Note: All sessions at the Center for Continuing Education

8 pm: Welcoming Reception

9:00-11:30 AM: Astronomy in Context
Chair: Barbara Becker, Southwest Regional Laboratory

• Liba Taub, Adler Planetarium: "The Ancient World as Context"
• Steve McCluskey, Univ. of Wisconsin: "The Medieval World as Context"
• Sara S. Genuth, Sara Lawrence C.: "The Scientific Revolution as Context"
• Barbara Becker: "Victorian Britain as Context"
• David DeVorkin, NASM, Smithsonian: "Henry Norris Russell and the Anglo-American Context"
  

1:30-4:30 PM: Work in Progress
Chair: Marc Rothenberg, Joseph Henry Papers, Smithsonian

• Kenneth J. Howell, Insitute for Advanced Study, Indiana U. and Reformed Theological Seminary: "All Things Considered: The Theological Context of the Reception of Copernicanism in Northern Protestant Europe"
• George Sweetnam, Princeton U.: "High Dispersion from Hopkins"
• Michael Crowe, Notre Dame: "A New Text on the History of Stellar Astronomy"
• Orville R. Butler, Independent Scholar: "The Cultural Context of American Astrophysics"
• Priyamvada Natarajan, MIT: "The Role of Simulations in Astrophysics"
• Joann Eisberg, U. Wisconsin, Madison: "Scientific Biography or High Opera? Writing the LIfe of Beatrice Tinsley"
• Andrew Butrica, Independent Scholar: "Planetary Radar Astronomy before Venus"
• Ronald A. Schorn, Intaglio, Inc.; Henry C. Dethloff, Intaglio, Inc. and Texas A & M U.; and Oran W. Nicks, Texas A & M U.: "NASA's Planetary Astronomy History Project"

9:00-11:30 AM: Teaching the History of Astronomy
Chairs: Owen Gingerich, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; and Albert Van Helden, Rice U.

1:30-4:300 PM: The History of Astronomy Since 1940
Chairs: Ron Doel, American Insititute of Physics; and John Lankford, West Virginia U.

• Owen Gingerich: "An Editor's Perspective"
• Joseph N. Tatarewicz, NASA History Office and U. Maryland, Baltimore County: "Space Sciences"
• David DeVorkin, NASM, Smithsonian: "Astrophysics"
• Lief Robinson, Editor, Sky & Telescope: "A Particpant's Views"
• Robert Smith, NASM and Johns Hopkins U.: "Patronage"
• Steven Dick, U.S. Naval Observatory: "The SETI Project"
• Tom Williams, Rice U.: "Amateurs"
• Karl Hufbauer, U. California, Irvine: "Solar Physics"
• George Webb, Tennessee Technical U.: "Southwestern Astronomy"
  

TBA: Banquet
Micahel Hoskin, Cambridge: "Hitting Pay-Dirt among the Manuscripts"

9:00-11:00 AM: Celestial Mechanics
Chair: LeRoy Doggett, U.S. Naval Observatory

• Robert Howland, Notre Dame: "From Geometry to Analysis to Geometry"
• Craig Waff, Jet Propulsion Lab: "Lunar Theory from Newton to Clairaut"
• Louise and Ronald Golland, U. Chicago: "Euler and Convergence Theory"
• Curtis Wilson, St. John's C.: "Lunar Theory from Euler to Hill"
• LeRoy Doggett: "From Kirkwood to Chaos: Explaining the Resonance Gaps"
• Joseph N. Tatarewicz: "Style in Celestial Mechanics: Herget vs. Herrick"
• Peter Kammeyer, U.S. Naval Observatory: "Celestial Mechanics in 1920"

11:00 AM-Noon: Business Meeting