Emergence
a PITP workshop

May 15-18, 2005
Vancouver, BC

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DATE: Mon, May 16, 2005 VENUE: SUB Auditorium (UBC)
TIME EVENT/SPEAKER TITLE/DETAILS
0845-0900 PCE Stamp Emergence Workshop: Opening Remarks
0900-0940 PW Anderson Emergence and the Theory of Everything
0945-1025 L Susskind The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
1030-1045 Refreshments  
1045-1125 FDM Haldane Berry's Phase and the Quantum Geometry of the Fermi Surface
1130-1230 Discussion Session  
1230-1240 GA Sawatzky Showcase: Closing Remarks
1240-1400 Lunch Please note: we are in the SUB on this day: since there are many places to buy food there, the lunch period is shorter than usual.
1400-1435 P Brumer When is Quantum Decoherence Dynamics Classical?
1440-1515 PCE Stamp Mechanisms of Decoherence and Disentanglement
1520-1540 Refreshments  
1540-1615 G Aeppli Coherence and the Anti-Glass
1620-1655 B Barbara Experiments on the Spin Bath in Spin Tunneling Systems
1700-1800 Discussion Session  
1800 onward Dinner, etc  

DATE: Tues, May 17, 2005 VENUE: Dodson Room, UBC Library
TIME EVENT/SPEAKER TITLE/DETAILS
0900-0935 D Howard How to Think About Emergence: Reduction and Supervenience
0940-1015 MY Choi Dynamics of Complex Systems
1015-1030 Refreshments  
1030-1105 A Crofts Semantic Transmission and the Emergent Mind
1110-1140 PCW Davies Emergent Biological Principles and Computational Capacity
1145-1240 Discussion Session  
1240-1400 Lunch  
1400-1435 V Yakovenko The Statistical Mechanics of Money
1440-1515 I Ekeland Emergence and the Economy
1520-1540 Refreshments  
1540-1615 W Eckhardt Shared Misconceptions in Emergentism and Reductionism
1620-1655 R Goldstein Motility, Mixing and Multi-Cellularity
1700-1800 Discussion Session  

DATE: Wed, May 18, 2005 VENUE: Dodson Room, UBC Library
TIME EVENT/SPEAKER TITLE/DETAILS
0900-0935 J Tollaksen Quantum Mechanics and Emergence
0940-1015 GA Sawatzky The Enduring Mystery of Spectral Weight Transfer
1020-1040 Refreshments  
1040-1230 Extended Discussion  
1230-1240 PW Anderson Summary Remarks
1240-whenever Lunch  

End of EMERGENCE Workshop