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Friday, September 11th 2009
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No Colloquium this week
Friday, September 18th 2009
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No Colloquium this week
Friday, September 25th 2009
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Carl Mitcham, Hennebach Program in the Humanities, Colorado School of Mines
Subject: The Philosophical Inadequacy of Engineering
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, October 2nd 2009
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Katherine Brading, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Subject: Objects, Individuals, and Structures: In Search of Fundamental Ontology
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, October 9th 2009
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Thomas Mayer, Department of History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Augustana College-Rock Island, Ill.
Subject: Trying Galileo
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, October 16th 2009
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Joost Vijselaar, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University
Subject: Psyche and Electricity
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, October 23rd 2009
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in *** NOTE: Carlson School of Management Room 1-142 ***
Speaker: Emily Grosholz, Department of Philosophy, Penn State University
Subject: The Representation of Time: Awareness, Mathematics, and the Puzzle of Asymmetry
Friday, October 30th 2009
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Michel Janssen, Program in History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota
Subject: Inside the Black(body) Box: Jordan on the Wave-Particle Duality of Light
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, November 6th 2009
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Robert W. Seidel, Thomas Misa, Margaret Hofius, Nathan Crowe, and Ronald Frazzini, Program in History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota
Subject: Institute of Technology 75th History Project
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, November 13th 2009
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Jeffrey Yost, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
Subject: Programming Enterprise: Women Entrepreneurs in Software and Services, 1965-1990
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Friday, November 20th 2009
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No Colloquium this week
Friday, November 27th 2009
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week.
Friday, December 4th 2009
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No Colloquium this week
Friday, December 11th 2009
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: David Queller, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University
Subject: What Is an Organism?
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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