Auditorium of the Geosciences Institute of the Federal University of Bahia.
Address:
Instituto de Geociências - Auditório Yêda de Andrade
Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Ondina | Salvador
Registration
15:00 - Tour: Historical center
8:30 - Leaving the hotel
9:00–10:00 - Conference Opening
10:00–11:00
Keynote lecture 1
Margriet van der Heijden: Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik
11:00–11:30 - Break
Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer.
11:30–12:30
Keynote lecture 2
Hanoch Gutfreund: Quantum Physics and Dialectical Materialism: The Legacy of David Bohm
12:30–14:00 - Lunch
14:00–15:30
Session 1: Matter, the Quantum Atom, and Visualization – Part 1
Gonzalo Gimeno and Mercedes Xipell: Blurred Orbits and Blurred Particles: Heisenberg's 1926 Helium Atom
Tilman Sauer and Kristin Sellmann: From Orbits to Orbitals: Early Visualizations of Hydrogenic Electron Wave Functions
Johannes-Geert Hagmann: Have You Ever Seen One? Contributions of Laser Spectroscopy to the First Image of a Trapped Ion, 1970-1980
15:30–16:00 - Break
Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer.
16:00–17:30
Session 2: Matter, the Quantum Atom, and Visualization – Part 2
Julien Berry Minerbo: When the Image Is Secondary: The Bachelardian Atom
Vitória Chirazava: The Duality of Matter: Thomson and Davisson’s Paths to Electron Diffraction
Noemi Bolzonetti: Bohr and Heisenberg: Debate on the γ-Ray Microscope
19:00 - Welcome Dinner
8:30 - Leaving the hotel
9:00–11:00
Round Table 1 - Two Decades of Scholarship on the History of Quantum Mechanics
Coordinator: Daniela Monaldi
Participants: Elise Crull, Thiago Hartz, Alexei Kojevnikov, Jean-Philippe Martinez
11:00–11:30 - Break
Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer.
11:30–12:30
Keynote lecture 3
Danian Hu: China's Quantum Journey: Prominent Chinese Physics Developments in the Quantum Century
12:30–14:00 - Lunch
14:30–16:00
Session 3: The Shaping of Quantum Mechanics
Alessio Rocci: The Solvay Science Project and the Milestones of the (First) Quantum Revolution
Elena Schaa: A Stroke of Genius? The Cultural Roots and Legacy of Heisenberg’s Experience on Helgoland
Marcia Tiemi Saito: Sending Madness to Copenhagen: The Reception of Bohr’s Ideas Among Non-Physicists
16:00–17:30
Poster session and Coffee Break
Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer.
Beñat Monfort Urkizu: A Posteriori Theory Adjustments in the Early Universe Cosmology: Lessons from High Energy Physics
Charnell Long: Recovering Carolyn Parker's Contributions to Physics (1917-1966)
Colleen Seidel: Just Marie Curie? Female Nuclear Physicists in (West) German Physics Textbooks, Circa 1960 and 2020
Francisco Calderón: Uses of Value Judgments in Quantum Field Theories: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Physics?
