Emeritus Work Address: Department of Physics, Austin College,
Sherman, Texas 75090
Work Electronic Mail: dsalisbury@austincollege.edu
Work World Wide Web:
http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/physics/dsalis
Home Address: 1002 Hyde Park Drive, McKinney, Texas 75069
Mobile phone: 214 405 6188
Birthdate: May 6, 1946
Marital Status: Married to Maria Cecilia Salisbury
Ph.D. in Physics, Syracuse University, May, 1977
Dissertation:"The Quantization of the Relativistic Closed String"
Dissertation Advisor: Peter G. Bergmann (Relativity Theory)
Secondary Advisor: A.P. Balachandran (Particle Theory)
B.A., Oberlin College, June, 1968
Major Field: Physics
Elementary and High School: Pulaski Academy and Central School, Pulaski, New York
Institut für Europäische Studien, Vienna, Austria, Summer, 1967
L'Accueil Fraternel, Le Chambon sur Lignon, France, Fall, 1970
Fluency: German, French, Spanish
Intermediate: Italian
Grant-in-Aid from the Center for the History of Physics of the
American Physical Society of $1500 in 2019, $2,500 in 2013, $1,175
in 2011
Austin College Science Division Service Award 2008
Austin College Science Division Research Award 2012, 2006, 2002
Austin College Priddy Research Grant
for $8200, Summer, 2006
Austin College Priddy Research Grant
for $8200, Summer, 2004
NSF Grant PHY99-50415: "CCLI-ADAPTATION AND IMPLEMENTATION: A
Computer-Based Laboratory-Classroom for Active
Learning In Introductory
Physics and Astronomy " matching grant for $27,956 (Co-PI)
NSF Grant PHY94-13063: "RUI: Connection Approaches to Numerical
Relativity" for $42,690 (PI)
NSF Grant PHY92-11953: "RUI: Numerical Solutions of Planar Vacuum
Einstein Equations Using Ashtekar
Variables" for $34,372 (PI)
Who's Who Among America's Teachers
Who's Who in American Education
Who's Who in the South and Southwest
American Men and Women of Science
Associate Editor, American Journal of Physics, 2021 -
Editor, History and Philosophy of Physics Newsletter, Forum on
History of Physics of the American Physical Society, 2020 - 2023
Assistant Editor, History of Physics Newsletter, Forum on History
of Physics of the American Physical Society, 2019 - 2020
Elected Member-at-Large, Executive Committee of the History of
Physics Forum of the American Physical Society, 2016-2019
Co-Director of the Austin College Program in Global Science,
Technology, and Society, 2010-2016
Chair, Austin College Department of Physics, 1994-2005
Standing Committee, International Association for Relativistic
Dynamics, 1998-2002
Elected Physics/Astronomy Councilor of the Council on
Undergraduate Research, 1995-98
Physics/Astronomy divisional associate editor of the Council on
Undergraduate Research Quarterly, 1995-96
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EMPLOYER |
DATES |
RANK |
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Austin College, Sherman, Texas |
9/16 |
Emeritus Professor |
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Austin College, Sherman, Texas |
9/09 – 9/16 |
Professor |
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Austin College, Sherman, Texas |
9/87 – 9/90 |
Assistant Professor |
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Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva,
New York |
9/85 – 9/87 |
Visiting Assistant Professor |
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Reed College, Portland, Oregon |
9/83 – 9/85 |
Visiting Assistant Professor |
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Rutgers University-Newark,Newark, New Jersey |
6/83 - 7/83 |
Adjunct Professor |
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Cooper Union School of Engineering, New
York, New York |
9/82 - 5/83 |
Adjunct Professor |
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Rutgers University-Newark |
9/82 -12/82 |
Adjunct Professor |
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Cooper Union |
6/82 - 7/82 |
Adjunct Professor |
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Free University of Berlin, West Berlin,
Germany |
6/80 - 6/82 |
