History and Philosophy of Physics Reading Group

We meet fortnightly on Mondays at 10am in the Board Room.

Organised by Hasok Chang, Neil Dewar and Richard Staley.

Easter Term 2026

This term we continue discussions of current work by group members.

All are welcome!

Given our discussion of unpublished work, please see below to sign up to participate and receive the readings. Papers will be distributed one week before the first meeting and two weeks before each subsequent meeting.

4 May

Cameron Dashwood, 'Quantising Sound: The Conceptualisation of Phonons, 1907–32'

18 May

Patrick Dürr and Brian Pitts, 'From Mass to Energy-Momentum: The Field-Theoretic Perspective on the Energy-Mass Relation'

8 June

Seminar Room 1

Neil Dewar, 'Symmetries in Physics'

HPP Reading Group sign up

Please fill in the following form to join the email list through which we will distribute those manuscripts not accessible through the CUL. These will be sent to those who have signed up one week before the event (for the first meeting) and two weeks before the event (for subsequent meetings). To sign up for the HPP Reading Group follow this link:

• Sign up for the History and Philosophy of Physics Reading Group

If you have not been able to sign up beforehand and need to gain access to these papers after those dates, contact Richard Staley (raws1@cam.ac.uk) or Neil Dewar (nad42@cam.ac.uk).