Includes: Copies of correspondence exchanged between T.G. Pickavance and heads of physics departments in British universities regarding nominations to the conference. Correspondence regarding travel arrangements and grants. The file also includes some correspondence regarding nominations for the 1966 High Energy Conference in Berkeley.

Includes correspondence regarding topics of lectures, list of participants, invitations to visit other Canadian universities, programme, travel arrangements and the scheduling of the school.

Visit to Yugoslavia, Mar 24-Apr 6, 1965. Includes invitations to visit various institutes and laboratories, scheduling and travel arrangements. Symposium on 'How to teach the art of approximation', Imperial College, London, May 1965. Includes correspondence and a summary of the proceedings. Visit to M.I.T., Sep 13-19, 1965. Includes correspondence regarding arrangements for a one-week visit, including original invitation extended in 1964 to Peierls to come as Visiting…

Visit to Göttingen, Feb 1966, to address a symposium in honour of F. Hund: correspondence (see also MS. Eng. misc. b. 208/C.147). Visiting Senior Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Mar-Apr 1966: correspondence regarding timing of the visit, Peierls's correspondence with his Oxford department during his absence and invitations from other institutions and laboratories in the US. Xth International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, Moscow, 1966. Peierls…

Invitations extended to Peierls during his sabbatical leave at the University of Washington in Seattle, Jan-Jun 1967, with related correspondence regarding scheduling of his visits to other institutes, etc. File includes a typescript of 'History of the "Peierls-Nabarro" Force', prepared for Battelle Colloquium on Dislocation Dynamics, May 1967.

Conference on Theoretical Physics, University of Birmingham, Jul 4-6, 1967 'For R.E. Peierls's 60th Birthday'. Includes programme, list of members, correspondence regarding arrangements for the conference, accommodation and publication of the proceedings.

International Theoretical Physics Conference on Particles and Fields, Rochester, N.Y., Aug 28-Sep 1, 1967. Includes invitation and programme, correspondence regarding travel grant, participants, invitation and subsequent correspondence regarding a visit to Stony Brook, N.Y. during the week before the conference.

Visit to M.I.T. for opening of new physics center, Mar 1968. Peierls served as Chairman at one of the sessions. Symposium 'On the Use of Nimrod for Nuclear Structure Physics', Rutherford Laboratory, Mar 1968. Includes correspondence and provisional programme. Peierls was to give an introductory talk and chair the final session but was unable to attend. Gordon Conference on Nuclear Structure, Jul 1968. Includes correspondence regarding the preliminary planning of the…

International Conference on the Three-Body Problem in Nuclear and Particle Physics, Birmingham, Jul 8-10, 1969. Peierls served as Co-Chairman of the Organising Committee and gave the closing summary: includes extensive correspondence regarding the title, organisation and composition of the conference; copies of letters of invitation to principal speakers and of their replies; provisional and final programme; correspondence regarding the publication of the proceedings and contract; and…

Pauli Memorial Lectures, Zürich, Jan 1970. Includes invitation to give lectures, and related correspondence, travel arrangements and Peierls's notes for his lectures. (Peierls retained the tapes of these 4 lectures.) Nuclear Physics Conference, University of Surrey, Apr 1970. Includes correspondence, etc.

Surface Science Summer Institute, Battelle Memorial Institute, Seattle, Washington. Includes correspondence regarding plans for the summer school, a list of participants and scientific correspondence arising.

Silver Jubilee of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, Apr 1970. Includes invitation and subsequent correspondence regarding topics for lectures, travel arrangements, etc. Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois (25th Anniversary), Nov 1971, lecture on 'The state of physics'. Includes correspondence regarding arrangements for the visit.

Solid State Institute, Technion, Haifa, