International Symposium: Mathematics meets physics – General and local aspects

International Symposium in the History of Science “Mathematics meets physics – General and local aspects”, Leipzig, March 22-25, 2010

• Topic: Mathematics meets physics – General and local aspects
• Programme
  
• Speakers, Abstracts
  
• Registration: The conference is open to the interested public, admission is free. For organisational reasons we would kindly ask you to register under mathsmeetsphysics@saw-leipzig.de until March 15, 2010
• Accommodation see: Touristeninformation Leipzig
• Venue: Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Karl-Tauchnitz-Str. 1, 04107 Leipzig
• Publication: We intend to publish the papers in a monograph
• Organizers: Working group for the history of natural sciences and mathematics Menso Folkerts, Karl-Heinz Schlote, Martina Schneider
  
• Sponsors: SAW, DFG

Programme

Monday, March 22, 2010

9.00 Introduction
Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (President of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences): Welcome

Section 1: General developments 

09.30 Jesper Lützen: Examples of and reflections on the interplay between mathematics and physics in the 19th and 20th century
10.30-11.00 break
11.00 Juraj Šebesta: Mathematics as one of the basic pillars of physical theory: historical and epistemological survey
12.00-14.00 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: Good reasons for and against a mathematization of physics: On forms of theoretical physics of Max Planck, Max Born and Werner Heisenberg
16.00-16.30 break

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

09.00 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 break
11.30 Charlotte Bigg: Mathematics meets physics in early twentieth century Paris: the case of Brownian motion
12.30-14.30 lunch break

Section 3: Scientists

14.30 Scott Walter: Theoretical physics and relativity in Paris during the Belle Époque
15.30 Tom Archibald: Poincaré and Saturn's Rings: Equilibrium figures and the prestige of mathematics circa 1900 16.30-17.00 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

09.00 Tilman Sauer: Einsteins Verhältnis zur Mathematik
10.00 Erhard Scholz: Weyls Verständnis vom Verhältnis der Mathematik zur Physik
11.00-11.30 break

Section 4: Development of concepts and theories

11.30 Friedrich Steinle: The unusual interaction of physics and mathematics in the formation of field theory
12.30-14.30 lunch
14.30 Arianna Borrelli: Der Begriff von „Drehimpuls“ zwischen Mathematik und Physik
15.30-16.00 break
16.00 Klaus-Heinrich Peters: Mathematische und phänomenologische Strenge: Distributionen in Quantenmechanik und Quantenfeldtheorie

Thursday, March 25, 2010

09.00 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 break

11.30 Panel: On the interrelationship between mathematics and physics - continuities and discontinuities

13.00 End of the conference

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