Mathematics,
Physics and Philosophy
in the Interpretations of Relativity Theory
Budapest, 4-6 September
2009.
Lorand Eotvos University, Faculty of Natural Science
Lorand
Eotvos Lecture Room in the North Building of the Campus
Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A
Supported by the National Office for Research and Technology (NKTH)
and by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
(project numbers: REL_2009 and K 79194)
Registration: 4th September, 8.15 -10.15, Lorand Eotvos Room
The main speakers of the conference:
Friday 10.35: Igor Novikov
Friday 13.30: István Nemeti
Saturday 14.00: Abraham
Ungar
Program
Friday, 4th September 2009:
10.30. Brief opening of the conference
Chairman: István Nemeti.
10.35-11.45 Igor
Novikov (Astro Space Center of P.N.Lebedev Physics Institute, Russia)
11. 45-13.30: Lunch break
Chairman: Gergely Székely
13.30 –14.30: István
Németi (Rényi
Institute of Mathematics, Budapest)
Relativity Theories: Logic Based Foundation, Part 1.
14.30-14.35: Brief break
14..35 – 15.35: Hajnal Andréka (Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest)
Relativity Theories: Logic Based Foundation, Part 2.
15.35 - 16.05: Péter Németi (Rényi Institute of
Mathematics, Budapest)
Relativity
Theories: Logic Based Foundation, Part
3.
16.05 – 16.30 Cafee break
Chairman: István Németi
16.30 – 17.00: Judit Madarász (Rényi Institute of
Mathematics, Budapest)
Comparing
Relativistic and Newtonian Dynamics in First Order Logic
17.00 – 17.40: Gergely Székely (Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest)
Answering Why-Type Questions of RelativityTheories (Both Special and General)
17.40 – 18.00: Renata Tordai (Rényi
Institute of Mathematics, Budapest)
Visualizations
of Relatitivity, Relativistic Hypercomputing
18.00-18.30: Discussion
18.30-18.45: Brief break
18.45- 20.00: FREE DISCUSSION
Saturday, 5th
September 2009:
Parallel
Session A, Lorand Eotvos Room
Chairman: Jan Czerniawski
8.30-9.00: Roberto Lalli (University of Milan)
9.00-9.30:
Ori Belkind (Department
of Philosophy, University of Richmond)
9.30-10.00: Katalin Martinás
(Dep. Atomic Physics ,
Loránd Eötvös University)
Noethers'
Theorem and General Relativity
10.00-10.30: Adán Sus (Dep. of Philosophy, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)
Action-Reaction:
Matter-Geometry Interaction in GR.
Parallel
Session B, Ányos Jedlik Room (Room No.
0.87)
Chairman:
L. Székely
8.30-9.30 Tolga Yarman (Okan University, Akfirat, Istanbul,
Turkey),
Metin Arik (Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey)
Alexander L
Kholmetskii (Belarus State
University, Minsk, Belarus)
A
Critical Analysis of Einstein's
Non-Conform Analogy Between Rotation and Gravitatiton
9.30-10.00: Witold Nawrot (Institute for Nuclear Studies, Otwock
- Swierk, Poland - retired)
Critical
Reflections on the Hafele and Keating Experiment
10.00-10.30:
Attila Andai
10.30-11.00: Cafee break
Plenary
Session
Chairman:
Ludwik Kostro
11.00-11.30: Peter Rowlands (Department of Physics, University of Liverpool)
Gravity, the Microwave Background Radiation, and Information Processing
11.30-12.00: Jan W. Płazowski and Marek Suwara (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
Physics
as Information Processes - Remarks on Interpretations of Relativity and Quantum Physics
12.00-12.30: Yves Pierseaux (Université
Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Cosmological Constant, Classical ”Vacuum” and Special Relativity
12. 30-14.00: Lunch break
Chairman: Mogens Wegener
14.00-15.00: Abraham Ungar (Dep. of
Mathematics, North Dakota State University, USA)
Einstein’s
Special Relativity: The Hyperbolic Geometric Viewpoint
15.00-15.45:
John Barrett (Southampton
University, UK)
In
the Hyperbolic Theory of Special Relativity Is Space Also Hyperbolic?
