Agenda of Current and Upcoming Events at our Institute

COLLOQUIA

• Thursday 1st September 2011
  Values in science; A critical analysis of four aspects

  Graduation Colloquium by Rosa Runhardt, UU.

  BBL069, 15.30

  
  
  

  Friday 27th May 2011

  Enlightening the matter of science; The anti-materialistic Enlightenment philosophy of Jean de Castillon (1709-1791)

  Graduation Colloquium by Joppe van Driel, UU.

  BBL075, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 18th March 2011

  The Structure of Causal Sets

  General Physics Colloquium by dr. Chris Wuetrich, Dept. of Philosophy, University of California at San Diego, USA.

  MG 211, 16.00

  
  
  

  Thursday 17th March 2011

  No Presentism in Quantum Gravity

  Colloquium by dr. Chris Wuetrich, Dept. of Philosophy, University of California at San Diego, USA.

  BBL 083, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 3rd March 2011

  The Difference between Matter and Spacetime

  Colloquium by Dennis Lehmkuhl, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Wuppertal. Germany.

  BBL 023, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 27th January 2011

  Explicating Newton's Natural-Philosophical Methodology: the Principia

  Colloquium by Steffen Ducheyne, Ghent.

  BBL 005, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 25th November 2010

  On the History of the Franck & Hertz Experiments

  Graduationcolloquium by Abel Streefland, Utrecht.

  Min208, 15.30

  
  
  

  Friday 19th November 2010

  The Pyramid and the Ring: The Rise of Ontological Indifference

  Colloquium by Peter Galison, Harvard.

  Kleine Collegezaal, Aardwetenschappen, 10.00-12.00

  
  
  

  Thursday 18th November 2010

  Explaining Thermodynamic-Like Behaviour In Terms of Epsilon-Ergodicity

  Colloquium by Roman Frigg, LSE, London.

  Min208, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 28th October 2010

  A feeling for patterns in rivers: understanding and reductionistic explanation in earth science

  Colloquium by Dr. Maarten G. Kleinhans, Faculty of Geosciences, UU.

  Oost-802 H.R. Kruyt Building, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 14th October 2010

  What classicality? Decoherence and Bohr's classical concepts

  Colloquium by Maximillian Schlosshauer, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.

  Kruyt O-128, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 30th September 2010

  Schelling and Comte: Positive about Science

  Graduationcolloquium by Maarten Trimp, UU.

  Kruyt O-123, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 24th June 2010

  The Civil Scientist and the Researcher: A Comparison between Dutch and German Scientists (1750-1850).

  Colloquium by Dr. Ad Maas, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden.

  BBL065, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 17th June 2010

  A Crisis in Modern Physics and its Roots in Post-Revolutionary Paris

  Colloquium by Dr. Alberto A. Martinez, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A..

  Minn202, 15.30

  
  
  

  Friday 28th May 2010

  Zeno's arrow and instantaneous velocity

  Colloquium by Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Fano, Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Urbino, Italy.

  BBL458, 15.30

  
  
  

  Wednesday 19th May 2010

  An ''excellently composed'' curiosity: Father Hoenen's twentieth-century philosophy of nature

  Colloquium by Merel Schelland, Graduation Colloquium, Utrecht University.

  BBL079, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 29th April 2010

  The Classical Roots of Schroedinger's Wave Mechanics

  Colloquium by Christian Joas, Quantum History Project, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

  BBL165, 15.30

  
  
  

  Friday 26th February 2010

  The Problem of Measurement and Probability in Collapse and Non-Collapse Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics

  Graduation Colloquium by Matthijs van Vulpen, UU.

  BBL079, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 18th February 2010

  Resistance and resentment: French and German critics of the theory of relativity

  Graduation Colloquium by Astrid van Kimmenade, UU.

  BBL023, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 11th February 2010

  Leviathan and the Air Pump Redux: The Case for String Theory

  Colloquium by Dean Rickles, University of Sidney, Australia.

  BBL023, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 14th January 2010

  Going backwards from the mechanical world. Mechanicism and irreversibility in nineteenth century physics

  Graduation Colloquium by Marij van Strien.

  BBL165, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 3rd December 2009

  Drugs in the 16th century. Revolutionary or conventional?

