Message posted on 28/03/2023

Workshop registration: history & philosophy of the gravitational constant

We have a limited number of places for participants at the 2-day workshop associated with the research project 'The Gravitational Constant 1890-1915 – From the Local to the Universal', a joint project between St Andrews and the University of Bonn. The workshop looks at the wider scientific context around 1900 within which acceptance of a gravitational constant developed; it draws on approaches from transnational history, circulation practices, measurement theory and practice, and philosophy of physics.

Invited speakers are:

  • Michael Gordin, (Princeton), Fin-de-siècle Scientific Standardization: Meters, Languages, Information
  • Jenny Beckman (Uppsala) - Language practices in 19th century science: parallel publication, translation, and journal guidelines
  • Daniel Mitchell (IEEE History Center, Piscataway, NJ) - On mathematical approaches to measurement, units and laws
  • Richard Staley (Cambridge and Copenhagen) - Gift, trade and gravity: Circulation practices and knowledge economies, across disciplinary space and time
  • Bryan Roberts (London School of Economics) - Role of Laws

For the draft full schedule, see https://www.gravconstant.net/events.html

The workshop will take place in St Andrews.

If you would like to attend, please contact Isobel Falconer ( ijf3@st-andrews.ac.uk)

-- NB: My working hours may not be your working hours so please do not feel obligated to reply outside your own normal work schedule

­­Dr Niels Martens | Marie Curie Fellow | Philosophy Co-lead of ngEHT Collaboration | Utrecht University | Freudenthal Institute | Buys Ballot Building, room 3.11 | Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht | n.c.m.martens@uu.nl | martensniels.wordpress.com | Present on Thu-Fri

New open access publications: "ngEHT HPC White Paper" & "Dark Matter Realism"


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