December 2017 - philphysmunich

CfP Workshop "Reduction and Emergence", Berlin, March 15 - 16, 2018
by Wolfgang Pietsch Dec. 15, 2017

Dec. 15, 2017

Call for abstracts for Workshop "Reduction and Emergence", Berlin, March 15 - 16, 2018 The Working Group “Philosophy of Physics” (AGPhil) of the German Physical Society (DPG) invites submissions for its annual workshop. Contributions on any topic in the philosophy of physics are welcome. The workshop takes place at the Technical University of Berlin from March 15 to 16, 2018, and will be part of the Annual Meeting of the DPG (http://berlin18.dpg-tagungen.de/index?set_language=en <http://berlin18.dpg-tagungen.de/index?set_language=en&cl=en> &cl=en). The AGPhil organizes a small workshop on “Reduction and Emergence in Physics” on March 16. Contributions in this area are especially appreciated. Confirmed speakers so far: Radin Dardashti (Wuppertal) Meinard Kuhlmann (Mainz) Patricia Palacios (Munich) Christian Wüthrich (Geneva) If you would like to present a paper, please submit an abstract of about 200 words by 10 January, 2018, using the online-form at https://www.dpg-tagung.de/b18/submission.html?language=en We look forward to seeing you in Berlin! Meinard Kuhlmann, Wolfgang Pietsch -------------- Dr. Wolfgang Pietsch Lehrstuhl für Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie Munich Center for Technology in Society Technische Universität München Arcisstr. 21 D-80333 München, Germany Tel.: +49 (0)89 . 289 – 25366

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Naturalness Workshop
by Joshua Rosaler Dec. 12, 2017

Dec. 12, 2017

Dear All, My colleagues have graciously informed me that my last e-mail reached a somewhat wider audience than anticipated. Here then, without further ado - and with apologies for clogging all of your inboxes - is the advertisement for our Aachen workshop on naturalness. Please note that the deadline for applications is Jan. 31. Very Best Wishes, Josh *Title: *Workshop on "Naturalness, Hierarchy, and Fine-Tuning" *Workshop Description:* The requirement of naturalness has long served as an influential constraint on model-building in elementary particle physics. Yet there are many ways of understanding what, precisely, this requirement amounts to, from restrictions on the amount of fine-tuning that a model can exhibit, to prohibitions on sensitive dependence between physics at different scales, to the requirement that dimensionless parameters defining the Lagrangian of a theory all be of order one unless protected by a symmetry. This workshop aims to clarify the relationships among these concepts of naturalness and their connection to the hierarchy problem, as well as to assess arguments for and against imposing various forms of naturalness as a requirement on particle physics model-building. It will bring together researchers in philosophy of physics and theoretical particle physics whose expertise touches either directly on the subject of naturalness or on closely related issues concerning effective field theory, renormalization, and the physical interpretation of quantum field theory. *Location:* RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany *Dates:* Feb. 28 - Mar. 2 *Speakers Include:* * Jonathan Bain (NYU) * Arianna Borrelli (TU Berlin) * Elena Castellani (Univ. Florence) * Richard Dawid (Univ. Stockholm) * Bertrand Delamotte (UPMC Paris) * Doreen Fraser (Univ. Waterloo) * Holger Gies (Univ. Jena) * Alexei Grinbaum (CEA-Saclay) * Arthur Hebecker (Univ. Heidelberg) * Sabine Hossenfelder (FIAS) * Fred Jegerlehner (HU Berlin) * Frank Saueressig (Univ. Nijmegen) * Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPF Lausanne) * Michael Stoeltzner (USC) * James Wells (Univ. Michigan) * Porter Williams (Univ. Pittsburgh) *Support:* The workshop will be hosted by the Institute of Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology at RWTH Aachen University as part of the DFG research unit "The Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider." For more information about the workshop, see https://indico.cern.ch/event/630393/. For information about the Epistemology of the LHC collaboration, see http://www.lhc-epistemologie.uni-wuppertal.de/ *Application:* (Deadline Jan. 31) Those interested in attending the workshop are asked to submit a brief description of their academic background and interest in the subject of the workshop via the following link: https://indico.cern.ch/event/630393/registrations/38431/ *Organization:* Robert Harlander, Gregor Schiemann, Joshua Rosaler, Miguel Angel Carretero Sahuquillo *Contact: %2Arosaler(a)physik.rwth-aachen.de (Joshua Rosaler), harlander(a)physik.rwth-aachen.de (Robert Harlander)

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Aachen Naturalness Workshop
by Joshua Rosaler Dec. 12, 2017

Dec. 12, 2017

Hello, Would it be possible to post the attached advertisement for a workshop on Naturalness to the mailing list? (My apologies for the impersonal nature of this e-mail. I don't know who is currently overseeing the list.) Very Best Wishes, Joshua Rosaler

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