<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello all - forwarding in case is is of interest to members. It starts a bit early in the morning (it’s on UK time) but you don’t have to join the whole thing.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">HAPP Centre <<a href="mailto:happ-centre@stx.ox.ac.uk" class="">happ-centre@stx.ox.ac.uk</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">HAPP ONE-DAY CONFERENCE: "The Nature of Light" - IN PERSON AND LIVESTREAMED ONLINE</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">April 5, 2022 at 21:00:24 EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">HAPP Centre <<a href="mailto:happ-centre@stx.ox.ac.uk" class="">happ-centre@stx.ox.ac.uk</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">HAPP Centre <<a href="mailto:happ-centre@stx.ox.ac.uk" class="">happ-centre@stx.ox.ac.uk</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">HAPP ONE-DAY CONFERENCE: "The Nature of Light" - IN PERSON AND LIVESTREAMED ONLINE<br class=""><br class="">on Saturday 11th June from 10.30 am - 5.00 pm BST<br class=""><br class="">Visible light is the most pervasive feature of the observable Universe to humans, so its explanation has<br class="">assumed a pre-eminent role in our attempts to understand the physical world around us.<br class=""><br class="">This conference will start with an examination of light and its properties with the formulation of the classical<br class="">theory of optics by Newton, Huygens and others, and then move on to the theory of colours which involved<br class="">not only natural philosophers, but artists and writers.<br class=""><br class="">The understanding of electricity and magnetism in the 19th century led ultimately to the formulation of the<br class="">electromagnetic theory of light summarised in Maxwell's equations which underpin the vast range of technologies<br class="">still in daily use. In the 20th century, the role of the speed of light became very important in relativity and<br class="">quantum theory.<br class=""><br class="">The conference will examine the steps in our understanding of light to illuminate its history in our culture and<br class="">in the technological developments over the past few decades.<br class=""><br class="">Registration to attend this conference is free but booking is required to attend the conference with all<br class="">the details and the weblinks to register for the conference to attend in person or online given on the<br class="">webpage below:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://stx.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-nature-of-light" class="">https://stx.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-nature-of-light</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">St Cross Centre for the History & Philosophy of Physics<br class="">http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/the-happ-centre<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>