LARRYFEST 2011
May 13th-14th

North Quad Room #2255
UM Central Campus
105 South State Street
Ann Arbor MI 48109

IMPORTANT DATES:
Monday, April 18th: Campus Inn hotel room block release date(see hotel link)
Saturday, May 7th: Registration deadline (locals need to register too please)

PROGRAM

  • FRIDAY, MAY 13
    Breakfast and Coffee 9:15-10:00am

    Chair:             Allan Gibbard
    10:00am          Opening remarks. 
    John Earman (University of Pittsburgh)
    "Once More Into the Breach: The Direction of Time, Time's Arrows, and All That"

    12:00 pm        LUNCH ON THEIR OWN

    1:00--4:30

    Chair: Richard Healey
    Jim Joyce (University of Michigan)
    "Symmetries in Probability and the Epistemology of Geometry"

    2:30 PM          Afternoon Coffee Break

    Bob Batterman (University of Pittsburgh)
    "Bridging Scales:  Statistical to Continuum Theories"

    Talks should end at 4:30 PM

    6:30 PM         
    Chia Shiang (2016 Packard St.)

    SATURDAY, MAY 14
    Breakfast 8:15 – 9:00 AM

    Chair: Tim Maudlin
    Brian Skyrms (UC Irvine)
    "Learning to Signal with Trial and Error"

    10:30 AM       Morning Coffee Break


    Simon Saunders (Oxford University)
    "Newton's Principia and Relationalism"

    12:30 PM        LUNCH ON THEIR OWN

    1:30--5:00.

    Chair: David Malament
    Lina Jansson (University of Michigan)
    "Explaining gravitational phenomena"

    3:00 PM Afternoon Coffee Break


    Paul Teller (UC Davis)
    "Ontology"

    Talks will end at 5:00pm

    7:00 PM          DINNER at the Middle Kingdom (S. Main Street)