Saturday 4/17 1:30 pm

Connecting Science Policy with Science’s History – Melinda Baldwin (Chair), University of Maryland

• How do Practitioners of Science Policy Integrate History into their Work?, Erin Heath
• Uneasy Alliances: Consideration of Military Sites by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), Tiffany Nichols
• Science Policy Past and Present: Perspective from AIP’s FYI Bulletin , William Thomas

Sunday 4/18 8:30 am

Physics in India – Somaditya Banerjee (Chair), Austin Peay State University

• Bimla Buti, the First Female Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indianara Silva
• Disputes about Electric Meters in early-twentieth-century Calcutta, Animesh Chatterjee
• Bhadralok Physics: Raman, Bose and Others, Somaditya Banerjee

Monday 4/19 1:30 pm

Physics and Computation – Samuel Fletcher (Chair), University of Minnestota

• Computer Simulations and Large-scale Structure Formation, Melissa Jacquart
• Computer Simulations and Models of Dark Matter and/or Modified Gravity , Eric Winsberg
• Computer Simulations and Cosmology, Marie Gueguen
• Computation and Landauer’s Principle, Katherine Robertson

Monday 4/19 3:30 pm

FHP Essay Contest Winners

• Striving for Realism, not for Determinism: Historical Misconceptions on Einstein and Bohm, Flavio Del Santo
• A Changing Dichotomy: The Conception of the `Macroscopic’ Worlds in the History of Physics, Zhixin Wang
• Lewis Latimer: The Shadow Behind the Light Bulb, Garrett R. Williams