The most important task of modern education is the formation a highly developed personality capable effectively assimilating knowledge, making non-standard decisions and thinking creatively. Modernization content education, renewal teaching methods means are basis new pedagogical searches. study problem interdisciplinarity for development scientific, theoretical foundations pedagogy, as well pr...

Defining interdisciplinary physics today requires first a reformulation of what is today, which in turn calls for clarifying makes physicist. This assessment results from my 40-year journey arguing and fighting to build sociophysics. My view on has thus evolved jumping repeatedly opposite directions before settling down the following claim: done by physicists who handle problem “physicist’s way...

Friday, May 19 8:00am Registration; no fee/open to public 8:45am Welcome and introductory remarks (Sweeney Hall) 9:00-10:00 Opening Plenary Address (Sweeney) Session Chair: Margaret Bent (All Souls College, Oxford) The sound of (sixteenth-century) music Laurie Stras (University of Southampton) Thirty years ago, in a ground-breaking chapter that lifted the veil on the music of medieval convents,...