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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
8:30-9:00am  Registration Atrium 
9:00-9:30am Leo Kadanoff,  
University of Chicago

Is the Renormalization Group Really that Ugly? 

Sky Room 
9:30-10:00am Robert Batterman,
University of Pittsburgh		Tyranny of Scales Discussion Sky Room 
10:00 - 10:30am  Discussion Sky Room 
10:30-11:00am   Coffee Break Black Hole Bistro 
11:00-11:30am Doreen Fraser, 
University of Waterloo		Emergence as Novel Explanation: Statistical Mechanics vs. Quantum Field Theory Sky Room 
11:30-12:00pm Jon Bain, 
Polytechnic Institute of New York University		Concepts of Emergence Appropriate for Effective Field Theories Sky Room 
12:00-12:30pm  DiscussionSky Room 
12:30 - 12:40pm  Conference Photo Atrium 
12:40-2:00pm  Lunch Black Hole Bistro 
2:00-3:30pm Yves Couder,
Ecole Normale Superieure 		A Macroscopic-scale Wave-particle Duality: the Role of a Wave Mediated Path MemoryTime/Space Room 
3:30-4:00pm  Coffee Break Black Hole Bistro 
4:00-4:30pm Nigel Goldenfeld, 
University of Illinois		Emergence and Minimal Models in Condensed Matter Physics and Biology  Sky Room 
4:30-5:00pm  Discussion Sky Room 

Thursday, October 27, 2011

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
9:30-10:00am Gordon Belot,
University of Michigan 		Arguments for the Emergence of Spacetime Topology Sky Room 
10:00-10:30am Bill Unruh,
University of British Columbia 		Emergence/analogy and Hawking RadiationSky Room 
10:30-11:00am  Coffee BreakBlack Hole Bistro 
11:00-11:30am  Silke Weinfurtner,
SISSA 		Quantum Gravity Laboratory Sky Room 
11:30-12:00pm  Discussion Sky Room 
12:00-2:00pm  Lunch Black Hole Bistro 
2:00-2:30pm Laura Ruetsche,
University of Michigan 		Take it to the Thermodynamic LimitSky Room 
2:30-3:00pm Ramamurti Shankar, 
Yale University 		Emergent Lorentz Invariance in Superconductors and its Novel Consequences  Sky Room 
3:00-3:30pm  Coffee BreakBlack Hole Bistro 
3:30-4:00pm Ted Jacobson,
University of Maryland 		Can Lorentz Symmetry be Emergent? Sky Room 
4:00-5:00pm  Discussion Sky Room 
6:00pm  Banquet Black Hole Bistro 

Friday, October 28, 2011

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation
9:00-9:30am Alioscia Hamma,
Perimeter Institute 		Entanglement and the Emergence of ThermalizationSky Room 
9:30-10:00am Philip Stamp,
University of British Columbia		Decoherence and Effective Field Theories  Sky Room 
10:00-10:30am Margaret Morrison, 
University of Toronto		Why is More Different?Sky Room 
10:30-11:00am  Coffee Break Black Hole Bistro 
11:00-11:30am  Andrew Wayne,
University of Guelph		Emegence and Effective Field Theories in Gravitational Physics Sky Room 
11:30-12:00pm  Discussion Sky Room 
12:00-2:00pm  Lunch Black Hole Bistro 
2:00-2:30pm Ganapathy Baskaran,
Institute of Mathematical Sciences 		More is Different in the Quantum World, in its Own Way Space Room 
2:30-3:00pm Lee Smolin,
Perimeter Institute   		Does Time Emerge from Timeless Laws, or do Laws of Nature Emerge in Time? Space Room
3:00-3:30pm  DiscussionSpace Room
3:30-4:00pm  Coffee BreakBlack Hole Bistro
4:00-4:30pm  Closing Panel Discussion Space Room 

 

 
 
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