talks
Talks, conference presentations, posters and research visits.
Upcoming
The Circularity Beneath Measurement: Felix Hausdorff and the Underdetermination of Geometry by Evidence
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Boston, MA, USA — January 13–16, 2027
Past talks
How Evolutionary Meta-Learning Repositions Neural Networks in the Nativism–Empiricism Debate
British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS), Leeds, UK — July 2026
Topological Asymmetry Neutralizes Leibniz’s Shift Argument and Collapses Categorical Equivalence
Foundations of Physics, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA — June 2026
Hausdorff and the Underdetermination of Space by Evidence
Felix Hausdorff Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA — May 2026
Evolutionary Epistemology In Silico: Exploring Nature and Nurture with Neural Networks
Laurie Paul’s Group Meeting, New Haven, CT, USA — April 2026
Evolutionary Epistemology In Silico: Exploring Nature and Nurture with Neural Networks
ELLMM Talk Series (Yale), New Haven, CT, USA — April 2026
Evolutionary Meta-Learning: A New Framework for Linguistic Nativism
Computational Linguistics at Yale (CLAY), New Haven, CT, USA — February 2026
The End of Nature vs. Nurture: Why AI Won’t Inherit Our Philosophical Puzzles
P&P Meeting, Digital Ethics Center (Yale), New Haven, CT, USA — September 2025
Undercutting the Spatiotemporal Underpinnings of the Humean Mosaic
Quantum Gravity and the Laws of Nature Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland — December 2024
Searching for New Spacetimes: The ISE Method of Topological Redescription
History and Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar, University of Bonn, Germany — November 2024
What Are the Laws of Nature? And What Do They Do?
Surrey Summer School, Southampton, UK — July 2024
In Search of New Spacetimes: The ISE Method of Topological Redescription
Oxford Philosophy of Physics Seminar, Oxford, UK — May 2024
In Search of New Spacetimes: A Dynamics-First View of Topology
Technion University job talk, Haifa, Israel — February 2024
In Search of New Spacetimes: A Dynamics-First View of Topology
University of Bonn job talk, Bonn, Germany — February 2024
In Search of New Spacetimes: A Dynamics-First View of Topology
Chapman University job talk, Orange, CA, USA — February 2024
In Search of New Spacetimes: A Dynamics-First View of Topology
Oxford Philosophy of Physics Workshop, Oxford, UK — September 2023
Deflating Spacetime: A Dynamics-First View of Topology
Third Hermann Minkowski Meeting, Albena, Bulgaria — September 2023
From Humean Laws to a Neo-Kantian Spacetime: A Dynamics-First View of Topology
First International Colloquium: ‘Emergence and Time’, Braga, Portugal — September 2023
A Dynamics-First View of Topology: Topological Redescription via the ISE Method
Foundations of Physics 2023, Bristol, UK — July 2023
In Search of New Spacetimes: Spacetime Non-Fundamentality Even for Well-Established Physics
Oxford practice job talk, Oxford, UK — February 2023
Deflating Spacetime: A Dynamics-First View of the Spacetime Manifold
Barrio RQI, Waterloo, ON, Canada — January 2023
Deflating Spacetime: A Dynamics-First View of the Spacetime Manifold
DPhil Seminar, Oxford, UK — November 2022
Regularity Relationism without a Manifold
LMP 2022, London, ON, Canada — June 12, 2022
The Pragmatic QFT Measurement Problem and the Need for a Heisenberg-like Cut in QFT
Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetime 2022, online — May 2022
Video
The Pragmatic QFT Measurement Problem Requires a Heisenberg-like Cut in QFT
Establishing the Philosophy of Supersymmetry, Stockholm, Sweden — May 2022
Two Discrete Analogs of General Covariance: Could the world be fundamentally set on a lattice?
Barrio RQI, Waterloo, ON, Canada — April 20, 2022
A Discrete Analog of General Covariance: Could the world be fundamentally set on a lattice?
ILMPS 2022, Milan, Italy — April 6, 2022
Video
The Pragmatic QFT Measurement Problem: A Tale of Two Detector Models
Philosophy of Physics Graduate Lunch, Oxford, UK — February 10, 2022
Slides · Video: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5
Window to the World: America
Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2021 (online) — September 22, 2021
The Unruh Effect in Slow Motion
RQI-Online, Waterloo, ON, Canada — March 10, 2021
Slides · Video talk · Video abstract
A Discrete Analog of General Covariance
Philosophy of Physics Graduate Lunch, Oxford, UK — January 22, 2021
Slides · Video: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4
Discrete General Covariance
Barrio RQI, Waterloo, ON, Canada — January 13, 2021
Slides · Video: 1 · 2 · 3
National University of Singapore — March 2019
RQI-South, Brisbane, Australia — February 2019
CAP 2018, Halifax, NS, Canada — June 2018
Probing the Spacetime Fabric 2017, Trieste, Italy — July 2017
RQI-North 2017, Kyoto, Japan — July 2017
Spacetime and Information Workshop 2017, Manitoulin, ON, Canada — June 2017
CAP 2017, Kingston, ON, Canada — May 2017
CAP 2016, Ottawa, ON, Canada — June 2016
RQI-North 2016, Waterloo, ON, Canada — June 2016
OSU AMO Research Day, Stillwater, OK, USA — July 2013
DAMOP Physics Conference, Quebec City, QC, Canada — June 2013
Posters
Heidelberg Laureate Forum (virtual) — September 2020
Vienna Summer School 2020 on Gravitational Quantum Physics (virtual) — September 2020
Engineered Quantum Systems School, Helsinki, Finland — June 2019
Quantum Thermodynamics 2019, Espoo, Finland — June 2019
Canadian Graduate Quantum Conference 2019, Jouvence, QC, Canada — June 2019
Quantum Thermodynamics 2018, Santa Barbara, CA, USA — June 2018
Canadian Graduate Quantum Conference 2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada — June 2018
Theory Canada 2018, Antigonish, NS, Canada — June 2018
Theory Canada 11, Ottawa, ON, Canada — June 2016
Research visits
National University of Singapore — March 2019
São Carlos, Brazil — June 2013