The University at Albany
Joseph Henry Bicentennial Conference Program
Sigma Xi - American Chemical Society Dinner

The conference will be held on December 2, 1997 at the University at Albany Uptown Campus. (Consult the Uptown Campus Map. Note the locations of Visitor Parking, the Performing Arts Center, the Campus Center and the Joseph Henry Physics Building.)

All events are free and open to the general public except the Sigma Xi - ACS Dinner, which requires a reservation.

Morning Program in the Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center (second floor)

9:15      Opening Remarks, President Karen Hitchcock, University at Albany
9:30      Prof. Henry, Mr. Faraday, and the Hunt for Electromagnetic Induction
Albert E. Moyer, Department of History, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
10:30      Coffee Break, Futterer Lounge, Performing Arts Center (second floor)
11:00      "A Knowledge of General Principles": Joseph Henry and General Science Education in Nineteenth-Century America
Marc Rothenberg, Smithsonian Institution, MRC429, Washington, DC 20560
12:00      Lunch on your own, Campus Center
1:00      Tours: Joseph Henry Physics Building Advanced Materials Laboratories
or the Accelerator Building. Tours will leave from Physics room 129.

Afternoon Program in the Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center (second floor)

2:00      Arithmetic, Population, and Energy
Albert A. Bartlett, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
3:00      Coffee Break, Futterer Lounge, Performing Arts Center (second floor)
3:30      "Getting It" in the 21st Century: Joseph Henry's Ideals Two Centuries Later
George Wise, Communications Specialist, GE Research and Development Center, Schenectady, NY

Joint ACS, Sigma Xi Program

6:00      Cash Bar
6:30      Dinner, Patroon Room, Campus Center (second floor) Reservation required.
8:00      Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center (second floor)
Joseph Henry and Michael Faraday: Connections and Comparisons
Frank A.J.L. James, Reader in History of Science, Royal Institution Centre for the History of Science and Technology, Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1X 4BS, England.

Note:  The C. L. Andrews Seminar Room (Physics room 129) in the Joseph Henry Physics Building has been reserved for informal gathering of conference attendees as they wish during the afternoon.

A new biography, Joseph Henry The Rise of an American Scientist by Albert Moyer published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Henry's birth will be available. The biography focuses on Henry's early and middle years, 1797-1847, from his emergence as America's foremost physical scientist to his election as the Smithsonian Institution's first director.

Dr. Nathan Reingold of the Smithsonian Institution will also be attending the Conference. He is the first editor of The Papers of Joseph Henry published by the Smithsonian Institution.

A commemorative cachet and postal cancellation will be also be available at the conference.

Dinner reservations may be made:

Joseph Henry Bicentennial Conference