[PhilPhys] Symposium "History for Physics: Quantum Gravity" at the AEI

[Bernadette Lessel]

Dear Colleagues and Friends, 

We invite you to participate and submit a contributed talk to the two-day symposium “History for Physics: Quantum Gravity”, to be held on November 28-29, 2019 at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam-Golm (Germany). Jointly organized by the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Vienna (IQOQI-Vienna) and the Max Planck Research Group “Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, this symposium aims at demonstrating the importance of the history of physics within current research in physics itself. Researchers and students in physics who are not, or not yet, engaged in the history of physics are therefore particularly welcomed to join. 

The core format of this symposium will be that of tandem talks. Each tandem will pair two presentations, one given by a physicist on a current research topic, the other given by an historian of physics providing the historical context to that topic. 

We are delighted to announce the following two confirmed invited tandems: 


Alexander Blum (MPIWG) and Hermann Nicolai (Albert Einstein Institute)
Thiago Hartz (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) and 	Claus Kiefer (University of Cologne)


We furthermore call for contributed talks. We welcome talks which are either
single history talks on quantum foundations
physics/history-tandems on quantum foundations
presentations of historically relevant papers in quantum foundations
       In case you are interested in participating in tandem, but do not have a tandem-partner, please contact the organizers, who will then try to match tandems together. We also highly welcome history talks by non-historians.
If you wish to contribute in one of those ways, please send an abstract of your proposed talk, no longer than half an A4 page, to hfp at mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de <mailto:hfp at mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de>. The deadline for applications is 01.11.2019.

Besides the talks, we will schedule a panel discussion on the relevance of the history of physics for research and education and its current realization within academic structures. We are very pleased to already be able to announce 

Jeroen van Dongen (University of Amsterdam) and Arianna Borelli (Technische Universität Berlin) 

as panelists, who will additionally give a short impulse talk beforehand. More panelists will be announced, soon!

"History for Physics: Quantum Gravity" is the second of so far two scheduled events of this kind. The first, on quantum foundations, was held September 23-24, 2019 at the Faculty for Physics at the University of Vienna.

The symposium is free of charge and open to all. If you wish to attend without contributing a talk, we kindly ask for registration by sending an e-mail to hfp at mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de <mailto:hfp at mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de>.

For further information please check the event-website, http://bit.ly/history-for-physics <http://bit.ly/history-for-physics>, or write to the organizers at the mentioned e-mail address. 
Please feel free to forward this invitation to everybody who could be interested in attending.  

With kind regards, 
Bernadette Lessel (MPIWG)
Flavio Del Santo (IQOQI-Vienna)




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