What's New?

On this page you can read about new subjects that can be found on the web site of our Institute or about important changes that have occurred or are occurring in reversed chronological order.

• November 2009
  
  Daan Wegener will defend his thesis entitled: 'A true proteus. A history of energy conservation in German science
  and culture, 1847-1914' on Wednesday November 25 2009 at 12.45h, Address: Academy Building, Domplein 29, Utrecht.
  
  
  
• September 2009
  
  WORKSHOP ESF PROGRAMME ''THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE IN A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE''.
  On 19 and 20 October 2009 The Institute for the History and Foundations of Science (Utrecht University) organizes
  a philosophy of science workshop at the conference centre ''Woudschoten''(Zeist). This workshop is part of the activities
  of the European Science Foundation Programme ''The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective'' (PSE).
  
  For a detailed programme see here, and here for the official website.
  
  
  
• January 2009
  
  NEW: List of upcoming conferences and events for 2009.
  
  
  Updated publication list, contact information and list of upcoming conferences and activities.
  
  
  
• September 2008

  Promotie M.P. Seevinck op 27 Oktober 2008, 16.15 uur, Academiegebouw.

  Titel proefschrift: Parts and Wholes. An Inquiry into Quantum and Classical Correlations.
  Promotor: Prof.dr. D.G.B.J. Dieks. Co-Promotor: Dr. J.B.M. Uffink.
  
  
  

  Tuesday October 28, 2008: One-day conference on the Philosophy and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

  Utrecht University, the Netherlands. 10.00 - 17.30 hrs. Room 401, Minnaert building.
  Speakers: N.P. Landsman, R.D. Gill, I. Pitowsky (to be confirmed), F. Verstraete, F.A Muller, M.P. Seevinck
  Summary and closing words: J. Uffink.
  Chair: D. Dieks
  
  Full program can be found here.
  
  
  
  
• May 2008

  Op 15 mei 2008 is Prof. dr. D.G.B.J. Dieks gekozen tot lid van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.
  
  
  

  Promotie David. M. Baneke. 2 Juni 2008, 16.15 uur, Academiegebouw.

  Titel proefschrift: Synthetisch denken. Natuurwetenschappers over hun rol in een moderne maatschappij, 1900-1940.
  Promotoren: prof.dr. L.T.G. Theunissen, prof.dr. F.H. van Lunteren.
  
  
  

  HQ2 conference for the history of quantum physics. 14-18 July 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

  Conference website

  
  
  NEW: List of upcoming conferences and events for 2008.
  
  
  Updated publication list, contact information and list of upcoming conferences and activities.
  
  
  
• April 2008

  Sven Dupré, visiting fellow untill 1st Oktober 2008

  
  
  dr. Sven Dupré is tot 1 oktober 2008 visiting fellow bij het Instituut voor Geschiedenis en Grondslagen (faculteit B�tawetenschappen) van de Universiteit Utrecht. Dupré is verbonden aan het Centrum voor Wetenschapsgeschiedenis van de Universiteit Gent. Hij heeft onder andere over wetenschap tijdens de Renaissance, optica en Galileo gepubliceerd. Zijn onderzoeksproject 'material culture and natural knowledge' behandelt de 'role of objects and images in the production and circulation of early modern knowledge'. Binnen dit thema zal hij zich tijdens zijn verblijf in Utrecht concentreren op 'The case of the Low Countries'. Samen met Christoph Lüthy (RU Nijmegen) werkt hij onder meer aan de redactie van een collectie van essays over dit onderwerp met als voorlopige titel 'Silent Messengers' (Berlijn, LIT Verlag).
  
  
• MAY 24th 2006

  MAY 24th 2006: EUROPEAN ONE-DAY CONFERENCE IN THE PHILOSOPHY AND FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS.
  
  Programme
  Abstracts of talks

  
  
  
• September, 2004 Research seminar
  
  De leesgroep zal in dit kalenderjaar maandelijks bijeenkomen op de volgende data:
  
  Di. 5 Okt, Di. 2 Nov. en Di. 30 Nov.
  
  De plaats is zoals gebruikelijk de Koffiekamer op de 2de etage van het BBL. De tijd is:
  
  16.00-18.00 (met evt uitloop)
  
  We gaan beginnen met het boek:
  
  *Scientific Realism. How Science Tracks Truth* (Faber, 1999) van Stathis Psillos
  
  dat volgens Igor de standaard-referentie aan het worden is voor het wetenschappelijk realisme. Een ieder zal het boek zelf aan moeten schaffen.
  
