[PHILOS-L] Last Call for Registration - Modeling the Cosmos - Milan 3-4 March 2026
Silvia De Bianchi
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The COSMOS Research Team is glad to announce the workshop “Modeling the Cosmos: Frontiers in Philosophy of Astrophysics and Cosmology” that will take place on 3-4 March 2026 at the University of Milan (Room 113, via Festa del Perdono 7).
Attendance is free, but registration is required by 10 February 2026. This event is in presence, but given the high number of registrations a link will be provided upon request.
To register, please email: cosmos...@unimi.it
Organizers: Silvia De Bianchi, Marco Forgione, Federico Viglione
Looking forward to seeing you in Milan!
PROGRAM:
Tuesday 3 March 2025
9:15 – 9:30: Registration and Welcome
9:30 – 10:15: Claus Beisbart (University of Bern): “Dark matter meets opaque models: Machine learning in cosmological modeling”
10:15 – 11:00: Marco Forgione (University of Milan) “Large-Scale Simulations in Cosmology: Validation Problems”
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:15: Juliusz Doboszewski (University of Krakow): “What do trapped surfaces teach us about philosophical analysis of observation and measurement in general relativity?”
12:15 – 13:00: Jamee Elder (Tufts University): “Theory-mediated Detection of Novel Phenomena in Astrophysics: the Case of the Photon Ring”
Lunch
14:30 – 15:15: Martina Gerbino (University of Ferrara): “Can we trust it? Robust interpretation of cosmological data”
15:15-16:00: Marco De Cesare (SSM Naples/INFN): “Cosmological effects on gravitational-wave propagation in bigravity”
Coffee Break
Special session on Euclid – Chair: Paolo Natoli (University of Ferrara)
16:30 – 17:15: Luigi Guzzo (University of Milan): “Exploring the large-scale structure of the Universe with Euclid”
17:15 – 18:00: Carmelita Carbone (INAF): TBA
Wednesday 4 March 2024
9:00 – 9:45: Antonis Antoniu (University of Athens): “Is dark matter the aether of the 21st century?”
9:45 – 10:30: Vera Matarese (University of Perugia): “Dark energy as successful fiction: How fictional entities shape the epistemic progress in cosmology”
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45: Lorenzo Lorenzetti (USI Lugano): “Limiting Reduction and Modified Gravity” (joint-work with A. Antoniou)
11:45 – 12:30: Federico Viglione (University of Milan): “Models of Explanation for the Beginning of the Cosmos”
Talk open to general audience
12:30 – 13:15: Henrik Zinkernagel (University of Granada): “Aesthetics, motivation and the existential aspects of cosmology”
Lunch
14:45 – 15:30: Siska De Baerdemaeker (University of Stockholm): “Modeling and the Milky Way”
15:30 – 16:15: Silvia De Bianchi (University of Milan): “Testing Spacetime Functionalism: Remarks on Analogue Simulations and Black Hole Physics.”
Coffee break
16:45-17:30: Niels Martens (University of Utrecht): “Detecting the Dark: Indirectness & Dark Matter Epistemology”
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