An academic talk and the subsequent discussion is a public display of an otherwise mostly closed-door affair, and it exposes the complex nature of the creation of knowledge. Projections is a series of artworks aiming to give visual representation to academic talks, mostly on the topics of physics and philosophy of physics. In a way, each Projection is a field report of my experience of a talk, which itself is a multidimensional beast existing in a space that exceeds the four-dimensional confines of a conference room. The talk is diffracted by my own sensibilities and projected onto the paper in real time. Some pieces are the projections of the abstract conceptual world of our models of reality and their symbolic representations: String, Loop, Set; Zero, Asymptotic, Infinity; State, Superposition, Entanglement. Others capture the emotional and the social dimensions of the talk: Enthusiasm, Self-doubt, Bravado; Camaraderie, Conflict, Agreement; Confusion, Insight, Understanding. Most of the Projections , however, are half-profiles: Confinement, Freedom, Exclusion; Interaction, Interference, Perturbation; Uncertainty, Confidence, Safety.
I’ve held two artist residencies as part of this project, one at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Center for Philosophy and History of Science Inside Perimeter.
Select projections can be bought as prints on Society6.com: https://society6.com/kacabradonjic .
Is There a Cross-scale Theory of Regeneration and Failure for Complex Adaptive Systems? Santa Fe Institute
Lucle Laplane “Cancer Regeneration”
Sean Downey, “Robustness, regeneration, and failure in socioecological systems”
Kathryn Maxson Jones, “Examples of and Musings on Neuro-Regeneration”
Introductions
Scott Ortman, “Regeneration in Human Settlement Systems”
Michael Hochberg, “Evolutionary Perspectives on Regeneration”
Jim Collins, “Ecosystem regeneration in a time of rapid global change”
Rosemary Braun, “mIscellaneous thoughts on regeneration across scales”
Chris Kempes, “Scaling Tradeoffs and Regeneration”
Manfred Laubichler, “Robustness, Failure and Regeneration: Elements of a Theory of Complex Biological Systems”
Karen Abbot, “Types of Tipping Points”
Mary O’Connor, “Our Changing Biosphere: Understanding our future from first principles”
Information-Theoretic Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics Rotman Institute of Philosophy Western University
Jeffrey Bub, “Yes! We Have No Bananas”
Richard Healey
“Correlations, probabilities and quantum states”
Gilles Brassard, “Information is the key!”
Marissa Giustina, “Significant loophole-free test of Bell’s theorem with entangled photons”
Robert Spekkens, “Leibniz’s principle of the identity of indiscernibles as a foundational principle of quantum theory”
Laura Felline “It’s a matter of principle. Scientific explanation in information-theoretic reconstruction of quantum theory”
Armond Duwell
“Understanding Quantum Theory”
Matthew Pusey, “Is QBism 80% complete, or 20%?”
Rüdiger Schack, “Participatory realism”
Lucien Hardy, “Operational Road to Quantum Gravity”
International Summer Institute in Philosophy of Physics on the Philosophy of Gravity Hosted by the University of Geneva and the University of Illinois at Chicago Space and Time After Quantum Gravity project June 19-24, 2016
Gordon Belot, “Ten Weird Things about de Sitter Spacetime”
Christian Wüthrich, “Quantum Gravity: Motivations and Implications”
Carlo Rovelli, “Space and Time (or not?) in Loop Quantum Gravity”
Jenann Ismael, “Time Perception”
Alyssa Ney, “A Primer on Emergence”
Jenann Ismael, “Seeing Space”
Gordon Belot, “Background Independence”
Emergence and Correspondence Reading Group, Day 1
Carlo Rovelli, “Is Time’s Arrow Perspectival?”
