FORTHCOMING TALKS:
“Emergence, top-down causation and the challenge of modeling collective behavior in biophysics,” Konstanz department lecture, Kontanz, Germany October, 2025
“Philosophy of biophysics”, Seminar History and Philosophy of Physics, Paris, January 2026.
“TBA,” Keynote lecture at the tenth MBR International Conference, June 17–19, 2026, Rome
SELECTED INVITED TALKS :
“Leaving the Comfort Zone: Statistical Mechanics Beyond Gases and Magnets” workshop on the foundations of thermodynamics, Singapore, July 11-14, 2025
“From Spins, to Birds to Traders: New Perspectives on Model Transfer”, keynote lecture at the SILFS Postgraduate Conference 2025, Turin 11 June 2025.
“Redefining equilibrium through analogies between magnets and stars,” Workshop “Analogies in Physics and Beyond,” Milan, Italy, 25-11-2024.
“Long-range interactions, equilibrium and the role of infinite limits,” Workshop “Asymptotic Expansions in Physics,” Paris, France, 2-12-2024.
“Reduction, emergence and critical phase transitions,” workshop “Reductionism in Transitions,” Namur, Belgium, 10-10-2024.
“Thought experiments in the physics of black holes,” Workshop “Investigating Reality – A Philosophical, Mathematical, and Scientific Exploration.” Santa Fe, USA, 28-03-2024.
“What can we learn (and not learn) from thought experiments in black hole physics,” Black Hole Initiative Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 25-03-2024.
“Reduction and the Autonomy of the Special Sciences”, Keynote Lecture, 4th Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science, Lisbon, 12-15 July 2023.
“Reduction and the Autonomy of Scales”, Keynote Lecture, Foundations 2023, Bristol, 8-10 July 2023.
`Emergence, Reduction and Phase Transitions’, Physikalisches Kolloquium Sommer 2023, Gemeinsame Veranstaltung Universität Stuttgart & Max-Planck-Institute Stuttgart.
“Reduction, Emergence, and Phase Transitions”, invited talk at the “Physics meets philosophy” group, IQOQI January 20th, 2023, Vienna.
Outreach Event: “Emergence 2.0: Philosophy, Quantum Materials, and Artificial Intelligence”, Keynote lecture, June 20th, 2022, Stuttgart.
“Reduction, Emergence, and Phase Transitions’, New Directions in the Foundations of Physics, Viterbo, June, 2022.
“Reduction, Emergence, and Phase Transitions’ Seven Pines 2022, May 2022, Minneapolis.
`Thought experiments vs. Analogue experiments: The case of black holes’, Foundations of Physics, 2020/2021, Paris, France, 28-30 November 2021
’Approximation methods and the autonomy of effective (field) theories’, workshop ‘Approximation Methods’, Berlin, Germany, 9-11 June 2021
‘Re-definining equilibrium for long-range interacting systems’, New Directions in the Foundations of Physics 2020/2021, Viterbo, Italy, June 26 2021
`The Paradox of Infinite Limits: a Realist Response’, Bristol Center for Science and Philosophy, Bristol, UK, May 11, 2021
‘The Paradox of Infinite Limits: a Realist Response’, LSE Sigma Club, London, UK, May 10, 2021
‘The Paradox of Infinite Limits: a Realist Response’, Mini-Workshop on Infinities and Idealizations in Physics, Harvard Foundations Of Physics series, USA, April 27, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_kGOA-KLG4&t=21s
‘Can physics tell us something about democracy?’, Complexity Science Hub Vienna, September 25, 2020.
’¿Qué pueden ensenarnos las ciencias de la complejidad sobre física y democracia’, Sociedad Platónica, Santiago, Chile, July 2020
‘Re-definining equilibrium for long-range interacting systems’, Philosophy of Physics Seminar, Oxford, UK, October 2019.
‘Reduction Beyond the Nagelian Model’, Bergen Seminar in Philosophy of Science, Bergen, Norway, September 2019.
‘On the universality of Hawking radiation’, Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University, Boston, USA, May 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm5YNhYxb5c&t=4352s
‘Re-definining equilibrium for long-range interacting systems’, FraMEPhys, Birmingham, UK, May 2019.
‘On the universality of Hawking radiation’, Geneva Symmetry Group, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2019.
Re-definining equilibrium for long-range interacting systems’, Geneva Symmetry Group, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2019.
