3rd BOHR21 Workshop
The Third BOHR21 Workshop will take place in Copenhagen, 29 June–1 July 2026. All talks will take place in Auditorium A of Niels Bohr Institute, lunches and coffees in Auditorium C.
Registration for the workshop is on a first come, first served basis; as there are limited seats available.
Schedule, Monday June 29th
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Reception & registration, with coffee |
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| 09:45 - 10:00 | Welcome & Introduction |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Dennis Dieks (Utrecht University) “A Modern Perspective on Niels Bohr” |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Diana Taschetto (Utrecht University) & Ricardo Correa da Silva (University of São Paulo) “The Myth of the Spiraling Electron: New Facts on the Genesis of the Bohr Atom” |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch & Coffee |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Stefano Osnaghi (ICI Berlin) “The Nature of Bohr's Copernican Turn” |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Enric Pérez Canals (University of Barcelona) “The Adiabatic Hypothesis: History of a Transformation” |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Helge Kragh (Faraday Institute) “Niels Bohr and Fiction Literature: A Reciprocal Relation” |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | Discussion |
Schedule, Tuesday June 2nd
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Philip Goyal (University at Albany SUNY) “From Complementarity to Quantum Properties: An Operational Reconstructive Approach” |
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| 10:45 - 11:30 | Marina Passaro (Utrecht University) “The Undefinable and the Unobservable: A Negative Account of Bohr's Complementarity” |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch & Coffee |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Noemi Bolzonetti (Utrecht University) “Bohr and Heisenberg: Dialogue and Disagreement in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics’" |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Thiago Hartz (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) “The “Small War” over Quantum Fields: Revisiting a Scientific Controversy" |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Thomas Ryckman (Stanford University) “"An Essential Ambiguity": Bohr's Reply to EPR” |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | Discussion |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
Schedule, Wednesday July 1st
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Hajime Inaba (Meiji University) “The Road to Bohr's Dissertation: Høffding, Statistical Mechanics, and the Electron Theory of Metals” |
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| 10:45 - 11:30 | Diana Taschetto (Utrecht University) & Ricardo Correa da Silva (University of São Paulo) “The Correspondence Principle - Or, How to Prove the Born Rule” |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch & Coffee |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Jos Uffink (University of Minnesota) “Complementarity without the quantum: the case for temperature and energy” |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Mor Lumbroso (Utrecht University) “In Light of Life: Reframing Bohr's Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics" |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Guido Bacciagaluppi (Utrecht University) “'Bohr was not obscure!'" |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | Discussion |
