Header image: Erste Promotion einer Frau (Elsa Neumann, 1872–1902) an der Universität Berlin 1899. Engraving of drawing by Ewald Thiel.

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Workshop

Model and Mathematics

Date
10:00 - 17:00
Location
HU Berlin, Sophienstraße 22a, 2. Courtyard, second floor, 10178 Berlin
Organizer
Excellence Cluster “Bild Wissen Gestaltung”

Attendance is free and interested participants are welcome! Please register till the 23rd of July (contact below).

Program:
10:00-10:30 / Michael Friedman and Karin Krauthausen: Model and Mathematics – Introduction
10:30-11:30 / Arianna Borelli: The Tension between Modeling and Mathematics in Early Particle Physics

11:30-12:30 / Axel Gelfert: Thinking With Formalisms: Mathematical Notation and Epistemic Actions

Lunch

14:00-15:00 / Tilman Sauer: (De)Visualizing Parallel Transport

15:00-16:00 / Reinhard Ulrich Wendler: Marmousi-Models and the Limits of Scale

Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 / Moritz Epple: ‘Analogies’, ‘Interpretations’, ‘Images’, ‘Systems’, and ‘Models’: On the History of Abstract Representation in the Mathematical Sciences since the Nineteenth Century

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