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Schedule / Abstracts |
Wednesday
3.09.2005 |
Arrival |
Thursday
3.10.2005 |
The Centenary of Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis. The
day is devoted to Einstein’s revolutionary work of 1905,
its roots in classical physics and its non-classical outcome. |
Morning
session |
|
| 9.00-9.30 |
Documentation delivery |
| 9.30–10.00 |
CONFERENCE OPENING |
| 10.00–10.40
|
Hidden
Bonds in Einstein's 1905 Papers |
J.
RENN
Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science
R. RYNASIEWICZ
John
Hopkins University |
10.40–11.10
|
Coffee |
| 11.10–11.50 |
Einstein's
Electrodynamical Pathway to Special Relativity |
J.
NORTON
University of Pittsburgh |
| 11.50–12.30
|
Review
Talk
Patent
Disagreements in the Histories of Special Relativity |
A.
MARTÍNEZ
California Institute of Technology |
| 12.30-13.00 |
Discussion |
| 13.00–14.30
|
Lunch |
Afternoon
session |
|
14.30–15.10
|
Tilling
the Seedbed of Einstein's Politics: A pre-1905 Harbinger? |
R.
SCHULMANN
California Institute of Technology |
| 15.10–15.50 |
Review
Talk
Relativity:
the Roots |
J.
EISENSTAEDT
CNRS, Observatoire de Paris |
15.50–16.20
|
Coffee |
| 16.20–17.00 |
A
Personal and Biased View of the Major Developments & Failures
of GR over the Century |
E.
NEWMANN
University of Pittsburgh
|
| 17.00–17.30 |
Discussion |
| 17.45–19.00 |
Round
Table:
Einstein and the Changing World
Views of Physics, 1905/2005 |
| Chair
|
Speakers/participants |
| John
Stachel |
Michel
Janssen
E. Newmann
John Norton
James E. Peebles
Don Howard |
| 19.15–20.00 |
Pre-dinner
lecture:
Cosmos and
Cartoons
|
C. V. VISHVESHWARA
Indian
Institute of Astrophysics |
| 20.15 |
Exhibition
Opening: Sociedad, Cultura y Ciencia en la Época de Einstein
(Convento
de Santo Domingo)
or Bus to Hotel |
Friday
3.11.2005 |
General
relativity: the second revolution and its open ends.
The day is devoted to the history of the conceptual problems in
classical physics that led to the emergence of general relativity.
The aim is to connect detailed historical analysis of the history
of general relativity with a discussion of conceptual challenges
presented by that theory today. The topics to be discussed will
include: the role of symmetries in historical and current research
on gravitation; the problem of equations of motion in general
relativity, an important hinge between point mechanics and field
theory, and present approaches to the particle-field duality;
the question of the origin and meaning of inertia from historical
and contemporary perspectives; empirical tests of general relativity
and the challenges presented to modern theory by observation;
the role of special solutions to Einstein’s field equations
in the history of general relativity and in contemporary research
into quantum gravity, the context and reception of the second
revolution. |
Morning
session |
|
9.00–9.40
|
General
Relativity in the Last Decades: the Revenge of Geometry and Physics |
S.
BERGIA
Università degli Studi di Bologna |
| 9.40–10.20 |
"Déjà
Vu" All Over Again: How Einstein Found His Field Equations |
M.
JANSSEN
University of Minnesota
J.
RENN
Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science |
| 10.20–10.45 |
Coffee
|
| 10.45–11.20
|
Continuities
and Discontinuities in Einstein's Heuristics |
T.
SAUER
California Institute of Technology |
| 11.20–12.00
|
Background-Independent
Physics: Einstein's Greatest Legacy |
J.
STACHEL
Boston University |
| 12.00–12.45 |
Discussion
|
| 12.45–14.15 |
Lunch |
Afternoon
session |
The
Consequences of the Relativity Revolution |
| 14.15–14.55 |
Review
Talk
Mathematicians
Engage with Physics: Examples from Unified Theory Work in the
1920s |
J.
RITTER
Université de Paris VIII
C. GOLDSTEIN
CNRS, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu. Paris |
| 14.55–15.35 |
Einstein,
Philosophy and Philosophers in the 1920s: the Bristish and Spanish
Cases |
J.
SANCHEZ RON
Universidad
Autónoma de Madrid |
| 15.35–16.15 |
Repercussions
of Einstein visit in the South American countries |
A. TOLMASQUIM
Museum
of Astronomy and Related Sciences |
| 16.15 |
Coffee
|
| 16.45-17.25 |
The
Theory of Relativity in Brazil - Acceptance or Rejection? |
C.M.
