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[Emeriti-faculty] Events for this week (week of April 14, 2008)
Good morning:
Events for the week are:
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Physics Graduate Students’
JOURNAL CLUB
Chang Liu
“Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy”
Wednesday, April 1 6, 2008
Robinson Hall 250, 5:00 pm
(undergraduate students, faculty and anyone interested are also invited:
food served at 4:30 pm in Knipp Library)
Friday, April 18, 2008
Lunch Talk in Space Science and Technology
Suzanne Young
Tufts University
will speak on
Friday
April 18, 2008
“The Phoenix Mission to Mars – NASA’s innovative explorer of liquids and
biohability on the red planet”
Pizza and beverages at Noon in Robinson 251 followed by talk at 12:30 pm
or thereabouts in Anderson 211.
Sponsored by the Department of Physics and Astronomy and The
Massachusetts Space grant Consortium (MASGC)
For further information, please contact Bill Waller at william.waller@
tufts.edu
Friday, April 18, 2008
A Joint Philosophy/Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Friday, April 18, 2008, 3:00 PM
Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall
“The Image of Objectivity”
Peter Galison
Pellegrino University
Professor, Harvard University
When scientific objectivity became a goal in the early 19th century it
was by no means obviously something to be desired. Natural philosophers
had to invert the old epistemic virtues that involved finding ideal
forms that lay behind the variations of this or that individual. Where
genius was, plain-sight observation came to dominate. I will here track
how the images and image-making technologies of scientific atlases
helped define the modern scientific category of mechanical
objectivity-and the new quieted and transparent scientific self that
accompanied it. The fate of objectivity kept turning: twentieth century
scientists questioned image-based, mechanical objectivity; they demanded
more interpretation and modification of images than mechanical
objectivity ever allowed. With that shift came a new view of the right
scientific self, one that explicitly made use of intuition, expertise,
and the unconscious. Now, in the early twenty-first century new kinds of
scientific images are demanding quite unexpected ways of being a
scientist-selves perched uneasily between scientific, engineering, and
entrepreneurial forms of life.
Refreshments in Robinson Hall, Room 251 at 2:30 pm