Mar Rivera Colomer: Revisiting the History of Quantum Physics: Oral Histories, Representation, and the Case of Ana María Cetto Kramis
Michiel Bron: How to Deal With a Nuclear Petro-State? Geopolitical Consequences of an Intertwined History of Nuclear and Oil
Mylena Amoedo: The Franco-Brazilian Contribution to the Study of Decoherence: The Academic Trajectory of Luiz Davidovich Until His Collaboration with Serge Haroche’s Experimental Group at the ENS
S. Prashant Kumar: The Symmetry Eaters: Group Theory and Intellectual Property Claims in Indian Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
Silvia Castillo Vergara: An Information-Based Approach to Quantum Mechanics: Distinguishability, Turing Machines, and Quantum Coding at the Center for Theoretical Physics, UT Austin (1976–1987)
Siyuan Zhang: The Evolvement and Its Dynamics of High-Resolution-Power Spectroscopes in Studying the Fine-Structure of Hydrogen Spectrum: 1920s–1930s
Sofia Guilhem Basilio: Erwin Schrödinger’s Philosophy of Science and His Embrace of the Bohr-Kramers-Slater (BKS) Theory
17:30–19:00
Session 4: Niels Bohr on Physics and Philosophy
Anja Skaar Jacobsen: Niels Bohr’s Psychological Analogies and Quantum Measurement
Diana Taschetto: Niels Bohr: The Deeper Insight
Hans Halvorson: Niels Bohr on causal explanation
8:30 - Leaving the hotel
9:00–10:00
Keynote lecture 4
Elise Crull: Hertha Sponer, Maven of Quantum Spectroscopy
10:00–11:00
Keynote lecture 5
Alexei Kojevnikov: Revolutionary Science in Revolutionary Society: Quantum Mechanics and Soviet Physics
11:00–11:30 - Break
Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer.
11:30–12:30
Session 5: Entanglement Unraveled
Christoph Lehner: The Tangled Tale of Entanglement: New Discoveries from Schrödinger’s Research Notes
Michelle Frank: Chien-Shiung Wu and the Early Entanglement Experiments
13:30–14:00 - Lunch
14:30–16:00
Session 6: The Conceptual Toolkit of Quantum Theory
Donald Salisbury: An Analysis of the Role of Local Gauge Symmetry in the Historical Development of Quantum Theory
Jean-Philippe Martinez: From Dirac Matrices to Mathematica: Quantum Physics and the Rise of Computer Algebra Systems
Rafael Velloso Luz and Antonio A. P. Videira: Hans Thirring on Quantum Theory: The Interplay Between Natural Philosophy and Physical Conceptual Systems
16:00–16:30 - Break
Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer.
16:30–18:00
Session 7: Determinism, Uncertainty, and Realism
Flavio Del Santo: Against the ‘Nightmare of a Mechanically Determined Universe’: Why Bohm Was Never a Bohmian
Bernadette Lessel: On Louis de Broglie‘s Use of Unified Field Theory in His Quest for Realism in Quantum Physics
Viktor Dodonov: Evolution of Concepts of "Uncertainty" Since 1927: Various Forms of "Uncertainty Relations" in 2025
8:30 - Leaving the hotel
9:00–10:30
Session 8: Quantum Frontiers: Low-Temperature Physics and Quantum Optics
Kostas Gavroglu: The (In)explicable Quantum World of the Very Cold: Some Historiographical Issues
Daniela Monaldi: From Bose-Einstein Statistics to Photon Statistics: The Statistical Style of Scientific Reasoning in the Genesis of Quantum Optics
Gautier Depambour: From the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics to Quantum Optics: How John Clauser and Alain Aspect Came to Study the Quantum Properties of Light
10:30–11:00 - Break
Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer.
11:00–12:30
Session 9: Particle Physics, Scientific Collaboration, and the Shaping of Research Agendas
Luca Campagnoni: Cosmic-Ray Experimental Physicists and Quantum Mechanical Theorists in the 1930s: A New Archival Source About Bruno Rossi
Ivã Gurgel, Thiago Hartz and Christian Joas: The CERN Theoretical Study Group in Copenhagen (1952–1957): Scientific Collaboration, the History of Quantum Theory, and Postwar Transformations in the Practices of Physicists
Roberto Lalli: Fusion Energy Research as a Diplomatic Tool in European Integration: A Network Approach
12:30–14:00
Lunch
14:00–16:00
Round Table 2 - Visions for the Scholarship on the History of Quantum Mechanics
Coordinator: Will Thomas
Participants: Margriet van der Heijden, Jinyan Liu, Flavio Del Santo, Bernadette Lessel.
16:00–17:00
Closing discussion
19:00
Farewell Dinner