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Thank you all for coming here today.

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My name is Alisa Bockulich


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And I am the director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science here at Boston University. 

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It is my pleasure to welcome you all to our conference 

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today on how can the history of philosophy and science

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contribute to contemporary U.S. science education.

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Our conference today is part of 

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the 53rd Annual Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science.

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We have a very long tradition of 

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the history and philosophy of science here at Boston University.

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We have many exciting events planned throughout the year.

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Let me just quickly call attention to our posters,

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there's several outside, I encourage you to pick one up.

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We have several more events planned throughout the year.

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Including the next one in February

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on Stereotype Threat: the Psychological phenomena that's very important 

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for educators of underrepresented groups to be aware of.

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And then we'll be doing another one in March 

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on the science of music 

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in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Helmholtz's work on this topic

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I hope to welcome many of you back again for one of our future events

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You can also visit us online at bu.edu/cphs. 

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So we have a very full schedule planned for today

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Before we begin I want to very briefly thank

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Professor Peter Garik from the School of Education

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for his incredible work organizing this.

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It was a Herculean task. Our very talented

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[APPLAUSE]

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Our very talented [muffled] committee, thank you all.

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It would not have been possible without your help.

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I would also like to thank

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Yann [muffled], who is a former BU graduate student

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now at Western Ontario, who really helped us

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from the very first conception of this conference

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all the way through to today, thank you Yann

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And also I would like to briefly acknowledge 

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the generous support of the National Science Foundation

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for supporting important inner disciplinary conferences

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such as this, this conference would not have been possible

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without NSF support, so thank you.

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Alright, so before we get to our first speaker for the morning

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let me just make a comment about the format.

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We'll have two keynote speakers

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followed by panelists commenting

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It'll be after the last panelist that we'll open up the floor for discussion.

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So I ask you to please make a note of your questions for each of the speakers

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and you'll have a chance to ask those questions at the very end of the panel.

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We're on a very tight schedule so I'm afraid we can't pause in between each one.

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So please hold your questions for the end of the panel session

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and all of the speakers will be able to respond to questions at that time