Beyond the Standard Model: Historical-Critical Perspectives
Galileo Galilei Institute (GGI)
Arcetri
october 13-27, 2019
This 2-week workshop is devoted to discuss ideas and methods in the physics beyond the Standard Model, in particular by contextualizing and questioning their origins and developments from a historical and philosophical perspective.
Within this activity, a one-day Conference will be held on Monday, October 21.
Program of the Conference
GGI, October 21, 2019
9:30-9:45 - Welcome and introduction
9:45-10:45 - Jeroen van Dongen (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam)
"History and Philosophy of the Black Hole Information Paradox"
10:45-11:15 - Coffee Break
11:15-12:15 - Sebastian de Haro (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge - Amsterdam University College)
"A Conceptual Analysis of Black Hole Entropy in String Theory"
12:15 - 14:15 - Lunch Break
14:15-15:15 - Arianna Borrelli (MECS, Leuphana University Lüneburg)
"A Historical Critique of Symmetry's Success Story"
15:15-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-16:45 - Daniele Oriti (Faculty of Physics, LMU, Munich)
"Quantum Gravity: A Brief Review of the Past, a Selective Picture of the Present, a Glimpse of the Future"
16:45-17:45 - Francesco Bigazzi (INFN, Florence)
"The Holographic Correspondence"
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Organzers:
A. Blum (Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin)
A. Borrelli (MECS, Leuphana University Lüneburg)
E. Castellani (DILEF- University of Florence)
Local organizer:
A. Cappelli (INFN, Firenze)
Contact:
borrelli@leuphana.de
elena.castellani@unifi.it