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Fall 1999 CHPS Colloquium Schedule

ALL SESSIONS TAKE PLACE AT 4 P.M. IN 1117 FRANCIS SCOTT KEY HALL, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.

See also
Quantum Information and Quantum Computing Lecture Series
Colloquium Series at The Center for History of Recent Science at George Washington University

October 14: Frederick Suppe (CHPS, University of Maryland)
"Hempel and the Problem of Provisos"

October 21: Michael David-Fox (Department of History, University of Maryland)
"Revisiting the Great Experiment: Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union for Cultural Ties Abroad"

October 28: Evelyn Fox Keller (Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Theory and Practice in Contemporary Biology"
** CHEMISTRY LECTURE HALL 1407
** UMCP DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES PRESENTATION

November 4: James A. Yorke (IPST, University of Maryland)
"Prognostication: Science of the Next Millennium"

November 9 (Tuesday): Stephen G. Brush (CHPS, IPST, University of Maryland)
"Why Was Relativity Accepted?"
** PHYSICS LECTURE HALL, 1410
** DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM

November 18: Joseph Auslander (Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland)
"Reuben Hersh on the Social Construction of Mathematics"

December 2: Marcel C. Lafollette (Graduate Program in Public Policy, George Washington University)
"Concatenation and Coordination for Mutual Interest: The Development of Scientific and Technical Book Publishing in the United States, 1900-1950"

December 9: John Suppe (Department of Geosciences, Princeton University)
"Citation Analysis and the Growth of Scientific Fields"

The CHPS Colloquium Series is cosponsored by CHPS, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park.

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