Dear friends and colleagues: (Apologies for cross-posting)This Cambridge conference on the history of electromagnetism looks excellent, and of interest to all philosophers of physical science.
Speakers include: Chang, Buchwald, Falconer, Longair...
Registration deadline 15 August: accommodation deadline 1 August Hope to see you there. Best, Jeremy ------ Jeremy Butterfield: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield Homepage: http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/butterfield/ Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Tel: 01223 761524 (office); 07557-668413 (mobile) Visit the journal, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13552198 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 19:06:35 +0100 From: Hasok Chang <[email protected]> To: hpscam <[email protected]> Subject: History of Physics conference International Conference on the History of Physics 2014 Theme: Electromagnetism: the Road to Power Trinity College, Cambridge, 4-5 September 2014 Conference website: http://historyofphysics2014.iopconfs.org/Home Organised by the Institute of Physics (History of Physics Group), in collaboration with the EPS History of Physics group. The conference will inaugurate a new international series, bringing together professional historians of science, practising physicists, science museum staff, lecturers, teachers and others with interests in any aspects and periods of physics history. The programme will consist of 9 invited lectures of duration 35 minutes and 13 contributed lectures of 20 minutes. In addition there will be a poster session and a one-hour debate on contemporary issues concerning the presentation of science and its history in museums. Accommodation booking deadline: 1 August 2014 Registration deadline: 15 August 2014 Invited Lectures: The induction coil: the natural and social history of a physics instrument Dr Paolo Brenni, CNR, Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica Florence, Italy Using Maxwell's equations before the electron Professor Jed Buchwald, Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech, USA The early history of electricity: from Volta onwards Professor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Why were Cavendish's electrical researches important to Maxwell? Dr Isobel Falconer, St Andrews University, Dundee, UK History of physics, and what it's good for Professor John. L. Heilbron, University of California, Berkeley USA Demystifying Maxwell's demon: Its historical role on the route from thermodynamics to (quantum-) information theory Professor Dr Heinz Krenn, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria Physics and Trinity College Professor Malcolm Longair, University of Cambridge, UK This splendid apparatus: the material culture of electro-magnetic induction Professor Iwan Morus, Aberystwyth University The dynamics of concepts in early electromagnetism Professor Dr Friedrich Steinle, Technical University, Berlin, Germany The conference will offer the opportunity to present some aspects of Cambridge's scientific history. Visits to Woolsthorpe Manor where Sir Isaac Newton was born and undertook much of his work, and to the Cavendish Museum, with its rich history of exhibits, will be arranged.
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