H&PCC 2024
Sala Malliani
University of Milan
Via Festa del Perdono 7
20122 Milan
There is no conference fee, but registration is required. Please email cosmosproject@unimi.it indicating your name, surname, affiliation, attendance dates and dietary requirements by 1 August 2024.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
Tuesday 10 September 2024
9:30 – 10:00 Registration and Welcome
10:00 – 11:15 Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech): Black Holes as Probes: The Standard Siren Method
Coffee break
11:45 – 13:00 COSMOS Research Team Group (presentation of results)
Lunch
14:30 – 15:45 History of Cosmology panel:
14:30 – 14:55 Nichole Levesley (University of Cambridge): Shifting Limits of Knowledge in Modern Cosmology: Cosmogonical Debates between 1948–1965
14:55 – 15:20 Alessio Rocci (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Solvay Institutes): The First Solvay Physics Council on Cosmology (1958)
15:20 – 15:45 Eve-Aline Dubois (University of Namur): Early conceptions of an infinite universe
Coffee break
16:00 – 17:15 Symposium “Cosmology of Post-Hellenistic Platonism. Two Ongoing Research Cases”: Alexandra Michalewski (CNRS), “Matter, Motion and Primary Bodies. New perspectives on Middle Platonist interpretations of Tim. 30a”; Giacomo De Andreis (PhD FINO, University of Pavia), “Precosmic Motion or Movement? Numenius’ Minimalist Version of Temporalism” Discussion with Arianna Piazzalunga (University of Turin), Laura Marongiu (University of Milan), Federico M. Petrucci (University of Turin).
Wednesday 11 September 2024
9:30 – 10:45 George Ellis (University of Cape Town): Cosmology today: Foundational Issues
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:30 Philosophy of Cosmology Panel A:
11:15 – 11:40 Antonis Antoniou (University of Bonn, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): Laws, Initial Conditions and Physical Modality: Lessons from Cosmology
11:40 – 12:05 Maura Burke (Utrecht University): A Novel Conceptualization of Fine-Tuning in Inflationary Cosmology
12:05 – 12:30 Álvaro Mozota (University of Girona): Does quantum cosmology predict the age of the universe?
Lunch
14:30 – 15:45 Karim Thébault (University of Bristol): Model-Based Explication and Quantum Singularity Resolution
Coffee Break
16:15 – 16:40 Adam Koberinski (Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario): Establishing a theory of inflationary cosmology
16:45 – 18:00 Symposium “Underdetermination in past and present cosmology”: Julien Bernard (Aix Marseille University): “The empirical underdetermination of theories at the time of the birth of relativistic cosmology”; Simon Beyne (Aix Marseille University): “The multiple determination strategy to combat underdetermination in the dark matter problem”; Marie Gueguen (University of Rennes): “Back to simplicity: how effective dimensions can break down artificial cases of underdetermination”; Gauvain Leconte-Chevillard (IHPST, Paris):“Rethinking empirical equivalence for today’s cosmology”; Théo Simon (University of Montpellier): “Resolving cosmological tensions to unveil the dark sector of the Universe: a study of the synergy between data, phenomenological models and theoretical models”.
Thursday 12 September 2024
9:30 – 10:45 Renate Loll (Radboud University, Nijmegen): TBA
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:30 Philosophy of Cosmology Panel B:
11:15 – 11:40 Lorenzo Lorenzetti (University of Bristol): Making Sense of Gravitational Thermodynamics
11:40 – 12:05 Antonios Papaioannou (Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University): Circularities in the search for empirical grounding for the cosmological principle
12:05 – 12:30 Anastasiia Lazutkina (University of Wuppertal): LCDM and MOND – Divergent Epistemologies in Cosmological Explanations
Lunch
14:30 – 15:45 Symposium “Cosmological Spacetime–Matter Distinction”: Antonio Ferreiro & Alex Fleuren (Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University): “Spacetime–Matter distinction in scalar field theories and applications to Inflation”; Sanne Vergouwen (Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University): “Black Holes as Massive Spacetime”; Niels Martens (Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University; BHI Harvard): “Interpreting Dark Energy”
Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:30 Luca Amendola (University of Heidelberg): What do we really measure in cosmology?
17:30 – 18:45 COSMOS NETWORK ANNUAL MEETING
20:00 Conference dinner
Friday 13 September 2024
9:30 – 10:45 Jim Wheatherall (University of California, Irvine): Two Tooth Fairies and a Dentist: Closing the Loop on Lambda CDM
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:30 Symposium “The Physicality of Black Holes”: Niels Linnemann (University of Geneva): “What makes black hole models physically reasonable?” (joint work with Yichen Luo and Chris Smeenk); Christian Wüthrich (University of Geneva): “Beyond the limits of analogue experiments”; Marta Pedroni (University of Geneva): “Are black hole singularities weakly located?”; Charlotte Zito (University of Geneva): “Are black holes a case for supersubstantivalism?”
12:30 – 13:00 Farewell and announcement of the next H&PCC2026
LOC: Silvia De Bianchi, Laura Follesa, Marco Forgione, Laura Marongiu, Federico Viglione.
SOC: Antonis Antoniou (University of Bonn), Salvatore Capozziello (University of Naples), Silvia De Bianchi (University of Milan), Claus Kiefer (University of Cologne), Niels Martens (University of Utrecht), Christopher Smeenk (University of Western Ontario).