Location: Hotel Victoria Sol Marina, Ilha de Itaparica Hall
Dates: August 4 to 9, 2025

Sunday, August 3

Welcome gathering

Monday, August 4

8:30–9:00 am

Welcome

9:00–10:30 am: Introductions

Chair: Climério Paulo da Silva Neto

Each participant has 2 minutes to introduce themselves and present their research topic

10:30–11:00 am: Break

Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer

11:00 am–12:30 pm: Session 1

Physics in Brazil

Chair: Carla Rodrigues Almeida
Commentator: Ivã Gurgel

• Ricardo Ribeiro – First Phase of the Brazilian Nuclear Program (1946–1955)
• Victor Luiz China Gonçalves – The Uses of Computers in Solid-State Physics Research at the University of São Paulo (ca. 1960–1969)
• Mylena Gaspar Amoedo – The History of Decoherence from the Perspectives of the Theoretical Contributions of Brazilian Physicists Amir Caldeira and Luiz Davidovich

12:30–2:00 pm: Lunch

2:00–3:30 pm: Session 2

Bringing Coherence to the Global

Chair: Duim Huh
Commentator: William Thomas

• Sara Bassanelli – The Diplomacy of Standardization: Negotiating International Electrical Units from the 1930s to the 1960s
• Michiel Bron – How to deal with a nuclear petro-state? Geopolitical consequences of an intertwined history of nuclear and oil
• Janna K. Mueller – Early 19th Century Sunspot Observations and the Nature of the Sun

3:30–4:00 pm: Break

Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer

4:00–5:30 pm: Keynote Lecture

Chair: Jean-Philippe Martinez

Gisela Mateos – Nuclear technical assistance programs and development in Latin America

7:00 pm: Welcome Reception

Tuesday, August 5

9:00–10:30 am: Round Table 1

Celebrating the global and the local of science/scientific practices

Chair: Carla Rodrigues Almeida
Participants: Roberto Lalli, Ivã Gurgel, and Richard Staley

10:30–11:00 am: Break

Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer

11:00 am–12:30 pm: Session 3

Re-reading the history of astrophysics from marginalized labor

Chair: Climério Paulo da Silva Neto
Commentator: Rebecca Charbonneau

• Rebecka Mikaela Mähring – Disciplining Photographs: Labor Organization and Photography at the Royal Greenwich Observatory
• Eun-Joo Ahn – Invisible workers and invisible Place: making of a modern astronomical observatory in Southern California in the early twentieth century
• Poliana Martins – Gendered Labor and Glass Plates: The Harvard Women Behind the H-R Diagram

12:30–2:00 pm: Lunch

2:00–3:30 pm: Session 4

Materiality of Physics

Chair: William Thomas
Commentator: Gisela Mateos

• Thiago Faustino – Before Charles Goodyear’s vulcanization: South American indigenous material knowledge and the rise of early rubber research in France, 1743-1791
• Anxo Vidal Nogueira – Diversity in Uniform: A Tale of Two Astronomical Instruments in Santiago de Compostela across the Francoist regime.
• Lingzhao Meng – The Establishment of the Luoxueshan Laboratory and the Early Development of Cosmic-ray Research in China

3:30–4:00 pm: Break

Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer

4:00–5:30 pm: Session 5

Physics and Physicists in Climate Science

Chair: Jinyan Liu
Commentator: Richard Staley

• Madison Renner – Big Island, small world: Maintaining atmospheric access on Hawai’i throughout the history of the Keeling curve
• Robert Naylor – Rolando García: Refugee, Radical, Climate’s Attorney at Law
• Barbara Mercier – A Numerical Experiment: From Weather Forecasting to Climate Modelling

Wednesday, August 6

Schooner trip to Ilha dos Frades, leaving the hotel pier at 8 am

Thursday, August 7

9:00–10:30 am: Session 6

Re-reading the history of the physical sciences from women’s history

Chair: Elena Schaa
Commentator: Joanna Behrman

• Megan Briers – Gender and the Construction of nineteenth-century British eclipse expeditions
• Charnell Chasten Long – Recovering Carolyn Parker’s Contributions to Physics (1917–1966)
• Mar Rivera Colomer – Revisiting the Foundations: Voices from the Margins

10:30–11:00 am: Break

Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer

11:00 am–12:30 pm: Session 7

Interpretations and Debates in Physics Around the World

Chair: William Thomas
Commentator: Olival Freire, Jr.

• S. Prashant Kumar – The Symmetry Eaters: Group Theory and Intellectual Property in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
• Emily Philippi – Philosophical Discussion and Interpretation of Quantum Physics in the GDR
• Beñat Monfort Urkizu – A Posteriori Theory Adjustments in the Early Universe Cosmology. On the viability of Cosmic Inflation

12:30–2:00 pm: Lunch

2:00–3:30 pm: Session 8

Feminist approaches to the history of physics

Chair: Carla Rodrigues Almeida
Commentator: Daniela Monaldi

• Colleen Seidel – “Frauen beobachten oft besser, Männer machen Theorien daraus.” (“Women often observe better, men theorise”) – Representations of female scientists in school and university textbooks for physics in (West) Germany, ca. 1960–2020
• Lórien MacEnulty – Are illustrations in physics androcentric? A historical and feminist analysis of visual representation of superexchange in materials

3:30–4:00 pm: Break

Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer

4:00–6:00 pm

Talks by IUPAP early career prize winners and presentation of the award, plus discussion

Chair: Rebecca Charbonneau

• Joanna Behrman – From Passion to Profession – Studying Women in the History of Physics
• Barbara Hof – Fusion Incomplete? International Collaboration in Plasma Physics and Fusion Research, 1950s-1980s

