Second Conference on Laboratory History
April 19-21, 2001
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Newport News, VA
Overview | Program | Registration | Travel & Lodging | Instructions for Authors
AGENDA
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Wednesday, April 18 | |
| 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Registration/Reception |
| Thursday, April 19, 2001 | |
| ARC 231-233 | |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Greeting |
| 9:15 - 10:00 | Overview - Robert Crease (SUNY, Stony Brook and Brookhaven) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Robert Seidel (University of Minnesota and Dibner Institute), "The Cold War and the National Laboratories"
Scott G. Knowles (Drexel University) and Stuart W. Leslie (Johns Hopkins University), "Not Just Government Work: Building the Postwar Campus at the Naval Research Lab, the National Bureau of Standards, and the National Institutes of Health" |
| 12:00- 1:15 | Lunch |
| 1:15 - 3:30 |
Ulf Von Rauchhaupt (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), "Colorful Clouds: West Germany's First Steps into Experimental Space Sciences in the Early 1960s" Catherine Westfall (Michigan State University and Jefferson Lab), "Experiments in Self-Governance at the Laboratory: CLAS and Other Detector Collaborations" Elizabeth Paris (Dibner Institute), "'Fisica' ex Machina: Early Collider Efforts in Italy and the United States" |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Break |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | Colloquium Michael Riordan (University of California, Santa Cruz) "The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider" |
| Friday, April 20, 2001 | |
| ARC 231-233 | |
| 8:30 - 10:00 |
James R. Hansen (Auburn University), "George W. Lewis and the Management of Aeronautical Research at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1919-1947" John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology), "He Came, He DisCERNed and He Went Back to California: Felix Bloch's Time as CERN Laboratory Director" |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Jean-Francois Auger (University of Quebec, Montreal), "The
Practice of Science in a University Laboratory: Fanco Rassetti, the Physics
Department, and the Development of Research at Laval University, 1940-1950" Keith R. Benson (University of Washington), "Summer Camp, Seaside Station, and Marine Biology and Its Institutional Identity" |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 3:00 |
Lillian Hoddeson (University of Illinois and Fermilab), and Adrienne Kolb (Fermilab) "Extending the Master's Vision of a National Accelerator Laboratory: From Wilson's Frontier to Lederman's Fermilab, 1967-1989" Joanna Ploeger (University of Iowa), "The Art of Science at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: Aesthetic Experience and the Recentering of Human Agency in the National Laboratory System in the Late 1960s" |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Break |
| 3:30 - 5:00 |
Joseph Marchese (Air Force Research Laboratory), "The Evolution of Air Force
Organizations of Research and Development" Andrew Butrica (CHPS, University of Maryland, College Park), "MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Laboratory Culture" |
| Saturday, April 21, 2001 | |
| ARC 231-233 | |
| 8:30 - 10:00 |
Stephane Castonguay (Centre
d'Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques Alexandre Koyre, Paris), "The Dynamic
of Scientific Change in Governmental Laboratories: Network Mobilization and the
Emergence of Research Specialties in Economic Entomology in Canada" Amy Slaton (Drexel University), "Race, Gender, and the Modern Engineering Department: The Laboratories of Iowa State" |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Break |
| 10:15 - 1:00 | Robert Crease
(SUNY, Stony Brook and Brookhaven), "Scrammed! The Role of the HFBR in
Brookhaven History" Michael Riordan (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Building the Superconducting Super Collider, 1989-93" Summary - Robert Smith (University of Alberta, Edmonton) |
| 1:00 - 5:45 | Break / Lunch JLab Open House (www.jlab.org/openhouse) |
| 5:45 | Meet at the Residence Facility for transportation to dinner |
| 6:00 | Dinner in Newport News Dr. Hermann Grunder (Director, Argonne National Laboratory) will give the after-dinner talk |