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Veranstaltungskatalog IZWT Veranstaltungskatalog IZWT Wintersemester 2009/10 Sommersemester 2010 Wintersemester 2010/11 Sommersemester 2011 Wintersemester 2011/12 Sommersemester 2012 IZWT Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal, Deutschland Erschienen am 27. Mai 2020. c IZWT, 2020 Bergische Universität Wuppertal Gauÿstr. 20 42119 Wuppertal Erstellt mittels LATEX. Inhaltsverzeichnis Wintersemester 2009/104 Kolloquium Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte . .5 Ringvorlesung Herausforderung Klima Natur- und Wissenschaftsforschung im Hand- lungsdruck . .6 Sommersemester 20107 Kolloquium Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte . .8 Tagungen & Workshops . .9 Wintersemester 2010/11 18 Kolloquium Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte . 19 Ringvorlesung Was war und was ist Materie? . 20 Sommersemester 2011 21 Kolloquium Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte . 22 Wintersemester 2011/12 23 Kolloquium Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte . 24 Ringvorlesung Zeit im Umbruch . 31 Tagungen & Workshops . 38 Sommersemester 2012 41 Kolloquium Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte . 42 Tagungen & Workshops . 54 Anhang 68 Gardening and Knowledge . 69 Welche Natur brauchen wir? . 161 Veranstaltungen IZWT Seite 3 Wintersemester 2009/10 01.10.2009 - 31.03.2010 Veranstaltungen IZWT Seite 4 WS 09/10 KOLLOQUIUM WISSENSCHAFTSTHEORIE UND WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Termine im WS 2009/10 (ohne Ringvorlesung) Mi. 18–20 Uhr, Raum N.10.20 28.10.2009 Textbesprechung 11.11.2009 PD Dr. Volker Remmert Eine Disziplin und ihre Verleger: Mainz Mathematisches Publizieren in Deutschland. 1871-1949 25.11.2009 Prof. Dr. Helmut Pulte Darwin und die exakten Bochum Wissenschaften 09.12.2009 Prof. Dr. Manfred Stöckler Demokrits Erben Bremen 13.01.2010 Prof. Dr. Klaus Volkert Eine kurze Geschichte des Wuppertal mathematischen Raumes 27.01.2010 Klaus-Heinrich Peters Die Rolle der Mathematik in der Hamburg Physik bei Dirac und von Neumann Prof. Dr. Gregor Schiemann Prof. Dr. Erhard Scholz www.izwt.uni-wuppertal.de Ringvorlesung Herausforderung Klima Natur- und Wissenschaftsforschung im Handlungsdruck Vortragsreihe des Wuppertal Institutes für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH und des Interdiszipli- nären Zentrums für Wissenschafts und Technikforschung (IZWT) an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal im WS 2009/10: Der menschengemachte Klimawandel ist die Kehrseite des Konzepts der Industriegesell- schaft, welches auf das 19. Jahrhundert zurückgeht. Der Versuch, diesen historisch präze- denzlosen Eingri des Menschen in ein einmaliges System, das Erdsystem, wissenschaftlich zu erfassen, liegt über Kreuz mit den Ansprüchen üblicher Naturwissenschaft. Die Inkon- gruenz von Anspruch und Möglichkeit wird als Unsicherheit von Szenarien' verstanden. Neuartig ist zudem der Hypothetizitätscharakter zentraler Aussagen über das Klima: Es muss der worst case beschrieben werden, um ihn praktisch demen-tieren zu können. Zu- künftig kommt es auf die Etablierung einer Wissenschaft an, die auf integratives Wachstum (von einbezogenen Disziplinen) hinangelegt ist. Diese Komplexität erfordert ganz andere Wissenschaftsmanagement-methoden als tradiert, eher solche, die aus den Erfahrungen von Groÿ-forschungsprojekten der Grundlagenwissenschaft oder Industrie bekannt sind. Jeweils um 18 Uhr an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal Hörsaal HS 05 (Gebäude G, Ebene10, Raum 07) Campus Grienberg, Gauÿstr. 20, 42119 Wuppertal 04.11.2009: Prof. Dr. Stefan Emeis, Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung (IMK FZK), Garmisch-Partenkirchen "Der Gang der Klimaforschung: Von empirischer Naturforschung zu einer moralischen Wissen- schaft" 18.11.2009: Dr. Hans-Jochen Luhmann,Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie, Wup- pertal "Klimawissenschaft: Forschung als Börsenfaktor" 02.12.2009: Prof. Dr. Ralf Koppmann, Bergische Universität Wuppertal; Fachbereich Mathe- matik und Naturwissenschaften ( Atmosphärenphysik') "Klimawandel: Was passiert mit der Erdatmosphäre?" Jeweils um 18 Uhr in der Aula des Wuppertal Instituts Döppersberg 19, 42103 Wuppertal: 16.12.2009: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Grassl, MPI für Meteorologie, Hamburg Das 2◦C-Ziel: Politische Dilemmata bei wissenschaftsgetriebenem Handeln 06.01.2010: Prof. Dr. Amy Dahan-Dalmedico, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris "The interactions of Science and Policy in the Climate regime" 20.01.2010: Dr. Gabriele Gramelsberger, Institut für Philosophie, FU Berlin "Das Geltungsparadox der Klimamodelle" 03.02.2010: Prof. Dr. Dieter Birnbacher, Philosophisches Institut, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf "Klimaverantwortung als Verteilungsproblem" Veranstaltungen IZWT Seite 