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Speaker/Activity |
Title/Abstract |
| 9:00-9:25 |
Registration in the Main Atrium; Coffee in the Maths Common Room |
| 9:25-9:30 |
Richard Aldrich
Director of IAS, Professor of International Security, Warwick |
Opening speech by IAS Director 
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| 9:30-10:15 |
Robin Ball
Professor of Theoretical Physics, Chair of the Complexity Complex, Warwick |
A physicist's view on time
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| 10:20-11:05 |
Peter Coveney
Chair in Physical Chemistry, Director of the Centre for Computational Science, UCL
Author of The Arrow of Time: A Voyage Through Science To Solve Time's Greatest Mystery |
The Direction of Time 
Various seemingly incompatible notions of time arise across the panoply of human experience. Life, love and death are quintessential examples of time's irreversibility, while concepts of linear and cyclical time abound within many creeds and religions. Science, too, continues to face the challenge inherent in the conflict between reversible and irreversible time. I will provide an introduction to these issues and discuss modern approaches to reconciling science's conflicting conceptual bases. |
| 11:10-11:55 |
Julian Barbour
Visiting Professor of Physics, Oxford
Author of The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe |
Aspects of Time
Under the assumption that the universe is a closed dynamical system, I shall concentrate on these three topics: Is there a precise definition of an instant of time? What is duration? If the quantum universe is truly timeless, what is the explanation for our intense sense of the passage of time? |
| 12:00-13:00 |
Lunch in the Main Atrium and Maths Workroom A0.05 |
| 13:00-13:45 |
Christoph Hoerl
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Warwick |
Temporal experience and temporal illusions
The existence of perceptual illusions has traditionally been thought to present a challenge to 'naive realist' views of perceptual experience. Recent discussions in philosophy may make it look as though that challenge is particularly acute in the case of temporal illusions. I will try to argue against this view. |
| 13:50-14:35 |
Teresa McCormack
Professor of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast |
Time and the Child  
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| 14:40-15:25 |
Daniel Read
Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School |
The economics and psychology of time
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Tea in the Maths Common Room |
| 16:00-16:45 |
Nick Roberts
Cellist, Coull Quartet |
Beating Time
I will explore musicians' subjective response to time and how this is resolved when playing together in an ensemble. |
| 16:50-17:10 |
Jonathan Heron
IATL Teaching Fellow, Artistic Director of Fail Better Productions |
The time 'twixt six and now': Shakespeare, Beckett and theatrical time
Using my experience as a theatre director and my practice-based research in Performance Studies, I will briefly outline some central questions concerning time on the theatrical stage and the temporality of rehearsal process. |
| 17:15-18:00 |
Harvey Brown
Professor of Philosophy of Physics, Oxford
Author of Physical Relativity: Space-time structure from a dynamical perspective |
The subtleties of simultaneity: spreading time through space
The notion that whether two distant events are simultaneous or not depends on the state of motion of the observer is one of the most counterintuitive features of relativity theory, and one that worried Einstein himself initially. The nature of simultaneity still gives rise to considerable philosophical discussion. Let's see why. |
| 18:00-19:00 |
Reception in the Maths Common Room |
