The Big Picture: A Celebration of 100 Years of General Relativity

Rewley House meeting

The Big Picture: A Celebration of 100 Years of General Relativity

Saturday 20 June 2015 - 10.00 to 17.00
Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA

We have brought together an outstanding selection of speakers who are not only leaders in their fields but can communicate their esoteric subjects to lay audiences. We are particularly pleased to be able to welcome Prof. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

Speakers

  • Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell 'Using Pulsars to test General Relativity - an Introduction'
  • Professor Robert Iliffe 'Newton and Infinity'
  • Dr. Michael Hoskin 'William Herschel and the Construction of the Heavens'
  • Professor Jeremy Gray 'Intrinsic geometry: Following Gauss and Riemann from Curvature to the Shape of Space'
  • Professor Robert Lambourne 'General Relativity, 1915-1919'
  • Professor Malcolm McCallum 'General Relativity: from esoteric theory to everyday tool'

Please note that no special knowledge of the subject will be assumed.

This is a joint meeting with Oxford University Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE).

Advanced booking and payment of fee via the OUDCE website is essential.