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