Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:41:54 -0400 To: wsfalist at wsfa.org From: Barry Newton <bnewton at ashcomp.com> Subject: [WSFA] Einstein Lectures Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> <http://www.nas.edu/nas>SYMPOSIUM - THE WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS: EINSTEIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY May 3, 2005 - 2:00PM to 5:00PM The symposium will celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the year in which Einstein published a series of papers that shook the foundations of modern science. The five speakers in this session will address these topics in part, but will focus primarily on the fact that Einstein's ideas still pervade the most advances areas of research in modern physics. The five speakers are: Clifford M. Will, Washington University, St. Louis; Carl Wiemann, Nobel Laureate, JILA Fellow and University of Colorado, Boulder; John Preskill, California Institute of Technology; Andrea J. Liu, University of Pennsylvania; Davis Gross, Nobel Laureate, Kavli Institute, Santa Barbara. Location: National Academy of Sciences Auditorium 2100 C Street, NW, Washington, DC Open to public. No registration required. NIST Contact: Anneke Levelt Sengers, 301-975-2463, johanna.sengers at nist.gov Barry