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- Geriatrics Section Education Conference series9:00 am
- 100th Anniversary of General Relativity9:30 am
- GRS Dissertation Defense of Theresa Cooney11:30 am
- Mr. Piketty and the Historians12:00 pm
- DOM Grand Rounds - Evidence Based Management of Brain Aneurysms and Large Vessel Stroke12:00 pm
- Global Burden of Undernutrition and Its Determinants12:45 pm
- The Power of Narrative Conference1:00 pm
- Translating A Hindi Classic Into English Asthetics, or "How Can I Convince Everyone This Novel is Awesome?" 1:00 pm
- GRS Dissertation Defense of Teresa Wang1:00 pm
- Dignity: Tribes in Transition1:00 pm
- Modern Municipal Restructurings: Puerto Rico and Beyond2:00 pm
- GRS Dissertation Defense of Jessica Kent2:00 pm
- Climate Change Conference: Snowpocalypse? Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and Our Legal Response2:30 pm
- Water Politics in the Nile Basin - Panel Discussion3:00 pm
- CISE Seminar: Amin Karbasi, Yale University3:00 pm
- Gamma Phi Beta Skating Philanthropy5:00 pm
- BU Paint Night at FitRec6:00 pm
- Condom Couture 6:00 pm
- Cinematheque: An Evening with Kate Kaminski6:00 pm
- Greek Jewish Council Shabbat 6:30 pm
- Rabbi Ehrenkranz Visits for Shabbat6:30 pm
- Greek Jewish Council Shabbat 6:30 pm
- The Nile Project Performance - Public8:00 pm
- Time's Arrow New Music Ensemble8:00 pm
100th Anniversary of General Relativity
Part of the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science. Schedule: 9:30am – 12:30pm “No Success Like Failure...” Einstein's Quest for General Relativity 1907-1920Michel Janssen Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota/ Inertial thinking? A Fresh Look at the Equivalence PrincipleEleanor Knox Philosophy, Kings College London/ Background Independence: The Hole StoryJohn Stachel Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University/ The Power of One: Einstein and Unimodular InvarianceKaća Bradonjić Physics, Wellesley College/ 2pm – 6pmEinstein, Hilbert, and the Search for Generally Covariant Field EquationsKatherine Brading Philosophy, University of Notre Dame/ Einstein's Culminating Paper: The Foundation of General RelativityJürgen Renn Max Planck Institute, Berlin/ The Einstein Challenge for Differential Geometry: The Case of Weyl and CartanErhard Scholz Mathematics & Natural Sciences, University of Wuppertal/ Einstein and the Development of 20th Century Philosophy of ScienceDon Howard Philosophy, University of Notre Dame/ Supported by the Boston University Jewish Cultural Endowment
| When | 9:30 am to 6:00 pm on Friday, March 27, 2015 |
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| Location | The Castle |