ENRAGEing Ideas  Utrecht, 6 - 8 Sept. 2007

Program


Friday, September 7

 
from 9.00 Registration
9.15 Renate Loll: Welcome
9.20 - 10.20 Emil Mottola
Cosmological Dark Energy: Prospects for a dynamical theory
10.20 - 11.20 Matt Visser
Emergent analogue spacetimes
11.20 - 11.45 Coffee break
11.45 - 12.45 Francois David
Random RNA
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 Zdzislaw Burda
Random matrices and risk management
15.00 - 16.00 Maya Paczuski
A physicist looks at Life
16.00 - 17.00 Coffee
17.00 - 18.00 Stephen Wolfram
Searching the Computational Universe for the Physics of our Universe
18.00 - 19.00 Welcome drinks

Saturday, September 8

 
9.15 - 10.15 Steve Carlip
Black hole thermodynamics and the problem of universality
10.15 - 11.15 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
Quantum Gravity Phenomenology - first results and some new opportunities
11.15 - 11.45 Coffee break
11.45 - 12.45 Erik Verlinde
Strings and gravity as emergent phenomena
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 Fay Dowker
Dynamical logic
15.00 - 16.00 Caslav Brukner
Nonlocality and information in quantum physics
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 - 17.30 Holger Bech Nielsen
Emergence of physical laws?
evening (19.30 - 23.00) dinner (only for people who registered), Academiegebouw, Faculty Club Helios,
Achter de Dom 7A, Utrecht