Program

All talks are 30 min. + 15 min. discussion.
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Monday 28 June

9:00	Welcome
9:15	Jürgen Renn (MPIWG) "The Transformation of Mechanics"
	The Classical Roots of Quantum Physics
9:45	Shaul Katzir (MPIWG) "“Classical" Solutions to the Challenges of Radiation and its Interaction with Matter"
10:30	Charlotte Bigg (Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS) "The Making of Jean Perrin’s Brownian Motion Experiments and of early 20th Century French Physical Science"
11:15	Coffee Break
11:45	Marta Jordi Taltavull (MPIWG) "From Classical to Quantum Optical Dispersion, after Bohr’s Atom"
	Old Quantum Theory & Statistics
12:30	Dieter Hoffmann and Giora Hon (MPIWG and University of Haifa) "From Propagation to Structure: Experimental Research in Berlin and its Role in the Emergence of Early Quantum Physics"
13:15	Lunch Break
14:30	Matthew Konieczny (University of Minnesota) "The Birth of a Quantum Physics on the Eastern European Periphery: Władysław Natanson and the First Solvay Conference of 1911"
15:15	Michael Eckert (Deutsches Museum) "Sommerfeld’s Munich Quantum School"
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30	Clayton Gearhart (St. John’s University Minnesota) "Fritz Reiche’s 1921 Quantum Theory Textbook"
17:15	Massimiliano Badino and Bretislav Friedrich (FHI) "Putting the Quantum to Work: Otto Sackur’s Pioneering Exploits in the Quantum Theory of Gases"
18:00	Enric Perez Canals and Tilman Sauer (Universitat de Barcelona and Einstein Papers Project, Caltech) "Einstein’s Quantum Theory of the Monatomic Ideal Gas: Non-statistical Arguments for a New Statistics "

Tuesday 29 June

	Quantum Mechanics and Statistics
9:00	Daniela Monaldi (York University) "The Early Interactions of Quantum Statistics, Many-particle Systems, and Quantum Fields"
9:45	Jos Uffink (Utrecht University) "Gibbs Paradox and the Relation between Thermodynamics and Quantum Theory"
	Classical Concepts in Quantum Mechanics
10:30	Arne Schirrmacher (MPIWG) "Heisenberg's Ladder Didn't Fall. Types, Aims and Uses of Models in the History of Quantum Theory"
11:15	Coffee Break
11:45	John Stachel (Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University) "Bohr: Complementarity and Correspondence"
12:30	Kristian Camilleri (University of Melbourne) "The Doctrine of Classical Concepts in Historical Perspective"
13:15	Lunch Break
14:30	Anthony Duncan and Michel Janssen (University of Pittsburgh and University of Minnesota) "(Never) mind your p's and q's: Von Neumann versus Jordan on the Foundations of Quantum Theory"
	The Many-body Problem
15:15	Christian Joas and Jeremiah James (FHI) "Application, Extension, and Alteration: The many-body Problem in early Quantum Mechanics"
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30	Roger H. Stuewer (University of Minnesota) "An Act of Creation: The Meitner-Frisch Interpretation of Nuclear Fission"
17:15	Edward Jurkowitz and Volker Blum (FHI) "Computation and Concepts in Early Atomic and Solid-State Physics"
18:00	Christian Kehrt (Deutsches Museum) "From Do-it-yourself Quantum Mechanics to Nanotechnology? The History of Experimental Semiconductor Physics in Germany, 1970-2000."

Wednesday 30 June

	Quantum Optics
9:00	Dieter Fick and Horst Kant (FHI and Philipps-Universität Marburg and MPIWG) "The Concept of Light Molecules and Light Multiples: A dead-end Way to simulate Bose-Einstein Statistics for Black Body Radiation"
9:45	Barry R. Masters (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Proximity of Theory and Experimental Practice in Göttingen’s Physical Institutes 1920-1933: Work of Maria Göppert as Exemplar of an Institutional Culture"
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Joan Bromberg (Johns Hopkins University) "Modelling the Hanbury Brown - Twiss Effect: The Mid-Twentieth Century Revolution in Optics"
11:45	Indianara Lima Silva (Universidade Federal da Bahia) "The Controversy on Photons and the Hanbury-Brown & Twiss Experiment"
13:00	Excursion: departure for Potsdam (by bus) lunch at Fährhaus guided tour: Einstein Haus, Einstein Turm
19:00	back at the institute

Thursday 1 July

	Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory
9:00	Christoph Lehner (MPIWG) "The Resolution of the Particle-Wave Dualism: Pascual Jordan and the Quantum Field Theory Program"
9:45	Thomas Pashby (University of Pittsburgh) "Projective Geometry and the Origins of the Dirac Equation"
10:30	Kent Staley (Saint Louis University) "On an alleged fine-tuning Problem in Dirac’s Electron Theory and its partial Solution by Weisskopf"
11:15	Coffee Break
11:45	Adrian Wüthrich (Universität Bern) "The Genesis of Feynman Diagrams"
12:30	Kenji Ito (Sokendai University) "From Electrical Engineering to Quantum Physics: The Case of Nishina Yoshio"
13:15	Lunch Break
	Quantum Gravity
14:30	Dean Rickles (University of Sydney) "Pioneers of Quantum Gravity"
15:15	Yin Xiaodong and Zhu Zhongyuan (Capital Normal University, Beijing and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) "Chang’s Contribution to the Quantization of Constrained Hamiltonian System"
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30	Jürgen Renn, Donald Salisbury, Matthias Schemmel, and Kurt Sundermeyer (MPIWG, Austin College, MPIWG, FU Berlin) "The Overlapping Worlds of General Relativity and Quantum Theory: The Challenge of the Principle of Equivalence"
	Determinism and Indeterminism
17:15	Michael Stöltzner (University of South Carolina) "Random Fluctuations in Electroscopes and Microscopes"
18:00	Richard Staley (University of Wisconsin-Madison) "Between Absolute and Relative, Life and Death, Causality and Probability: The Cultural History of Mechanics"

Friday 2 July

	Text Book Project
9:00	Massimiliano Badino and Jaume Navarro (FHI and MPIWG) "Research and Pedagogy: A History of Quantum Physics through the Textbooks"
	Quantum Mechanics in the 30s
9:45	Elise Crull (University of Notre Dame) "Grete Hermann and the Gamma-Ray Microscope Gedankenexperiment"
10:30	Don Howard (University of Notre Dame) "Quantum Mechanics in Context: Pascual Jordan’s 1936 Anschauliche Quantentheorie in its Philosophical and Political Setting"
11:15	Coffee Break
	Philosophy and Quantum Mechanics
11:45	Cathryn Carson (University of California, Berkeley) "Quantum Mechanics in Heidegger's Thought about Science"
12:30	Mauricio Suárez (Complutense University of Madrid) "The Birth of Philosophy of Physics and the Origin of Quantum Propensities: Henry Margenau’s ‘Latency’ School"
13:15	Lunch Break
	Interpretations after WWII
14:30	Frederik Moreira dos Santos (Universidade Federal da Bahia) "The Quantum Mechanics Measurement Problem: the Wigner’s approach"
15:15	Fábio Freitas (Universidade Federal da Bahia) "Anthony Leggett and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics"
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30	Olival Freire Jr. (Universidade Federal da Bahia) "Orthodoxies on the Interpretation of Quantum Theory: The Case of the Consistent Histories Approach"
	Hanneke Janssen Memorial
17:15	Jos Uffink (Utrecht University) "Decoherence and Reality"