Morning Session, 9:00am-12:00pm

• Introduction: Forty Years After

  John Stachel Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University

• With a special pre-recorded presentation:
  Quantum Gravity? Or Quantum and Gravity from New Physics?

  Roger Penrose Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

• The Meaning of Background Independence

  Tian Yu Cao Philosophy, Boston University

• Quantum or Emergent Gravity?—Key Issues

  Bei-Lok Hu Physics, University of Maryland

• Simplicial Gravity and Strings

  John Swain Physics, Northeastern University

Afternoon Session, 2:00pm-5:30pm

• Some Features of a Good Quantum Gravity Theory

  George Ellis Mathematics, University of Capetown

• The Problem of Space in Quantum Gravity

  Christian Wüthrich Philosophy, Science Studies, UC San Diego

• Quantum Gravity Phenomenology

  Giovanni Amelino-Camelia Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza

• Meaning and Measurement in Quantum Gravity

  John Stachel Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University

• Unimodular Conformal and Projective Relativity

  Kaća Bradonjić Physics, Wellesley College

I. Turing’s Philosophical and Logical Foundations

Sunday, November 11, 10:00am- Noon

• On Formalism Freeness: A Meditation on Gödel’s 1946 Princeton Bicentennial Lecture

  Juliette Kennedy Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki

  mp3 | Lecture Slides

• Turing, Church, Gödel, a personal perspective

  Michael Rabin Computer Science, Harvard University

  Lecture Slides

• Turing and Wittgenstein

  Juliet Floyd Philosophy, Boston University

  mp3 | Lecture Slides

II. Turing and Mathematics: Computability and Definability

Sunday, November 11, 1:45pm-3:45pm

• Universality is Ubiquitous

  Martin Davis Courant Institute, NYU; Mathematics, UC Berkeley

  mp3 | Lecture Slides

• Collapsing Sentences

  Gerald Sacks Mathematics, Harvard University and MIT

  mp3

• The Hierarchy of Definability: An Extended Thesis

  Theodore Slaman Mathematics, UC Berkeley

  mp3 | Lecture Slides

III. Turing and Cryptography

Sunday, November 11, 4:00pm-6:00pm

• Rational Proofs

  Silvio Micali Computer Science, MIT

  mp3

• Turing and the Growth of Cryptography

  Ronald Rivest Computer Science, MIT

  mp3 | Lecture Slides

• Alan Turing and Voice Encryption

  Craig Bauer Mathematics, York College of Pennsylvania

  mp3

IV. Turing and Artificial Intelligence

Monday, November 12, 9:30am-12:15pm

• Title TBA

  Marvin Minsky Media Arts and Sciences, MIT

• Why Neanderthals Couldn’t Pass Turing’s Test and When Computers Will

  Patrick Henry Winston Computer Science, MIT

• Embodying Computation at Higher Types

  S. Barry Cooper Mathematics, University of Leeds

  Lecture Slides

V. The Church-Turing Thesis

Monday, November 12, 2:00pm-4:00pm

• Normal Forms for Puzzles: an Enigmatic Variant of Turing’s Thesis

  Wilfrid Sieg Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University

   mp3

• Exploring the Computational Universe

  Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Research

  mp3

• Is there a Church-Turing Thesis for Social Algorithms?

  Rohit Parikh Computer Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, CUNY

   mp3 | Lecture Slides

VI. Turing, Physics, and Probability

Monday, November 12, 4:15pm-6:30pm

• Algorithmic Randomness and Turing’s Work on Normality

  Rod Downey Mathematics, Victoria University of Wellington

   mp3 | Lecture Slides

• Spacetime Physics and Non-Turing Computers

  Mark Hogarth Philosophy, Cambridge University

  mp3

• The Mysterious Thesis

  Leonid Levin Computer Science, Boston University

  mp3 | Paper 1 | Paper 2

Organized in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science and the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. Financial support has been provided by the Hariri Institute.

Updates about the conference and more information about Alan Turing will be posted on the conference website, hosted by the Hariri Institute.

Introductory Comments
Panel I: History of HPS in Science Education

9:00am–10:10am

• The Neglected Mandate: Teaching Science as Part of our Culture

  Gerald Holton Harvard University

• HPS & ST: Looking Back and Going Forward

  Michael Matthews University of New South Wales

  Panel Participants: Sevan Terzian University of Florida; David Rudge Western Michigan University

Panel II: HPS and the Science Frameworks

10:15am–11:25am

• Framing the Learning/Teaching of Science and Nature of Science: Practices-Core Ideas-Crosscutting Concepts

  Richard Duschl NSF

• Philosophy of Science and Science Education Reform

  Gregory Kelly Penn State

  Panel Participants: Michael Ford University of Pittsburgh; Jacob Foster Mass DOE; Katherine McNeill Boston College

Panel III: Teaching and Learning with HPS I: Outcomes for Teachers and Students

11:30am–12:40pm

• What History Teaches Us About Using History of Science to Teach About Nature of Science

  Fouad Abd-El-Khalick University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Science With a Background

  Fanny Seroglou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

  Panel Participants: Katherine Brading University of Notre Dame; Ricardo Lopes Coelho University of Lisbon

Lunch: Plenary Speaker

12:45pm–2:00pm

Barrister’s Hall — Invitees only

• On the importance of defining before maligning: a case study from early science education

  David Klahr Carnegie Mellon University

Panel IV: Teaching and Learning with HPS II: Outcomes for Teachers and Students

2:15pm–3:25pm

• Using the History of Scientists to Inspire or Motivate STEM Learning

  Xiaodong Lin-Siegler Columbia University

• HPS from the Teacher’s Perspective: Three Approaches to Teaching the Nature of Science

  Douglas Allchin University of Minnesota

  Panel Participants: Frank Keil Yale University; Michael Clough Iowa State

Panel V: Using HPS in the Classroom: Ethical Reasoning and Modeling

3:30pm–4:05pm

• Integrating Bioethics into Secondary Science Education: Content, Pedagogy and Lessons Learned

  Mildred Solomon The Hastings Center

• Patterns of Cognitive Engagement that Interact with the Nature of Science to Complicate Public Understanding of Complexity and Scientific Research

  Tina Grotzer Harvard University

  Panel Participants: Jeanne Chowning Northwest Association for Biomedical Research

Panel VI: HPS in K-12 Professional Development

4:45pm–5:55pm

• History of Science in the Classroom – a Story of Obstacles to Overcome

  Dietmar Höttecke Universität Hamburg

• Assessing the Impact of a Historically Based Unit on Preservice Teachers’ Views of the Nature of Science

  David Rudge Western Michigan University

  Panel Participants: John Clement University of Massachusetts Amherst; Barbara Crawford University of Georgia

Co-sponsored by the Boston University School of Education. We gratefully acknowledge the support of a REESE grant from the National Science Foundation.

More information, including a list of speakers and their profiles, is available at the conference website ( http://www.bu.edu/hps-scied/).

The Reception of Helmholtz’s On the Sensations of Tone: Celebrity vs. Enlightenment

David Cahan History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Sympathetic Resonance: The Influence of Helmholtz’s Theory of Acoustics

Lydia Patton Philosophy, Virginia Tech

Pitched Battles: Helmholtz, Rayleigh, and Beyond

Eric J. Heller Chemistry, Physics, Harvard University

Musical Illusions, Perfect Pitch, and Other Mysteries

Diana Deutsch Psychology, UC San Diego

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Boston University Center for the Humanities.

John Broome White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford

Commentators:
Stephen Gardiner University of Washington
Caspar Hare MIT
David Roochnik Boston University