Research Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) |
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New York City Community, College, Brooklyn,
New York |
2/80 - 5/80 |
Adjunct Professor |
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Rutgers University-Newark |
9/79 - 5/80 |
Adjunct Professor |
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New York University, New York, New York |
7/79 - 8/79 |
Adjunct Professor |
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Cooper Union School of Engineering |
6/79 - 7/79 |
Adjunct Professor |
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Rutgers University-Newark |
9/78 - 5/79 |
Adjunct Professor |
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Free University of Berlin |
12/77 - 8/78 |
Research Assistant |
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Rutgers University-Newark |
9/77 - 12/77 |
Adjunct Professor |
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Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York |
6/77 - 8/77 |
Research Assistant |
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Syracuse University |
9/71 - 5/77 |
Teaching Assistant |
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Institut Brinton, Sandoa,
Zaire, Africa |
5/70 - 8/71 |
High School Teacher |
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Syracuse University |
9/68 - 5/69 |
Teaching Assistant |
Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, September 2015 – December 2015, January 2008 - August 2008
Visiting Scholar, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, September 2001 - December 2001
Visiting Scholar, Center for Relativity, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, June 1993 - January 1994
Einstein Papers Project, California Institute of Technology,
July, 2010
Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
Berlin, June 2005, June - August 2009, January 2010, June -
August 2011, July 2012, June - July 2014, June - July 2016, June -
July 2017
University of Barcelona, June, 2007
Department of Physics, University of Maryland, June, 2003
Department of Physics, University of Florence, Italy, July, 2000,
2001
Visiting Scholar, Center for Relativity, Department of Physics,
University of Texas at Austin, Summers 1991-1995, 1997-98
Department of Physics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain,
June, 1990 and July, 1988
Delivered a cycle of lectures on "El camino de Einstein hacia la teoria de relatividad" at the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia, from May 23 through May 27, 2011.
Instructor, with Thomas Settle of the Florence Science History Museum, of two National Science Foundation Chautauqua Short Courses for College Teachers, Galileo’s Science and its Artisanal, Commercial and Engineering Origins, May 30-June 4, 2007 and Galileo's Genius Viewed in Craft, Engineering, Scientific, Artistic and Political Context, May 26-31, 2006
Instructor with Jeff Fontana and Max Grober of National Science Foundation Chautauqua Short Course for College Teachers, Galileo's Genius Viewed in Scientific, Artistic, Political and Religious Context, Florence, Italy, May 27 - 31, 2004 and May 26 - 30, 2005
Member of the Organizing Committee of the Conference on the
Evolution of Knowledge with Jürgen Renn to be hosted by the
International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, July
11 - 13, 2022
Member of Organizing Committee of the Mathematical
Physics and General Relativity Symposium in Honor of Professor
Ivor Robinson, University of Texas at Dallas, May 7-9, 2017
Member of Local Organizing Committee of XXVII Texas
Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Dallas, December 8-13,
2013 -
Organized the plenary session Roundtable Discussion "Recollections of the Relativistic Astrophysics Revolution" with members Anderson, Brill, DeWitt, Goldberg, Kerr, Misner, Newman, Penrose, Rindler, and Witten - obtaining support from the Center for History of Physics, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and Austin College.
