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The contributed talk sessions will be held on Monday and Tuesday afternoons.
The poster session will be held on Wednesday afternoon.

Sunday September 28

Time	Speaker or Event	Topic
9:15 - 9:50	Registration
9:50 - 10:00	OPENING
	SESSION CHAIR: Hardy
10:00 - 11:00	Barbour	The Theory of Duration and Clock
11:00 - 11:45	COFFEE BREAK
11:45 - 12:45	Brown	Clocks and time in quantum theory
12:45 - 2:00	LUNCH
	SESSION CHAIR: Ismael
2:00 - 3:00	Norton	Why Constructive Relativity Fails
3:00 - 4:00	Vaidman	The Two State Vector Formalism
4:00 - 4:30	COFFEE BREAK
4:30 - 5:30	Tumulka	Time in Bohmian Mechanics

Monday September 29

Time	Speaker or Event	Topic
	SESSION CHAIR: Bartlett
9:00 - 10:00	Unruh	A voyage in time
10:00 - 11:00	Dowe	Philosophical Theories of Time meet Quantum Gravity
11:00 - 11:45	COFFEE BREAK
11:45 - 12:45	Steinberg	Thinking Inside the Box: Weakly Measuring Postselected Ensembles
12:45 - 2:00	LUNCH
	SESSION CHAIR: Maroney
2:00 - 2:30	Milburn	Relational time and intrinsic decoherence
2:30 - 3:00	Westman	A Candidate of a Psi-Epistemic Theory
3:00 - 3:30	Weinstein	Decoherence and the (non)emergence of classicality
3:30 - 4:00	COFFEE BREAK
4:00 - 4:30	Bartlett	Quantum reference frames and relationalism in quantum theory
4:30 - 5:00	Goyal	From Information Geometry to Quantum Theory
5:00 - 5:30	Vaccaro	Origin of the anthropocentric flow of time?

Tuesday September 30

Time	Speaker or Event	Topic
	SESSION CHAIR: Price
9:00 - 10:00	Penrose	Clocks at the Big Bang? Quantum gravity is not what you think!
10:00 - 11:00	Myrvold	Relativistic Quantum State Evolution: Narratability and Relativity
11:00 - 11:45	COFFEE BREAK
11:45 - 12:45	Uffink	On the time-energy uncertainty relation
12:45 - 2:00	LUNCH
	SESSION CHAIR: Wiseman
2:00 - 2:30	Maroney	Does a Computer have an Arrow of Time?
2:30 - 3:00	Sinha	The three - slit experiment
3:00 - 3:30	Erez	Time-Energy Uncertainty and short-time Nonequilirium Thermodynamics
3:30 - 4:00	COFFEE BREAK
4:00 - 4:30	Ismael	Chance and Romance: a marriage of classical and quantum probability
4:30 - 5:00	Cavalcanti	Newcomb's problem and Bell's theorem
6:00	CONFERENCE BANQUET

Wednesday October 1

Time	Speaker or Event	Topic
	SESSION CHAIR: Milburn
9:00 - 10:00	Price	Toy Models for Retrocausality
10:00 - 11:00	Abramsky	Causality and Information Flow in Quantum Protocols
11:00 - 11:45	COFFEE BREAK
11:45 - 12:45	Turok	Time and the big bang
12:45 - 2:00	LUNCH
2:00 - 3:30	Colloquium: Barbour	Was Spacetime a Glorious Historical Accident?
3:30 - 6:00	Poster Session

Thursday October 2

Time	Speaker or Event	Topic
	SESSION CHAIR: Westman
9:00 - 10:00	Sorkin	Solved and unsolved problems of time in quantum gravity
10:00 - 11:00	Kent	Theory Confirmation in One World and its Failure in Many
11:00 - 11:45	COFFEE BREAK
11:45 - 12:45	Smolin	On the reality of time and the evolution of laws
12:45 - 2:00	LUNCH
2:00 - 4:00	Panel Discussion
4:00 - 4:30	Finale

All talks will be recorded and made availalble for viewing at the end of each day at http://www.pirsa.org/