Einstein Conference, March, London

[Miklos Redei]

Dear Philphys List Members,

Jeremy Butterfield asked me to post the message below.

Best wishes,
Miklos Redei

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Please may I post an announcement concerning a celebration of the Einstein 
Centenary, in London in early March this year.

Jeremy Butterfield
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             2005: The Centenary of Einstein's Annus Mirabilis
                             4-5 March 2005
      The British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AH

BOOKING and other details are at:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2005/einstein/index.html

Organisers: Jeremy Butterfield FBA, All Souls College, Oxford
             and
             Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota
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                             Programme

Friday 4 March 2005
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13.15
Registration and Lunch

An Unlikely New Master: A Philosophizing Patent Clerk
Chair: Tilman Sauer (Einstein Papers Project, Caltech)

14.30
Don Howard
(University of Notre Dame): 'And I Shall Not Mingle Conjectures with
                             Certainties': Einstein on the
                             Principle Theories-Constructive Theories
                             Distinction
           15.15 Discussion led by Gerald Holton (Harvard University)

15.45
Robert Schulmann
(Einstein Papers Project,
California Institute of Technology): 'Beware of Rotten Compromises': The
                                      Moral Foundations of Einstein's Politics
           16.30 Discussion led by Gerald Holton (Harvard University)

17.00
Coffee
17.30
                           Master Mind Lecture:
                              John Stachel
                      Center for Einstein Studies
                            Boston University

                                 Einstein


5 March 2005
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Two New Gambits: Special Relativity and Brownian Motion
Chair: Andrew Warwick (Imperial College London)

9.30
    Coffee
10.15
John Norton
(University of Pittsburgh): Einstein's Electrodynamical Pathway
                             to Special Relativity
           11.00  Discussion led by Arthur Miller (University College London)
11.30
A.J. Kox
(Universiteit van Amsterdam): Einstein, Brownian Motion, and
                               Molecular Reality
           12.15  Discussion led by Martin J. Klein (Yale University)
12.45
Lunch

~E and a Brand New Game: The Light Quantum
Chair: Michael Redhead
        (London School of Economics)
13.45
Jürgen Renn
(Max Planck Institute for
History of Science, Berlin): Statistics, Black-Body Radiation,
                              and the Light Quantum Hypothesis
           14.30 Discussion led by Olivier Darrigol (CNRS, Paris)
15.00
Roger Stuewer
(University of Minnesota): Einstein and the Problematic
                            Photoelectric Effect
           15.45 Discussion led by Olivier Darrigol (CNRS, Paris)
16.15
Symposium ends


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