Symposium Events

Michael Frayn’s play Copenhagen, is going on tour in the United States. A huge success on Broadway, the play won the 2000 Tony award for Best Play. Copenhagen reenacts the 1941 visit of Werner Heisenberg, who was then in charge of the Nazi nuclear power program, to Niels Bohr, his mentor, and collaborator in creating quantum mechanics, complementarity, and the uncertainty principle, in German – occupied Denmark. In conjunction with the opening of the play on Broadway, Dr. Brian Schwartz of the Graduate Center, City University New York, and Dr. Harry Lustig (former treasurer of APS and provost emeritus of CCNY), produced a symposium on the history and physics of the play. It would be good if similar symposia, or even more modest colloquia or seminars, could be arranged at University locations along the US tour of the play. See the schedule below. For more information on the play and symposia, go to the CUNY NYC Copenhagen Symposium page.

To organize a Copenhagen event in your area, contact: Brian Schwartz.

Copenhagen Symposia

• COPENHAGEN IN CHICAGO, SATURDAY FEB 16, 2002
• Symposium at the APS SPRING MEETING, APRIL 20 – 23, 2002 ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico
• Symposium in WASHINGTON DC, MARCH 2, 2002 (Papers & Program)
• Order Video Tapes of Copenhagen Symposia
• COPENHAGEN IN DETROIT SYMPOSIUM, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2002
• COPENHAGEN IN PHILADELPHIA SYMPOSIUM, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2002
• COPENHAGEN IN BOSTON SYMPOSIUM, MONDAY, MAY 13
• COPENHAGEN IN LOS ANGELES, CALTECH, DECEMBER 10, 2001 Real Audio Media

Related Events and Information

• Theater, Science and History in COPENHAGEN with Michael Frayn, The Mathematical Science Research Institute, Berkeley CA, April 17, 2002
• Company 1 Tour Schedule
• Company 2 Tour Schedule
• Symposium at the Graduate Center, CUNY in NYC
• Niels Bohr Archive
• Recently Released Papers on the Bohr-Heisenberg Meeting in Copenhagen in September 1941, Graduate Center, CUNY, March 8, 2002
• Copenhagen Revisited, Michael Frayn. The New York Review of Books, March 28, 2002
• Notes on Comparing the Documents of Heisenberg and Bohr Concerning their Encounter in 1941, Gerald Holton, Harvard University
• A Strange New Quantum Ethics, Jonothan Logan, American Scientist, July-August 2000