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Daniel Sudarsky (UNAM) 4:30-6:30pm Tuesday Sept 25; 3rd floor seminar room, NYU philosophy department (5 Washington Place). Title: A philosophical mantle on the primordial tensor modes in inflation. Abstract: Inflationary cosmology’s account for the emergence of the seeds of structure … Continue reading →

On Wednesday May 16, the day before the Rutgers-Columbia QFT Workshop, MAPS will host a pre-workshop workshop at the NYU philosophy department, in room 202 (5 Washington Place, New York, NY). See the schedule below for more details. =============================================================== J. … Continue reading →

Elise Crull (CCNY) 4-6pm, Tuesday April 10, CUNY room 5307 (365 5th Ave, New York NY). Title: Questioning the Evidence for Cosmic Expansion. Abstract: expansion is a key feature of the standard cosmological model, yet evidence for it is not … Continue reading →

Adam Becker (University of California, Berkeley). 5-7pm Tuesday April 3, NYU Philosophy department, room 101 (5 Washington Place, New York, NY). Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/420267451764873/?active_tab=about. Title: Why the Copenhagen Interpretation Doesn’t Work and Why It’s Popular Anyhow. Abstract: conventional wisdom holds that … Continue reading →

Rachel Rosen (Columbia University). 2-4pm, Tuesday March 20, Columbia University Knox Hall C01 (606 W 122 St). Title: Consistency Conditions on Fundamental Physics. Abstract: as our understanding of the universe and its basic building blocks extends to shorter and shorter … Continue reading →

The Chimera of Entropy Location: Split, Croatia (http://mapmf.pmfst.unist.hr/~sokolic/doku.php). Date: 16-21 July, 2018. Entropy is among the most important but also most perplexing concepts in physics. It is also a polymorphic concept: introduced in thermodynamics, we now find it in statistical … Continue reading →

Jeff Barrett (University of California, Irvine). 4:45 – 6:45pm, Tuesday November 7, Location 194 Mercer, NYC, Room 205. Title: Typical Quantum Worlds Abstract: Hugh Everett III’s pure wave mechanics, sometimes known as the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, was proposed … Continue reading →