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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
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South Coast Inn |
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| 6:00pm | Casual Reception | Pre-Registration (Speakers/Organizers Only) Introductions: Organizing Committee and Participants |
Thursday, March 03, 2005 |
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Morning Sessions: KITP
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| 8:15am | WELCOME | David Gross KITP Director, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2004 |
| 8:30am | Jeremy Lawrence | Reading: From Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman |
| 8:50am | Alan Lightman | Talk: Writing Einstein's Dreams |
| 9:10am | READING | From Properties of Light,by Rebecca Goldstein Narrator (Deborah Storm) Dana Mallach (Ottiliana Rolandsson) Samuel Mallach (William Storm) Justin Childs (John Carnwath) |
| 9:30am | Rebecca Goldstein | Talk: Writing Properties of Light |
| 9:50am | Alan Lightman Rebecca Goldstein |
Conversation: Physics and Fiction [Aud][Cam] |
| 10:15am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 10:45am | PANEL | The Science Play Today and in History Moderator: Simon Williams Christopher Innes, Harry Lustig, Sidney Perkowitz, Brian Schwartz, Toby Zinman [Aud][Cam] |
| 12:00pm | LUNCH BREAK | Lunch at KITP and transfer to IHC |
Afternoon Sessions: IHC
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| 1:25pm | WELCOME | Richard Hebdige IHC Director |
| 1:30pm | PANEL (DISCUSSION FOLLOWS) |
Scientific Ideas in Narrative Form David Herman "Description, Narrative, and Explanation: The Role of Stories in the Work of Science" Moderator: H Porter Abbott "Narrative and Emergent Behavior" Sean Carroll "From Experience to Metaphor, By Way of Imagination: How Science Can Lead to Literature Respondant: Arkady Plotnitsky |
| 3:00pm | PANEL | Communicating Science: Language Across Disciplines Moderator: Steven Girvin Marcelo Gleiser, Rebecca Goldstein, Sidney Perkowitz, Peter Rabinowitz |
| 4:15pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 4:45pm | Marie-Laure Ryan | Talk: From Parallel Universes to Possible Worlds: Ontological Plurality in Physics and Narratology |
| 5:15pm | Sydney Levy | Talk: The Physics of Composition: Poe and Ponge |
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| 6:00pm | WELCOME | H. Porter Abbott, Organizing Committee Member, and David Marshall, Dean, UCSB Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, UCSB College of Letters and Science |
| 6:00pm | RECEPTION | Light Buffett |
UCSB Performing Arts Center |
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| 7:30pm | PLAY PERFORMANCE | "Now Then Again," by Penny Penniston |
| 9:45pm | POST-PLAY DISCUSSION | Penny Penniston, Alyssa Mullin (Director), and W. Davies King (Organizing Committee Member) |
| 10:15pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | Best Western South Coast Inn |
Friday, March 04, 2005 |
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Morning Sessions: KITP |
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| 8:00am | WELCOME | William Storm (Organizing Committee Chair) |
| 8:15am | PANEL (Main Seminar Room) | The Scientist as Dramatic Character Moderator: William Storm Lauren Gunderson, Brian Richardson, Russell Vandenbroucke [Aud][Cam] |
| 8:15am | PANEL (KITP Theatre) |
Enactment, Embodiment, Experiment Moderator: Peter Frisch Edward Branigan, Penny Penniston "The Physics of Dramatic Writing", Kay Young, Anthony Zee [Aud][Cam] |
| 9:15am | Christopher Innes | Talk: Science on Stage in Arcadia and Copenhagen [Aud][Cam] |
| 9:45am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 10:15am | James Phelan | Talk: Temporality in Michael Frayn's Copenhagen [Aud][Cam] |
| 10:45am | READING | From Copenhagen by Michael Frayn Margrethe (Ruth Cantrell) Niels Bohr (Peter Frisch) Werner Heisenberg (Simon Williams) |
