HPS Talks Utrecht

Extracurricular talks related to History and Philosophy of Science in Utrecht.

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September 2026

Tue 29 Sep

This week UPAC

UPAC Work in Progress: Are traversable wormholes physically reasonable?

Tuesday 29 September 2026 · 16:00–17:00 · BBG 0.69, Princetonplein 5

Sanne Vergouwen (Utrecht University)

UPAC Colloquium (Utrecht Philosophy of Astronomy & Cosmology): work-in-progress session; the draft is sent out beforehand via the upac-l mailing list. Hybrid; the Teams link goes out via the same list.

October 2026

Tue 6 Oct

UPAC

UPAC Reading Group: Multiverses

Tuesday 6 October 2026 · 16:00–17:00 · BBG 3.45, Princetonplein 5

Reading: B. le Bihan (University of Geneva), Holistic Versus Fragmented Multiverses: Empirical Access via Causal and Grounding Signatures

UPAC Colloquium (Utrecht Philosophy of Astronomy & Cosmology): reading group, read the paper in advance. Hybrid; the Teams link goes out via the upac-l mailing list.

Tue 13 Oct

UPAC

Deflating effective field theory

Tuesday 13 October 2026 · 15:30–17:00 · BBG 3.45, Princetonplein 5

Adam Koberinski (Lund University)

UPAC Colloquium (Utrecht Philosophy of Astronomy & Cosmology): research presentation, no preparation needed. Hybrid; the Teams link goes out via the upac-l mailing list. To join the speaker for dinner, e-mail cosmo-master.assistant@uu.nl the day before.

Tue 27 Oct

UPAC

UPAC Work in Progress: Dark Energy & the Spacetime-Matter Dichotomy

Tuesday 27 October 2026 · 16:00–17:00 · BBG 3.45, Princetonplein 5

Niels Martens (Utrecht University)

November 2026

Tue 3 Nov

UPAC

Limiting Reduction and Modified Gravity

Tuesday 3 November 2026 · 15:30–17:00 · BBG 3.45, Princetonplein 5

Antonis Antoniou (University of Athens)

Tue 10 Nov

UPAC

UPAC Reading Group: Cosmic simultaneity

Tuesday 10 November 2026 · 16:00–17:00 · BBG 3.45, Princetonplein 5

Reading: F. Viglione (University of Milan), Not-so-Absolute Cosmic Simultaneity

UPAC Colloquium (Utrecht Philosophy of Astronomy & Cosmology): reading group, read the paper in advance. Hybrid; the Teams link goes out via the upac-l mailing list.

Tue 24 Nov

UPAC

UPAC Work in Progress: Spacetime-Matter Dichotomy

Tuesday 24 November 2026 · 16:00–17:00 · BBG 3.45, Princetonplein 5

UPAC Colloquium (Utrecht Philosophy of Astronomy & Cosmology): work-in-progress session on one of the chapters of the COSMO-MASTER collected volume; the draft is sent out beforehand via the upac-l mailing list. Hybrid; the Teams link goes out via the same list.

December 2026

Tue 1 Dec

UPAC

Talk by Lucy James (on the multiverse)

Tuesday 1 December 2026 · 15:30–17:00 · BBG 3.45, Princetonplein 5

Lucy James (University of Bonn)

UPAC Colloquium (Utrecht Philosophy of Astronomy & Cosmology): research presentation, no preparation needed. Title t.b.a. Hybrid; the Teams link goes out via the upac-l mailing list. To join the speaker for dinner, e-mail cosmo-master.assistant@uu.nl the day before.

Tue 8 Dec

UPAC

UPAC Reading Group: Asteroseismology

Tuesday 8 December 2026 · 16:00–17:00 · BBG 3.45, Princetonplein 5

Reading: Suarez (title t.b.a.)

UPAC Colloquium (Utrecht Philosophy of Astronomy & Cosmology): reading group, read the paper in advance. Hybrid; the Teams link goes out via the upac-l mailing list.

January 2027

Tue 5 Jan

UPAC

UPAC Work in Progress (t.b.a.)

Tuesday 5 January 2027 · 16:00–17:00 · BBG 3.45, Princetonplein 5

Tue 12 Jan

UPAC

Talk by Lucy James (on the multiverse)

Tuesday 12 January 2027 · 15:30–17:00 · BBG 3.45, Princetonplein 5

Lucy James (University of Bristol)

Past events (1)

Tue 15 Sep

UPAC

On Pascual Jordan's Erweiterte Gravitationstheorie

Tuesday 15 September 2026 · 15:30–17:00 · BBG 0.69, Princetonplein 5

Bernadette Lessel (University of Bonn)