Co-organizer of the Austin College Nature of Time Minisymposium, February 26-27, 2007
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review E
Annals of Physics
Journal of Mathematical Physics
General Relativity and Gravitation
Journal of Physics A
Modern Physics Letters A
Classical and Quantum Gravity
European Journal of Physics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
European Physical Journal
Associate Editor, Directory of Research in Physics/Astronomy at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions, Council on Undergraduate Research, 1997 (G. Ruppeiner, ed.) ISBN 0-941933-17-2
"Cartan rediscovered in general relativity", with Jürgen Renn and
Kurt Sundermeyer, to appear 2022
"A History of observables and Hamilton-Jacobi approaches to
general relativity, to appear in European Physical Journal H,
2022
"The Hamilton-Jacobi analysis by Peter Bergmann and Arthur Komar of classical general relativity", to appear in the Proceedings of the 16th Marcel Grossman Meeting, 2022
"New approaches to constrained dynamics and Hamilton-Jacobi procedures in general relativity", with Jürgen Renn and Kurt Sundermeyer, to appear in the Proceedings of the 16th Marcel Grossman Meeting, 2022
"Observables and Hamilton-Jacobi approaches to general
relativity. I. The Earlier History",
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11894
"In
Memorium: Joshua N. Goldberg", History and Philosophy of
Physics Newsletter, 14, 3 (2021)
"A contextual analysis of the early work of Andrzej Trautman and
Ivor Robinson on equations of motion and gravitational radiation",
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03753
"Memories of my early career in relativity physics", European
Physical Journal H
44, 391-413 (2019), https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12165,
(with Andrzej Trautman)
"Remembering
Julian Schwinger", History of Physics Newsletter, April
Session Reports XIV-3, 6,9 (2019)
"Centennial
of the Eddington Eclipse Expedition", History of
Physics Newsletter, April Session Reports XIV-3, 7
(2019)
“Léon
Rosenfeld’s general theory of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics”,
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06076v2,
European Physical Journal H 42, 23-61 (2017) (with
Kurt Sundermeyer), DOI:
10.1140/epjh/e2016-70042-7
"On the quantization of wave fields", (translation, with
comments, of Léon Rosenfeld's "Zur Quantelung der Wellenfelder"
in Annalen der Physik 397, 113-152 (1930)), European
Physical Journal H
42, 63-94 (2017) (with
Kurt Sundermeyer), DOI:
10.1140/epjh/e2016-70041-3
“Restoration
of four-dimensional diffeomorphism
covariance in canonical general relativity: An intrinsic
Hamilton-Jacobi approach International Journal of Modern
Physics A 31,1650014—1-25 (2016), "Erratum" 33,
1892001 (2018), https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01277v5,
(with Jürgen Renn and Kurt Sundermeyer), DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X16500147
10.1142/S0217751X1892001X
"Tsung-Sui Chang’s Contribution to the Quantization of Constrained Hamiltonian Systems", in Traditions and Transformations in the History of Quantum Physics, Berlin: Edition open access (Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge studies series), Shaul Katzir, Christoph Lehner and Jürgen Renn (eds.), 2012 (with Xiaodong Yin, Zhongyuan Zhu)
"Peter Bergmann and the invention of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics", in Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Physics, C. Lehner, J. Renn, and M. Schemmel (eds.) (Birkhauser, 2012), 247-258 https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608067
"1912: A turning point on Einstein's way to general relativity,"
Annalen der Physik 524, A11–A13
(2012)
(with A.S. Blum, Jürgen Renn,
Matthias Schemmel and Kurt Sundermeyer)
“Léon Rosenfeld's Pioneering Steps Toward a Quantum Theory of Gravity,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series 222.1 (2010)
“Observables in Classical Canonical Gravity: Folklore Demystified.” Journal of Physics: Conference Series 222.1 https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.2726, (2010) (with J. M. Pons and K. Sundermeyer)
"Translation and commentary of Léon Rosenfeld's 'Zur Quantelung der Wellenfelder', Annalen der Physik 397, 113 (1930)," Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftgeschichte preprint 381
"Revisiting observables in generally covariant theories in the light of gauge fixing methods", https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.4564, Physical Review D80, 084015,1-23 (2009) (with J. Pons and K. Sundermeyer)
