British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Organisers: Jeremy Butterfield FBA, All Souls College, Oxford
and Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota

Friday 4 March 2005

13.15	Registration and Lunch
An Unlikely New Master: A Philosophizing Patent Clerk Chair: Tilman Sauer, Einstein Papers Project, California Institute of Technology
14.30	Don Howard (University of Notre Dame): 'And I Shall Not Mingle Conjectures with Certainties': Einstein on the Principle Theories-Constructive Theories Distinction
15.15	Discussion led by Gerald Holton, Harvard University
15.45	Tea and Coffee
16.15	Robert Schulmann (Einstein Papers Project, California Institute of Technology): 'Beware of Rotten Compromises': The Moral Foundations of Einstein's Politics
17.00	Discussion led by Gerald Holton, Harvard University
17.30	Tea and Coffee
18.00	Master Mind Lecture John Stachel (Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University): Einstein Chair: Michel Janssen, University of Minnesota

Two New Gambits: Special Relativity and Brownian Motion Chair: Andrew Warwick, Imperial College London
9.00	Coffee
9.45	John Norton (University of Pittsburgh): Einstein's Electrodynamical Pathway to Special Relativity
10.30	Discussion led by Arthur Miller, University College London
11.00	Tea and Coffee
11.30	A.J. Kox (Universiteit van Amsterdam): Einstein, Fluctuations and Atomism
12.15	Discussion led by Martin J. Klein, Yale University
12.45	Lunch
… and a Brand New Game: The Light Quantum Chair: Michael Redhead, London School of Economics
13.45	Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin): A Master Mind at Work: The Hidden Bond of Einstein's 1905 Papers
14.30	Discussion led by Olivier Darrigol, CNRS, Paris
15.00	Tea and Coffee
15.30	Roger Stuewer (University of Minnesota): The Experimental Challenge of Light Quanta
16.15	Discussion led by Olivier Darrigol, CNRS, Paris
16.45	Symposium ends