Name: Virtual entities in science: a virtual workshop
Start: 2021-03-05T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2021-03-26T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Online

Monday, 1 March 2021
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Wednesday, 3 March 2021
Thursday, 4 March 2021
Friday, 5 March 2021
14:00 Welcome - Adrian Wüthrich (TU Berlin)
Welcome
- Adrian Wüthrich (TU Berlin)
14:00 - 14:10
14:10 General Introduction - Friedrich Steinle (HU Berlin)
General Introduction
- Friedrich Steinle (HU Berlin)
14:10 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 15:10
Contributions

14:30 Virtual Presence in the Early Modern Conception of Immaterial Entities - Edward Slowik
15:10 Break
Break
15:10 - 15:25
15:25
15:25 - 16:45
Contributions

15:25 Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon on Virtual States in Medium Propagation - Matthew Gardhouse

16:05 Historizing the virtual: a promising methodology and a study of the ether - Urko Gorriñobeaskoa
16:45 Break
Break
16:45 - 17:00
17:00 Arianna Borrelli
Arianna Borrelli
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 The eye stays in the picture: The emergence of virtual images in early modern optics - Arianna Borrelli
Saturday, 6 March 2021
Sunday, 7 March 2021

Monday, 8 March 2021
Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Wednesday, 10 March 2021
Thursday, 11 March 2021
Friday, 12 March 2021
14:00
14:00 - 14:30
Contributions

14:00 Virtual Being in Medieval Discussions of the Elements in the Mixed Body - Brian Francis Conolly

14:07 Maxwell and Imaginary Physics - Bernard R. Goldstein Giora Hon

14:14 John A. Wheeler as ‘geologist of the vacuum’: from quantum electrodynamics to pregeometry - Stefano Furlan

14:21 Is modern cosmology based on virtual entities? - Simon Beyne
14:30
14:30 - 15:10
Contributions

14:30 How possible is the virtual? Lessons from the mechanical tradition - Michael Stoeltzner
15:10 Break
Break
15:10 - 15:25
15:25
15:25 - 16:45
Contributions

15:25 Substitute Radiators, Virtual Oscillators, and Actual Transitions: Radiation Processes in the Old Quantum Theory and Quantum Mechanics (1913–1927) - Alexander Blum Martin Jähnert

16:05 “The new conception of the postulates:” Virtual entities and the Bohr-Kramers-Slater reformulation of the (old) quantum theory - Daniel Jon Mitchell
16:45 Break
Break
16:45 - 17:00
17:00 JoAnne Hewett
JoAnne Hewett
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 Layers of Virtuality in Particle Physics - JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)
Saturday, 13 March 2021
Sunday, 14 March 2021

Monday, 15 March 2021
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Thursday, 18 March 2021
Friday, 19 March 2021
14:00 Tarja Knuuttila
Tarja Knuuttila
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Synthetic biology in between the actual, virtual — and fictional - Tarja Knuuttila
15:00 Break
Break
15:00 - 15:15
15:15
15:15 - 16:35
Contributions

15:15 Material and virtual agents of heredity, 1870 to 1930 - Mike Buttolph

15:55 False Mathematical Entities and Aesthetic Economic Explanations as Virtual Matters - Gonzalo Carrión Sandra Visokolskis
16:35 Break
Break
16:35 - 16:50
16:50
16:50 - 18:10
Contributions

16:50 The Ghost in the Machine: Emergent Metaphors of ‘Virtual’ and ‘Artificial’ in Computer Science in the 1950s - Joseph Wilson

17:30 What’s a virtual entity? - Alexandre Declos
Saturday, 20 March 2021
Sunday, 21 March 2021

Monday, 22 March 2021
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
Thursday, 25 March 2021
Friday, 26 March 2021
14:00
14:00 - 14:28
Contributions

14:00 Reconfiguring the Domain: Meta-empirical Evidence in Support of Realism - Havelok Symes

14:07 I ain't afraid of no ghost - John Dougherty

14:14 From “virtual transitions” to neutral particle oscillations - Giulia Carini

14:21 Probing the Ontology of Virtual Particles in QCD: The Case of the Evolution of Parton Distribution Functions - Genco Guralp
14:28
14:28 - 15:08
Contributions

14:28 Getting to know “the language of Dirac’s theory of radiation”. Narratives and representations of quantum electrodynamics (QED) in the 1930s - Markus Ehberger
15:10 Break
Break
15:10 - 15:25
15:25
15:25 - 16:05
Contributions

15:25 Virtuality in nuclear physics (1930s–1940s): the many meanings of an emerging concept - Jean-Philippe Martinez
16:05
16:05 - 17:30
Contributions

16:05 Final joint discussion (zoom)

16:45 Individual discussions (wonder.me)

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