"Leon Rosenfeld and the challenge of the vanishing momentum in quantum electrodynamics", https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3993, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 40, 363-373 (2009)
"Gravitational observables, intrinsic coordinates, and canonical maps", Modern Physics Letters A24, 725-732 (2009), https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0401(with J. Pons and K. Sundermeyer)
"A generalized Schroedinger equation for loop quantum gravity", in The Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories, edited by H. Kleinert, R. Jantzen, and R. Ruffini (World Scientific, New Jersey, 2008) ISBN 978-981-283-426-3, 2797-2799, https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0702132 (with A. Schmitz)
"Rosenfeld, Bergmann, Dirac and the invention of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics", in The Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories, edited by H. Kleinert, R. Jantzen, and R. Ruffini (World Scientific, New Jersey, 2008) ISBN 978-981-283-426-3, 2467-2469 https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0701299
"Reparameterization invariants for anisotropic Bianchi I cosmology with a massless scalar source", (with AC students Josh Helpert and Allison Schmitz), General Relativity and Gravitation 40, 1475-1498 (2008), https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0503014
"Albert Einstein and Peter Bergmann", (in English and German
translation) in Albert Einstein: Engineer of the Universe: One
Hundred Authors for Einstein, Jürgen Renn
ed. (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2005) ISBN
10:3-527-40574-7
"The issue of time in generally covariant theories and the Komar-Bergmann approach to observables in
general relativity", (with Josep
Pons), Physical
Review D71,
12402 (2005), https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0503013
"Gauge Fixing and Observables in General Relativity", Modern Physics Letters A18, 2475 - 2482 (2003), https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0310095
"Quantum general invariance", in Proceedings of the Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, edited by V.G. Gurzadyan, R. T. Jantzen and R. Ruffini, (World Scientific, New Jersey, 2002), 1300-1301
"The gauge group in the Ashtekar-Barbero formulation of canonical gravity", in Proceedings of the Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, edited by V.G. Gurzadyan, R. T. Jantzen and R. Ruffini, (World Scientific, New Jersey, 2002), 1298-1299 (with J. Pons)
"Quantum general invariance and loop gravity", Foundations of Physics 31, 1105 - 1118 (2001) https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0105097
"The gauge group and the reality conditions in Ashtekar's formulation of general
relativity", Physical
Review
D62 , 064026 - 064040 (2000)
(with J.M. Pons and L.C. Shepley) https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9912085
"The gauge group in the real triad formulation of general relativity", General Relativity and Gravitation 32, 1727 - 1744 (2000) (with J.M. Pons and L.C. Shepley, https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9912087
"Gauge transformations in Einstein-Yang-Mills theories", Journal of Mathematical Physics 41, 5557 - 5571 (2000) (with J.M. Pons and L.C. Shepley) https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9912086
"Gauge symmetries in Ashtekar's formulation of general relativity", Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplement 88, 314-317 (2000) (with J.M. Pons and L.C. Shepley), https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0004013
"Gauge transformations in general relativity - A report", Turkish Journal of Physics 1, 1 - 8 (2000) (with J.M. Pons and L.C. Shepley)
"Reduced Phase Space: Quotienting Procedure for Gauge Theories", Journal of Physics A 32, 419 (1999) (with J.M. Pons and L.C. Shepley) https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9811029
"Classical Canonical General Coordinate and Gauge Symmetries", Foundations of Physics 28, 1425 (1998)
"A Classical and Quantum Relativistic Interacting Variable-Mass Model", Foundations of Physics 28, 1433 (1998)
"Gauge Transformations in the Lagrangian
and Hamiltonian Formalisms of Generally Covariant Theories", Physical
Review D 55, 658-668 (1997) (with J.M.
Pons and L.C. Shepley), https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9612037
"A Connection Approach to Numerical Relativity", Classical
and Quantum Gravity 11, 2789-2806 (1994) (with
A. Adams, D. Mann, B. Turner, L. Turvan,
and L. Shepley ), https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9403040
"Black Hole Explorer", Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Physics, edited by M. Shapiro and J. Feagin (California State University Fullerton, 1991), (with J. Burciaga)
