By Amanda Nelson, Associate Archivist
The APS Forum on the History of Physics (FHP) has arranged five invited sessions for the March 2016 meeting in Baltimore, Maryland on March 14-18. Here is some information about the sessions, check the APS march meeting program for dates and times, and they hope to see you there.
Session A14: Peer Review: History & Issues
- Mario Biagioli: Plagiarism and Trust in Peer Review
- Alex Csiszar: The Curious Origins of the Scientific Referee
- Melinda Baldwin: In Referees We Trust? Controversies over Grant Peer Review in the Late Twentieth Century
- Daniel Ucko: Where is the trust in the peer review dynamic?
Session B14: The History of Electrical Science
- Victor Boantza: Electrical Enlightenment: Joseph Priestley’s Historical and Experimental Studies of Electricity
- Robert Crease: Lomonosov’s Electrical Experiments
- Amy Fisher: Priestley’s Shadow and Lavoisier’s Influence: Electricity and Heat in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
- Iain Watts: Broken Circuits? International Scientific Communication on Galvanic Electricity During the Napoleonic Wars
- Bruce Hunt: The Bottom Line: Cable Telegraphy and the Rise of Field Theory in the Victorian British Empire
Session C14: The Author in Dialogue: Steven Weinberg’s ‘To Explain the World’
- Steven Weinberg: Reflections of a Whig Physicist
- David Wootton: Beller Lecture: Is Understanding the Past in Its Own Terms Understanding?
- F. Jamil Ragep: To Explain Copernicus: The Islamic Scientific Religious Contexts
- William Thomas: The Diagnosis of Error in Histories of Science
- Jennifer Ouellette: to be determined
Session P47: Beyond the Lab: Bringing History and Physics to the Public
- Shireen Adenwalla, Jocelyn Bosley, Gregory Voth, Leigh Smith: Creating a Community to Strengthen the Broader Impacts of Condensed Matter Physics Research
- Paul Halpern: Schrodinger’s Magnetic Ambitions: His Attempts in the 1940s to Understand Terrestrial Magnetism through a Unitary Field Theory
- Chad Orzel, Emily Edwards, Steven Rolston: The Schrodinger Sessions: Science for Science Fiction
- Stipo Sentic, Sharon Sessions: Layman Friendly Spectroscopy
- Alexey Burov: Value of Fundamental Science
- Nathan Tompkins, Anique Olivier-Mason: Putting Research in the Classroom: A Partnership for Curriculum Building
- Jill Pestana, James Earthman: Discover Science Initiative, Outreach and Professional Development at the University of California, Irvine
- Tatiana Erukhimova: Texas A&M Physics Festival: Bringing Together the Community, Faculty, and Students
- Beatriz Gonzalez del Rio, V. Gonzalez-Fernandez, J. L. Martin, L. Sanchez-Tejerina, G. Perez, L. Ares, E. Vasallo, P. Martin, V. Villa, S. Garcia, M. Vara, S. Martin, P. Alvarez, C. Gonzalez, P. Lopez, M. A. Burgos, V. M. Gonzalez, J. Carbajo, C. Velasco-Merino, F. Hevia, F. Martinez, J. F. Martinez, D. Gonzalez-Herrero, A. H. Gloriani, D. Mateos: Movie Physics: Pirates, Spies and Other Worlds
- Matthew Marsteller: Title: SCOAP3: Explanation and Current Status
- Vitaly Pronskikh, Valerie Higgins: First Megascience Experiment at Fermilab: Through Hardship to Protons
- Charles W. Clark: The Japanese Aerial Attack on Hanford Engineer Works
Session S14: The Iran Nuclear Deal: Physics, Physicists and the Historic Agreement
- R. Scott Kemp: TBD
- Götz Neuneck: Beller Lecture: Dialogue Across Divides – Physicists and the Iran Dossier
- Anton V. Khlopkov: Marshak Lectureship Talk