Tracing Émigré Mathematicians in the Twentieth Century (Day One)
Tuesday 01 October, 2013
1:30 - 5pm, $0
New York University, Deutsches Haus
42 Washington Mews
1:30 p.m.
Welcome (Sylvain Cappell/New York)
2:00 p.m. Panel I (Chair: Moritz Epple/Frankfurt)
David E. Rowe (Mainz): Transforming Tradition
Richard Courant in Göttingen and New York
Volker Remmert (Wuppertal): Forms of Remigration – Émigré Jewish
Mathematicians and Germany in the Immediate Postwar Period
3:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:00 p.m.
Panel II (Chair: Marjorie Senechal/Northampton)
István Hargittai (Budapest): Von Neumann’s Wisdom – From Hungary to Germany and from Germany to the United States
Remarks & Reminiscences: Eyewitness Accounts