CFP: Congress of History of Physics and Astronomy, Napoli, Italy | SISFA 2016
4 ott 16 - 7 ott 16 / Main venue: Department of Physics “Ettore Pancini” - University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples
The 36th annual Congress of the Italian Society for the History of
Physics and Astronomy (SISFA, Società Italiana degli Storici della
Fisica e dell’Astronomia) will take place in Napoli on October 04- 07,
2016. The main venue of the Congress will be the Department of Physics
“Ettore Pancini” at the University of Naples “Federico II”, Complesso
Universitario di Monte S. Angelo.
Continuing the series of SISFA annual meetings, the Congress aims at
promoting the study of the history of physics and astronomy in Italy. At
the same time, it provides an opportunity to strengthen old and
establish new links among the members of SISFA, the members of other
scholarly societies and researchers working in the same and in related
fields. Historians of physics and astronomy are therefore invited to
participate and the invitation is extended to all interested scholars.
The Congress will host invited talks and communications. Various
initiatives will also give participants the opportunity to get
acquainted with the scientific and historical heritage of Naples.
Proposals
for oral communications should mainly address the history of
physics and astronomy, also in connection with the related areas of
mathematics, chemistry and the history of science and culture. Studies
focusing on historical instruments and documentary sources regarding the
mentioned fields are also relevant, as well as the applications of the
history of physics and astronomy in science education and museum
displays.
A session will be devoted to the centennial of Einstein’s theoretical
prediction of gravitational waves and to the recent experimental
discovery of them. Other special sessions: “Giuseppe Saverio Poli
(1746-1825) and the development of Science in Southern Italy between the
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”; “Historical Collections of
Scientific Instruments in Naples and Southern Italy”.