Report on the Bonn “Simplicities and Complexities” Conference

"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.