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::: center home >> events >> conferences >> 2017-18 >>superPAC

27 - 29 October 2017
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

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PROGRAM

Friday, October 27

1:30

Registration & Introductory Remarks

 

Session 1 (Chair:Nora Boyd)

2:00

Sarah Shandera, Inferring Primordial Physics From Data in a Finite Universe (Commentator: Slobodan Perovic)

2:45

Slobodan Perovic, [co-author Milan Cirkovic] Alternative Explanations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (Commentator: Sarah Shandera)

3:30

Coffee Break

 

Session 2 (Chair: John D. Norton)

4:00

Barry Madore, Why Astrophysics is an Especially Special "Special Science" (Commentator: Jamee Elder)

4:45

Jamee Elder, Modeling Black Hole Coalescence: Numerical Relativity and Ligo (Commentator: Barry Madore)

 

Saturday, October 28

8:45

Breakfast

 

Session 3 (Chair:Siska De Baerdemaeker)

9:15

Melissa Jacquart & Marja Seidel, Observing the Invisible Through Computer Simulation (Commentator: Genco Guralp)

10:00

Genco Guralp, Using Data Models and Simulations in Testing Supernova Cosmology (Commentator: Melissa Jacquart)

10:45

Coffee Break

 

Session 4 (Chair: John D. Norton)

11:15

Sibylle Anderl, Data Reduction in Astronomical Interferometry - Data Models & Observational Undetermination(Commentator: Marja Seidel)

12:00

Wahid Bhimji, [co-author Deborah Bard] Advanced Analytics in Astronomy (Commentator: Sybille Anderl)

12:45

Lunch On Your Own

 

Session 5 (Chair: Nora Boyd)

2:00

Keynote: Michela Massimi

3:30

Coffee Break

 

Session 6 (Chair: Porter Williams)

4:00

Bridget Falck, Simulating the Universe (Commentator: Helen Meskhidze)

4:45

Helen Meskhidze, Simulationist's Regress in Laboratory Astrophysics (Commentator: Bridget Falck)

 

Sunday, October 29

8:45

Breakfast

 

Session 7 (Chair:Yao-Yuan Mao)

9:15

Matt Wiesner, Measurement Through Distortion: Gravitational Lensing as a Fundamental Tool of Cosmology (Commentator: Yann Bénetreau-Dupin)

10:00

Yann Benétreau-Dupin, Simplicity and Unification in Cosmological Model Selection (Commentator: Matt Wiesner)

10:45

Coffee Break

 

Session 8 (Chair: Porter Williams)

11:15

Rachel Mandelbaum, Weak Lensing: A Window Into the Dark Side of the Universe (Commentator: Casey McCoy)

12:00

Casey McCoy, Model Independence in the Search for Dark Energy (Commentator: Rachel Mandelbaum)

12:45

Lunch On Your Own

 

Session 9 (Chair: Siska De Baerdemaeker)

2:00

Keynote: Wendy Freedman (via Skype)

3:30

Adjourn

 

 

 

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The Center for Philosophy of Science

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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