Call for applications: Research Assistant (12.5%) in project ‘Cosmology Beyond Spacetime’

The Geneva Symmetry Group at the University of Geneva’s Department of Philosophy solicits applications for a 3-year position as research assistant (12.5%), starting as soon as possible. The position is funded by the John Templeton Foundation grant ‘Cosmology Beyond Spacetime’. More information on the project and the research group is available at http://beyondspacetime.net/.

Talks: Juliusz Doboszewski

Juliusz Doboszewski (Bonn) will be visiting the Geneva Symmetry Group (GSG) this week. The GSG is happy to present two talks by him, a more formal talk on Wednesday, and an informal seminar on Thursday (abstracts below):

Wednesday, 18 December 2019, at 18:15 in Room L208 (Landolt):

Juliusz Doboszewski (Bonn): No “no go” for LIGO prediction

Thursday, 19 December 2019, at 16:15 in room B111 (Bastions):

Juliusz Doboszewski (Bonn): General relativity as a classical limit

Anyone who wishes to attend is welcome.

Talks: Flavia Padovani

Flavia Padovani (Drexel University) will be visiting the Geneva Symmetry Group (GSG) next week. The GSG is happy to present two talks by her, a more formal talk on Wednesday, and an informal seminar on Thursday (abstracts below):

Wednesday, 27 November 2019, at 18:15 in Room L208 (Landolt):

Flavia Padovani (Drexel University): Coordination beyond coordination

Thursday, 28 November 2019, at 16:15 in room B111 (Bastions):

Flavia Padovani (Drexel University): On scientific representation

Anyone who wishes to attend is welcome.

Guest seminar: Vincent Lam

The MA seminar in Epistemology of Science taught by Baptiste Le Bihan and Christian Wüthrich will host a guest speaker this week:

Vincent Lam (Bern)

He will be discussing structural model errors as they arise in nonlinear models. As preparation, participants should read

Roman Frigg, Seamus Bradley, Hailing Du, and Leonard A Smith. Laplace’s demon and the adventures of his apprentices. Philosophy of Science 81 (2014): 31-59. DOI: 10.1086/674416

Talk this week: Nadja El Kassar

Nadja El Kassar (University of Zurich/ ETH Zurich) will be visiting the Geneva Centre for Philosophy of Science this week. We are happy to present her talk this Wednesday (abstract below):

Wednesday, 23 October 2019, at 18:15 in Room L208 (Landolt):

Nadja El Kassar (Universität Zürich/ETH Zürich): Epistemic autonomy and epistemology in the digital world

Anyone who wishes to attend is welcome.

Talks: Laura Felline

Laura Felline ( Rome 3) will be visiting the Geneva Symmetry Group (GSG) next week. The GSG is happy to present two talks by her, a more formal talk on Wednesday, and an informal seminar on Thursday (abstracts below):

Wednesday, 2 October 2019, at 18:15 in Room L208 (Landolt):

Laura Felline (Rome 3): Quantum theory is not only about information

Thursday, 3 October 2019, at 16:15 in room B111 (Bastions):

Laura Felline (Rome 3): Mechanistic explanation in physics: the measurement problem

Anyone who wishes to attend is welcome.

Job: Scientific Collaborator

Call for Applications:

SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATOR
in the project ‘To and Fro: Scientific Metaphysics at Physics’s Frontiers’

University of Geneva

The Department of Philosophy in Geneva solicits applications for a research position (‘collaborateur scientifique’), starting 1 September 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation grant ‘To and Fro: Scientific Metaphysics at Physics’s Frontiers’. The position will be funded for up to 9 months from the starting date.

Talks: Patricia Palacios

Patricia Palacios (University of Salzburg) will be visiting the Geneva Symmetry Group (GSG) this week. The GSG is happy to present two talks by her, a more formal talk on Wednesday, and an informal seminar on Thursday (abstracts below):

Wednesday, 15 May 2019, at 18:15 in Room L208 (Landolt):

Patricia Palacios (University of Salzburg, with Lapo Casetti): Re-defining equilibrium for long-range interacting systems

Thursday, 16 May 2019, at 16:15 in room B002 (Bastions):

Patricia Palacios (University of Salzburg, with Sean Gryb and Karim Thébault): On the universality of Hawking radiation

Anyone who wishes to attend is welcome.

Talks this week: Giovanni Valente

Giovanni Valente (Politecnico di Milano) will be visiting the Geneva Symmetry Group (GSG) this week. The GSG is happy to present two talks by him, a more formal talk on Wednesday, and an informal seminar on Thursday (abstracts below):

Wednesday, 8 May 2019, at 18:15 in Room L208 (Landolt):

Giovanni Valente (Politecnico di Milano): Spontaneous symmetry breaking and physical inequivalence: the case of quantum statistical mechanics

Thursday, 9 May 2019, at 16:15 in room B002 (Bastions):

Giovanni Valente (Politecnico di Milano): On the paradox of reversible processes in thermodynamics

Anyone who wishes to attend is welcome.

Talks this week: Miklos Redei

Miklos Redei (London School of Economics) will be visiting the Geneva Symmetry Group (GSG) this week. The GSG is happy to present two talks by him, a more formal talk on Wednesday, and an informal seminar on Thursday (abstracts below):

Wednesday, 17 April 2019, at 18:15 in Room L208 (Landolt):

Miklos Redei (London School of Economics): Categorial local quantum physics

Thursday, 18 April 2019, at 16:15 in room B002 (Bastions):

Miklos Redei (London School of Economics): Some features of Bayesian learning based on conditioning using conditional expectations

Anyone who wishes to attend is welcome.