Enjoy the many talks from the FQXi 2011 International Conference. All presentations are copyrighted by the authors and may not be copied or distributed without prior written permission.
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OPENING PANEL
Sean Carroll: Opening remarks
Panel Debate
CLOSING TALK
Fred Adams: It's about time
SETTING TIME ARIGHT: PUBLIC EVENT PANEL DISCUSSION
Paul Davies, Raissa D'Souza, David Eagleman, and Tim Maudlin, with Jennifer Ouellette
LIFE
Paul Davies: Opening Remarks
Michael Laessig: Arrow of time in evolutionary biology
Richard Lenski: Time in experimental evolution
Michael Russell: Why does life start, what does it do, where will it be?
EXISTENCE
Julian Barbour: Gravity as Machian shape dynamics
George Ellis: The flow of time and the nature of spacetime
Tim Maudlin: The reality of time and the direction of time
MEMORY
David Albert: Memory
Kathleen McDermott: Episodic future thought and its relation to remembering
Henry Roediger: Illusions of remembering
UNIVERSE
Andreas Albrecht: Dynamics, typicality and the arrow of time
Richard Easther: When and how can the universe be unconventional?
Craig Callender: Looking at the world sideways
Huw Price: Time's arrow and Eddinton's challenge
Panel Debate
CHOICE
David Eagleman: Choosing four surprises about time perception
Malcolm MacIver: Energy, information, and the emergence of choice
Simon Saunders: Choice
David Wallace: The logic of the past hypothesis
MULTIVERSE
Anthony Aguirre: When does the arrow of time reverse?
Raphael Bousso: The arrow of time problem in the multiverse
Paul Davies: Multiverse
Max Tegmark: Time and entropy in the multiverse
Panel Debate
QUANTIZATION
Scott Aaronson
Claus Kiefer: Arrow of time from timeless quantum gravity
Fotini Markopoulou: Quantum theory from quantum gravity
Jeff Tollaksen: Pre- and post-selection, weak measurements, dynamical nonlocality & the flow of time in quantum mechanics
COMPLEXITY
Gavin Crooks: Whither time's arrow?
Raissa D'Souza: The effects of time on complex systems
Philip Stamp: Disentanglement: mechanisms & time evolution of decoherence
Geoffrey West: Emergence of "universal" time in living systems from cells to cities
TRUTH
Peter Byrne: The tyranny of truth
Victoria Stodden: Establishing scientific facts
Ian Durham: Language and truth
Alex Holcombe: Where are all the scientific debates?
MOCK DEBATES
Time with Julian Barbour and Tim Maudlin
Quantum Mechanics with David Albert and David Wallace