11 August |
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Session 1 (Chair S. Rabin) |
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11:00-11:10 | T. J. Mahoney | Welcome to Special Session 9 |
11:10-12:00 | J. V. Field (I) | Kepler's cosmology |
12:00-12:50 | B. Stephenson (I) | Why should an astronomer today care about Kepler? |
12:50-14:30 | Lunch | |
Session 2 (Chair: G. Hon) | ||
14:30-15:20 | A. Mosley (I) | Trusting in Tycho: Kepler's use of Tycho's data in the Astronomia nova |
15:20-15:50 | T. J. Mahoney (C) | The mindset of uniform circular motion |
15:50-16:10 | Coffee break | |
Session 3 (Chair: S. Dupré) | ||
16:10-17:00 | A. E. L. Davis (I) | Kepler's laws: Some myths dispelled |
17:00-17:30 | I. I. Shevchenko (C) | The Kepler map in perspective |
12 August | ||
Session 4 (Chair: A. C. Mosley [TBC]) | ||
11:00-11:50 | J. M. Pasachoff (I) | Kepler's Astronomia nova as a rare book |
11:50-12:40 | J. Wlodarczyk (I) | Kepler's Dream |
12:40-14:30 | Lunch | |
Session 5 (Chair: J. Wlodarczyk [TBC]) | ||
14:30j-15:20 | Giora Hon (I) | The Great Synthesis: The multifaceted new astronomy of Johannes Kepler (1609) |
15:20-15:50 | TBD (C) | |
15:50-16:10 | Coffee break | |
Session 6 (Chair: A. E. L. Davis) | ||
16:10-17:00 | Sven Dupré (I) | Galileo's telescope and Kepler's optics |
17:00-17:30 | TBD (C) | |
13 August | ||
Session 7 (Chair: B. Stephenson) | ||
09:00-09:50 | Sheila Rabin (I) | "Third Man in the Middle": Kepler between astronomy and astrology |
09:50-10:20 | S. Bludman (C) | Kepler and the Star of Bethlehem |
10:20-10:40 | Coffee break | |
Session 8 (Chair: J. V. Field) | ||
10:40-12:30 | All invited speakers | Round table discussion on the future of Kepler studies |
14 August | ||
Session 9 (Chair: T. J. Mahoney) | ||
09:00-10:30 | Open session | Proposal for an IAU Working Group on the Future of Kepler Studies |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | End of public part of Special Session 9 |
11:00-12:30 | Members of WG | Proposed IAU WG closed session meeting |