FROM SIMPLE PHYSICAL CONCEPTS
TO A NEW NOTION
OF SPACE, TIME AND GRAVITATION

The Symposium will celebrate the 100^th anniversary of Einstein’s four papers on General Relativity from November 1915. A review of the history of the creation of Einstein’s masterpiece, from its roots in Bern, the important steps forward in Zurich and up to its completion in Berlin will be followed by an extensive overview covering the later developments up to present-day research. This will include discussions on the impact of the theory on our view of the universe as well as on progress in technology for everyday life.

THURSDAY 12. 11.

SIEMENS AUDITORIUM

14:30 Registration and Coffee
15:00 Welcome and Introduction
15:10 Sergiu Klainerman
Princeton University, USA
Are Black Holes Real?
16:10 Coffee Break
16:30 Jonathan Luk
Cambridge University, UK
The Interior of Black Holes
17:30 Aperitif

FRIDAY 13. 11.

AUDITORIUM MAXIMUM

09:30 Registration and Coffee
10:00 Welcome and Introduction
10:15 Domenico Giulini
University of Hannover, DE
Laufen im weglosen Gelände:
Zur Genesis der ART
11:15 Tilman Sauer
University of Bern, CH
Biographie einer Theorie
12:15 Lunch
13:45 Cliff Will
University of Florida, USA
Was Einstein Right?
14:45 Sam Finn
Penn State University, USA
100 Years of Gravity: Notes
from the Research Frontiers
15:45 Coffee Break
16:15 Ruth Durrer
University of Geneva, CH
Die Rolle der Relativitätstheorie
in der Kosmologie
17:15 Paul Townsend
Cambridge University, UK
Einstein's Brane
18:15 Aperitif

Public Evening Lecture

19:30 Torsten Ensslin
MPI für Astrophysik (MPA), DE
Vom Anfang der Zeit: Unser
Kosmos im Mikrowellenlicht

SATURDAY 14. 11.

AUDITORIUM MAXIMUM

09:00 Hans-Thomas Janka
MPI für Astrophysik (MPA), DE
Aufbegehren gegen die Macht der
Gravitation: Wie Supernovae Explodieren
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Reinhard Genzel
MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), DE
Massive Black Holes
11:30 Joachim Wambsganss
University of Heidelberg, DE
Licht auf krummen Wegen: Wie uns
Gravitationslinsen helfen, das Universum
zu erforschen und Planeten zu entdecken
12:30 Lunch
13:45 Urs Hugentobler
TU Munich, DE
Zeit in der Geodäsie:
Relativitätstheorie im täglichen Leben
14:45 Bernd Brügmann
University of Jena, DE
Schwarze Löcher im Computer:
Was Einstein noch nicht sehen konnte
15:45 Farewell

General Information

Presentation Slides

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Photo Gallery

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Video Gallery

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Contact

Secretariat of the Institute for Theoretical Physics
ETH Hönggerberg
8093 Zürich

FROM SIMPLE PHYSICAL CONCEPTS TO A NEW NOTION OF SPACE, TIME AND GRAVITATION