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Special Topics in Physics Schedule |
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All lectures will be held at Perimeter Institute, in the Bob Room. Week | Topic | Assignments | Resources | January 9 | Introduction to the problem of time. |
| | | January 16 & 23 | Hamiltonian dynamics of fully contrained systems. | TBA | | | January 30 & February 6 | General relativity as a contrained Hamiltonian system. | TBA | TBA | | February 13 | Observables in classical general relativity without boundaries. | TBA | TBA | | February 20 | Quantization of GR. | TBA | TBA | | February 27 | Observables in quantum GR and the problem of time. | TBA | TBA | | March 5 | Path integral formulations and the problem of time. | TBA | TBA | | March 12 | Holography and the problems of observables and time. | TBA | TBA | | March 19 | History of the problem of time. | TBA | TBA | | March 26 | Diverse philosophical position on the nature of time. | TBA | TBA | | April 2 | The problem of the nature of laws in cosmology. | TBA | TBA | | April 9 | Time and the rld of mathematics in physics. | TBA | TBA | | April 16 | Catch-up and summary. | TBA | TBA | | April 23 & 30 | Contemporary perspectives and alternatives. | TBA | TBA |
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