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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
|
