Dear all: The PhilyHistoryPhysics Reading group will begin in a week on Tuesday 23 January at 4.30.
The theme is: Gravitational waves. Many philosophical and historical aspects! The first few weeks schedule is: https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/seminars-reading-groups/campos. But in short: 23 January readings are: (1) D. Kennefick, Travelling at the Speed of Thought: Einstein and the Quest for Gravitational Waves, Princeton University Press 2007: chapter 3; (2) The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics: popular science background; available at: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2017/popular-physicsprize2017.pdf There is a copy of the Kennefick and Thorpe books in the Whipple, on Reserve. The book by D. Kennefick is also an ebook, freely available in the Cambridge University domain, through iDiscover. ALSO, please note upcoming relativity talk of interest: CamPoS (hps dept sem room 2) 13.00, Weds 24 Jan: local hero Brian Pitts speaks on: Even observables change in Hamiltonian general relativity Best wishes, Joe Martin and Jeremy B ------ Jeremy Butterfield: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ: Tel: 07557-668413 (mobile) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield Visit the journal, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13552198 _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