  Graduation Colloquium by Saskia Klerk.

  BBL426, 15.30-16.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 26th November 2009

  Pieter Wils' Wiskonstige Wercken

  Graduation Colloquium by Jan Beuving.

  Min208 (Minnaert Building), 15.30-17.00

  
  
  

  Thursday 29th October 2009

  An old and a new theorem in quantum mechanics and what they don't imply for indeterminism

  Colloquium by Christian Wüthrich.

  Wis-611a/b (mathematics building), 13.45-15.00

  
  
  

  Thursday 15th October 2009

  Mind The Gap. A Cognitive Perspective on the flow of time in physics.

  Graduation Colloquium by Annemarie Hagenaars.

  Wis-611a/b (mathematics building), 14.00-15.15

  
  
  

  Thursday 1st October 2009

  The DHR Analysis from Algebraic Quantum Field Theory

  Graduation Colloquium by Sander Wolters.

  Wis-611a/b (mathematics building), 14.00-15.15

  
  
  

  Thursday 17th September 2009

  Why Read the Book of Nature When You Can Watch the Movie?: The Curious Past and Future of Natural History Museums

  Graduation Colloquium by Ana Sofia Gomez.

  Wis-611a/b (mathematics building), 14.00-15.15

  
  
  

  Thursday 11th June 2009

  Ambivalence and Conflict: Catholic Church and Evolutionary Theory

  Colloquium by Prof. Gereon Wolters, NIAS.

  BBL 426, 15.30-17.00

  
  
  

  Thursday 7th May 2009

  Putting Schrödinger's cat to rest

  Colloquium by Dr. Richard Gill, Leiden University/CWI.

  BBL 426, 15.30

  
  
  

  Wednesday 6th May 2009

  Knot Representation

  Colloquium by Dr. Kenneth Manders , Pittsburgh.

  BBL 430, 16.00

  
  
  

  Thursday 9th April 2009

  Molecular Disorder and Probability

  Colloquium by Dan Parker, Philosophy Department, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, U.S.A. & IHPST Paris, France.

  BBL 415, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 2th April 2009

  Mach, Einstein and Relationism

  Colloquium by Marco van Hulten, Afstudeercolloquium.

  Minnaert 202, 14.00

  
  
  

  Thursday 26th March 2009

  Quantum Completeness and Derivations of the Born Rule

  Colloquium by Carsten Held, Erfurt.

  471, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 19th March 2009

  Teaching quantum mechanics starting from Heisenberg

  Colloquium by Erik Verlinde, UVA, Amsterdam.

  BBL 415, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 12th March 2009

  Zeno's Paradoxes. A Cardinal Problem (IV)

  Colloquium by Karin Verelst, FUND-CLEA, VUB, Brussel.

  BBL 505, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 26th February 2009

  In Search of an Explanation for the Thermodynamical Arrow of Time in Cosmology

  Colloquium by Erik Janssen, Afstudeercolloquium.

  BBL 475, 14.00

  
  
  

  Thursday 12th February 2009

  Logical positivism & the theory of relativity. A case study: Hans Reichenbach

  Colloquium by Fedde Benedictus, Afstudeercolloquium.

  BBL 475, 14.00

  
  
  

  Tuesday 20th January 2009

  ''Polytechnical'' Museums in the GDR - A Failed Attempt at Establishing Marxist Science Centres?

  Colloquium by Martin P.M. Weiss, Afstudeercolloquium.

  BBL 509, 13.00

  
  
  

  Thursday 4th December 2008

  THE EINSTEIN VS. LORENTZ ISSUE AS A CASE AGAINST REALISM

  Colloquium by Kasper Schipper, Bachelor praatje.

  Room: Wiskunde gebouw 314, 14.00

  
  
  

  Wednesday 19th November 2008

  Barbour's denial of time

  Colloquium by Lennart Wilmink, Bachelor praatje.

  Room: Wiskunde gebouw 314, 14.00

  
  
  

  Thursday 13th November 2008

  GAS DISCHARGE TUBES AT THE MUSEON

  Colloquium by Hieke Huistra, Graduation Colloquium.

