*Conference: Mathematics meets physics - General and local aspects*
*Conference: Mathematics meets physics - General and local aspects* /
*Mathematik und Physik in Wechselbeziehungen - Allgemeines und Lokales*
Leipzig (Germany), March 22-25, 2010
To conclude the project "Interrelationships between mathematics and
physics at the universities of Leipzig, Halle-Wittenberg and Jena from
about 1830 to 1945" (directors: Hans Wussing, Menso Folkerts), the
working group for the history of natural sciences and mathematics at the
Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (SAW) would like to invite you
to this conference. Its aim is to capture and analyse the complex
changes of this interrelationship in the 19th and the first half of the
20th century and to place them in a larger international context.
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*Programme***
*Monday, March 22, **2010*
9.00 Introduction
* *Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (President of the Saxonian Academy of
Sciences): Welcome
*Section 1: Allgemeine Entwicklungen / General developments*
9.30 Jesper Lützen: Examples of and reflections on the interplay between
mathematics and physics in the 19th and 20th century
10.30-11.00 Pause / break
11.00 Juraj Šebesta: Mathematics as one of the basic pillars of physical
theory: historical and epistemological survey
12.00-14.00 Mittagspause / lunch break
* *
14.00 Jan Lacki: From q-numbers to Hilbert spaces: The interplay of
mathematics and physics in the rise of quantum mechanics
15.00 Arne Schirrmacher: Gute Gründe für und gegen eine Mathematisierung
der Physik im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts
16.00-16.30 Pause / break
*Section 2: Lokale Kontexte / Local contexts*
16.30 Karl-Heinz Schlote/ Martina Schneider: Zum Wechselverhältnis von
Mathematik und Physik an den Universitäten Leipzig, Halle und Jena - ein
Vergleich
*Tuesday, March 23, 2010*
9.00 Karin Reich: Die theoretische Physik an der Universität Hamburg in
den Jahren 1921-1959
10.00 Jim Ritter: Geometry as physics: Oswald Veblen and the Princeton
School in the 1920s
11.00-11.30 Pause/ break
11.30 Charlotte Bigg: Mathematics meets physics in early twentieth
century Paris: the case of Brownian motion
12.30-14.30 Mittagspause/ lunch break
* *
*Section 3: Wissenschaftler / Scientists*
14.30 Scott Walter: Henri Poincaré’s approach to microphysics
15.30 Tom Archibald: Poincaré and Saturn's Rings: Equilibrium figures
and the prestige of mathematics circa 1900
16.30-17.00 Pause/ break
17.00 Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze: Probability and statistics as
connecting links between mathematics and physics: the approach of
Richard von Mises in the 1920s
*Wednesday, March 24, 2010*
9.00 Tilman Sauer: Einsteins Verhältnis zur Mathematik
10.00 Erhard Scholz: Weyls Verständnis vom Verhältnis der Mathematik zur
Physik
11.00-11.30 Pause/ break
*Section 4: Entwicklung von Konzepten und Theorien / Development of
concepts and theories*
11.30 Friedrich Steinle: Die Verschränkung von Mathematik und Physik bei
der Mathematisierung der Feldtheorie
12.30-14.30 Mittagspause / lunch break
14.30 Arianna Borrelli: Der Begriff von „Drehimpuls“ zwischen Mathematik
und Physik
15.30-16.00 Pause / break
16.00 Klaus-Heinrich Peters: Mathematische und phänomenologische
Strenge: Distributionen in Quantenmechanik und Quantenfeldtheorie
*Thursday, March 25, 2010*
9.00 Helge Kragh: The role of mathematics in the construction of the
relativistic quantum mechanics
10.00 Christoph Lehner: The resolution of the particle-wave dualism:
Pascual Jordan and the quantum field theory program
11.00-11.30 Pause / break
11.30 *Podiumsdiskussion / Panel: *On the interrelationship between
mathematics and physics - continuities and discontinuities
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13.00 Ende der Tagung / end of the conference
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*Venue: *Karl-Tauchnitz-Str. 1, 04107 Leipzig, Germany**
*Registration:* Admission is free. Please register until March 15th,
2010 by email to:
mathsmeetsphysics@saw-leipzig.de
*URL:* For further details see our homepage:
www.saw-leipzig.de/mathsmeetsphysics
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Martina Schneider
Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Mathematik
Saechsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
Karl-Tauchnitz Str. 1
04107 Leipzig
Germany
Tel: ++49-341-7115333