One Hundred Years of General Relativity & Gravitational Waves Celebrated at Caltech: Einstein Manuscript Exhibition & GR100 Bacon Conference

On February 16, 2016, the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Einstein Papers Project opened an exhibition of Einstein manuscripts, calculations, letters, books, and photographs from the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The exhibit runs February 16-23 in Dabney Lounge, after which time it will be moved to the Einstein Papers Project February 24-March 9 (10am to 4pm M-F). (pdf)

On Thursday March 10, 2016, Prof. Jürgen Renn, Director, Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, will deliver the 6th Biennial Bacon Award Public Lecture on "The Genesis and Transformation of General Relativity" at 4pm in Baxter Hall, Caltech. The lecture will be the opening event of GENERAL RELATIVITY AT ONE HUNDRED: THE 6th BIENNIAL BACON CONFERENCE.