Introduction

After five earlier successful meetings (Osgood Hill, 1986; Luminy, 1988; Pittsburgh, 1991; Berlin, 1995; and Notre Dame, 1998), the Sixth International Conference on the History of General Relativity has taken place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 26–29 June 2002, under the auspices of the University of Amsterdam and the Pieter Zeeman Foundation.

Organizing committee

The conference was organized by A.J. Kox (University of Amsterdam) and Jean Eisenstaedt (CNRS, Paris).

The international advisory committee consisted of:

• Hubert Goenner (University of Göttingen)
• Don Howard (University of Notre Dame)
• Michel Janssen (University of Minnesota)
• John Norton (University of Pittsburgh)
• Jürgen Renn (Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin)
• Tilman Sauer (University of Bern)
• John Stachel (Boston University)
• C.V. Vishveshwara (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore)

The conference was financially supported by:

• Stichting Pieter Zeeman-Fonds
• Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
• Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
• Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University
• Stichting Physica
• Stichting Lorentzfonds

 

This document contains the final program and the abstracts of all contributed papers and invited lectures.

The proceedings were published as: The Universe of General Relativity, A.J.Kox and J. Eisenstaedt, eds. Boston: Birkhaeuser, 2005

 

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