"Quantum Relativistic Action at a Distance", Foundations of Physics 19, 1441 (December 1989) (with M. Pollot)
"How to Make Relativistic Strings", unpublished, 1985 (with P. Das)
"The Quantization of the Relativistic String", General Relativity and Gravitation 16, 955-978 (1984)
"Semiclassical Quantization of the Klein-Gordon Field: On Defining Particles", in Unified Field Theories of More Than Four Dimensions, edited by E. Schmutzer, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1983) (with T. Dray and J. Renn)
"Particle Creation with Finite Energy Density", Letters in Mathematical Physics 7, 145-153(1983) (with T. Dray and J. Renn)
"Local Symmetries of Einstein-Yang-Mills Theory as Phase Space Transformations", Physical Review D27, 757-763(1983) (with K. Sundermeyer)
"The Realization in Phase Space of General Coordinate Transformations", Physical Review D27, 740-756(1983) (with K. Sundermeyer)
"Stationary Properties of Nambu Strings", Nuclear Physics B191, 260-268 (1981) (with K. Sundermeyer)
"The Quantization of the Relativistic Closed String", Syracuse University Preprint, 1978 (with P.G. Bergmann)
Book Reviews
Review of The Genesis of General Relativity by Jürgen Renn (ed.), General Relativity and Gravitation 41, 661-668 (2009) https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3706
Reviews of Introduction to Relativity, by John B. Kogut, and Relativity: Special, General,
and Cosmological, by Wolfgang Rindler,
American
Journal of Physics 71, 1085-1086 (2003)
Review of A Unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics, by Ian D. Lawrie, General
Relativity and Gravitation 36, 225-227 (2004)
American Institute of
Physics Session Reports
"The Hamilton-Jacobi analysis by Peter Bergmann and Arthur Komar of classical general relativity", 16th Marcel Grossman Meeting, July 8, 2021
"New approaches to constrained dynamics and
Hamilton-Jacobi procedures in general relativity", 16th Marcel
Grossman Meeting, July 8, 2021
"An
intrinsic Hamilton-Jacobi approach to general relativity and
its Syracuse school origin", Departamento de Física,
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, November 27, 2019
"Could Matthew McConaughey Be Younger Than His Biological Daughter II?", McKinney ISD 7th grade Boys conference at AC, October 24, 2019
"Syracuse
1960-61 - A burgeoning international relativity community",
April meeting of the American Physical Society, Denver, Colorado,
April 13, 2019
"Could Matthew McConaughey Be Younger Than
His Biological Daughter?", McKinney ISD 7th grade Boys
conference at AC, October 11, 2018
"Observables
and Hamilton-Jacobi approaches to general relativity", April
meeting of the American Physical Society, Columbus, Ohio, April
15, 2018
Reader
comments on paper by Ward Struyve, "Must space-time be singular",
Space
and Time after Quantum Gravity, Céligny, Switzerland, June
29, 2017
"Ivor
Robinson and the Trautmans: Gravitational Wave Pioneers", Ivor
Robinson Memorial Symposium, University of Texas at Dallas,
May 9, 2017
"The Heart Sutra, Revelation, and Emergent Spacetime", Twenty-Third
Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses,
Dallas, TX, April 21, 2017 (with Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan)
"Analysis of Iwasaki Tsuneo's Mandala of Evolution",
Panel Discussion "What do you See?: Conversations with Science and
Humanities Faculty on Iwasaki Tsuneo's Works", Austin College,
Sherman, TX, March 23, 2017
"Léon Rosenfeld's general theory of
constrained Hamiltonian dynamics", American
Physical Society Spring Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 13,
2017
"Time after time (and before?",
2016-2017 Austin College Sabbatical Series, Austin College,
Sherman, TX, September 28, 2016
“Geometrodynamics,
Hamiltonian constraints, and canonical quantization”, Dashed
Hopes: What
hasn’t worked in quantum gravity (and why), Max Planck Institute for
the History of Science, Berlin, July 21, 2016
“Peter G. Bergmann (1915 – 2002): A World Point Who Will Never Fade”, Space-Time Theories: Historical and Philosophical Contexts, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, January 5, 2015
"Aspects of an historical epistemology of space: Coordinates without coordinates", An intellectual life across disciplines: Colloquium in honour of John Stachel's 85th birthday, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, September 12, 2013 (with Jürgen Renn and Matthias Schemmel)
"A semiclassical intrinsic canonical approach to quantum gravity", Reflections on the Quantum Nature of Space and Time, Albert Einstein Institute, Golm, Germany, November 28, 2012 (with Jürgen Renn)
