The COSMOS Research Team is glad to announce the workshop Modeling the Cosmos: Frontiers in Philosophy of Astrophysics and Cosmology.
3-4 March 2026
University of Milan, (Room 113, via Festa del Perdono 7).
Registration closes on 8 February 2026. Attendance is free, but registration is required. Please email: cosmosproject@unimi.it
Looking forward to seeing you in Milan!
PROGRAM:
Tuesday 3 March 2025
9:15 – 9:30: Registration and Welcome
9:30 – 10:15: Claus Beisbart (University of Bern): “Dark matter meets opaque models: Machine learning in cosmological modeling”
10:15 – 11:00: Marco Forgione (University of Milan) “Large-Scale Simulations in Cosmology: Validation Problems”
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:15: Martina Gerbino (University of Ferrara): “Can we trust it? Robust interpretation of cosmological data”
12:15 – 13:00: Jamee Elder (Tufts University): “Theory-mediated Detection of Novel Phenomena in Astrophysics: the Case of the Photon Ring”
Lunch
14:30 – 15:15: Juliusz Doboszewski (University of Krakow): “What do trapped surfaces teach us about philosophical analysis of observation and measurement in general relativity?”
15:15-16:00: Marco De Cesare (SSM Naples/INFN): “Cosmological effects on gravitational-wave propagation in bigravity”
Coffee Break
Special session on Euclid
16:30 – 17:15: Luigi Guzzo (University of Milan): “Exploring the large-scale structure of the Universe with Euclid”
17:15 – 18:00: Carmelita Carbone (INAF): TBA
Wednesday 4 March 2024
9:00 – 9:45: Antonis Antoniu (University of Athens): “Is dark matter the aether of the 21st century?”
9:45 – 10:30: Vera Matarese (University of Perugia): “Dark energy as successful fiction: How fictional entities shape the epistemic progress in cosmology”
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45: Lorenzo Lorenzetti (USI Lugano): “Limiting Reduction and Modified Gravity” (joint-work with A. Antoniou)
11:45 – 12:30: Federico Viglione (University of Milan): “Models of Explanation for the Beginning of the Cosmos”
Talk open to general audience
12:30 – 13:15: Henrik Zinkernagel (University of Granada): “Aesthetics, motivation and the existential aspects of cosmology”
Lunch
14:45 – 15:30: Siska De Baerdemaeker (University of Stockholm): “Modeling and the Milky Way”
15:30 – 16:15: Silvia De Bianchi (University of Milan): “Testing Spacetime Functionalism: Remarks on Analogue Simulations and Black Hole Physics.”
Coffee break
16:45-17:30: Niels Martens (University of Utrecht): “Detecting the Dark: Indirectness & Dark Matter Epistemology”
Farewell