Talks

* = conference presentations selected via double blind-reviewing

2025

2025/07/01 – «How to integrate history of science with philosophy of science? Learning from a case study in physics and mathematics» – Symposium 019 «New historiographical proposals in the history of physics», 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST), 29/06-05/07/2025, online + University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

2025/03/20 – «25 years to empirical statuses of theoretical symmetries: outcomes and perspectives» – Conjectures & Refutations seminar, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method (LSE Philosophy), London School of Economics (LSE), UK

2024

2024/11/30 – «The value of history of exact sciences for philosophy of physics» [in French] – Young Researchers Days of the French Society for History of Sciences and Techniques (SFHST), 29-30/11/2024, Paris, France + online

2023

*2023/09/22 – «From empirical symmetries to unobservable changes» – European Philosophy of Science Association 2023 conference (EPSA23), 20-23/09/2023, Belgrade, Serbia

2023/06/22 – «Ontology of phase symmetries (and connected topics in philosophy of physics)» [in French] – Workshop «Quantum Matter, Systems and Operations», online + University of Lorraine, Nancy, France

2023/06/09 – «”Is Faraday in the same boat as Galileo?”, or Symmetry and contextuality» – OLOFOS seminar, Centre de philosophie des sciences et sociétés (CEFISES), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium + online

2023/06/01 – «Observable diffeomorphisms (or, How to limit the hole argument and extend direct empirical status)» – Symmetry workshop with respondents, online

2023/05/10 – Presentation on the Einstein-Klein 1918 correspondence – Working group «History and Philosophy of Contemporary Theoretical Physics», Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM),  online

2023/02/17 – «Interference-based experiments in light of direct empirical status» – Discussion group «Physics Meets Philosophy», Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Vienna, Austria + online

2023/02/14 – «Physical significance versus mathematical surplus in philosophy and history» – Seminar «Mathematics 19th-21st, History and Philosophy», SPHERE laboratory, University Paris Cité, online + Paris, France

2022

2022/12/02 – «Integrated study of history and philosophy of exact sciences (based on the example of Noether’s theorems)» [in French] – Young Researchers Days of the French Society for History of Sciences and Techniques (SFHST), 02-03/12/2022, online + Paris, France

2022/02/03 – «Local symmetries have direct empirical status» – Philosophy of physics seminar, online + University of Oxford, UK

2022/01/10 – «Symmetries and ontology» – Course of Axel Maas and Philipp Berghofer «Philosophy of Physics I», online + University of Graz, Austria

2021

*2021/10/29 – «Relationships between actions, equations of motion, symmetries and conservation laws: dispelling some misunderstandings (or, how to build a hierarchy of empirical statuses)» – 20th UK and European Conference on Foundations of Physics, 28-30/10/2021, Paris, France

2021/09/16 – «Energy-momentum conservation and the specificity of general relativity, revisited» – Symposium «Symmetries and conservation laws in history and philosophy of general relativity», European Philosophy of Science Association 2021 conference (EPSA21), 15-18/09/2021, online + University of Turin, Italy

2021/05/31 – «Defining ‘t Hooft’s beam-splitter empirical symmetry» – Work in Progress seminar, online + Department of Philosophy, KGW Faculty, University of Salzburg, Austria

2021/04/29 – «Symmetry breaking and Curie’s principle» – Course of Patricia Palacios «Emergence and Reduction in the Sciences», online + Department of Philosophy, KGW Faculty, University of Salzburg, Austria

2021/03/17 – «A gradation of empirical statuses for conservation principles» – 1st Austro-Belgian meeting in philosophy of physics and science, online + Department of Philosophy, KGW Faculty, University of Salzburg, Austria & Centre de philosophie des sciences et sociétés (CEFISES), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

2021/01/27 – «How to formalise empirical symmetries?» [in French] – Research days of the Archives Henri-Poincaré, 27-28/01/2021, online + University of Strasbourg & University of Lorraine & CNRS, France

2021/01/18 – «Philosophy of symmetries in physics and the question of their empirical statuses» [in French] – Research seminar on sciences and technologies, online + University of Strasbourg, France

2020

2020/11/05 – «The (non-)inheritance of (a)symmetries, its link with Curie’s principle, and its variational realisations» – Workshop «Conceptual and Phenomenological Reflections on Gauge Symmetries, the Brout-Englert-Higgs Mechanism, Particles, and Observables», 05-06/11/2020, online + University of Graz, Austria

2019

*2019/11/17 – «How to analyse and situate direct empirical status of theoretical symmetries in physics» – 23rd Oxford Graduate Conference in Philosophy, 16-17/11/2019, University of Oxford, UK

2019/11/08 – «Noether’s theorems and Klein’s results: historical, linguistic, and philosophical aspects» – Workshop «Noether’s theorems and beyond», Institute of Mathematics, University of Mainz, Germany

*2019/09/03 – «Direct and indirect empirical statuses compared to the Newtonian and Leibnizian interpretations of theoretical symmetries in physics» – 2nd Irvine-London-Munich-PoliMi-Salzburg (ILMPS) Conference in Philosophy and Foundations of Physics, 02-03/09/2019, University of Salzburg, Austria

2019/06/26 – «Defining the indirect empirical status of theoretical symmetries in physics» – Work in Progress seminar, Centre de philosophie des sciences et sociétés (CEFISES), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

2019/05/27 – «Direct empirical status of theoretical symmetries in physics» – Presentation at the beginning of the public defence of the PhD thesis, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

2018

*2018/07/11 – «Observers, references and symmetries» – 19th UK and European Conference on Foundations of Physics, 10-13/07/2018, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

2018/05/08 – «Empirical status of theoretical symmetries in quantum mechanics» – Workshop on history and philosophy of physics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

2018/03/08 – «Empirical status of theoretical symmetries in spacetime theories» – Philosophy of physics seminar, Geneva Symmetry Group, University of Geneva, Switzerland

2017

*2017/09/14 – «Noether’s theorems and energy conservation in general relativity» – Conference «Thinking about space and time: 100 years of applying and interpreting general relativity», 12-14/09/2017, University of Bern, Switzerland

2017/07/03 – «What symmetries with direct empirical status look like and how gauge symmetries are useful for this status» – Conference «Direct empirical status and the ontology of symmetries in physics», 03-04/07/2017, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

*2017/06/22 – «Gauge symmetries and symmetries with direct empirical status» – Triennial International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS), 20-23/06/2017, University of Bologna, Italy

2017/03/24 – «Derivation of conservation laws from theoretical symmetries via Noether’s theorems» – Foundations of physics seminar, Descartes Centre, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

2016

*2016/11/26 – «Direct empirical status: Utility and shortcomings» – 5th Young Researchers Days in Logic, Philosophy and History of Science of the Belgian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science (BSLPS), 25-26/11/2016, the Royal Academy of Belgium

2016/03/22 – «Active and passive interpretations of transformations, and their ontology» – Work in Progress seminar, Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, UK