6 SS 10 Sommersemester 2010 01.04.2010 - 30.09.2010 Veranstaltungen IZWT Seite 7 SS 10 KOLLOQUIUM WISSENSCHAFTSTHEORIE UND WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Termine im SS 2010 Mi. 18 c.t. - Raum N.10.20 Die „Zankbirne“. Zu Poincarés Arbeiten Dr. Ralf Krömer 28.04.2010 über Gleichgewichtsfiguren rotierender (Universität Siegen) Flüssigkeitsmassen 05.05.2010 Kein Vortrag Das Block-Universum und der PD Dr. Cord Friebe 19.05.2010 Eternalismus: Eine Rekonstruktion der (Universität Bonn) Putnam/Stein-Kontroverse Symbolische Notation als heuristisches Dr. Arianna Borrelli 02.06.2010 Werkzeug der theoretischen Physik: (BU Wuppertal) Der Fall des "Quantenzustands" Eduardo Giovannini Intuition and Foundations in Hilbert’s 09.06.2010 (Paderborn) Early Axiomatic Approach to Geometry Welchen Beitrag liefern Dr. Dr. Claus Beisbart Computersimulationen zum 16.06.2010 (TU Dortmund) naturwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisgewinn? Ph. Dr. Skùli Sigurdsson Niels Bohr, Como und Columbia 23.06.2010 (Berlin) Universität: Rede mit Unterbrechungen Tödliche Welten – Die Entstehung der Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedrich Mikrobiologie zwischen dem deutsch- 30.06.2010 Hofmann (BU Wuppertal) französischen Krieg und dem Ersten Weltkrieg Die Rolle des Experten im 18. DIENSTAG Dr. Caspar Hirschi Jahrhundert. Gelehrte an der 06.07.2010 (University of Cambridge) Schnittstelle von Wissen und Macht in N.10.12! Frankreich und England Mechanismen und Fehler: Konzepte der 14.07.2010 PD. Dr. Bertold Schweitzer Analyse biologischer Systeme PD Dr. Volker Remmert Prof. Dr. Gregor Schiemann Sie sind herzlich eingeladen ! Prof. Dr. Erhard Scholz www.izwt.uni-wuppertal.de Tagungen & Workshops Towards a Theory of Spacetime Theories The construction of a (meta-)theory of scientic theories is surely at the very heart of the philosophy of science. However, many attempts in this direction have aimed to construct a theory of scientic theories per se, thereby neglecting that a theory in physics may be very dierent from one in biology, that even a theory in particle physics may be of a dierent structure than one in solid state physics. It thus seems sensible to restrict attention rst to the development of a meta-theory of a more restricted set of scientic theories, for example to theories that share a domain of application. A paradigm case is the class of spacetime/gravitation theories, developed as variants and rivals of Einstein`s theory of General Relativity (GR). There has been some explicit work by physicists with the common aim of constructing a framework to systematise and compare theories of gravitation, some focusing on the experimental and some on the theoretical foundations of such theories. But none of these approaches has been looked at by philosophers. On the other hand, the relevance of recent philosophical and historical work on the foundations of spacetime theories (such as the role of formal vs substantive general covariance, the connection between symmetries and conservation laws, or the structure and history of mathematical extensions of GR) for the meta-theoretic project has not yet been taken into account either. A meta-theory of spacetime theories would i) reveal insights about the specic theories by showing the similarities and dierences for every member of the set of theories it covers, ii) deliver a framework for a class of theories that could be helpful as a blueprint to build other meta-theories; and iii) provide a higher-level viewpoint for judging which theory best describes nature. The Interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, will host a workshop in order to bring together experts from physics and philosophy and history to discuss the topics mentioned above, in the hope to better understand spacetime and the theories describing it. Veranstaltungen IZWT Seite 9 SS 10 Programme First Day, Wednesday July 21: Classical GR and Cosmology 09.30 - 10.00: Lehmkuhl, Scholz, Schiemann (Wuppertal): `Welcome´ Chair: Harvey Brown (Oxford) 10.00 - 11.15: David Rowe (Mainz): `Mach's Principle and Early Debates on de Sitter's Model in Relativistic Cosmology´ 11.15 - 11.45: Coffee 11.45 - 13.00: Claus Beisbart (Dortmund) `Space-time Theories at Sea: The Case of Cosmology 13:00 - 14.30: Lunch Chair: Erhard Scholz (Wuppertal) 14.30 - 15.45: Adan Sus (Barcelona): `The physical significance of symmetries from the perspective of conservation laws´ 15:45 - 16.15: Coffee 16.15 - 17.30: Clifford Will (St Louis): `The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment.´ 19:30: Conference Dinner in Wuppertal‘s Old Town Programme Programme Second Day, Thursday July 22: Third Day, Friday July 23: Comparing GR to other Spacetime Theories Gauge- and Quantum-Spacetimes Chair: Chris Wüthrich (San Diego) Chair: Oliver Pooley (Oxford) 09.30 - 10.45: Dennis Lehmkuhl (Wuppertal):
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