Unless otherwise indicated, the lectures are held on Fridays at 3:35 p.m. Room 131 of the Tate Laboratory of Physics on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota (refreshments at 3:15 p.m. in Room 216).

January 20 *
Annual Science Studies Symposium
Charles Geyer
School of Statistics
University of Minnesota
"What Statistics 101 Doesn't Teach, But Should"
(abstract)

January 27 **
Francis Everitt
W.W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory
Stanford University
"When Did Physics Begin?"
(abstract)

February 3*
Jos Uffink
Department of Philosophy
University of Minnesota
"Causality Principles and Probability in Physics"
(abstract)

February 10
Adelheid Voskuhl
History of Science
Harvard University
"Robots and Machines:
Android Automata and Early Industrialization in
Eighteenth-Century Europe"
(abstract)

February 17
Brett L. Walker
Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies
Montana State University, Bozeman
"Toxic Archipelago:
The Hybrid Causes of Industrial Disease in Japan"
(abstract)

February 24 ***
Author Meets Readers
Evolutionary Restraints:
The Contentious History of Group Selection
Author: Mark Borrello
Program in History of Science and Technology
University of Minnesota
Reader: Ben Kerr
Department of Biology
University of Washington
Reader: Robert Richards
Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine
The University of Chicago
(abstract)

March 2
Panel Discussion
"Thinking about the Natural World in Nineteenth Century Physics"
Bruce Hevly
Department of History
University of Washington
"Media, Models, and Victorian Physics Out-of-Doors"
Bruce Hunt
Department of History
University of Texas at Austin
"Models, Analogies, and Likenesses in Victorian Physics"

March 9
No Colloquium: Spring Break

March 16
No Colloquium: Spring Break

March 23
No Colloquium

March 30
Jeffrey Mullins
Department of History
St. Cloud State University
"Forming a Nation, Re-Framing a Profession:
Race, Medical Science, and
Physician Understandings of American Identity."
(abstract)

April 6
Rebecca Slayton
Program in History of Science and Technology
University of Minnesota
"Efficient, Secure, Green:
The Shifting Logic of 'Smart' Grids"
(abstract)

April 13 *
Craig Calendar
University of California
San Diego
"The Flow of Time:
Stitching the World Together"
(abstract)

April 20
CANCELED

April 27 *
1-132 Carlson School of Management, West Bank Campus
NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION
Jenann Ismael
Department of Philosophy
University of Arizona
"Why Causal Structure Is More Basic than Global Laws"
(abstract)

* Cosponsored by Studies of Science and Technology and the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.

** Cosponsored by the School of Physics and Astronomy.

** Cosponsored by Studies of Science and Technology and the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science and the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior.

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