Wednesday December 2
17:30 Closure of the AEI conference
18:30 – 19:15 Opening of the MPIWG conference
Abhay Ashtekar, (Pennsylvania State University)
The Renaissance of General Relativity
19:30 Dinner speakers MPIWG conference (by invitation only)
Thursday December 3
9:15 – 9:30 Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Welcome and Introduction
Chair – Christoph Lehner
The road to general relativity and the low-water-mark period
9:30 – 10:15 Robert Schulmann
Isolation, Engagement, and Celebrity: Einstein’s Paths to General Relativity and Beyond
10:15 – 11:00 Chris Smeenk (University of Western Ontario)
All Roads Lead to General Relativity
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:15 Jean Eisenstaedt (Observatoire de Paris)
The Low-water Mark of General Relativity, a Theory Ahead of its Time
12:15 – 13:00 Dennis Lehmkuhl (California Institute of Technology)
On Different Approaches to the Problem of Motion in General Relativity
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Chair – Matthias Schemmel
14:00 – 14:45 Helge Kragh (Copenhagen University)
Attitudes to General Relativity in the Formative Phase of Modern Cosmology
14:45 – 15:30 Cormac O’ Raifeartaigh (Waterford Institute of Technology)
A New Perspective on Einstein’s Cosmology
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:45 David Rowe (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
From Einstein to Schücking: Mach’s Principle and Relativistic Cosmology
16:45 – 18:30 Round table: Diana Kormos-Buchwald – Chair (California Institute of Technology, Einstein Papers Project)
Yemima ben Menahem (Hebrew University), Hanoch Gutfreund (Hebrew University), Anne J. Kox (University of Amsterdam), Christoph Lehner (MPIWG), Matthias Schemmel (MPIWG), Thomas A. Ryckman (Stanford University).
Friday December 4
Chair - Adrian Wüthrich
The postwar renaissance of general relativity
9:30 – 10:15 Jürgen Renn, With A. Blum and R. Lalli (MPIWG)
The “Renaissance” of General Relativity: Social and Epistemic Factors
10:15 – 11:00 Phillip J.E. Peebles (Princeton University)
The Revolution in Experimental Gravity Physics, 1957 to 1967
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:15 Tilman Sauer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Historical Remarks on the (non-)Discovery of Gravitational Lensing and the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation in the Early Sixties
12:15 – 13:00 Jeroen van Dongen (University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University)
Can We Understand the Black Hole Information Paradox by Studying Its History?
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Chair – Luisa Bonolis
14:00 – 14:45 David Kaiser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Cold War Curvature: Measuring and Modeling Gravitational Systems in Postwar American Physics
14:45 – 15:30 Dean Rickles (University of Sydney)
Institute of Field Physics, Inc: Private Patronage and the Renaissance of Gravitational Physics
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:45 Hubert Goenner (University of Göttingen)
General Relativity and the Growth of a Subdiscipline “Gravitation” in the German Speaking Physics Community
16:45 – 17:30 Roberto Lalli (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Building the Relativity Community During the Cold War: Communication Means and Institutional Frames in Transition
17:30 – 18:15 Adele La Rana (Sapienza University of Rome)
The Origins of Gravitational Wave Research in Italy
Saturday December 5
Chair – Alexander Blum
Theoretical tools and the renaissance of general relativity
9:30 – 10:15 Roger Penrose (University of Oxford)
10:15 – 11:00 Aaron Wright (Harvard University)
New Ways of Seeing (in) the Renaissance of General Relativity: Penrose Diagrams as Paper Tools
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:15 John Stachel (Boston University)
Contravariant Metric Approach to General Relativity
12:15 – 13:00 Donald Salisbury (Austin College)
An Investigation and Analysis of Constrained Hamiltonian Approaches to General Relativity
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Chair – Jürgen Renn
14:00 – 14:45 Domenico Giulini (University of Hannover)
Matter from Space
14:45 – 15:30 Markus Aspelmeyer (University of Vienna)
Past, Present and Future of Quantum Tests of Gravity
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00 Round table: Diana Kormos-Buchwald - Chair (California Institute of Technology, Einstein Papers Project),
Dieter Brill (University of Maryland), Joshua Goldberg (Syracuse University), Phillip J.E. Peebles (Princeton University), Roger Penrose (Oxford University), Brian Pitts (Cambridge University), Remo Ruffini (International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and Sapienza University), Kurt Sundermeyer (Free University of Berlin), Christian Wüthrich (University of Geneva).
18:00 – 18:30 Closure of the MPIWG conference
For further information please conatct:
rlalli@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
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