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Continuity and Discontinuity in the Physical Sciences Since the Enlightenment A Conference for Graduate Students and Early-Career Scholars Thursday, July 28 – Sunday, July 31, 2011 American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD http://www.aip.org/history/events/conference2011 The Center for History of Physics is pleased to host a four-day conference for graduate students and early-career historians of physical science. The goal of the conference is to invigorate a new nexus of scholarly activity in history of science. We encourage both junior and senior scholars to attend. Thirty early-career historians of physical science will discuss topics including instrumentational change, measurement, statistical interpretation, planets, protons, positrons, aurora, quantum mechanics, and medical physics. Speakers come from Brazil to Berlin, Paris to Beijing, and Minnesota, US, to Manchester, UK. Keynote talks by: Michel Janssen (History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota); Title: "Arcs and Scaffoldings in the Construction of Relativity and Quantum Theory" Jaume (James) Navarro (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; University of Cambridge); Title: "William Whewell in Action: Continuity and Discontinuity in the British Physical Sciences" There will also be an AIP Science Heritage Public Talk by David H. DeVorkin (National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) titled "How the Cold War Changed the Smithsonian's Astrophysical Observatory." Register by June 1 Junior and Retired Scholars One Day $25 Full Conference (three days) $50 Senior Scholars One Day $50 Full Conference (three days) $100 The registration fee includes coffee breaks, Maryland BBQ, and reception. The full program, hotel, and local information can be viewed on the conference website. Remember: Register by June 1 Conference Support by: The Center for History of Physics (American Institute of Physics) Friends of the Center for History of Physics DPG FV History of Physics Commission for the History of Modern Physics (IUHPS/DHS)