"Semi-classical Quantum Gravity: A
New Perspective", Institute for the History of Natural
Sciences
of the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, September 7,
2012
"Proper time before relativity: From Pauli's phase to Fermat's principle", New Directions in the Foundations of Physics Conference, Washington, DC, May 11-13, 2012 (with Alexander Blum)
"The origins and impact of the principle of least action by Maupertuis", Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Milwaukee, WI, Mar. 29 - April 1, 2012
"Some preliminary thoughts on the invention of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics", Joint Fall Meeting of the APS, AAPT, and Zone 13 of the SPS, Commerce, TX, Oct. 6-8, 2011
"P. Weiss – Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and Quantization of Generalized Electrodynamics and T.S. Chang – A Note on the Hamiltonian Theory of Quantization II", "Current Research on the History of Quantum Gravity at the MPIWG" (with Jürgen Renn), "Report on Oral History Tour" (with Dean Rickles), Workshop on the Historical Roots of Quantum Gravity Research, Berlin, June 27 - 30, 2011
"Una breve historia del “Problema del Tiempo” en la gravitación cuántica", Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia, May 27, 2011
"Time after Time: An Historical Perspective on the Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity'," New Directions in the Foundations of Physics Conference, Washington, DC, April 29 - May 1, 2011
"The Overlapping Worlds of General Relativity and Quantum Theory: The Challenge of the Principle of Equivalence", Third International Conference on the History of Quantum Mechanics, Berlin, June 28 - July 3, 2010 (with Jürgen Renn)
Report on the work of Léon Rosenfeld and of Bryce DeWitt at the Workshop on "Historical Roots of Quantum Gravity Research", California Institute of Technology, August 9-13, 2010
"Léon Rosenfeld's pioneering steps toward a quantum theory of gravity," First Mediterranean Conference on Classical and Quantum Gravity, Kolymbari, Crete, September, 2009
"The Bohr-Rosenfeld measurability analysis of the quantum electric field', Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, August, 2009
"General covariance, observables, and emergent time," Loop Quantum Cosmology Workshop, Pennsylvania State University, October, 2008
"Leon Rosenfeld and the challenge of the vanishing momentum in quantum electrodynamics," Max Planck Institute of the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, August, 2008
"Leon Rosenfeld and the challenge of the vanishing momentum in quantum electrodynamics," Second International Conference on the History of Quantum Mechanics, Utrecht, Netherlands, July, 2008
"Leon Rosenfeld invented indeterminate gauge dynamics in 1930," Danish Society for the History of Science colloquium, Copenhagen, Denmark, May, 2008
"Galileo in Context: Highlights of Four Chautauqua Short Courses for College Teachers, Austin College Tuesday Afternoon Colloquium, December, 2007 (with Dan Dominick, Jeff Fontana, and Max Grober)
“Integrated Methods of Teaching Science," at joint conference sponsored by the American Association of Academic Deans and Phi Beta Kappa on “Promoting the Liberal Sciences: Science as Liberal Education”, Washington D.C., October, 2007 (with Hank Gorman and Peggy Redshaw)
"Le problem du temps en relativité generale'', Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, June, 2007
"Time and observables in general relativity", Mini-symposium on the Nature of Time, Austin College, February, 2007
"An eternal history of frozen time?", Mini-symposium on the Nature of Time, Austin College, February, 2007
"Astronomía mesoamericana", Ciencia de Frontera, Universidad de Juarez, Mexico, November 2006
"The passage of time in Einstein's universe", Joint Physics/Philosphy Seminar, University of Texas at El Paso, November 2006
"Rosenfeld, Bergmann, Dirac, and the Invention of Constrained Hamiltonian Dynamics", North Texas Relativity and Cosmology Seminar, University of Texas at Dallas, October, 2006
"A generalized Schrödinger equation for loop quantum cosmology", XI'th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Berlin, July 2006
"Rosenfeld, Bergmann, Dirac, and the Invention of Constrained Hamiltonian Dynamics", invited talk at the XI'th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Berlin, July 2006
"Rosenfeld, Bergmann, and the Invention of Constrained Hamiltonian Dynamics", April Meeting of the American Physical Society, Dallas, April, 2006
"Einstein, Gravity, and the Search for a Unified Field Theory", University of North Texas Physics Colloquium, November, 2005
"Observables in general relativity", North Texas Relativity Seminar, University of Texas at Dallas, September, 2005
