Faster-than-light neutrinos not faster than light after all?

Over at Cosmic Variance, Sean Carroll posted a blog post today stating that according to undisclosed sources, the OPERA result of superluminal neutrinos may have been due to a “bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos’ flight and an electronic card in a computer.” Obviously, this remains to be confirmed; but if confirmed, it would be a tiny bit embarrassing after the gigantic brouhaha throughout the popular media last fall…

Call for nominations: Lakatos Award 2012

The Lakatos Award is given for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted, in the form of a book published in English during the previous five years. It was made possible by a generous endowment from the Latsis Foundation. The Award is in memory of the former LSE professor, Imre Lakatos, and is administered by an international Management Committee organised from the LSE. The Committee, chaired by John Worrall, decides the outcome of the Award competition on the advice of an international, independent and anonymous panel of Selectors.

CFP: 1st International Conference on Logic and Relativity

First International Conference on Logic and Relativity, Budapest, September 8 – 12, 2012. István Németi is turning 70 in 2012. We are pleased to announce that the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics is organizing the 1st International Logic and Relativity Conference in honor of this occasion. The main topics of the conference are logic, relativity theory, and their connections.

Topics include (but are not restricted to):
Logical foundations of spacetime theories
Algebraic logic
Relativistic computation

CFP: Graduate Conference in Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, and Philosophy of Physics at Western Ontario

The 12th annual Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Philosophy Conference will take place on Sunday-Monday, May 20-21, 2012, at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.

We are pleased to announce that

Hartry Field (New York University)

will be giving the keynote address.

The conference is held in conjunction with the Annual UWO Conference in the Philosophy of Science, taking place on May 18-19. LMP attendees are invited to join us for this conference.

Postdoc: Philosophy Sydney, time’s arrow

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHICAL AND HISTORICAL INQUIRY
REFERENCE NO. 2059/1111

· Investigate the philosophy and physics of time’s arrow

· New grant funded research project

· Full-time, 2 year fixed term, remuneration package: $92.6K p.a. (which includes salary leave loading and up to 17% super)

The University of Sydney has received a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to explore the nature of time using psychological and philosophical approaches.

Postdoc: Philosophy Sydney, time and temporal passage

(Note that this concerns a different position from the previous post)

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHICAL AND HISTORICAL INQUIRY
REFERENCE NO. 2057/1111

· Investigate the metaphysics of time and temporal passage

· New grant funded research project

· Full-time, 2 year fixed term, remuneration package: $92.6K p.a. (which includes salary leave loading and up to 17% super)

The University of Sydney has received a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to explore the nature of time using psychological and philosophical approaches.

Postdoc: HPS Sydney

This one should be a very attractive postdoc position–with an extremely high salary!

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
UNIT FOR HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
REFERENCE NO. 2055/1111

· Explore the history and philosophy of time throughout the sciences

· New grant funded research project

· Full-time, 2 year fixed term, attractive remuneration package: $92.6K p.a. (which includes salary, leave loading and up to 17% super)

The University of Sydney has received a prestigious grant from the John Templeton Foundation to explore the nature of time and streamline worldwide academic research on the subject.

Conference: 2012 Dubrovnik Conference on Philosophy of Science

As every year in April, there will be a conference on philosophy of science at the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from 16 to 21 April 2012. The reason why I post this announcement in this blog is because the philosophy of physics is one of the themes this year!

CFP: Quantum Interaction Symposium, Paris 26-29 June 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS for QI Symposium

The Sixth International Symposium on Quantum Interaction (QI’2012),

http://qi-2012.quantuminteraction.org/, 26th – 29th June 2012, Paris, France.

After highly successful previous meetings
· QI’2007 at Stanford,
· QI’2008 at Oxford,
· QI’2009 at Saarbrücken,
· QI’2010 at Washington DC,
· QI’2011 at Aberdeen,

the Sixth International Quantum Interaction Symposium will take place in Paris, France from 26 to 29 June 2012.

LARSIM Paris workshops this spring/summer

LARSIM and QuPa joint workshops on foundations of physics:

1st workshop: Foundational questions of quantum information
April 4-5, 2012 (Amphi Opale, 46 rue Barrault, Paris 13e)

Invited speakers:

Giacomo Mauro d’Ariano (University of Padova)
Caslav Brukner (University of Vienna, to be confirmed)
Oscar Dahlsten (University of Oxford)
Matthew Pusey (Imperial College London)
Robert Raussendorf (University of British Columbia)

2nd workshop: Physics and Computation