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From July 30 to August 17, 2012 Aarhus University in Denmark hosts an international summer course on the history of mathematics. The course will focus on asking and answering research questions in the history of mathematics and is aimed at masters students and PhD students. The course is designed for 5 ECTS credits. You can enroll in the course if you have a bachelor’s degree in mathematics or a similar background in history of mathematics. Please contact the Aarhus University Summer School staff for help in finding out whether you are eligible for the an exchange student tuition waver. Application deadline is March 15, 2012. The course is offered within the Aarhus Summer University programme which provides accomodation and a social programme for international students attending the course. The lecturers will include Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (Roskilde) and Henrik Kragh Sørensen (Aarhus). The course will be taught in English. The further contents of the course, a syllabus, and pos...

HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE REVIEW: This new illustrated list for professionals and lovers of history and philosophy of science has recently been launched. Feel free to join, post, and exchange information of use to our community. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hps_review FACILITATING YOUR RESEARCH - ASSISTING YOUR TEACHING/LEARNING History and Philosophy of Science Review provides a room for: full information about the current editions of the major periodicals in the field; presentation of important by forgotten old or rare books on history/philosophy of science; reviews of recent research papers or books in the area. All this is accompanied with attractive illustrations. Announcements for upcoming scientific events in the field are also welcomed. Check the List at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hps_review - join and enjoy Professor B.V. Toshev, Chemistry: Bulgarian Journal of Science Education http://khimiya.org

El día 20 de marzo en la Real Academia Nacional de Medicina (C/Arrieta,12. Madrid), a las 19 horas tendrán lugar las siguientes sesiones científicas: - El Monasterio de Guadalupe y la docencia de la medicina  Ponente: Luis García-Sancho Martín. -El Académico D. Pedro Mata en el II Centenario de su nacimiento .  Ponente: Javier Sanz Serrulla.

Call for Papers "Going Critical: 70 Years of Nuclear Energy" The History of Science Unit (HSU) of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra invites papers for the workshop "Going Critical: 70 Years of Nuclear Energy." It will take place at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, November 5th-7th, 2012. Interdisciplinary and comparative approaches are encouraged. Please submit an abstract of approximately 300 words and a short CV to Albert Presas i Puig ( albert.presas@upf.edu ) by April 30, 2012. Workshop description: Seventy years ago, a select team of physicists working in secrecy at the University of Chicago carefully assembled the first reactor, Chicago Pile-1, a massive "atomic pile" of graphite bricks and uranium fuel which went critical on December 2, 1942. Under the direction of Enrico Fermi, the first man-made nuclear reactor came on line. Within the Manhattan Project aiming at building the world's first atomic bomb, the nuclear pioneers succeeded i...

CALL FOR PAPERS: PSYCHICAL RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND THE SCIENCES 14-15 SEPTEMBER 2012, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Keynote speakers: Ivor Grattan-Guinness & Sonu Shamdasani The UCL Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines invites original papers for a two-day conference on social, intellectual, epistemological and methodological aspects of psychical research and parapsychology in relation to orthodox medicine and the sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Abstracts for 20-minutes papers should be around 300 words long and must be submitted by 15 June 2012. We plan to publish a selection of papers in an edited volume. For enquiries and abstract submissions, please e-mail a.sommer@ucl.ac.uk Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 June 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------- Andreas Sommer, MA Doctoral student Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines Division of Psychology and Language Scien...