Talks

Conference presentations

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, United Kingdom

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

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

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», 3-4/07/2017, 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

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

2015/06/20 – «From definite descriptions to the analysis of knowledge: handling Gettier cases with a notion of scope» – 7th International Triennial Congress of the Société de Philosophie Analytique (SoPhA) «The analytical philosophy in the 21st century», 17- 20/06/2015, Université de Montréal and Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

2014/06/26 – «Clarification of the distinction between physical structures and mathematical structures by a study of symmetries» [in French] – 5th Biennial Congress of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences (SPS) «Metaphysics of Science», 25-27/06/2014, Université Lille-1 and Université Lille-3, France

Other presentations

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», online + University of Graz, Austria

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

2019/06/26 – «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

2018/05/08 – «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

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

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, United Kingdom