2nd BOHR21 Workshop

The second BOHR21 Workshop will take place on 2-4 November 2025 in the Utrecht University Museum.

Registration for the workshop is on a first come, first served basis; as there are limited seats available.

Schedule, Sunday November 2nd

16:30 - 18:00	Reception and registration, with coffee and cake
18:00 - 19:00	Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University) Introduction & “Bohr was not obscure!”
19:00 - 19:50	Richard Staley (University of Cambridge, University of Copenhagen) “From Psychophysics to AI? Via Bohr and von Neumann? Three Moments in the Architecture of Mind and Matter, Foundations and Reductionism”

16:30 - 18:00

Reception and registration, with coffee and cake

18:00 - 19:00

Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University)

Introduction & “Bohr was not obscure!”

19:00 - 19:50

Richard Staley (University of Cambridge, University of Copenhagen)

“From Psychophysics to AI? Via Bohr and von Neumann? Three Moments in the Architecture of Mind and Matter, Foundations and Reductionism”

9:00 - 9:50	Kristian Camilleri (University of Melbourne) “Bohr's Influence”
9:50 - 10:40	Ricardo Correa da Silva (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg & University of São Paulo) “The Reduction of Thermodynamics to Mechanics: Why the Correspondence Principle Led to Quantum Mechanics”
10:40 - 11:10	Coffee break
11:10 - 12:00	Guy Hetzroni (Open University of Israel) “Ignored Because of Prejudices? On the Late Discovery of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect”
12:00 - 12:50	Diana Taschetto (Utrecht University) “What Niels Bohr Did - Or, Looking at Quantum Mechanics after Removing the ‘Planckian Glasses’"
12:50 - 14:20	Lunch break
14:20 - 15:10	Jos Uffink (University of Minnesota) t.b.a.
15:10 - 16:00	Marina Passaro (Utrecht University) “Niels Bohr: Building the Complementary View”
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:20	Elena Schaa (University of Basel & National Hellenic Research Foundation) “An Outstanding Physicist? Two Tales from Heisenberg’s History of Modern Physics”

9:30 - 10:20	Margarida Hermida (King's College London) "The Relationship Between Physics and Biology"
10:20 - 10:50	Coffee break
10:50 - 11:40	Mor Lumbroso (Utrecht University) “Conceiving Light: How Bohr’s Epistemic Framing of Light Linked the Life Sciences with Quantum Mechanics, 1923-1932”
11:40 - 12:30	Stefano Furlan (Utrecht University) “Complementarity, Where Art Thou? Max Delbrück, Rilke's Elegies, and Bohr's Shadow”