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