Aim:
Examining and evaluating the most recent insights (discoveries) into
(about) the multifaceted nature of time. Although underlined by physics,
substantial space is also given to novel and unorthodox ideas from
other branches of science.
International Organizing Committee:
- Rosolino Buccheri (Co-Director), Istituto di Astrofisica
Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Sezione di Palermo, CNR, Palermo, Italy
(buccheri@ifcai.pa.cnr.it,
http://www.pa.iasf.cnr.it/~buccheri)
- Metod Saniga (Co-Director), Astronomical Institute,
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranská Lomnica, Slovak Republic
(msaniga@astro.sk, http//www.astro.sk/~msaniga/)
- George Jaroszkiewicz, School of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K.
(jag@maths.nott.ac.uk,
http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/gaj)
- Jonathan D. H. Smith, Department of Mathematics, Iowa
State University, Ames, U.S.A. (jdhsmith@math.iastate.edu,
http://www.math.iastate.edu/jdhsmith/homepage.html)
Local Organizing Committee:
Metod Saniga (Chair), Jaroslav Ambróz, Tatiana Galschneiderová,
Margita Hubačová, Richard Komžík,
Andrea Sanigová
Contact Address (from November 1, 2001, to October 31, 2002):
Dr. Metod Saniga
International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry
Free University of Brussels (ULB),
Campus Plaine - CP 231
Boulevard du Triomphe, 1050 Brussels
BELGIUM
Phone: +32-2-650-5789
Fax: +32-2-650-5028
E-mail:
msaniga@ulb.ac.be
Proceedings:
The book has already been published, as Volume 95
of the NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and
Chemistry, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht - Boston - London.
Miscellanea:
An electronic copy of the poster of the
workshop is also available.
Have also a look at a short essay
about the event, "Anybody
Really Know What Time Is?", written by Mark K. Anderson for the
WiredNews (U.S.A.). (There also exists its Spanish translation
Alguien Sabe Realmente Que Hora Es?).
Last modified on September 4, 2003.
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