Research

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Foundations of General Relativity · History of General Relativity ·  Foundations of Physics ·  Physics and Art

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Bradonjić, K. “The Phenomenal Atlases of Contemporary Physics: Knowing the Imperceptible.” Leonardo 2023; 56 (6): 586–591. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02424
  2. Stachel, J. and Bradonjić, K., J. Quantum Gravity: Meaning and Measurement. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. (2014). [arXiv:1302.2285]
  3. Bradonjić, K. “Unimodular Conformal and Projective Relativity: An Illustrated introduction.” Frontiers of Fundamental Physics and Physics Education Research: Springer Proceedings in Physics.  Vol. 145 (2013) 197.
  4. Bradonjić, K. and Swain, J. D. Quantum Measurement and the Aharonov-Bohm Effect with Superposed Magnetic Fluxes. Quantum Information Processing (2013). DOI 10.1007/s11128-013-0652-3. [arXiv:1103.1607]
  5. Bradonjić, K. and Stachel, J. Unimodular conformal and projective relativity. Europhysics Letters 97 (2012) 10001. [arXiv:1110.2159]
  6. Bradonjić, K. On spacetime geometry above the electroweak symmetry breaking scale. (2011). [arXiv:1103.5164].
  7. Bradonjić, K., Swain, J. D., Widom, A. and Srivastava, Y. The Casimir Effect in Biology: The Role of Molecular Quantum Electrodynamics in Linear Aggregations of Red Blood Cells J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 161 (2009) 012035. (Older version [arXiv.org: 0412725])
  8. Bradonjić, K. Relativity of Musical Mood. (2008). [arXiv.org:0807.2493]
  9.  Aaron, R., Esper G. J., Shiffman, C. A., Bradonjić, K., Lee K. S., and Rutkove S. B. Effects of age on muscle as measured by electrical impedance myography. Physiol. Meas. 27 (2006) 953.

INVITED TALKS

  • “Beyond Reach: On Understanding in Physics” in a conversation with David Kaiser and Tracy Slatyer. Catalyst Conversations. MIT List Visual Arts Center. November 1, 2023.
  • “The Phenomenal Atlases of Physics.” Physics Department Seminar, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. November 11, 2022.
  • “Return to the phenomenal: An exploration of the subjective, internal representations of the knowledge of fundamental physics and their relations to the collective pursuits of knowledge.”  Internal Discussion Seminar, NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. October 21, 2022.
  • “Math as the Language of Physics: What is Lost in Translation?” Physics Department Colloquium, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. November 7, 2017.
  • “Math as the Language of Physics: What is Lost in Translation?” Physics Department Colloquium, Amherst College, Amherst, MA. October 24, 2017.
  • “Less is More: The Advantages of Unimodular Invariance.” Gravity and Geometry: Centenary Perspectives on General Relativity, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University, June 6-7, 2015.
  • “Meaning and Utility of Unimodular Invariance.” Seminar talk. Dartmouth College. January 20, 2014.
  • “Unimodular Conformal and Projective Relativity” Invited talk at Geometry and Physics: International Fall Workshop. Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France. November 28-29, 2013.
  • “To Quantize or Not to Quantize: Unimodular Conformal and Projective Relativity Lets Us Pick and Choose.” Invited talk at the conference An Intellectual Life across Disciplines: Colloquium in Honour of John Stachel’s 85th Birthday, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, 12-13 September 2013.
  • “Unimodular Conformal and Projective Relativity and the Compatibility of Causal and Dynamical Structures,” Invited talk at the 40th Anniversary of the First Osgood Hill Conference on Quantum Gravity, Boston, Massachusetts. October 15, 2012.

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