A one day meeting on the life of Lord Kelvin and his links with Ireland

Lord Kelvin

The Great Hall
Queen’s University, Belfast

Friday 7 December 2007
10:30am to 4:30pm

The meeting is timed to commemorate the centenary of Kelvin’s death in December 1907.

Programme

10:00am: Registration and coffee

10:30am: Mark McCartney (Ulster), Kelvin: An introduction

10:45am: Raymond Flood (Oxford), The Ulster connection

11:30am: Andrew Holmes (Queen’s), The religious background; Irish Presbyterianism in the nineteenth century

12:15pm: Lunch

1:15pm: Francis Everett (Stanford), Kelvin and the Irish tradition in nineteenth century physics

2:00pm: Denis Weaire FRS (Trinity, Dublin), The Dublin connection

2:45pm: Sir Bernard Crosland FRS (Queen’s), Kelvin, James Thomson and engineering in Ireland

3:30pm: Iain Hutchison (Stirling), Kelvin and liberal Unionism

4:15pm: Discussion and close

To register for this meeting contact Professor Andrew Whitaker +44 2890 973576  Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Queen’s University, Belfast.

A registration fee of £10 is payable to cover the costs of lunch and coffee.

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