15.45-16.15: Gyula David (Loránd
Eötvös University, Budapest)
16.15-16.45:
Cafee break
Chairman: Hajnal Andréka
16.45-17.15: Jan Czerniawsky
(Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
Relative
vs. Invariant vs. Absolute Quantities
17.15-17.45: Albrecht Giese (DESY Accelerator, Hamburg, Germany, retired)
Relativity
Based on Physical Processes
17.45-18.15: A. F. Kracklauer (Bauhaus University,
Weimar, Germany)
The
Michelson-Morley Experiment in Ontic and Epistemic Space
18.15-18.45: Mike
Stannett (Dep. of Computer Science , The University of Sheffield, UK)
Modelling Quantum Theoretical Trajectories within Geometric Relativistic Theories
Sunday, 6th
September 2009
Chairman:
Peter Rowlands
9.00-9.30: Tuomo Suntola (Physics
Foundations Society, Finland)
Physical
and Mathematical Postulates Behind Relativity
9.30-10.00: Heikki Sipilä (Physics Foundations Society, Finland)
Structure of the Universe and Physical Theories
10.00-10.30: Mogens Wegener (Aarhus University,
Danmark)
Axioms
for Tempo-Spatial Cosmology
10.30-11.00: Cafee Break
Chairman: Laszlo Ropolyi
11.00-11.30: Ludwik Kostro (Dep.for Logic, Methodology and Phil. of Science, University of Gdańsk)
Physical
Interpretation of the Coefficients c/G, c2/G,
c3/G, c4/G, c5/G that Appear
in the
Equations of General Relativity
11.30-12.00: F. Selleri (Department of Physics, University of Bari,
Italy)
12.00-12.30: KarimThebault (Center for Time, School of
Philosophy and Historical Inquiry, University Of Sydney)
Presymplectic
Geometry and Reparameterisation Invariant Theory:
The
Classical Problem of Time in Canonical Gravity
12.30-14.00: Lunch break
Chairman: Tuomo Suntola
14.00-14.30: Richard Gawne (Dep.
of Philosophy Western Michigan University)
Does
Big Bang Cosmology Imply that the Universe is Self Caused?
14.30-15.00: L. Székely
(Inst. for Phil Research, Hun. Academy
of Sciences, Budapest)
Black
Holes, Closed Time-Like Curvatures and Other “Delicacies” of GTR
from a Philosophical Point of View and Plato’s
Thaumas
15.00-15.30: Bogdán Zaválnij
(Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Pécs)
15.30-16.00: Cafee
Break
Chairman: Bogdán Zaválnij
16.00-16.30: M. Gomori and L. E. Szabó (Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest)
Operationalist Reconstruction of the
Semantics of Classical Electrodynamics
16.30-17.00: L. E. Szabo and M.
Gomori (Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest)
Is
Relativity Principle Consistent with Electrodynamics?
17.00-17.30:
L. Ropolyi (Dep. of Hist, and Phil. of Science, Loránd Eötvös
University, Budapest)
Social
Relations in the Historical Versions of Dynamical Theories
Poster Presentations
Stephen
J. Crothers (Queensland,
Australia)
The Schwarzschild Solution and Its
Implications for Gravitational Waves
Ali M. Hossain (Department of
Applied Mathematics University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh)
and
Dr. M. K. Hasan (Department of
Mathematics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3100,
Bangladesh).
Dispersion
Relations for Cold Plasmas around Reissner-Nordstr¨om
Black Holes
C. Y. Lo (Applied and
Pure Research Institute, Nashua, USA)
Some
Rectifiable Inconsistencies and Related Problems
in
Einstein’s General Relativity
A. A. Nassikas (Technological Education Institute of Larissa Greece)
The Minimum Contradictions (g)+(em)
Interaction and The Evolution of Universe
W. Nawrot (Institute for Nuclear Studies, Otwock - Swierk, Poland -
retired)
Euclidean
model of the spacetime – is the reality
Francis Mathe (France)
A. Sharma (Retd. Prof. and Head of the Dept of Biophys.
and Nuclear Medicine,
Postgr. Inst. of Medical Education & Research,
Chandigarh, India.)
Einstein’s
derivation of E=Dmc2
also predicts DE
µ Dmc2
H. L. Szocs (West Hungarian
University, Szombathely)
Physical
Properties of Dirac-type Monopoles Via
Parametrized
Reissner-Nordström Metric
