About us The Centre for Time was established in October 2002, supported by the Australian Research Council and the University of Sydney, under the terms of a Federation Fellowship awarded to Huw Price. Initially, the Centre's research focused primarily on the role of time and time-asymmetry in the conceptual foundations of modern physics, and on related issues in philosophy — though it also supported research in a wide range of other areas (see our Events page for a record of our research meetings since 2002). We are now a research cluster within the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, and have strengths in three main areas: (i) the pragmatic foundations of thought and language (a new project associated Huw Price's second ARC Federation Fellowship); (ii) the philosophy and foundations of physics; and (iii) metaphysics and the philosophy of time. We welcome visitors interested in any of these topics, and can in some cases offer funding for travel and other expenses. News Arrivals and departures We are delighted to welcome Karim Thebault, who has just joined us (from Jersey) for PhD studies;  and Owen Maroney and Hans Westman, who have joined us from the Perimeter Institute, Canada, as our PIAF Postdoctoral Fellows. (These positions are joint with the School of Physics, and partially funded by the Perimeter Institute, under the terms of the new PIAF collaboration.) We are also delighted to welcome back Jossi Berkovitz, who is with us for 12 months as a Visiting Fellow, on leave from his new position at the University of Toronto. But we're sad to be saying goodbye to Sungho Choi, who is leaving us for Kyung Hee University, Korea. Audio and slides online MP3 recordings of all sessions in our recent PIAF Workshop in Quantum Foundations, and from our recent conference on Ontological Commitment, are now available here. (These recordings will be moved to the Sydney eScholarship Repository — see below  — in due course.) Sydney eScholarship Repository The Centre has established a collection within the Sydney eScholarship Repository, which is an initiative of the University of Sydney Library. The Centre's collection at the Repository may be accessed at at this link. Currently, it contains a complete set of audio recordings and associated material from three of our meetings, and talks by Huw Price and Jenann Ismael on Truth and Death, respectively, from RIHSS's recent 'Key Concepts' Public Lecture Series. Slides and sound recordings from several other events are still available here on our own site, as below. Causation, Probability and Decision :: 21 April 2006 A one-day mini-conference, with Maria Carla Galavotti (Bologna), Arif Ahmed (Cambridge), Stephan Hartmann (LSE) and Philip Dawid (UCL). Slides from the talks are also available. More details here. Summer Workshop :: 14-15 December 2005 The speakers at this workshop included Guido Bacciagaluppi (Paris), Michael Dickson (South Carolina), Alexei Grinbaum (Paris), Amit Hagar (Konstanz, Delaware) and Veiko Palge (Konstanz). Some slides are accessible here. Workshop with Bob Brandom :: 14 October 2005 Sound recordings are available here. Public Lecture by Professor Anthony Leggett :: 25 July 2005 Professor Sir Anthony Leggett is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work on superfluidity. He visited the Centre in July 2005, as Keynote Speaker at our Workshop on Time-Symmetric Approaches to Quantum Mechanics. Professor Leggett gave a public lecture in the Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture series, on the topic: Does the everyday world really obey quantum mechanics? A full audio recording and slides for the lecture are now available here: Download High Quality Audio (MP3, 128kbps, 110Mb) Download Medium Quality Audio (MP3, 56kbps, 32Mb) Download Low Quality Audio (MP3, 16kbps, 9Mb) Download Slides (PPT, 13Mb) (A flyer for the lecture is also available.). Contact information Centre for Time Department of Philosophy Main Quad A14 University of Sydney NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA e-mail: time@staff.usyd.edu.au telephone: +61 (0) 2 9351 4057 fax: +61 (0) 2 9351 3918 Last update: 30.11.08.