Our PostDoc Niels Martens and his co-author James Read have recently been interviewed by Prof. David Baker (Michigan) about their paper "Sophistry about symmetries?".
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Call for abstracts for the annual conference of the Philosophy of Physics Group of the German Physical Society.
21 - 25 March 2022 The Philosophy of Physics Group (AG Phil) of the German Physical Society (DPG) invites submissions for its annual conference, which will take place within the framework of the annual conference of the DPG. Contributions to any topic in the philosophy of physics are welcome. A particular focus in this year will be the philosophical analysis of gravitational wave and black hole physics, and we particularly encourage submissions on this topic. The following speakers have already accepted the invitation to speak at the AG Phil sessions: Juliusz Doboszewski (Bonn) Isobel Falconer (St Andrews) Peter Galison (Harvard) Tushar Menon (Cambridge) Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech) Karim Thébault (Bristol) The conference will take place 21 - 25 March 2022 and will be held entirely online. The DPG divisions for gravitational physics, particle physics, history of physics, and theoretical/mathematical physics, among others, also convene at the same conference. The conference will have many parallel sessions organised by the various DPG groups and divisions, and any attendee can freely jump between the different sessions on physics, its philosophy and history. If you would like to present a paper, please submit an abstract of about 200 words by 21 January 2022 (ignore the stated 15 January 2022 abstract submission deadline on the website), using the online-form here. For future updates, see here. We are thrilled that Dr. Noah Stemeroff, former postdoctoral fellow in our gravitational wave project and former Heinrich Hertz fellow, has been successful at various grant applications, and has decided to take up a Humboldt fellowship, co-located at Bonn and Berlin. His Humboldt project, ''Mathematics or Physics? Idealism and the History of Gauge Field Theory'' will start in January 2022. Congratulations, Noah!
We're thrilled that Dr. Jamee Elder, collaborator and recurring visitor on our gravitational wave project and former Heinrich Hertz fellow, has won the 2021 Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics for her paper ''On the 'direct detection' of gravitational waves''. The topic of the 2021 competition was "Measurement practices in the physical sciences: correlation, calibration and stabilization", with the selection committee consisting of Alisa Bokulich, Hasok Chang, Daniel Mitchell and Wendy Parker. Each winner receives $1000, will present their paper at a workshop to be held at Duke University (provisionally scheduled for April 7-9 2022), and is invited to have their paper considered for publication in the journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Dr. Elder is our second Heinrich Hertz Fellow to receive the Du Châtelet Prize, following up on Dr. Josh Eisenthal who won the prize last year.
Dennis Lehmkuhl has been elected as the new chairperson of the Philosophy of Physics Group (AGPhil) of the German Physical Society (DPG). Philosophical reflection on gravitational waves and black holes will be the focus of the AGPhil conference 2022 in Heidelberg.
www.dpg-physik.de/vereinigungen/fachuebergreifend/ag/agphil
We are proud to report that our postdoc Niels Martens has received the Philosophy of Cosmology Essay Award by the New Directions in Philosophy of Cosmology project, for his paper 'Dark Matter Realism', which was written as part of the project LHC, dark matter & modified gravity within the interdisciplinary research unit Epistemology of the LHC. This award of $1500 comes with an invitaton to present the paper at their online conference in 2021. Moreover, the paper will appear in an edited volume that is to be published by the New Directions project."Simplicities and Complexities" was a conference on interdisciplinary perspectives on simplicity and complexity in scientific knowledge and practices, which took place in Bonn from 22 to 24 May 2019. It was organised by the DFG Research Unit "Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider"; several of the organisers are also members of the Lichtenberg group. The conference brought together scholars from the sciences and humanities, ranging from physicists, biologists and computer scientists to philosophers, linguists, anthropologists and more. A report on the conference, "Simplicity in the Sciences and Humanities: Report on the Bonn "Simplicities and Complexities" Conference", has now been published in Journal for General Philosophy of Science. Moreover, the Research Unit has announced a call for papers for a topical collection in Synthese, titled "Simplicity out of Complexity? Physics and the Aims of Science". The deadline is 31 July 2020.
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has provided three more years of funding for the research unit "Inductive Metaphysics"; two of the nine projects are based in Bonn. A postdoc position to join the project "The role of Inference to the best explanation in the discovery of gravitational waves" has been advertised here.
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