[PhilPhys] CFA: Beyond the Standard Model, historical-critical perspectives, GGI (Florence), 13-27 October 2019

[Elena Castellani]

Call for Participation

We invite applications to participate in the 2-week meeting on "Beyond 
the Standard Model: historical-critical perspectives" organized for the 
period 13.-27. October 2019 at the Galileo Galilei Institute (GGI) in 
Florence.

The workshop has a loose format, with no fixed schedule apart from a 
final one-day conference. Participants will have a workplace and 
facilities at the GGI to have informal meetings and discussions.

Here below more details:
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Beyond the Standard Model: historical-critical perspectives

Oct, 13 2019 - Oct, 27 2019

(deadline for applying: June 15, 2019)



Organizers
A. Blum (Max Planck Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin)
A. Borrelli (Centre for Advanced Study on Media Cultures of Computer 
Simulations (MECS), Leuphana University Lüneburg)
E. Castellani (DILEF- University of Florence)

Local organizer
Andrea Cappelli (INFN, Firenze)

Contact
borrelli at leuphana.de
elena.castellani at unifi.it



Abstract
Ever since the Standard Model was established, there have been 
speculations about physics “beyond the Standard Model” (BSM), giving 
rise to a steady flow of models of “new physics” and letting the borders 
between high energy physics, astrophysics, and cosmology become 
increasingly permeable. So far, though, experiments failed to provide 
evidence for new physics, generating increasing talk of a “crisis” of 
these research programs, calling into question their premises, such as 
the principle of naturalness, or even questioning their scientific 
methodology. The workshop aims at approaching the present situation from 
a historical-critical perspective, contextualizing and questioning the 
developments of earlier decades, both to understand better their past 
and present scope, and to provide new material for reflections on 
contemporary physical research.


Topics

1. Supersymmetry and supergravity: motivations and developments
2. Formal analogies in/between particle physics, condensed matter 
physics, and cosmology
3. Computer simulation in theoretical high energy physics and in cosmology
4. The interplay of experimental results and BSM model-building

Tentative Schedule
1st week: running workshop
2nd week: running workshop and 1-day final conference

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Webpage for applying:


https://www.ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl?id=323