Speakers and Contributions

Edward Anderson (University of Cambridge, UK) Relational dynamics Julian Barbour (College Farm, South Newington, UK) Was spacetime a glorious historical accident? Frauke Böttcher (Universität zu Köln, Germany) The notion of space in the 18th century Helmut Friedrich (Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam, Germany) Global structure of spacetime in general relativity Domenico Giulini (Universität Freiburg, Germany) The structure of geometrodynamics Hubert Goenner (Universität Göttingen, Germany) On the history of geometrization from Minkowski to Finsler geometry Friedrich Hehl (Universität zu Köln, Germany) Metric-affine theories of gravity Claus Kiefer (Universität zu Köln, Germany) Concepts of space and time in quantum gravity Renate Loll (Universität Utrecht, Netherlands) The quantum origin of spacetime Jesper Lützen (Universität Kopenhagen, Denmark) Physics and geometry before Minkowski The talk of Jesper Lützen is based on his following texts: Interactions between mechanics and differential geometry in the 19th century. Archive for History of Exact Sciences, vol. 49(1),pp. 1-72. Mechanistic Images in Geometric Form: Heinrich Hertz's Principles of Mechanics. Oxford University Press 2005. Philippe Nabonnand (Archives Henri Poincaré, Universität Nancy II, France) La quatrième géométrie de Poincaré Hermann Nicolai (Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam, Germany) Spacetime, singularities, and symmetries Hans-Peter Nilles (Universität Bonn, Germany) Higher-dimensional space-time and the unification of   fundamental interactions David Rowe (Universität Mainz, Germany) On Minkowski's contributions to the special theory of relativity Erhard Scholz (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany) Spatial extension, forces and their symmetries: crystallographic symmetry concepts in the 19th century Scalar fields and scale connections in a Weyl geometric perspective of cosmology Engelbert Schücking (Department of Physics, New York University, USA) Einstein's apple Frank Steiner (Universität Ulm, Germany) The topology of the universe Friedrich Steinle (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany) Early electrodynamics and concept of space Norbert Straumann (Universität Zürich, Switzerland) Unitary representations of the inhomogeneous Lorentz group and their significance for quantum physics Klaus Volkert (Universität zu Köln, Germany) The history of space: from Legendre to Minkwoski Scott Walter (Archives Henri Poincaré, Universität Nancy II, France) The scandal of spacetime