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
Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota
Friday 4 March 2005
13.15 Registration and Lunch
Session I:
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
Session II:
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
Sesssion III:
... 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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