‘Emergent symmetry breaking in finite systems: philosophical aspects’, Conference “Symmetry-breaking vs symmetry-preserving many-body schemes” at Saclay, France, May 2019
‘Re-definining equilibrium for long-range interacting systems’, PhilSci Colloquium, Stockholm, Sweden, April 2019.
‘Topics in Philosophy of Physics: Emergence and Reduction in Condensed Matter Physics”, Kolloquium zur Chemie und Physik der Materialen, Salzburg, Austria, April 2019.
‘Can Physics Tell Us Why (and When) Stable Democratic Systems May be Undesirable?, Workshop “Philosophy a Work”, Munich, Germany, March 2019.
‘Can Physics Tell Us Why (and When) Stable Democratic Systems May be Undesirable?’, at the INSTITUTE FOR QUANTUM OPTICS AND QUANTUM INFORMATION VIENNA (IQOQI), Vienna, Austria, November 2018.
‘Emergence and Reduction in Condensed Matter Physics’, Talk in the Seminar Research Group “HEFTP”, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany, September 2018.
‘Re-definining Equilibrium for Long-range Interacting Systems’, TIME IN PHYSICS Workshop, Salzburg, Austria, September 2018
‘Can Physics Tell Us Why (and When) Stable Democratic Systems May be Undesirable?’, Munich-Hannover Workshop in Philosophy of Science, Munich, Germany, May 2018,
‘Market Crashes as Critical Phenomena?’, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DFG), Spring Meeting, Berlin, Germany, March, 2018.
‘On the Universality of Hawking Radiation’, Workshop “Causation, Multiple Realizability and Reductive Explanations’, February, Valparaiso, Chile, 2018
‘On the Universality of Hawking Radiation’, Bristol-MCMP Workshop in Philosophy of Physics, Munich, Germany, January, 2018
‘Do Scale Invariant Models Explain?’, Workshop: How stable are democracies? Complex systems perspectives on modern society, Bristol, UK, January 12-13, 2018
PAST CONTRIBUTED TALKS:
“From Spins to Flocks: The Vicsek Model as a Case of Model Adaptation,” PSA 2024, New Orleans, USA, 14-11-2024.
‘Analogical Reasoning in Econophysics’, PSA 2020/2021, Baltimore, USA, 11-14 November 2021
”On the universality of Hawking radiation’, EPSA, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2019.
‘Re-definining equilibrium for long-range interacting systems’, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2018.
‘Market Crashes as Critical Phenomena? Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Econophysics’ (paper with Jennifer Jhun and James Weatherall), XXIV. Kongress der deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, September 25, 2017.
‘Had We But World Enough, and Time: Justifying the Thermodynamic and Infinite-Time Limits in Statistical Mechanics’, Jornadas Rolando Chuaqui, Valparaíso, Chile, August 23, 2017.
‘Market Crashes as Critical Phenomena? Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Econophysics’ (with Jennifer Jhun and James Weatherall), MUST 10 Causation and Complexity, Sydney, Australia, March.
“Giving Econophysics a Chance: On the Plausibility of Modeling Stock Market Crashes as Critical Phase Transitions” with Jennifer Jhun and James Weatherall, Physics of Society Workshop, Munich (delivered by co-author Jennifer Jhun), Germany, July 23, 2016
‘Phase Transitions: A challenge for reductionism or for ‘Nagelianism’?’ Foundations of Physics, LSE, UK, July 16, 2016
‘Giving Econophysics a Chance: On the Plausibility of Modeling Stock Market Crashes as Critical Phase Transitions’ (with Jennifer Jhun and James Weatherall), Infinite Idealizations in Physics, Munich, Germany, June 9, 2016.
‘The Role of Approximation in a Reductive Explanation for Phase Transitions’, Irvine-Princeton-Pittsburgh Conference, Pittsburgh, USA, April 1, 2016
‘The Role of Approximation in a Reductive Explanation for Phase Transitions’, Effective Theories, Mixed Scale Modeling, and Emergence, Pittsburgh, USA, October 2, 2015
‘Do RG methods provide a reductive explanation for phase transitions?’, 15th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, CLMPS 2015,Helsinki, Finland, August 6, 2015
Do RG methods explain continuous phase transitions?” 1° Munich Graduate Workshop in Mathematical Philosophy: Philosophy of Physics, MCMP, Munich, Germany, April 10, 2015
On the role of infinite idealizations in QFT”, Re-thinking foundations of physics, Dorfgastein, Austria, April 3, 2015.
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