{"id":2655,"date":"2015-04-06T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/?page_id=2655"},"modified":"2015-04-06T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T19:26:09","slug":"annual-report-2006-2007","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/ces\/annual-report-2006-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Report 2006-2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year Prof. Stachel continued his research in a number of topics in general relativity, resulting in a number of publications, some on technical physics topics and others on more philosophically and historically oriented topics. Stachel also gave several invited talks on his work: &#8220;Background Independence and Quantum Gravity,&#8221; Cosmology Seminar (University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, February 20, 2007); &#8220;The Search for Quantum Gravity,&#8221; Physics Colloquium (Lehigh University, March 22, 2007); &#8220;Einstein&#8217;s Odyssey: From Special to General Relativity,&#8221; Boston Colloquium for Philosophy and History of Science&#8221; (March 5, 2007). His publications include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The Hole Argument for Covariant Theories,&#8221; (with Mihaela Iftime) GRG Journal General Relativity and Gravitation 38 : 1241-1252 (2006);<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The First Two Acts,&#8221; in J \u00fcrgen Renn et al., eds., The Genesis of General Relativity, vol. 1, Einstein&#8217;s Zurich Notebook: Introduction and Source (Berlin: Springer 2007) pp. 81- 111;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Hilbert&#8217;s Foundation of Physics: From a Theory of Everything to a Constituent of General Relativity&#8221; (with J\u00fcrgen Renn), in J\u00fcrgen Renn and Matthias Schimmel, eds., The Genesis of General Relativity, vol 4, Gravitation in the Twilight of Classical Physics: The Promise of Mathematics (Berlin: Springer 2007), pp. 857-974;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Story of Newstein: Or is Gravity Just Another Pretty Force?&#8221; in ibid., vol. 4, pp. 1041-1078;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Einstein&#8217;s Intuition and the Post-Newtonian Approximation,&#8221; in Hugo Garcia-Compe\u00e1n et al., eds, Topics in Mathematical Physics, General Relativity and Cosmology (Singapore: World Scientific 2006) pp.453-467;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Einstein on the Military Mentality, and Rotblatt on the Culture of Violence,&#8221; in R. Braun et al. eds., Joseph Rotblatt: Visionary for Peace (Weinheim: Wiley- VCH Verlag 2007, pp. 241-244;<br \/>\nreview of Palle Yourgrau: A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of G \u00f6del and Einstein, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, August 2007, pp. 861-868;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Heady Days in Princeton&#8221;: Review of Steve Batterson: Pursuit of Genius Flexner, Einstein and the Early Faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study, Nature 445: 263 (2007);<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;What Song the Syrens Sang&#8217; How Did Einstein Discover Special Relativity?,&#8221; reprinted in E = Einstein His Life His Thought, and His Influence on Our Culture (New York: Sterling Pub. 2006), pp. 157-172;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Albert Einstein: A Man for the Millenium?,&#8221; reprinted in Albert Einstein Century International Conference Paris France 18-22 July 2005, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 861 (Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006), pp. 211-243.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year Prof. Stachel continued his research in a number of topics in general relativity, resulting in a number of publications, some on technical physics topics and others on more philosophically and historically oriented topics. Stachel also gave several invited talks on his work: &#8220;Background Independence and Quantum Gravity,&#8221; Cosmology Seminar (University of Cape Town, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":2586,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2656,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2655\/revisions\/2656"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}