Programme (final)

Thursday, 5 October

  9:00-9:20    Henrik Zinkernagel: Welcome and introduction to the workshop

Morning Session Chair: M. José García-Encinas

  9:30-10:10   Giora Hon and Bernard R. Goldstein: Numerical Agreement vs. Aesthetically Motivated Explanation: Cosmology in Ptolemy and Copernicus    Abstract

Discussion (25 minutes)

10:40-11:20   Beatriz Ruiz-Granados: A tour around the standard cosmological model and beyond    Abstract      

Discussion (25 minutes)

11:45-12:20   Coffee Break

12:20-13:00   Sixto Castro: Sublime is the new beautiful    Abstract

Discussion (25 minutes)

13:25-15:30   Lunch Break

Afternoon Session Chair: Svend E. Rugh

15:30-16:10   Adán Sus: Symmetries of laws, spacetime symmetries and the kinematics-dynamics distinction    Abstract

Discussion (25 minutes)

16:35-17:10   Coffee Break

17:10-17:50   Ruth Lorand: Scientific Beauty and Aesthetic Order    Abstract    

Discussion (25 minutes)

Friday, 6 October

Morning Session Chair: María Cruz Bosca

  9:30-10:10   Carlos Barceló: Probing extreme gravity in gravitational collapse    Abstract

Discussion (25 minutes)

10:40-11:20  Henrik Zinkernagel: Aesthetics at the limits of quantum theory    Abstract   

Discussion (25 minutes)

11:45-12:20   Coffee Break

12:20-13:00   Mauricio Suárez: Aesthetic Goals in Model Building    Abstract   

Discussion (25 minutes)

13:25-15:30   Lunch Break

Afternoon Session Chair: Henrik Zinkernagel

15:30-16:10   Catherine Elgin: Beyond Truth and Beauty: Aesthetic Factors in Science    Abstract      

Discussion (25 minutes)

16:35-17:10   Coffee Break

17:10-17:30   Carl Hoefer: Comments for open discussion

17:30-18:00   Open round table discussion

20:30   Workshop Dinner