The Dibner Institute for the History of Science & Technology, located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will once again offer its Lunchtime Colloquia featuring a series of lectures on historical scientific topics.

"The Lunchtime Colloquia are held on Tuesdays at Noon in the conference room of the Dibner Institute, MIT E56-100, 38 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA. If you plan to attend please email the Dibner Institute at dibner@mit.edu, or call 617-253-6989."

January 31,2006
Karine Chemla, French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS
An Epistemological Culture in the Mathematics of Ancient China

February 7, 2006
Glen Van Brummelen, Bennington College
Controversies in the Early History of Trigonometry

February 14, 2006
Bruno Belhoste, University Paris X-Nanterre
The Rise of Public Science in Early 19th Century Paris

February 28, 2006
Elly Truitt, Dibner Institute Graduate Student Fellow
Model Bodies and Metal People in Medieval Europe

March 7, 2006
Giovanni Paoloni, Universita "La Sapienza"
Vito Volterra and the Making of Research Institutions in Italy and Abroad

March 14, 2006
David Wilson, Iowa State University
The Student Days of William Whewell, the Man Who Invented the Word Scientist

March 21, 2006
David Friedman, MIT
Topographical Survey and Urban Design

March 28, 2006
Dimitri Constant, Dibner Institute Graduate Student Fellow
Higher-Order Variables and the Concept of Function: How the History of Mathematics Influenced Modern Logic

April 4, 2006
Jeremiah James, Dibner Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
Structural Imaging and the Nature of the Chemical Bond: Linus Pauling from X-Ray Crystallography to Quantum Chemistry

April 18, 2006
Jenny Leigh Smith, Dibner Institute Graduate Student Fellow
Animal Farms: Pigs, Property, and Scientific Progress in the Soviet Union

April 25, 2006
Sandro Caparrini, Dibner Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
The Origin of Vector Calculus in Geometry and Mechanics