| 11:00am | PANEL | Math, Science, and Audience in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia Readings from Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard Thomasina Coverly (Elizabeth Hess) Septimus Hodge (Colin Deeb) Valentine Coverly (Michael Wise) Hannah Jarvis (Diane Dale) PANELISTS Moderator: Simon Williams Paul Delaney, Christopher Innes, Peter Rabinowitz |
Afternoon Sessions: KITP |
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| 12:00pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 1:00pm | WELCOME | Kay Young (Organizing Committee Member) [Aud][Cam] |
| 1:00pm | Peter Galison (DISCUSSION FOLLOWS) |
Readings/Talk/Discussion (Video Link) with Peter Galison (Video Link) Readings: From Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps Adrienne MacIain, John Carnwath, Jason Scott Talk: Simultaneity: 'Critical Opalescence' as Metaphor in Scientific History and Narrative Peter Galison Response: Alan Lightman, Arkady Plotnitsky Conversation/Discussion |
| 2:00pm | W. Davies King | Talk: Unscientific American: A Performance Paradigm? [Aud][Cam] |
| 2:30pm | Arkady Plotnitsky | Talk: Quantum Theory, Postmodern Literature and Drama: The Staging and Representation of Physics [Aud][Cam] |
| 3:00pm | DISCUSSION | |
| 3:15pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 3:45pm | INTRODUCTION | Introduction of Jeremy Lawrence (William Storm, American Southwest Theatre Company) [Aud][Cam] |
| 3:50pm | PLAY | From Albert in Wonderland (Act One) Written and Performed by Jeremy Lawrence Commissioned and developed by ASTC; based in part on The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Alice Calaprice (ed.), and The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, by permission of Princeton University Press. |
| 4:30pm | PANEL (KITP Theatre) (DISCUSSION FOLLOWS) |
Cognitive Space and Time: Temporality and Dimension in Writing and Reading Moderator: David Herman Brian Richardson, "Postmodern Temporalities" Paul Harris, "Temporal and Spatial Scaling in Fiction: Cognition and Affect" Edward Branigan, "Film Form and Foam" [Aud][Cam] |
| 4:30pm | PANEL (Main Seminar Room) (DISCUSSION FOLLOWS) |
Scientific Life Stories: Biography and Autobiography Moderator: Dennis Overbye Jeremy Lawrence, Janna Levin, Alan Lightman [Aud][Cam] |
| 6:00pm | DINNER | |
| 8:00pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | Best Western South Coast Inn |
Saturday, March 05, 2005 |
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Morning Sessions: KITP
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| 8:25am | WELCOME | Peter Frisch (Organizing Committee Member) [Aud][Cam] |
| 8:30am | PANEL | Science Writing: Communicating Physics and Cosmology Today Moderator: Muriel Zimmerman Marcia Bartusiak, Dennis Overbye Sidney Perkowitz [Aud][Cam] |
| 9:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 10:00am | PANEL | Writing Cosmology Moderator: Marcelo Gleiser Marcia Bartusiak, Sean Carroll, Janna Levin, Alan Lightman [Aud][Cam] |
| 11:30am | Joseph Polchinski | Primer: Quantum Electrodynamics [Aud][Cam] |
| 11:50am | READING | Reading: From QED, by Peter Parnall Richard Feynman (David Gross) |
| 12:00pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Sessions: KITP
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| 1:00pm | Alan Brody | Talk: Science and Theatrical Form [Aud][Cam] |
| 1:30pm | DISCUSSION | Playwrights and Scientists Alan Brody and Alan Lightman [Aud][Cam] |
| 2:00pm | Janna Levin | Reading: "How The Universe Got Its Spots" by Janna Levin |
| 2:30pm | PANEL | The 'Intertextual' Einstein Moderator: Sean Carroll Paul Harris, Jeremy Lawrence, Kate McConnell, Dennis Overbye, Ralf Remshardt [Aud][Cam] |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 4:00pm | PLAY | From Albert in Wonderland (Act Two) Written and Performed by Jeremy Lawrence |
| 4:45pm | READING | Readings: From Einstein's Dreams Alan Lightman and Jeremy Lawrence |
| 5:00pm | CLOSING | Organizing Committee Members [Aud][Cam] |
| 5:15pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | Best Western South Coast Inn |