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08/20/2008-11/09/2008
On the way back to Pittsburgh.
The first dawn, Cathedral of Learning.
Watching the Hungary - US water polo finals (2008 Beijing Olympics) through Skype.
Comp paper exhaustion.
Jeremy Butterfield's Philosophy of Classical and Quantum Mechanics course.
The match is even better with Marcus than with Peter.
2008 HPS wine and cheese reception.
Heading to Thomas' birthday party.
Hanging out in the Lava Lounge before the concert of Between Liberties.
Alia Musica concert in Chatham College - Kerrith Livengood's hi-hat composition was especially amazing.
Lovely (-8) sunset, Cathedral of Learning.
The first HPS Knitting Circle and Whiskey Society meeting at Kathryn Tabb's place.
I temporarily moved to Will's and Tom's place - a house of music and philosophy.
I endorse rabbis skipping the coming-of-Jesus bits, although they should also skip the rest of the Bible as well and get a real life.
2008 HPS Beginning of the year party. Two (significantly downscaled quality - no more storage space, sorry) video can be downloaded here and here, just to get a taste of the music session.
2008 HPS Beginning of the year afterparty.
Will and Between Liberties practicing in the kitchen.
Following the customs Nicholas Rescher kicks off the Center Lunchtime series with a talk on free will.
The first center lunch of the semester.
Tuesday poker night at Mike's place.
Co-workers.
LTT: Erik Curiel: "Classical Mechanics is Lagrangian; It is not Hamiltonian."
Second meeting of the knitting whatever folks over Julia's place.
LTT: Ulrich Krohs: "Mechanistic Explanation in Top-down Systems Biology."
Adams' Wednesday Mizo soup gathering.
ALS: Philip Pettit: "The Reality of Group Agency."
Tom Pashby's and Jonathan Livengood's WIP talks.
Helicopters whirling around the Cathedral.
The Pittsburgh Symphony kicks out the new season with Beethoven, Bruch, Rachmaninov, and Dvorak.
Work and rest.
Weekend fair in Schenley Plaza.
Adam Caulton presenting in Jeremy's class.
LTT: Claus Beisbart: "Science of the Universe? Physical Cosmology and our Limited Horizon."
Lunch with center fellows: Claus Beisbart, Dan Parker, Chris Pincock and Erik Curiel.
LTT: Christopher Pincock: "Mathematics and Scientific Representation."
HPS grad student retreat to Ohiopyle State Park -
I moved together with Erik Curiel for a month or two.
Watching the vice-presidential debate at Julia's place.
Margaret Morrison and Paul Churchland talking at the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium.
Bill Maher's new mockumentary, Religulous, opens tonight!
First year philosopher's welcoming party at Or's.
LTT: Daniel Parker: "Information-Theoretic Statistical Mechanics and the 2nd Law."
Sandy Mitchell's and Laura Ruetsche's class on Emergence.
UFO crash near the Cathedral of Learning.
The WIP series presents a double-feature: Karen Zwier and Thomas Cunningham.
Sometimes I feel like this.
The Falcon of the Cathedral is there, inside your mind.
I spent almost two hours arguing with these black-jew-supremacists. Sssh.
Notice anything weird?
LTT: Flavia Padovani: "Relativizing the Relativized A Priori: On the Development of Reichenbach's Axioms of Coordination / Axioms of Connection Distinction."
Another set of grad students taking creative naps.
Jonathan recites all two letter English words. He got 90 percent right.
LTT: John D. Norton: "Why Constructive Relativity Fails."
Another WIP double-feature: Benny Goldberg and Peter Distelzweig warms up for the HSS.
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Flooding in the 61C.
Cleaning the grad lounge with Benny and Peter.
Obama rally in Pittsburgh. It was fun and scaring at the same time.
LTT: Hanne Andersen: "Interdisciplinarity - a roadmap of the discussion with indications of some construction sites."
Jonathan and Karen explains stuff. Also: doctor Who?
Erik elaborates on his Lagrangian noteq Hamiltonian mechanics paper.
Peter G's pre-mock job talk.
Not that I know of many other Hungarians in the neighborhood.
First goodbye to Pittsburgh.
I flew to New York to attend Adam Gyorgy's Nov. 2. concert in the Carnegie Hall. It was amazing! Pics from the concert and the after-party with Adam and Laci.
NYC.
I stayed with Tomasz Sadzik while being in NY. This is his fancy new office at NYU.
And this is the view from the apartment which NYU provided him - a quite convincing offer.
Someone might miss this.
New York Marathon runners.
Visiting Peter and Vera, and their little baby, Dani.
Long night chat with Tomek and his girlfriend.
I bumped into Daniel Izsak before taking the Chinatown bus to Boston.
Daniel Margocsy in front of his current workplace, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard.
(Obama) election party with Clark University students in Worcester.
I gave myself to sin / I gave myself to Providence. (Our flight got cancelled thus we looked around a bit.)
A quite effective hand-dryer design.
Finally, ahead to the PSA.
Dinner with Bryan, Alma and Daniel in a German restaurant.
What is your point exactly?
PSA 2008
Meeting Miklos in his hotel room.
Katherine Brading introducing the Symmetry Symposium.
Richard Healey: A Tale of Two Symmetries.
Hilary Greaves: Think Locally, Act Globally: On the Empirical Significance of `Local' Symmetries.
David Wallace: Faraday's Cage; Einstein's Lift; Galileo's Black Hole.
Roman Frigg: Typicality and the Approach to Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics.
Kevin Davey: Technical and Conceptual Problems with Gibbs Canonical Distribution.
Richard Dawid: On the Conflicting Assessments of the Current Status of String Theory.
Steve Weinstein: Anthropic Reasoning in Multiverse Cosmology and String Theory.
Hanging out with Ingo and other previous Pitt HPS grads.
John Earman introduces the Algebraic Quantum Field Theory Symposium.
Jeremy Butterfield: On Space-like Correlations in Quantum Field Theory.
Giovanni Valente: On the Persistence of Entanglement in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory.
Stephen J. Summers: Subsystems and Independence in Microscopic Relativistic Physics.
Miklos Redei: Operational Independence in Quantum Field Theory.
Joint discussion with Giovanni, Stephen, Miklos and Jeremy.
Fred Kronz: Actual and Virtual Events in the Quantum Domain.
Peter Lewis: Probability, Self-Location, and Quantum Branching.
Jonathan Bain: Quantum Field Theories in Classical Spacetimes and Particles.
Arthur Cunningham: Why Other Branches are Unobservable in the Everett Interpretation.
I briefly visited the HSS as well to attend Daniel Margocsy's talk.
Large crowd with old friends (?).
Christopher Pincock: The Value of Mathematics for Scientific Confirmation.
Stathis Psillos: What if There are No Mathematical Entities? Lessons for Scientific Realism.
Mark Wilson: Leibniz' `Possibilities' and Our Own.
Robert Batterman: Essential Models and Explanatory Mathematics.
John Manchak: What is a `Time Machine' in General Relativity?
Christian Wuthrich: Challenging the Spacetime Structuralist.
Benjamin Janzen: Points and Permutations.
And finally: Erik Curiel: General Relativity Requires No Interpretation. This was his only slide.
Heading back to Providence right after the PSA.
The Rhode Island School of Design has a surprisingly decent art collection.
Watch the Public Safety sign carefully.
Staying with Dani and Ania again and hiking around Worcester with Pickles.
In search for a locksmith in Boston. I only found apparently highly treasured books.
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