The research collaboration "Epistemology of the LHC" organizes a
workshop on modeling and high energy physics entitled "Modeling and
LHC", which will take place at Wuppertal University from January 26th
to January 28th 2012. (The LHC is the Large Hadron Collider, the new
accelerator at CERN, Geneva.)
The workshop will feature talks by 14 distinguished invited speakers from
both physics and philosophy.
Topics covered will include, among others, the relation between models
and fiction, the connection between models and simulation, the role of
models beyond the standard model for LHC research practices, and the
conceptual connection between models and effective field theories.
Talks will be given by Arianna Borrelli, Nazim Bouatta, Rafaela
Hillerbrand, Koray Karaca, Chuang Liu, Margaret Morrison, Kent Staley
(philosophy), Herbert Dreiner, Robert Harlander, Jay Wacker, James
Wells (theoretical physics), Hannes Jung, Kevin Kröninger, Christian
Zeitnitz (experimental physics).
The workshop is open to visitors. No fee is charged, but registration
is required. If you wish to attend the workshop as a visitor, please
send an email to Simon Friederich, [log in to unmask]
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