EINSTEIN IN BERLIN: THE FIRST TEN YEARS

March 3-4, 1997
Terrace Lounge
George Sherman Union
775 Commonwealth Avenue

Morning Session, March 3, 10 a.m.-noon

JON WESTLING, President of Boston University

Welcome

JÜRGEN RENN and TILMAN SAUER, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

The Rediscovery of General Relativity of Inertia

MICHEL JANSSEN, Einstein Papers/Boston University

Einstein, De Sitter, and the Relativity of Inertia

Commentator: JOHN NORTON, University of Pittsburgh

Afternoon Session, 2-5 p.m.

DANIEL KENNEFICK, California Institute of Technology

The Role of Einstein's Early Papers on Gravitational Waves in Raising Doubts About the

Existence of Gravitational Radiation

DAVID ROWE, University of Mainz

Klein and Noether on Energy Conservation in General Relativity

Commentator: JED BUCHWALD, The Dibner Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Roundtable Discussion

Evening Session, 8-10 p.m.

HUBERT GOENNER, University of Göttingen and GIUSEPPE CASTAGNETTI, Max Planck Institute for

the History of Science

Einstein as an Organizer of Science

ROBERT SCHULMANN, Einstein Papers/Boston University

Models of Research: Science Policy in Germany, 1911-1921

Commentator: KLAUS HENTSCHEL, The Dibner Institute and University of Göttingen

Morning Session, March 4, 10 a.m.-noon

A.J. KOX, Einstein Papers/University of Amsterdam

Einstein, Nerst, and the Third Law of Thermodynamics

JOHN STACHEL, Boston University

Einstein and Quantum Theory

Commentator: MARTIN KLEIN, Einstein Papers/Yale University

Afternoon Session, 2-5 p.m.

JOHN NORTON, University of Pittsburgh

Einstein's Cosmology and Evaporation Argument

JOZSEF ILLY, Einstein Papers

Not by Relativity Alone: Some of Einstein's Side-Interests in Physics

Commentator: GERALD HOLTON, Harvard University

Roundtable discussion

Evening Session, 8-10 p.m.

JOHN STACHEL, Boston University

Einstein Discovers His Jewish Identity

BRITTA SCHEIDELER and HUBERT GOENNER, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Einstein in Politics--A comparative Approach

Commentator: THOMAS GLICK, Boston University