Speakers

ONTOLOGY OF FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS

Workshop in
Philosophy of Physics

Instituto de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Complejidad (IFICC), Santiago, Chile
December 9, 2015

SPEAKERS

Giovanni Valente is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is also a fellow in the Center for Philosophy of Science. He gained his PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Maryland in 2009. His research interests include the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of science. Currently, the main focus of his work is on quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. After several publications on those topics, he received, in 2014, the Cushing Prize in History and Philosophy of Physics. For more information visit his website: giovannivalente.weebly.com

James Owen Weatherall is an associate professor of logic and philosophy of science at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also a member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science. He gained his first PhD in Mathematics and Physics from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2009. In 2012, he earned his second PhD in Philosophy of Science from the University of California. Most of his recent work has been on the mathematical and conceptual foundations of classical and quantum field theories. But he also works on issues in general philosophy of science, with particular interest in questions concerning model building in finance. He is the author of the book The Physics of Wall Street (2013), which explains how ideas have moved from physics into financial modeling over the last century. For more information visit his website: http://jamesowenweatherall.com/

Diego Romero Maltrana is an associate Professor of Physics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and he is a member of the Instituto de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Complejidad (IFICC). He earned his PhD in Physics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He also obtained an MSc in Philosophy of Physics from the University of Oxford. His recent work in philosophy of physics includes the analysis of the equivalence of mass and energy proposed by Albert Einstein, the Higgs boson and the relation between symmetries and conserved quantities. For more information visit his website: http://ificc.cl/content/diego-romero-matrana