100th Anniversary of General Relativity

March 27, 2015
Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University

The Castle
225 Bay State Road
Boston 02215
United States

Sponsor(s):

  • Center for Einstein Studies

Speakers:

Katherine Brading
University of Notre Dame
Kaca Bradonjic
Wellesley College
Don Howard
University of Notre Dame
Michel Janssen
University of Minnesota
Erhard Scholz
University of Wuppertal
(unaffiliated)
John Stachel
Boston University

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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

            Ka?a Bradonji? Physics, Wellesley College

2pm – 5pm

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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