Upcoming Event "100th Anniversary of General Relativity"

[Center for Philosophy and History of Science <cphs bu edu>]

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

100^th Anniversary of General Relativity

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Einstein Studies

Friday, March 27^th, 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 – 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 20^th Century Philosophy of Science

            Don Howard Philosophy, University of Notre Dame

For more information and updates please visit us online at  http://www.bu.edu/cphs/

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Elizabeth Ramirez

Administrative Assistant
Center for Philosophy and History of Science
Boston University
745 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 506
Boston, MA 02215
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www.bu.edu/cphs