"Albert Einstein, Peter Bergmann, ...and the Problem of Time, Austin College Physics Colloquium, April, 2005
"Peter Bergmann and the invention of constrained Hamiltonian dynamics", invited talk at the Seventh International Conference on the History of General Relativity, Tenerife, Spain, March 2005
"La Verdadera Historia de Galileo Galilei", Barranquilla Planetarium, Colombia, December 2004
"Reparameterization invariants for anisotropic cosmology with a massless scalar source", Fall Meeting of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society, Waco, October, 2004 (presentation by Josh Helpert and Allison Schmitz)
"Intrinsic coordinates, diffeomorphism invariants, and quantum gravity", Albert Einstein Institute seminar, Berlin, Germany, June, 2004
"The accelerating universe and other adventures in modern cosmology", miniprogram on Theorists at Undergraduate Institutions, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, July, 2003
"Gauge Fixing, Observables, and the Problem of Time in General Relativity", Relativity Theory Seminar, University of Maryland, June, 2003
"Gauge Fixing and Observables in General Relativity", symposium celebrating the 65'th birthday of A.P. Balachandran: Spacetime and Fundamental Interactions: Quantum Aspects, Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy, May 2003
"Komar-Bergmann gauge fixing and observables in general relativity", Joint Relativity/High Energy Theory Seminar, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, November, 2001
"Finite diffeomorphisms and general invariants", International Workshop: General covariance and the "quantum", where do we stand?, University of Parma, June, 2001
"Diffeomorphism invariance in tangent space and in phase space", International Workshop: General covariance and the "quantum", where do we stand?, University of Parma, June (presentation given by J. Pons), June, 2001
"Toward a quantum theory of time",
presentation to the Austin College faculty, May, 2001
"Quantum general invariance and loop gravity", IX Marcel Grossmann
Meeting, Rome, Italy, July, 2000
"Quantum general invariance and loop gravity", 2'nd International Conference on Relativistic Dynamics, Tel Aviv, Israel, June, 2000
"Gauge symmetries in Ashtekar's formulaton of general relativity," Fall Meeting of the Texas Section of the American Physical Socitey, Austin, Texas, October, 1999
"Gauge symmetries in Ashtekar's formulaton of general relativity," Third Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity, Sardinia, Italy, September, 1999
"Gauge symmetries in Ashtekar's formulaton of general relativity," Mathematical/Theoretical Physics Seminar, University of Adelaide, Australia, June, 1999
"A Quantum Interacting Variable Mass Model and Associated Probability Interpretations", International Conference on Parameterized Relativistic Quantum Theory, Houston, February, 1998
"Classical Canonical General Coordinate Symmetries and Possible Quantum Implications", International Conference on Parameterized Relativistic Quantum Theory, Houston, February, 1998
"Gauge Transformations in Einstein-Yang-Mills and Ashtekar Theories", Fall Meeting of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society, Denton, October, 1997
"Numerical Relativity", Physics Colloquium, Southern Methodist University, March, 1997
"Gauge Transformations in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formalisms of Generally Covariant Theories", Relativity Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, March, 1997
"Establishing PUI Physics and Astonomy Research Links with Universities and Industry", Workshop Leader, 6th National Conference of the Council on Undergraduate Research, North Carolina Central University, June, 1996
"Tracing Light Through a Wormhole", Spring Meeting of the Texas APS, Abilene, March, 1996 (co-authored with A. Haney and presented by A. Haney)
"Numerical Solution of Constraints in a Planar Cosmological Model", Spring Meeting of the Texas APS, Abilene, March, 1996 (co-authored with E. Whittington and N. Kumar. Presented by E. Whittington)
"Perturbative Test-Bed Check of a Planar Cosmological Numerical Code", Spring Meeting of the Texas APS, Abilene, March, 1996 (co-authored with E. Whittington and N. Kumar. Presented by N. Kumar)
"Fixing Initial Gravitational Waves in Numerical Relativity", North Texas Relativity Seminar, Dallas, January, 1996
"Connection Approaches to Numerical Relativity in 3+1 and 2+2 Formalisms", 7th Greynog Relativity Workshop, Wales, England, August, 1995
"A Connection Approach to Numerical Relativity", General Relativity and Gravitation 14, Florence, Italy, August, 1995
