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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='margin-bottom:9.0pt;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-variant-alternates: inherit;font-variant-position: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-optical-sizing: inherit;font-size-adjust: inherit;font-kerning: inherit;font-feature-settings: inherit;font-variation-settings: inherit;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Philosophy of High Energy Physics (PHEP-2)</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:9.0pt;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-variant-alternates: inherit;font-variant-position: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-optical-sizing: inherit;font-size-adjust: inherit;font-kerning: inherit;font-feature-settings: inherit;font-variation-settings: inherit;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>Workshop Dates: February 15-16, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Call for Papers – The deadline for submissions is September 30th at midnight. Please send all submissions to <a href="mailto:phep2025@gmail.com">phep2025@gmail.com</a>.</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>The second Pittsburgh workshop on philosophy of particle and high energy physics will be held at the Center for Philosophy of Science on 15th-16th February 2025. The theme is construed broadly to include cosmology, astrophysics, quantum gravity and quantum field theory insofar as they overlap with issues in high-energy physics.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-variant-alternates: inherit;font-variant-position: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-optical-sizing: inherit;font-size-adjust: inherit;font-kerning: inherit;font-feature-settings: inherit;font-variation-settings: inherit;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Organizing committee</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Marian Gilton</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>David Wallace</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Porter Williams</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-variant-alternates: inherit;font-variant-position: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-optical-sizing: inherit;font-size-adjust: inherit;font-kerning: inherit;font-feature-settings: inherit;font-variation-settings: inherit;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-numeric: inherit;font-variant-east-asian: inherit;font-variant-alternates: inherit;font-variant-position: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-optical-sizing: inherit;font-size-adjust: inherit;font-kerning: inherit;font-feature-settings: inherit;font-variation-settings: inherit;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Confirmed Speakers</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>James Fraser</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Marian Gilton</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Adam Koberinski</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Siddharth Muthukrishnan</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Laura Ruetsche</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>David Wallace</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Porter Williams</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black'>Visit the website for the most up to date information and registration: <a href="https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/philosophy-of-high-energy-physics-phep-2/" target="_blank"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/philosophy-of-high-energy-physics-phep-2/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>