Mathisson Conference: Programme
All lectures are held on the 4th floor at the Banach Center, ul. Śniadeckich 8, Warszawa

Thursday, 18 October 2007
9.15 -9.45 
Registration
 
9.45 - 10.00 
Opening and welcome by Stanisław Janeczko
on behalf of the Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center
Chair: Jerzy Kijowski
10.00 - 10.45
Andrzej Trautman: Myron Mathisson: what little we know of his life
10.45 - 11.15
Graham Dixon: Mathisson's New Mechanics. Part 1: Its Aims
11.15 - 11.45
Coffee break
11.45 - 12.45
Ray McLenaghan: A new counterexample to Hadamard's conjecture in 4-dimensions

12.45 - 15.00
Lunch

Chair: Peter Aichelburg
15.00 - 15.45
Piotr Bizon: Huygens principle and anomalously small radiation tails 
15:45 – 16:30
Aleksander Silenko: Classical and quantum spins in curved spacetimes
16.30 - 17.00
Coffee break
17.00 - 17.30
Andrzej Staruszkiewicz:  Fundamental Relativistic Rotator
17.30 - 18.00
Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman: Particles as Wilson lines of gravitational field

Friday 19 October
Chair: Andrzej Staruszkiewicz
9.00 - 9.30
Graham Dixon: Mathisson's New Mechanics. Part 2: Its  Realisation
9.30 - 10.15 
Bahram Mashhoon: Spin-Gravity Coupling
10.15 – 10.45
Coffee break
10.45 - 11.30
Juergen Ehlers: Some elementary remarks and questions on equations of motion in GR
11.30 - 12.00
Marek Demianski: Current status of the frame-dragging experiments

12.00 - 14.00 
Lunch

Chair: Krzysztof Pachucki
 14.00 - 14.45
Jerzy Kijowski: A Hamiltonian approach to the motion of a charged particle with spin.
14.45 - 15.30 
Yuri Obukhov: Equations of motion in the gauge gravity models
15.30 - 16.00
Dirk Puetzfeld: The motion of test bodies with microstructure in gauge gravity models
16.00 - 16.30
Coffee break
16.30 - 17.00
Roman Plyatsko: Highly relativistic motions of spinnig particles according to Mathisson equations

starting 19.00
Conference dinner (by invitation)
at Piccolo Bacio, ul. Hoża 58/60 (entrance from Poznańska Street)


Saturday, October 20
Chair: Juergen Ehlers
10.00 - 10.45
Ted Newman: A New (Very) Unorthodox Approach to Equations of Motion via Null Infinity
10.45 – 11.30
Tilman Sauer: '... indisputably a rare mathematical talent':
the Einstein-Mathisson correspondence in the Albert-Einstein-Archives 
11.30 - 12.00
Coffee break
12.00 - 12.30
General discussion: (publication of proceedings?, of Mathisson's
Collected Works with introductory surveys?
of the Einstein-Mathisson correspondence?)
12.30 - 13.00
Richard Kerner: Concluding remarks