The Infeld Centennial Meeting

June 22-23, 1998

Institute of Theoretical Physics

The New Auditorium (#425)

Programme

June 22

8:30 Registration

9:00 Opening

9:30 H. Bondi, The Foundations of General Relativity

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 T. Richmond, Infeld: Hope Lost, Hope Regained

12:00 I. Bialynicki-Birula, The Born-Infeld Electrodynamics

13:00 - 15:00 Break

15:00 J. Stachel, Einstein and Infeld, Seen Through their Correspondence

16:00 Coffee break

16:30 W. Tulczyjew, Legendre transformations for singular Lagrangians

June 23

9:00 R. Penrose, Spinors and General Relativity

10:00 Cofee break

10:30 I. Novikov, Cosmology then and now

11:30 H. Bondi, Infeld and Gravitational Waves

12:00 R. Gajewski, Leopold Infeld as I remember him

12:30 - 15:00 Break

15:00 I. M. Khalatnikov, From Instantons to Inflation

16:00 Cofee break

16:30 R. Penrose, Science and the Mind