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 we also supported research in a
wide range of other areas (see our Events
page for details of more than forty research meetings since 2002).
We now closely associated with the Sydney Centre
for the Foundations of Science, and have strengths in three main
areas: (i) the Pragmatic Foundations 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
Congratulations ...
... to Owen Maroney and Jodie McGinn, on the birth of
Madeika Storm McMinn; and to Michael Seevinck and Tineke, on the birth
of Frederike Elisabeth! (Congratulations to Michael for his award from
the Dutch Science Foundation, too!)
Collaboration Agreement signed with Perimeter Institute, Canada
The Perimeter Institute—Australia Collaboration in Quantum Foundations
("PIAF") links the Centre for Time, together with researchers in the School
of Physics and the HPS Unit at the University of Sydney, and at the
University of Queensland and Griffith University, to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada.
PIAF's second
annual conference was held at the Perimeter Institute from 27
September to 2 October, 2009. Further details are available here.
Congratulations to our own Michael Slezak ...
... for this piece on the Guardian website!
Winter School 2009
We recently hosted our first Winter School for PG research students, in conjunction with the Department of Philosophy, UNC, Chapel Hill. Thanks to all who made this such a success!
Audio and slides online
MP3 recordings and some texts from our highly successful recent meeting on Expressivism, Pluralism and Representationalism are now available here. Recordings and slides from eight earlier meetings (since 2005) are also available at that site.
Sydney
eScholarship Repository
The Centre has also 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.
Older recordings
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
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Centre for Time
Department of Philosophy
Main Quad A14
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
AUSTRALIA
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Last update: 10.12.09.
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