Friday, August 8

9:00–10:30 am

Conversation on careers in the history of physical sciences

Chair: Elena Schaa

10:30–11:00 am: Break

Coffee and snacks provided in the lobby

11:00 am–12:30 pm: Session 9

The Quantum Revolution: Roots

Chair: Jinyan Liu
Commentator: Alexei Kojevnikov

• 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 – Letters on Causality: Debates Between Erwin Schrödinger and Hans Reichenbach
• Bernadette Lessel – Quantum Pioneers and Classical Field Theorists: Revisiting their Interconnectedness

12:30–2:00 pm: Lunch

2:00–3:30 pm: Session 10

The Quantum Revolution: Consequences

Chair: Jean-Philippe Martinez
Commentator: Thiago Hartz

• Francisco Calderón – Inconsistencies in Quantum Field Theories: Replacement vs. Refinement?
• Gautier Depambour – From classical to quantum optics: New lights on light
• Silvia Castillo – Information, Computation, and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: John Wheeler’s Influence at the Center for Theoretical Physics (1976–1987)

3:30–4:00 pm: Break

Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer

4:00–5:30 pm: Keynote Lecture

Chair: Duim Huh

Olival Freire, Jr. – From the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics to Quantum Technologies

7:00 pm: Conference Dinner

Saturday, August 9

9:00–10:30 am: Round Table 2

Celebrating diversity in the history of the physical sciences

Chair: Climério Paulo da Silva Neto
Participants: Indianara Silva, Joanna Behrman, and Katemari Rosa

10:30–11:00 am: Break

Coffee and snacks provided in the foyer

11:00 am–12:30 pm

Career Training – Paper Writing Workshop and Farewell

Chair: Climério Paulo da Silva Neto

2:00 pm

Visit to the Barra Fort and Nautical Museum of Bahia
Guided tour starting at 2:00 pm.

Sunday, August 10

3:00 pm

Tour: Historical Center
(Fifth International Conference on the History of Quantum Physics)

Travel funding: AIP expects to be able to cover 100% of airfare for the conference, which will be paid on a reimbursement basis. Reimbursement may be requested prior to travel. Please contact jmulvey@aip.org for further details. Hotel accommodation will also be covered and will be booked for you. Please contact the conference organizers at earlycareer.aip@gmail.com if you have questions.

Conference Hotel:

Sol Victoria Marina
Av. Sete De Setembro, 2068
Salvador, Costa Do Sauipe, 40080-001, Brazil

Nearest Airport: Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International (SSA)

Airport Transfer Options:

• Taxi: Approximately R$80-100 (30-40 minute ride)
• Uber: The most used transportation app. Typically 30% cheaper than taxis
• Do not accept unofficial services or offers. People are claiming to be Uber drivers to scam passengers. Only take Uber using the official app.

Local Information & Practical Notes

• Weather: Average 25°C (77°F) with possible light showers.

• Language: Portuguese is primary; English may be limited even in the hotel.
• Currency: Brazilian Real (BRL). Credit cards work in most places.
• Bus and metro: only accepts local transportation cards or cash.
• Favor Uber and 99Taxi, they are reliable and inexpensive.
  

What to Bring

• Light, breathable clothing.
• Comfortable shoes for walking (Salvador has hills and cobblestone streets).
• Swimsuits.
• Sunscreen and hat.
• Power adapter (Brazil uses Type N outlets, 127V)

Emergency contact: In case you have an emergency, you can contact Climerio Silva Neto at +55 71 983949355.

Please note: the call for papers is now closed.

Submissions

Remarkably, 2025 marks the centenary of quantum mechanics — or, closer to us, a decade from the discovery of gravitational waves. In this context, this conference aims to broaden the conversation by celebrating significant milestones in the development of the physical sciences and, for the first AIP early-career event in the global south, by acknowledging and addressing the need for greater diversity in the field and in its reflexive approach.

We welcome submissions for 20-minute oral presentations, including works-in-progress, from all time periods and areas of the history of the physical sciences(including earth sciences, industrial physics, astronomy, chemistry, space sciences, and more) addressing in particular, but not limited to, the following topics:

• The role of diversity in the evolution of the physical sciences
• Milestones and turning points in the physical sciences
• Perspectives on the centenary of quantum mechanics
• Transformative discoveries in the physical sciences
• Dynamics between the local and the global, the small and the large, the celebrated and invisible
• Contributions of underrepresented groups
• Decolonizing the historiography of the physical sciences and/or decolonial research in the historiography of the physical sciences
• Feminist and gender approaches to the physical sciences
• Commemoration and the teaching of the physical sciences
• Challenges in the study of the physical sciences

All historiographical perspectives are welcome, from socio-cultural to highly technical, as well as crossdisciplinary.

In addition to sessions with submitted papers, the conference program will feature roundtables, workshops, and other events designed to foster a community of scholars and develop career skills. The conference will also provide an opportunity for junior scholars to interact with invited senior scholars.

The conference is also sponsored by the Inter-Union Commission for the History and Philosophy of Physics (IUCHPP), which will award two medals of the IUPAP Early Career Prize in the History of Physics during the conference.

*Supplementary travel funds will be available for all participants*

Paper proposals should be submitted via the form available at https://linktr.ee/aipecc by November 15, 2024. The application form requires the following information:

• Your name
• E-mail address
• Institutional affiliation
• Presentation title and abstract (1300 characters max., not including title)
• A short biography, indicating where you are in your studies and/or career (1300 characters max.)

Applicants will be notified by January 31st, 2025, at the latest.

All questions may be directed to the conference committee at EarlyCareer.AIP@gmail.com .