  Room: BBL 420, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 6th November 2008

  Quantum Indistinguishability

  Colloquium by Federico Holik, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  Room: BBL 420, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 6th November 2008

  Why Modal Interpretations Must Abandon Classical Reasoning About Possible Properties

  Colloquium by Christian de Ronde, CLEA Brussels, Belgium.

  Room: BBL 420, 16.15

  
  
  

  Thursday 16th October 2008

  De ontvangst van Wegeners theorie in Nederland (1916-1968). Acceptatie, verwerping en heropleving

  Colloquium by Willemjan F. Barzilay, Graduation Colloquium.

  Room: 104 Ruppert Building, Leuvenlaan 21, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 21st August 2008

  SCIENTIFIC METAPHYSICS: ON THE NATURE OF EXPERIENCE IN PARTICULAR AND THE STATUS OF PHILOSOPHY AS A SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE IN GENERAL

  Colloquium by René Janssen, Graduation Colloquium.

  Room: 204 Minnaert, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 12th June 2008

  De ontdekking van de hemel (1992) van Harry Mulisch: over de functie en betekenis van literaire representaties van wetenschap in moderne romanliteratuur

  Colloquium by Willemijn van der Linden, Taal en Cultuur Studies Universiteit Utrecht en Mod. Ned. Letterkunde Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

  Room: 165 BBL, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 29th May 2008

  The `Academy of Nations` - an international network of Einstein opponents from the early 1920s

  Colloquium by Milena Wazeck, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

  Room: 202 Minnaert, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 15th May 2008

  DOES VIOLATION OF BELL-TYPE LOCALITY IMPLY NON-SEPARABILITY IN QUANTUM FIELD THEORY?

  Colloquium by Giovanni Valente, University of Maryland and Tilburg Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science.

  Room: 202 Minnaert, 15.30

  
  
  

  Thursday 8th May 2008

  In the Beginning. The Reception of the Nebular Hypothesis in Britain, 1796-1859.

  Colloquium by Tim Nicolaije, Graduation colloquium, Utrecht University.

  BBL, room 433, 15:00

  
  
  

  Wednesday 23rd April 2008

  SEMINAR SCIENTIFIC REALISM, ON THE ADVANTAGE OF NOVELTY

  Colloquium by Prof. Mario Alai, University of Urbino, Italy.

  BBL, room 361, 15:00

  
  
  

  Thursday 21st Februari 2008

  SIMULTANEITY, CONVENTION AND GAUGE

  Colloquium by Robert Rynasiewicz, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.

  Minnaert building, room 202, 15:30

  
  
  

  Thursday 7th Februari 2008

  ENTANGLEMENT AND NON-HERMITEAN STATES

  Colloquium by Bryan Sanctuary, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

  Minnaert building, room 202, 15:30

  
  
  

  Thursday 25th Oktober 2007

  TYPES OF QUANTUM INFORMATION

  Colloquium by Robert B. Griffiths, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

  BBL 107A, 15:30

  
  
  

  Thursday 20th September 2007

  Bell's Theorem, Sufficiency And Locality

  Colloquium by Abel Streefland, Graduation colloquium.

  BBL 202, 15:30

  
  
  

  Thursday 13th September 2007

  HOW CONTEMPORARY COSMOLOGY BYPASSES KANT'S PROHIBITION AGAINST A SCIENCE OF THE UNIVERSE

  Colloquium by Prof. Vincenzo Fano, Inst. di Filosofia, Universita di Urbino.

  BBL 165, 15:30

  
  
  

  Tuesday 4th September 2007

  PERSISTENCE AND RELATIVISTIC SHAPES

  Colloquium by Yuri Balashov, University of Georgia, USA.

  BBL 107A, 15:30

  
  
  

  Tuesday 30th August 2007

  From the Depths of Their Hearts - A History of Flood Geology in 20th century America

  Graduation Colloquium by Kees-Jan Schilt, University of Utrecht.

  BBL 160, 15:30

About the agenda

In this agenda the following abbreviations are used:

• BBL for the Buys Ballot Laboratory, Princetonplein 5, Utrecht (Uithof)
• OL for the Ornstein Laboratory, Princetonplein 1, Utrecht (Uithof)
• MG for the Minnaert building, Leuvenlaan 4, Utrecht (Uithof)