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22/09/2025 10:26 pm
Hello everyone, the next two upcoming online seminars for WG1 are are follows.
Thursday 9th of October at 3pm CET, seminar by Jan Mandrysch
Thursday 13th of November at 3pm CET, seminar by Roger Colbeck
Further details will be shared soon.
Recording of past seminars can be found on the RQI COST YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RQICOST
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12/11/2025 9:58 pm
Hello everyone! The details of the next WG1 seminar are given below.
Date and time: 13 November, 15:00 (CET)
Speaker: Roger Colbeck (King’s College London and University of York)
Title: Different notions of causation in different theories
Abstract: Causation is used throughout science and is key to the scientific method, yet there are different notions of it, e.g. in relativity, or in causal modelling. I will introduce the causal modelling perspective, in which various statistical observations are used to infer causation, and connect this perspective to quantum theory and relativity. Within this I will define no superluminal signalling (NSS) and no superluminal causation (NSC) and discuss how theories constrained by NSS but breaking NSC have counterintuitive consequences and lead to different information-theoretic possibilities. Partly based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12446 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12128