2024 August Relativity Workshop

Day 1 of Relativity Workshop focused on the historical development of the idea of relativity from Galileo to Einstein, the development of Lorentz transformations (following Taylor and Wheeler), and the idea of the invariant interval (proper time between events). Day 2 concentrated on the ideas of conservation laws in nature, the relation to continuous symmetries of space and time related to those conservation laws, and the experimental and theoretical development of the m^2 = E^2 - p^2 relation between the mass, energy, and momentum of a particle. the PowerPoint slides and documents used in the workshop are available for download.