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NATO ADVANCED RESEARCH WORKSHOP
The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics & Perception
May 21-24, 2002 / Tatranská Lomnica / Slovak Republic
co-sponsored by
Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranská Lomnica, Slovak Republic
&
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Sezione di Palermo, CNR, Palermo, Italy
 
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PROGRAMME (ACTUAL)

MAY 21, 2002 (TUESDAY)

  • 09:00 ~ 09:30: Welcome Addresses by M. Saniga and J. Svoren, director of the Astronomical Institute of SAV

    Session 1: Perception of Time (Coordinator: Simon Grondin)
    (Chairman: S. Hameroff)
  • 09:30 ~ 10:15: Anna Eisler*: "Time Perception: Biological, Psychological and Cultural Considerations"
  • 10:15 ~ 10:40: H. Atmanspacher: "Parametrization and Sequentialization of Events in Perception"

    Coffee

  • 11:10 ~ 11:35: S. Grondin: "Using Weber's Law for Studying Psychological Time"
  • 11:35 ~ 12:00: J. J. Sanfey: "Time, Life and the Perception of Process"
  • 12:00 ~ 12:25: R. Nikolaeva: "Time in the Cognitive Process of Humans"

    Lunch

    (Chairman: A. Eisler)
  • 15:00 ~ 15:45: G. B. Vicario*: "Temporal Displacement"
  • 15:45 ~ 16:10: H. Eisler: "The Parallel-Clock Model: A Tool for Quantification of Experienced Duration"
  • 16:10 ~ 16:35: G. Franck: "Time and Presence"

    Coffee

  • 17:05 ~ 17:30: D. Bierman: "Empirical Evidence for an Apparent Biological Time Anomaly: a Functional MRI Study on Pre-sentiment"
  • 17:30 ~ 17:55: M. Binder: "Time and the Problem of Consciousness"
  • 17:55 ~ 18:20: S. Hameroff: "Consciousness, Time and Events in Quantum Spacetime"
MAY 22, 2002 (WEDNESDAY)
    Session 2: Mathematical Approaches to the Concept of Time (Coordinator: Metod Saniga)
    (Chairman: J. D. H. Smith)
  • 09:00 ~ 09:45: M. Saniga*: "Geometry of Time and Dimensionality of Space"
  • 09:45 ~ 10:30: M. Pavsic: "Clifford Algebra, Geometry and Physics"

    Coffee

  • 11:00 ~ 11:25: S. Mayburov: "Fuzzy Space-Time Geometry and Approaches to Quantization"
  • 11:25 ~ 11:50: C. Castro: "The Program of the Extended Relativity Theory in C-Spaces"
  • 11:50 ~ 12:35: G. Jaroszkiewicz*: "Analysis of the Relationship Between Real and Imaginary Time in Physics"

    Lunch

    (Chairman: M. Pavsic)
  • 15:00 ~ 15:45: J. D. H. Smith*: "Time in Biology and Physics"
  • 15:45 ~ 16:10: V. Aristov: "Development of the Relative Statistical Space-Time Concept"

    Coffee

  • 16:40 ~ 17:25: V. Di Gesù*: "Q-Computing - A Way to Break Complexity"
  • 17:25 ~ 17:50: M. Planat: "Time Measurements, 1/f Noise of the Oscillators and Algebraic Numbers"
  • 17:50 ~ 18:35: A. Elitzur: "Quantum-Mechanical and Thermodynamic Clues in Search for a Deeper Concept of Time"
MAY 23, 2002 (THURSDAY)
    Session 3: Physicist's View of Time (Coordinator: Mark Stuckey)
    (Chairman: G. Jaroszkiewicz)
  • 09:00 ~ 09:45: M. Stuckey*: "Time via Pre-Geometric Foundations of Quantum Mechanics"
  • 09:45 ~ 10:30: S. Roy*: "Planck Scale Physics, Pregeometry and the Notion of Time"

    Coffee

  • 11:00 ~ 11:25: R. Kiehn: "A Topological Perspective of the Arrow of Time and Thermodynamic Irreversibility"
  • 11:25 ~ 11:50: I. I. Shevchenko: "Conformal Time in Cosmology"
  • 11:50 ~ 12:15: B. Luka'cs: "Acausal Motions in Orthodox and Higher Dimensional General Relativity"

    Lunch

    (Chairman: M. Stuckey)
  • 15:00 ~ 15:45: I. Prigogine/Z. Suchanecki*: "Internal Time and Innovation"
  • 15:45 ~ 16:10: G. Vitiello: "The Arrow of Time in Quantum Theories"
  • 16:10 ~ 16:35: S. M. Korotaev: "Experimental Verification of Transaction of the Dissipative Processes through the Active Properties of Time"

    Coffee

  • 17:05 ~ 17:30: V. Dzhunushaliev:" Time at the Origin of Universe: Fluctuation Between Two Possibilities"
  • 17:30 ~ 17:55: A. Chernitskii: "Global Causality in Space-Time Universe"
  • 17:55 ~ 18:20: F. Lobo: "Time, Closed Timelike Curves and Causality"

  • 20:00 ~ ...... Conference dinner
MAY 24, 2002 (FRIDAY)
    (Chairman: G. Vitiello)
  • 08:45 ~ 09:10: J. Eakins: "Quantum Cellular Automata, A "Stages" View of Time, and the EPR Paradox"
  • 09:10 ~ 09:35: D. Kucher: "Self-Organization in Discrete Systems with Fermi-Type Memory"
  • 09:35 ~ 10:00: H. L. Szoecs: "On a Possibility of Quantisation of Space and Time"

    Session 4: Borderline Research on Time (Coordinator: Rosolino Buccheri)
    (Chairman: A. Grandpierre)
  • 10:00 ~ 10:45: R. Buccheri*: "Intelligibility of Nature, Endo-Physical Paradigm and the Relationship Between Time of Perception and Time of Physics"

    Coffee

  • 11:15 ~ 11:40: G. Darvas: "Potential and Actual Time Concepts. Different Approaches to Time in Philosophy and Physics"
  • 11:40 ~ 12:05: F. G. Winkler: "Inside versus Outside Views of Space-Time"
  • 12:05 ~ 12:30: A. P. Levich: "Paradigms of Natural Science and Substantial Temporology"
  • 12:30 ~ 12:55: B. Dichev: "Theory of Time: Probability, Origin of Matter and Nature of Time"

    Lunch

    (Chairman: R. Buccheri)
  • 15:00 ~ 15:45: A. Grandpierre*: "The Dynamics of Time and Timelessness: Philosophy, Physics and Prospects for our Life"
  • 15:45 ~ 16:10: Z. Jacobson: "Time from Quantum Uncertainity - Information Vanishes and Entropy Appears: Further Questions and Possible Empirical Tests"
  • 16:10 ~ 16:35: M. Kafatos: "Physical Processes, Consciousness and the Nature of Time"

    Coffee

  • 17:05 ~ 17:30: R. Amoroso: "The Physical Cosmology of Time: A Topological Quantum Field Theory of Origins in Higher Dimensional Geometry"
  • 17:30 ~ 17:55: A. F. Kracklauer: "Time Contortions in Modern Physics"
  • 17:55 ~ 18:20: C. C. Evangeliou: "The Aristotelian Relation of Time to Motion and to Soul"

    Closure of the ARW by G. Jaroszkiewicz

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