LARRYFEST 2011
May 13th-14th
North Quad Room #2255
UM Central Campus
105 South State Street
Ann Arbor MI 48109
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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)
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PROGRAM
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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)
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