A FREE SYMPOSIUM ON SATURDAY, MARCH 2
AT THE BAIRD AUDITORIUM
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

The symposium is presented with major support from the Department of Energy (Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics and the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences) and the National Science Foundation, and with additional support from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics, the Royal Danish Embassy in Washington, and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

In conjunction with the opening of the play in Washington, a free first come, first served, all- day symposium will be held on Saturday March 2 starting at 10 AM at the Baird Auditorium, in the National Museum of Natural History (Constitution Avenue and 10th Street entrance) of the Smithsonian Institution. Doors open at 9:30 AM. There will be three sessions.

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The Honorable Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy (invited)

His Excellency Ulrik Federspiel, Danish Ambassador to the United States Welcoming Remarks

John Marburger, III (25 minutes)
Science Advisor to the President and Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
On the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Jerome I. Friedman (25 minutes)
Institute Professor, MIT
From the Bohr Atom to Quarks

Lene Vestergaard Hau (25 minutes)
Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard University
Manifestations of Modern Day Quantum Mechanics: Stopping Light

Richard Rhodes (25 minutes)
Author, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"
A Great and Deep Difficulty: Niels Bohr and the Atomic Bomb

CHAIRS: Patricia M. Dehmer (Department of Energy) and Harry Lustig (Provost Emeritus, CCNY)

Rita Colwell
Director, National Science Foundation
Welcoming Remarks

Jeremy Bernstein, (25 minutes)
Author, "Hitler 's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall"
The Drawing or Why History is Not Mathematics

Jochen H. Heisenberg (25 minutes)
Professor of Physics, University of New Hampshire
A Personal and Historical View of My Parents

Finn Aaserud (25 minutes)
Director of the Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Bohr-Heisenberg Meeting from a Distance

Vilhelm A. Bohr (25 minutes)
National Institute on Aging, NIH
Recollections of my Grandparents

CHAIR: Gregg Herken (Smithsonian Institution)

SPEAKERS

Thomas Powers (25 minutes)
Author: "Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb"
Why Heisenberg Went to See Bohr - What Frayn Says, and What the Record Says

MODERATOR: Lloyd Rose (Author and Theater Critic)

PANELISTS

Steven Barfield
Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Westminster

Jennifer Uphoff Gray
Associate Director of the Copenhagen National Tour

Elizabeth Ireland McCann
Producer of the Broadway and National Tour Productions of Copenhagen

Lloyd Rose
Former Theater Critic of the Washington Post

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Organized by Brian Schwartz, VP for Research and Professor of Physics, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Harry Lustig, Provost and Professor of Physics Emeritus at the City College of New York and Treasurer Emeritus of the American Physical Society; and Arthur Molella, Director, Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution.

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