  Vermoedelijk zullen we de eerste keer de Inleiding en H1 gelezen moeten hebben. Definitief uitsluitsel volgt binnenkort. Zoals gebruikelijk zal ik weer herinneringen rondsturen enkele dagen voordat een bijeenkomst plaatsgrijpt.
  
  Voor meer informatie: F.A.Muller@phys.uu.nl
  
  
• March, 2003 Two new guest arrived at the institute. Claudio Mantovani and Leah Henderson will each stay a few months to work on their research.
• February, 2003 Added more links and new section called Activities.
• January, 2003 In 2003 the research seminar will be continued. It will be held every two weeks on Fridays (starting 7/2) from 12.00-13.00 in room BBL 361, except for 23/5, 6/6 and 20/6 when it will be held in BBL108A.
• September, 2002 As of September 18 the research seminar will be held every week on Wednesdays from 12.00-13.00 in room BBL 773, except for 23/10 and 18/12 when it will be held in BBL160.
• July, 2002 As of July 2002 Michiel Seevinck will maintain the contents of the website.
• January, 2002 As of September 2002, our Institute will participate in the Master's programme in History and Philosophy of Science. This is a joint programme of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, and the Faculty of Philosophy. The language of instruction will be English. Please check the page on the educational program of our Institute for the latest information.
• November, 2001 Major update of our website. We've restructured the links section, removed broken links and added many new ones (especially in the category electronic publications). We've removed some pages with outdated information, and removed the references to these pages from the main menu. Also, we've updated the page on the educational program of our Institute.
• September, 2001 Added the home page of Prof Albert van Helden, who is professor of History of Science in our Institute since June, 2001.
• October 24, 2000 Added a page on the symposium De Maatschappelijke Taak van Wetenschapsstudies, which our Institute will organise on November 24, in cooperation with the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Wetenschapsfilosofie.
• April 17, 2000 From April 17 until August 1 Frank Hättich is visiting the Institute. His research area is foundations of quantum field theory.
• June 1, 1999 Erwyn van der Meer has left the Institute, so he has been moved from the list of staff members to the list of former PhD students. He now works at CMG.
• May 18, 1999 Former PhD student Pieter Vermaas has made his own home page at the Delft University of Technology where he is currently working on the philosophy of technology. We have updated the link in our list of personal homepages.
• April 9, 1999 Added a page on the symposium Measuring Nature, Measuring Society to be held on April 22, 1999.
• March 30, 1999 Added several new links to our Links Section and we've split the category Universities, Institutes, Groups and Individuals into two categories: Universities and Institutes and Groups and Individuals.
• February 24, 1999 Removed the icon and link to the XSCount statistics from our Main Menu, because XSCount stopped their services.
• February 19, 1999 Visiting professor Theodore Porter (UCLA) will teach a class on Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, starting April 13, 1999.
• January 11-18, 1999 Both Sections of our Institute are united at the second floor of (room 201-209 and room 251-257) of the Buys Ballot Laboratory on the De Uithof. We have updated our page with addresses.
• December 21, 1998 Visiting professor Jeeva S. Anandan, occupying the Donders' Chair of Utrecht University, has left on December 19, 1998. After the holidays he will return to his regular chair at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of South Carolina. His e-mail address there is jeeva@sc.edu.
• December 15, 1998 We have updated the page of the library of the History Section to reflect the upcoming move to De Uithof.
• December 15, 1998 Fred Muller has expanded his personal homepage, which now includes his Curriculum Vitae and a list of selected publications.
• October 20, 1998 We have finished transitioning our web pages to HTML 4.0. The visual markup on all of our pages, like font sizes, colors, text alignment, is now implemented through the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). We also use JavaScript for smart adaptation of our pages depending on how they are being viewed (e.g., framed or non-framed). Because not all web browsers fully support HTML 4.0, JavaScript and/or CSS, our pages may not display optimally on your computer. If you are using an older browser please upgrade to the most recent version of Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator/Navigator. We have found that even Netscape 4.5 does not support some of the HTML 4.0/CSS constructs that we use, but we hope that Netscape will fix this in their next release. In the mean time we are sorry to say that our pages are "Best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or 5".
• Our domain name has changed from www.fys.ruu.nl to www.phys.uu.nl. Although we can still be reached under the old domain name, you are advised to update any links, bookmarks or e-mail addresses you may have.
• Due to a restructuring of the organization of the faculty we are now an official research institute, and this is reflected in our name. Our old name was the Department of History and Foundations of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of Utrecht University. The director of our Institute is Prof Dr Dennis Dieks.