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• Montreal Workshop, June 2006: The workshop took place on the Monday and Tuesday following the Ontology of Spacetime conference in Montreal., June 12-13. The workshop began with a public lecture on Sunday evening, June 11, by Robert Geroch, on Time Travel. This was co-sponsored by the International Society for the Advanced Study of Spacetime.

  Monday (12 June 2006 ‚Room H‚760 at Concordia University)

  9:30-11:00   Frank Arntzenius and Hilary Greaves: Feynman on particles propagating backwards in time (1)

  11:00-11:30  Coffee Break

  11:30-12:30  Kent Peacock: Time, gravity, and the quantum: A Philosopher takes a naive look at quantum gravity

  12:30-2:00   Lunch

  2:00-3:00    Mauro Dorato: Hume's critique of causation as a guide to Einstein's discovery of the relativity of simultaneity

  3:00-4:00    Storrs McCall: Fermat's last theorem, mathematical necessity, and physical determinism

  4:00-4:30    Coffee Break

  4:30-5:30    Vesselin Petkov: Why Presentism is definitely wrong

  Tuesday (13 June 2006, Room H‚760 at Concordia University)

  9:30-11:00      Frank Arntzenius: Feynman on particles propagating backwards in time (2)

  11:00-11:30  Coffee Break

  11:30-12:30  Steve Weinstein: Multiple time dimensions

  12:30-2:00   Lunch

  2:00-3:00    Ric Arthur: The Degeneracy of Time

  3:00-4:00    Future TaU projects.

©Richard T. W. Arthur, 2005