Free Will and Retrocausality in a Quantum World.
Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Winstanley Lecture Theatre [map]
July 1-4, 2014
Schedule | Abstracts | Accommodation | List of Participants | Conference Description
Videos of the conference are available on our YouTube channel.
Schedule. [download pdf]
Tuesday 1 July.
- 12:30–13:30. Sandwiches and Coffee.
- 13:30–15:00. Huw Price (Cambridge). “Two Paths to the Paris Interpretation.” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 15:00–16:00. Ken Wharton (San Jose). “Retrocausal Accounts of Entanglement.” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 16:00–16:30. Coffee break.
- 16:30–18:00. Nicolas Gisin (Geneva). “Quantum correlations in Newtonian space and time: arbitrarily fast communication or nonlocality?” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 18:15–late Drinks reception and finger buffet in the Allhusen Room.
Wednesday 2 July.
- 09:00–10:00. James Ladyman (Bristol). “An Argument for Retrocausality from Weak Values.” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 10:00–10:30. Coffee break.
- 10:30–11:30. Lev Vaidman (Tel Aviv). “Can future measurements affect the present?” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 11:30–12:30. Avshalom Elitzur (Iyar). “Nothing – or a Future Anti-Something? Negative values and time-symmetric causality as possible origin of quantum oddities.” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 12:30–14:00. Lunch break.
- 14:00–15:00. Eliahu Cohen (Tel Aviv). “Rewinding Nature – Measurement, Decoherence and Collapse within the TSVF.” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 15:00–16:00. Adrian Kent (Cambridge). “A Solution to the Lorentzian Quantum Reality Problem.” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 16:00–16:30. Coffee break.
- 16:30–18:00. Yakir Aharonov (Tel Aviv/Chapman) [Talk delivered by Sandu Popescu (Bristol)]. Each Instant of Time a New Universe. [Videos: talk; discussion.]
Thursday 3 July.
- 09:00–10:00. Matt Leifer (Perimeter). “Ontological Models in the Block Universe.” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 10:00–10:30. Coffee break.
- 10:30–11:30. Matt Pusey (Perimeter). “Time-Symmetric Ontologies for Quantum Theory.” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 11:30–12:30. David Miller (Sydney). “Pre-entanglement shows that individual quantum systems do not possess states.” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 12:30–14:00. Lunch break.
- 14:00–15:00. Joe Henson (Imperial/Bristol). “Reviving causality in quantum mechanics: some pitfalls.” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 15:00–16:00. Dustin Lazarovici (Munich). “A time-symmetric relativistic model violating Bell’s inequality.” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 16:00–16:30. Coffee break.
- 16:30–17:30. Ruth Kastner (Maryland). “Why Physics Does Not Preclude Free Will.” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 17:30–18:30. Steven Weinstein (Waterloo). “Degrees of Freedom.” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 19:00–late. Drinks and dinner in the Old Kitchen.
Friday 4 July.
- 09:00–10:00. Tim Palmer (Oxford). “Bell’s Conspiracy and Schrödinger’s Black Cat – Global Invariant Sets as a possible alternative to Retrocausality.” [Videos: talk & discussion.]
- 10:00–10:30. Coffee break.
- 10:30–11:30. Rafael Sorkin (Perimeter). “How interconnected is the quantum world?” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 11:30–12:30. Fay Dowker (Imperial). “Are there Premonitions in Quantum Measure Theory?” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 12:30–14:00. Lunch break.
- 14:00–15:00. Phil Dowe (Queensland). “Who put the ‘cause’ in retrocausality?” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 15:00–16:00. Peter Lewis (Miami). “Retrocausal Compatibilism.” [Videos: talk; discussion.]
- 16:00–16:30. Coffee break.
- 16:30–18:00. Roundtable discussion.
Accommodation for participants is provided at St Catharine’s College.
The conference is part of the John Templeton Foundation-funded project New Agendas for the Study of Time, hosted by the Centre for Time, University of Sydney.
Attendance is by invitation only.
For further information, please contact Matt Farr.