Keizo Matsubara, “Dualities and Spacetime in String Theory”
Emergence and Correspondence Reading Group, Day 2
Đorđe Minić, “String Theory – an overview”
Alyssa Ney, “Functionalizing Space in Quantum Mechanics”
Đorđe Minić, “Modular Spacetime and Metastring Theory”
Emergence and Correspondence Reading Group, Day 3
UMass Amherst, Philosophy Colloquium February 24, 2017
Jill North, “Spatiotemporal Structure and the Relational-Subsantival Debate”
Abner Shimony Forum, Experimental Metaphysics 30 Years On Co-Sponsored by the BU Department of Philosophy and BU Quantum Computation & Measurement Lab April 28, 2017
Wayne Myrvold, “‘Passion-at-a-Distance’: A Defence and Celebration”
Marissa Giustina, “Significant-Loophole-Free Test of Local Realism with Entangled Photons” 2017
Alyssa Ney, “Separability, Locality, & Higher Dimensions in Quantum Mechanics”
Eric Cavalcanti, “Experimental Metaphysics Beyond Bell’s Theorem”
20th Eastern Gravity Meeting Penn State June 9-10, 2017
B. S. Sathyaprakash, “Results from LIGO Event 170104 – III”
Ezra Newman
“Light-Cones, Asymptotic-Light Cones and Almost-Complex-Light Cones”
Shreya Anand “Sky Localization and Electromagnetic Follow-up with Next Generation GW Detectors”
Carlos Lousto “Modeling the Black Hole Merger of QS0 3C 186”
William Throwe
“Local Time Stepping in General Relativity Simulations”
Cosmology and the Future of Spacetime Rotman Institute of Philosophy Western University
Daniele Oriti, “Cosmology as quantum gravity hydrodynamics: emergent universe without fundamental space and time”
Lee Smolin, “Galaxy rotation curves: missing matter, or missing physics?”
Tessa Baker, “Agnostic Tests of Gravity”
Karen Crowther, “Emergence, Reduction, and Correspondence in the Context of Quantum Gravity”
Robert Brandenberger, “Emergent space and its possible observational signatures”
Michela Massimi, “Three problems about multi-scale modelling in contemporary cosmology”
Nick Huggett, “Cosmological Aspects of Quantum Gravity”
Simon Saunders, “What is space-time geometry? — the non-relativistic case”
Niayesh Afshordi, “Reflections on Spacetime”
Francesca Vidotto, “Quanta of spacetime in a non-singular universe”
Henrique Gomes, “Timeless cosmology with records”
International Symposium on “Education and Gender Equality” Organized by The Suzy Newhouse Center for Humanities at Wellesley College , Consulate General of France in Boston , and Sciences Po Paris . Wellesley College
Hélène Périvier, “Gender-based statistics”
Closing Remarks by Valéry Freland, Consul General of France in Boston
Asymptotic Safety in a Dark Universe Perimeter Institute Waterloo, ON, Canada June 5-7, 2018
“Anders Eller Thomsen, Beta functions at large N f”
“Niayesh Afshordi, ‘Cosmological non-Constant Problem'”
“Astrid Eichhorn, Shedding light on dark matter in asymptotic safety”
“Daniel Litim, ‘Asymptotic safety with and without supersymmetry'”
“Francesco Sannino, ‘Charting Fundamental Interactions’, 1”
“Francesco Sannino, ‘Charting Fundamental Interactions’, 2”
“Nicola Dondi,
Constraining Asymptotic Safety using central charges”
“Masatoshi Yamanda, ‘Asymptotically safe gravity and electroweak scalegenesis'”
“Steven Abel, ‘Progress in constructing an Asymptotically safe Standard Model’, 2 “
“Manuel Reichert, ‘Asymptotic safety of gravity-matter systems and effective universality'”
“Steven Abel, ‘Progress in constructing an Asymptotically safe Standard Model’, 1 “
“Robert Mann, ‘Keeping the Standard Model Safe'”
“ASIDU, Group Discussion 1”
“Zhi-Wei Wang, ‘Asymptotically Safe Grand Unified Theories'”
“ASIDU, Group Discussion 2”
Emergence, Effectiveness, and Equivalence in Physics Boston Colloquium for Philosophy and History of Science Boston University, Center for Philosophy and History of Science Boston, MA October 19, 2018
“Karen Crowther,
‘Emergence in Effective Field Theory and Quantum Gravity’ 1”
“Doreen Fraser,
‘Formal Analogies and Theoretical Equivalence’”
“Sebastian De Haro,
‘Towards a Theory of Emergence for the Physical Sciences’ 2”
“Sebastian De Haro,
‘Towards a Theory of Emergence for the Physical Sciences’ 1”
“Karen Crowther,
‘Emergence in Effective Field Theory and Quantum Gravity’ 2”
“Jeremy Butterfield,
‘Equivalence and Emergence within Dualities in Physics'”
100 Years of Emmy Noether’s Theorems Boston Colloquium for Philosophy and History of Science Boston University, Center for Philosophy and History of Science Boston, MA November 30, 2018
“Katherine Brading, ‘How It All Began: The Puzzle That Led to Noether’s Theorems’”
“Marian Gilton, ‘Conserving Color Charge’”
“Colin McLarty, ‘The Conservation Theorems as Integral to Noether’s “True Mathematical Path”‘”
“Daniel Harlow, ‘Noether’s Theorem and Quantum Gravity’”
