Virtual entities in science: a virtual workshop

from Friday 5 March 2021 (14:00) to Friday 26 March 2021 (18:00)
Online

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Mar 2021
12 Mar 2021
19 Mar 2021
26 Mar 2021
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14:00 Welcome - Adrian Wüthrich (TU Berlin)  
14:10 General Introduction - Friedrich Steinle (HU Berlin)  
14:30
Contributed Talks (until 15:10)
14:30 Virtual Presence in the Early Modern Conception of Immaterial Entities - Edward Slowik  
15:10 --- Break ---
15:25
Contributed Talks (until 16:45)
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 ---
17:00
Keynote (until 18:00)
17:00 The eye stays in the picture: The emergence of virtual images in early modern optics - Arianna Borrelli  
14:00
Poster Session (until 14:30)
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
Contributed Talks (until 15:10)
14:30 How possible is the virtual? Lessons from the mechanical tradition - Michael Stoeltzner  
15:10 --- Break ---
15:25
Contributed Talks (until 16:45)
15:25 Substitute Radiators, Virtual Oscillators, and Actual Transitions: Radiation Processes in the Old Quantum Theory and Quantum Mechanics (1913–1927) - Martin Jähnert Alexander Blum  
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 ---
17:00
Keynote (until 18:00)
17:00 Layers of Virtuality in Particle Physics - JoAnne Hewett (SLAC)  
14:00
Keynote (until 15:00)
14:00 Synthetic biology in between the actual, virtual — and fictional - Tarja Knuuttila  
15:00 --- Break ---
15:15
Contributed Talks (until 16:35)
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 - Sandra Visokolskis Gonzalo Carrión  
16:35 --- Break ---
16:50
Contributed Talks (until 18:10)
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  
14:00
Poster Session (until 14:28)
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
Contributed Talks (until 15:08)
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 ---
15:25
Contributed Talks (until 16:05)
15:25 Virtuality in nuclear physics (1930s–1940s): the many meanings of an emerging concept - Jean-Philippe Martinez  
16:05
General discussion (until 17:30)
16:05 Final joint discussion (zoom)  
16:45 Individual discussions (wonder.me)