More UPAC colloquium recordings have been published on the UPAC YouTube channel! You can now watch almost all of the speaker colloquia from the previous academic year. Stay tuned for the announcements about this year’s colloquia. https://www.uu.nl/en/research/utrecht-philosophy-of-astronomy-cosmology/events/upac-colloquium

The first UPAC colloquium speaker session of 2024 featured Manus Visser from the University of Cambridge, who talked about “The Holographic Dual of Black Hole Thermodynamics”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFWRF4F3cfo

In February the UPAC group hosted Vera Matarese, from the University of Perugia, who gave a talk “On the Epistemic Status of Atmospheric Retrieval Models in Exoplanetary Science”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVwrNSBXN0

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The third UPAC colloquium speaker for 2024 was Silvia de Bianchi, from the State University of Milan. The talk was titled “Analogical Arguments and Emergent Gravity: The “Double-Gap” Problem”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbYuCDla_2o&t

In May, Juliusz Doboszewski from the University of Bonn & the Black Hole Initiative Harvard gave a talk on “Speculative eliminative reasoning: on primordial black holes and remnants” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIDaDz_U9Dc&t

The final speaker of the year was Tushar Menon from the Australian Catholic University who provided us with the “The Analytic Pragmatist Guide to Theory Interpretation”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG_oUN3FUGM

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UPAC Colloquium March - Analogical Arguments and Emergent Gravity: The “Double-Gap” Problem

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