SILVA DA SILVA
Federal
University of Espírito Santo |
| 17.25-18.15 |
Discussion
|
Evening
session |
|
| 18.30-20.00 |
Einstein:
From Relativity to Celebrity |
| The
Einstein Papers Project |
Participants:
Jeroen van Dongen, Associate Editor
Daniel J. Kennefick, Scientific Editor
Tilman Sauer, Senior Scientific Editor
Diana K. Buchwald, General Editor |
| 20.15 |
Bus
to Hotel |
Saturday
3.12.2005 |
From
genesis to big bang: the integration and disintegration of knowledge
about the universe. This day is devoted to the development
of human thinking on the universe as a whole, ranging from the
early myths to modern cosmology. Topics to be addressed are, in
particular, the transfer of local knowledge to attempts at understanding
the universe, such as the application of the black body model
to the entire universe, and also the repercussion of global theories
on local knowledge, as may be illustrated by the impact of the
Copernican world view on the emergence of classical mechanics
or the implications of big bang cosmology on particle physics. |
Morning
session
|
|
9.00–9.40
|
The
Large Perspective: from Genesis to Big Bang |
H.
KRAGH
University of Aarhus |
| 9.40–10.20
|
General
Relativity as Physics: Evolution of a Conceptual Framework for
Relativistic Gravity |
B.
SCHUTZ
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics |
10.20–11.00
|
Coffee |
| 11.00–11.40
|
How
Cosmology Became Empirically Established |
J.
PEEBLES
Princeton University |
| 11.40–12.45 |
Discussion
|
| 12.45–14.15 |
Lunch |
Afternoon
session |
|
14.15
|
Contributed
Talk 01/08 |
| 14.45 |
Contributed
Talk 02/09 |
15.15
|
Contributed
Talk 03/10 |
| 15.45 |
Coffee |
| 16.15 |
Contributed
Talk 04/11 |
| 16.45 |
Contributed Talk 05/12 |
| 17.15 |
Contributed
Talk 06/13 |
| 17.45 |
Contributed
Talk 07/14 |
| 18.30–20.00
|
Cultural
Event |
| 20.15 |
Bus
to Hotel |
Sunday
3.13.2005 |
Cosmology
in the making: the tension between theory and practice.
The focus of this day’s session, to be held at the Astrophysical
Observatory, is the relation of observation and theory in today’s
cosmological research. The topics to be discussed include distance
measurement and the expansion of the universe, microwave observations
and the inflationary model, active galaxies and black holes, and
dark matter—observation and theory. |
Morning
session
|
|
9.00–9.40
|
Observational
Tests of General Relativity |
J.
BECKMAN
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
| 9.40–10.20
|
Primordial
Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Microwave Background |
E.
BATTANER
Universidad de Granada |
10.20–10.45
|
Coffee |
| 10.45–11.25 |
Exploring
the Bending of Light: Applications of Gravitational Lensing
|
P.
SCHNEIDER
University of Bonn |
| 11.25-12.00 |
Discussion |
| 12.00 |
Lunch
Departure to the Astronomical Observatory and Las Cañadas
National Park |
Monday
3.14.2005 |
The
dream of a final theory: borderline problems of physics in 1905
and 2005. This day’s aim is a comparative presentation
of the problems on the borderline between different fields of
physics today and a hundred years ago, and the possible consequences
of such borderline problems on conceptual foundations. The treatment
of borderline problems such as black-body radiation or the electrodynamics
of moving bodies led, at the beginning of the last century, to
the emergence of modern physics.
What kind of new concepts are required by comparable problems
in today’s physics, such as the thermodynamics of black
holes or the quantum structure of space time, demand and how will
the resulting physics represent a final theory? |
Morning
session
|
|
9.00–9.40
|
What
is a Particle? Quantum Field Theory Meets General Relativity |
W.
UNRUH
University of British Columbia |
| 9.40–10.20
|
Geometry,
Gravity and the Quantum |
A.
ASHTEKAR
Pennsylvania State University |
10.20–10.45
|
Coffee |
| 10.45–11.25 |
The
Border between Relativity and Quantum Theory |
T.
DRAY
Oregon State University |
| 11.25–12.05 |
The
History and Present Status of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime |
R.
WALD
University of Chicago |
| 12.05-12.45 |
Discussion |
| 12.45–14.15 |
Lunch |
Afternoon
session |
|
14.15
|
Contributed
Talk 15/19 |
| 14.45 |
Contributed
Talk 16/20 |
| 15.15 |
Contributed
Talk 17/21 |
| 15.45 |
Contributed
Talk 18/22 |
| 16.15 |
Coffee |
| 16.45–18.15
|
Session
dedicated to the memory of P. Havas and P.
Bergmann |
Evening
session |
|
| 18.30–20.00
|
Final
Round Table |
| 21.00 |
Conference
Dinner |
Tuesday
3.15.2005 |
Departure |
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