Talks

* = conference presentations selected via double blind-reviewing

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» organised by Guy Hetzroni, Bernadette Lessel, Noah Stemeroff as part of the 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» of the SPHERE laboratory of the Université 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), 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, 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