I am co-organizing an interdisciplinary early-career workshop on the questions of what has been considered to constitute mathematical knowledge and mathematical practice throughout history. My dear co-organizer @cleliacrialesi.bsky.social has got all the details! 👇
10.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy to share this workshop program on 'Introduction to Category Theory for Non-Mathematicians', organized by a PhD student of mine, Marjolein Holvoet. It takes place at Ghent University. #philsky #philsci #philmath
www.ugent.be/doctoralscho...
The next UPAC colloquium speaker session will be held tomorrow (4 Nov 2025, 15h30-17h00), we will be hosting Christian Röken [University of Bonn], who will give a talk on "Stationary Limit Surfaces of Black Holes". For more information, visit:
www.uu.nl/en/research/...
Programm des Seminars. Vortragende: Lucy James, Sebastian Horvat, Bernd Henschenmacher, Michael Kramer
The Bonn History and Philosophy of Physics Research Seminar has started again! Reach out if you'd like to attend! 👇
15.10.2025 07:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CFA: 100 Years of Quantum: Perspectives on its Past, Present, and Future - October 20–24, 2025 - @perimeterinstitute.ca, Waterloo, Canada
Abstract deadline is August 24, 2025
Details: events.perimeterinstitute.ca/event/1013/ (via Doreen Fraser) #HPS ⚛️
Book cover of "Die Anfänge der Quantenmechanik: Die grundlegenden Arbeiten zur Matrizenmechanik von Heisenberg, Born, und Jordan.“ The upper third of the cover is yellow, the lower two thirds are red with the book title in yellow letters.
New book by alumnus Research Group Leader Alexander Blum and Martin Jähnert: "Die Anfänge der Quantenmechanik" 📕
The volume explores the #QuantumMechanics work of Heisenberg, Born, and Jordan, with detailed commentary that gives physics students access to their works.
🔗 bit.ly/qMt5 (GER)
#HistSci
On the 11th of July, the TU will host a workshop on philosophy of mathematics and epistemology. Details below. Speakers will be @guidotana.bsky.social, Nastasia Müller, Bernadette Lessel, @asgeirberg.bsky.social and me. All welcome!
www.tu.berlin/hpstl/verans...
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01.04.2025 16:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Wer schreibt jetzt die positive (nicht utopische) Zukunftsvision eines Europas, das sich in Elektrifizierung, Verteidigung, Humanismus und menschenwürdiger Migration so einig ist, dass es langfristig das attraktivste und stabilste Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmodell bietet und deshalb prosperiert?
03.03.2025 08:10 — 👍 516 🔁 100 💬 28 📌 3The history of physics journal EPJ H now explicitly invites submissions of tandem papers, i.e. articles co-authored by physicists and historians of physics 👉 epjh.epj.org/epjh-news/28...
26.02.2025 09:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
John A. Wheeler (1911-2008, APS 1951), a leading theoretical physicist and pioneer in the study of black holes, kept meticulous research notebooks. The 19 notebooks at APS are now digitized. Read this week's blog post from Joseph DiLullo to learn more. www.amphilsoc.org/news/new-dig...
19.02.2025 15:00 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0📢Call for applications📢 for the interdisciplinary HPS PhD project "Continuities and discontinuities in understanding the origin of mass" jointly @unibonn.bsky.social and @uniofstandrews.bsky.social! Full advert here: history-of-maths.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/global-docto.... Deadline Feb 21.
13.01.2025 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0📢Call for applications📢 for the interdisciplinary HPS PhD project "Continuities and discontinuities in understanding the origin of mass" jointly @unibonn.bsky.social and @uniofstandrews.bsky.social! Full advert here: history-of-maths.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/global-docto.... Deadline Feb 21.
13.01.2025 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Flavio. Background: slide on a special issue in EPJH
Flavio del Santo mentions guest editing work together with @bernalessel.bsky.social in his talk "The future of indeterminism looking at the past". #rcnp2025
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