"Hawking Black Hole Radiation and the Information Loss Puzzle: An Introduction", North Texas Relativity Seminar, University of Texas at Dallas, May, 1995
"A Connection Approach to Numerical Relativity", Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, California Institute of Technology, March, 1995
"Loops, Knots ... and Knotty Spacetime Problems", Physics Colloquium, Austin College, October, 1994
"Introduction to Ashtekar Variables in Classical (and What the Heck, Quantum) Gravity", Mathematics Colloquium, East Texas State University, Commerce, October, 1994
"A Connection Approach to Numerical Relativity", Spring Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, University of Texas at Dallas, March, 1994
"Toward Numerical Solutions of Colliding Gravitational Plane-Fronted Waves Using Ashtekar Variables", Spring Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, University of Texas at Dallas, March, 1994 (presented by B. Turner)
"A Connection Approach to Numerical Relativity", North Texas Relativity Seminar, University of Texas at Dallas, February, 1994
"Use of Ashtekar Variables in Numerical Planar Cosmology", Relativity Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, October, 1993
"Numerical Code for the Planar Vacuum Einstein Equations in Triad Variables", Fall Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, Texas A&M University, October, 1993
"Development of a MathTensor Package for the Calculation of Ashtekar Variables in General Relativity", Fall Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, Texas A&M University, October, 1993 (presented by Larry Turvan)
"Use of Ashtekar Variables in Numerical Planar Cosmology", Numerical Relativity Conference, Penn State University, October, 1993 (AC students Darren Mann and Larry Turvan participated in presentation)
"Applying MathTensor to Ashtekar Variables in General Relativity", Spring Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, University of Texas-Pan American, March, 1993 (presented by Larry Turvan)
"Toward Numerical Solutions of Colliding Gravitational Waves", Spring Meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, University of Texas-Pan American, March, 1993 (presented by Brian Turner)
"Astronomical Observations of the Ancient Maya", Physics Colloquim, University of North Texas, February, 1993
"Agujeros Negros", Amigos de la Astronomía, Barranquilla, Colombia, December, 1992
"Real Phantoms: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Big Bang", Last Lecture Series, Austin College, October, 1992
"New Approaches to Quantum Gravity", North Texas Relativity Seminar, Southern Methodist University, May, 1992
"Progress Toward Non-Perturbative Quantum Gravity: The Ashtekar Program", North Texas Relativity Seminar, University of Texas at Dallas, February, 1992
"The Hamiltonian Symmetry Group Realized by Ashtekar Variables", Fall Meeting of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society, University of North Texas, November, 1991
"Hamiltonian Symmetry Groups and Ashtekar Variables", IX Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics, Capri, Italy, September, 1990
"Quantum Relativistic Action at a Distance", University of Barcelona, Spain, June, 1990
"Classical Relativistic Action at a Distance", University of
Barcelona, Spain, June, 1990
Roger Penrose, Oxford, England, October 14, 2018 (With Dean
Rickles)
Joshua Goldberg, Columbus, Ohio, April 15, 2018
Chris Isham, London, England, June 19, 2017 (With Dean Rickles)
Roger Penrose, Oxford, England, June 16, 2017 (With Dean Rickles)
Andrew Hodges, Oxford, England, June 15, 2017
Karel Kuchar, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 17, 2016 (With Charles
Torre)
Andrzej Trautman, Warsaw, Poland, June 26, 29, 2016
Louis Witten, Dallas, Texas, December 14, 2013
Joshua Goldberg and Jim Anderson, Dallas, Texas, December 14,
2013 (With Alex Blum)
Roy Kerr, Dallas, Texas, December 13, 2013
Jürgen Ehlers, Berlin, Germany, March 19, 2008
Jim Anderson and Ralph Schiller, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, July
26, 2007
Engelbert Schücking, New York, New York, July 12, 2006
Remembering
Julian Schwinger, April meeting of the American Physical
Society, Denver, Colorado, April 13, 2019
The
Chapel Hill Conference and its Role in the Renaissance of
General Relativity, April meeting of the American Physical
Society, Columbus, Ohio, 2018
"In Appreciation of
Joshua Goldberg (1925 - 2020)", April meeting of the
American Physical Society, April 21, 2021
"Andrzej Trautman,
Ivor Robinson, and the Foundations of Gravitational Radiation",
American Physical Society Spring Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March
14, 2017
Last Update August 18, 2021