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Thursday, May 20 | Time | Speaker or Event
| Topic | Location | 8:30 - 8:55 am
| Registration - Coffee served in Black Hole Bistro | | Atrium &
Black Hole Bistro
| 8:55 - 9:00 am
| Introductory Remarks by the
Scientific Organizing Committee | | Alice Room (#301)
| | Session A: Laws and the limits of explanation | 9:00 - 10:20 am
| John Roberts
University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill | Laws, counterfactuals, fine-tuning and measurement | Alice Room (#301) | 10:20 -10:40 am
| Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro | 10:40 - 12:00 pm
| Marcelo Gleiser
Dartmouth College | What can we know of the world? | Alice Room (#301) | 12:00 - 1:00 pm
| Lunch
| | Black Hole Bistro | | Session B: Laws in cosmology | 1:30 - 2:50 pm
| Chris Smeenk
University of
Western Ontario | Cosmological laws | Alice Room (#301) | 2:50 - 3:10 pm
| Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro | 3:10 - 4:30 pm
| Lee Smolin
Perimeter Institute
Roberto Unger
Harvard University | Laws and time in cosmology | Alice Room (#301) | | 6:00 pm | Banquet | | Black Hole Bistro |
| Friday, May 21
| Time | Speaker or Event
| Topic | Location | | 8:30 - 9:00 am | Coffee served in Black Hole Bistro | | Black Hole Bistro | | Session C: Fundamental principles | | 9:00 - 10:00 am | Kevin Knuth
University of Albany | The role of order in natural law | Alice Room (#301) | 10:00 - 11:00 am
| Philip Goyal
Perimeter Institute | The common symmetries underlying quantum theory, probability theory, and number systems | Alice Room (#301) | 11:00 - 12:00 pm
| Ariel Caticha
University of Albany | Law without law: entropic dynamics | Alice Room (#301) | 12:00 - 1:30 pm
| Lunch | | Black Hole Bistro | Session D: Epistemological considerations
| 1:30 - 2:50 pm
| David Wolpert
NASA: Ames Research Center | Epistemology and the laws of nature | Alice Room (#301) | 2:50 - 3:10 pm
| Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro | 3:10 - 4:30 pm
| Kevin Kelly
Carnegie Mellon University | How does simplicity help science find true laws? | Alice Room (#301) |
| Saturday, May 22 | Time | Speaker or Event
| Topic | Location | 8:30 - 9:00 am
| Coffee served in Black Hole Bistro | | Black Hole Bistro | Session E: Which concepts will survive the next revolution?
| 9:00 - 10:20 am
| Niayesh Afshordi
Perimeter Institute | Cosmological constant problem:
rethinking quantum and gravity | Alice Room (#301) | 10:20 - 10:40 am
| Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro | 10:40 - 12:00 pm
| Julian Barbour
College Farm | The case for geometry | Alice Room (#301) | 12:00 - 1:30 pm
| Lunch
| | Black Hole Bistro | Session F: The limits of mathematical description
| 1:30 - 3:30 pm
| Discussion chair:
Steve Weinstein
University of Waterloo / Perimeter Institute | | Alice Room (#301) | | 3:30 - 4:00pm | Coffee Break | | Black Hole Bistro |
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