XXI. Symposium 2026 in Erlangen: Conference Program
Monday
11:00-11:45 (AudiMax) -- Plenary Talk: Barbara Hof. Why the Invention of the World Wide Web was no Coincidence: Scientific Culture and Technological Innovation at CERN, 1972-1991 (Abstract)
13:45-15:30 (KH 02.019) -- Opening Session: History of Physics within the DPG
- 13:45 Welcome to the Conference
- 14:00 Das Archiv der DPG - Rückblick, Gegenwart und Ausblick — •Ralf Hahn
- 14:30 Physikgeschichte für Physiker. Erfahrungen aus dem Quantenjahr — •Arne Schirrmacher
- 15:00 Stefan L. Wolff -- Invited Talk: Flucht oder Tod -- das Schicksal verfolgter Mitglieder der DPG im Nationalsozialismus
16:15-18:15 (KH 02.019) -- History of Theoretical Physics
- 16:15 The Young Bohr on the “Statistical”: A Prelude to Quantum Indeterminacy — •Hajime Inaba
- 16:45 From Virtual to Real. The Epistemological Relevance of Virtual Entities in (the Early History of) Quantum Field Theory — •Markus Ehberger
- 17:15 The contribution has been withdrawn.
- 17:45 Foundations of quantum mechanics and the Milan School (1950s–1960s): conceptual issues and historical perspectives — •Luisa Lovisetti and Marco Giliberti
19:00 Dinner for Early Career Scholars. Contact: Dr. Julia Bloemer ()
Tuesday
11:00-12:00 (KH 02.019) -- Particles in Practice
- 11:00 Particle Dance: On the Experimental Intertwining of Brownian Motion and Elementary Charge in the Early 20th Century — •Julia Bloemer
- 11:30 Der Kernphysiker Karl-Heinz Höcker und sein Beitrag zur Uranmaschine — •Roland Sadler
16:15-18:15 (KH 02.019) -- Instruments and Measurements
- 16:15 Invited Talk: Scientific Instruments and the Evolution of Experimental Volcanology: Insights from Mount Etna — •Valentina Roberti
- 17:15 Stereoscopic Rangefinders: in the Borderlands Between Physics and Physiology — •Andreas Junk
- 17:45 Development, optimization, distribution, installation and repair of early Bruker Fourier transform infrared spectrometers — •Prof. Dr. Klaus Hentschel
18:30 (KH 02.019) -- Members’ Assembly. Invitation and agenda will be sent out separately.
After Member's Assembly: Joint Dinner of the History of Physics Division
Wednesday
11:00-12:30 (KH 02.019) -- Physics and People
- 11:00 Physik-Dissertationen von Chinesinnen und Chinesen an deutschen Hochschulen zwischen 1939 und 1945 — •Xian Wu
- 11:30 Quantitative Analyse der Darstellung von Frauen in Physik- und Astronomie-Journals (1950-1999) — •Colleen Seidel
- 12:00 Women physicists and technicians in the Paperclip Program — •Johannes-Geert Hagmann
13:45-15:45 (KH 02.019) -- Practices and Experiments
- 13:45 Materielle Kultur der Thermodynamik: Werkstattbericht aus dem Ausstellungsprojekt „Energie – Dampf“ — •Eckhard Wallis
- 14:15 Experiments on the Propagation of Light: Taqi al-Din al-Rasid and His Source Ibn al-Haytham — •Sena Aydin
- 14:45 Between geometry and physics: revisiting Torricelli's Opera geometrica (1644) as a foundational framework for early modern mechanics — •Raffaele Pisano
- 15:15 Practicising with the Lucernal Microscope — •Peter Heering and Trienke van der Spek