizing Committee: Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State University) Valeria Ferrari (University of Rome "La Sapienza") David Garfinkle (Okland University) Robert Geroch (University of Chicago) James Isenberg (University of Oregon) Claus Kiefer (University of Cologne) Vesselin Petkov (Minkowski Institute, Montreal) Carlo Rovelli (Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy) Mairi Sakellariadou (King's College London, University of London) Nick Woodhouse (University of Oxford, Clay Mathematics Institute) On behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee, Vesselin Petkov Minkowski Institute http://www.minkowskiinstitute.org/ Montreal, Canada http://spacetimecentre.org/vpetkov/

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Fwd: [qiss] World Quantum Day 2023: join the global celebration!
by Erik Curiel Feb. 16, 2023

Feb. 16, 2023

This may be of interest to some of y'all... -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [qiss] World Quantum Day 2023: join the global celebration! Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 16:37:29 +0000 From: Yasser Omar <yasser.omar(a)tecnico.ulisboa.pt> To: qiss(a)lists.oeaw.ac.at ***World Quantum Day 2023: join the global celebration!* The *World Quantum Day* <https://worldquantumday.org/>, celebrated on 14 April,**is an initiative from quantum scientists from 65+ countries <https://worldquantumday.org/about-us/>, aiming at promoting the public understanding of Quantum Science and Quantum Technology around the World. It is a decentralized and bottom-up initiative, inviting all scientists, engineers, educators, communicators, entrepreneurs, technologists, historians, philosophers, artists, museologists, producers, etc., and their organisations, to develop their own activities, such as outreach talks, exhibitions, lab tours, panel discussions, interviews, artistic creations, etc., to celebrate the *World Quantum Day* <https://worldquantumday.org/> around the World. The *World Quantum Day* <https://worldquantumday.org/> was officially launched in 2022, with 200+ events, in 5 continents, in 44+ countries, 193+ cities, in 17+ different languages <https://worldquantumday.web.cern.ch/wqd-events2022>. This year we aim at reaching an even wider audience, and we encourage you to organise your own event, in your country/city/organisation, in your language <https://worldquantumday.org/translating-wqd/>, and celebrate all domains of Quantum Science, including atomic and molecular physics, high-energy physics, condensed-matter physics, astrophysics, cosmology, quantum gravity, quantum plasmas, quantum optics, quantum information science, quantum computer science, quantum metrology, quantum engineering, quantum chemistry, quantum thermodynamics, quantum foundations, etc., as well as their history <https://worldquantumday.org/quantum-calendar/>, their mathematical foundations, their technological applications, and their philosophical and societal implications. Docreate and submit your own event <https://worldquantumday.web.cern.ch/submission-form>! And feel free to use the public domain logo of the World Quantum Day <https://worldquantumday.org/graphics/>. The *World Quantum Day* <https://worldquantumday.org/> is celebrated *on, and around, 14 April*. You can find examples from past World Quantum Day events <https://worldquantumday.web.cern.ch/wqd-events2022>, as well as of upcoming and ongoing events <https://worldquantumday.web.cern.ch/events>, in the World Quantum Day website <https://worldquantumday.org/>. This year's *World Quantum Day* <https://worldquantumday.org/> is also a great opportunity to highlight the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/summary/> “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. It is a special occasion to celebrate this fundamental aspect of Quantum Science, and how it is at the origin of novel and disruptive information technologies, such as quantum computing, quantum communications, and quantum sensing, which may impact our society in the future. See how to engage at: https://worldquantumday.org/how-to-engage/ Submit your event at: https://worldquantumday.web.cern.ch/submission-form Follows us on Twitter: @WorldQuantumDay <https://twitter.com/WorldQuantumDay> Use the hashtag: #WorldQuantumDay Subscribe to the World Quantum Day News mailing list: https://mlists.ist.utl.pt/mailman/listinfo/groups.phys-info.wqd-news Subscribe to our YouTube channel <https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldQuantumDay> and watch/share our latest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2NF7RsGN8 Share this message, and the World Quantum Day call for action: https://worldquantumday.org/2023/02/15/world-quantum-day-2023-join-the-glob… Find more information at: https://worldquantumday.org/ Join us in celebrating the World Quantum Day on, and around, 14 April 2023! Let's quantum! The World Quantum Day Team <https://worldquantumday.org/> https://worldquantumday.org/

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