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Dear Colleague,

   Please find attached a preliminary notice concerning the next
"Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory " (PIRT-VII) meeting in
London in September 2000.
     M. C. Duffy

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PHYSICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF RELATIVITY THEORY

LONDON : Civil Engineering Building, Imperial College,
15-18 SEPTEMBER 2000

The objective of the 7th Physical Interpretations of Relativity
Theory (PIRT) conference is to examine physical theories, models, and
interpretations of the relativistic formal structure. The meeting is
intended for physicists, mathematicians, engineers, philosophers of
science and historians of science..

The conference will examine:

Cosmology, Gravitation and space-time Structure
Time, Reference Frames and the Fundamentals of Relativity
Nature and Models of the Physical Vacuum
Formal Structures and Physical Interpretations of Relativity
Epistemology,  Physical  Measurement  and  the  Interpretation  of
Formal Structures
Experimental Aspects of Relativity
The Poincaré-Lorentz and the Einstein-Minkowski Expositions of the
Relativity Principle.
Relativistic Ether Theory:  Ether Geometrised, Dirac's Ether and
Ether Models
The Vortex Sponge:  Analogues of Chaos and Quantum Mechanical
Phenomena

This list is not exclusive and papers dealing with other themes are
sought.

The meeting is sponsored by the British Society for Philosophy of
Science, and the School of Computing, Engineering & Technology of the
University of Sunderland.

A web site devoted to PIRT matters, which provides information about
the conference is located at the following address:

http://www.seat.sunderland.ac.uk/CET_ENG/Brochure.htm

On this web site will be posted information bulletins; the conference
brochure; registration forms; abstracts; papers; the meeting program,
etc.

Submissions for posting on the web site should for preference be in
Word 7 or RTF (Rich Text Files) and sent on disk or by e-mail to Dr M.
C.
Duffy at the address given below.

 M.C. Duffy, School of Computing, Engineering & Technology,
University of Sunderland, Chester Road, SUNDERLAND, SR1 3SD, United
Kingdom.
Tel:     0044 (0) 191 515 2856
FAX:  0044 (0) 191 515 2703
E-mail: [log in to unmask]


PHYSICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF RELATIVITY THEORY VII

Imperial College, London, 15-18 September 2000

Please send the information requested below  to Dr. M. C. Duffy, CET,
Edinburgh Building, University of Sunderland, Chester Rd.,
Sunderland,
SR1 3SD, Great Britain, Fax: 0044 (0) 191 515 2703
E-mail:[log in to unmask]

Please inform Dr Duffy without delay if you have changed your e-mail
address or have acquired one recently.  Please ensure that he has the
address you wish to be used for conference communications.   If you
wish to be supplied with copies of communications in paper form via the
ordinary mail, or by fax please inform Dr Duffy who will otherwise
assume that e-mail is sufficient for you.

If you do not have e-mail, please ensure that Dr Duffy has your
postal address and fax number.

Please supply the following information:

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