[bioundgrd] Colloquium: (Friday March 27th) "100th Anniversary of General Relativity"

[Joyce Roberge]

Please join us for the upcoming session of the 55th Annual Program of the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science:

100th Anniversary of General Relativity
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Einstein Studies

Friday, March 27th, 2015
The Castle
225 Bay State Rd.


9:30am – 12:30pm
“No Success Like Failure...” Einstein's Quest for General Relativity 1907-1920
            Michel Janssen History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota

Background Independence: The Hole Story
            John Stachel Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University

Powers of One: Einstein and Unimodular Invariance
            Kaća Bradonjić Physics, Wellesley College


2pm – 6pm
Einstein, Hilbert, and the Search for Generally Covariant Field Equations
            Katherine Brading Philosophy, University of Notre Dame

The Einstein Challenge for Differential Geometry: The Case of Weyl and Cartan
            Erhard Scholz Mathematics & Natural Sciences, University of Wuppertal

Einstein and the Development of 20th Century Philosophy of Science
            Don Howard Philosophy, University of Notre Dame



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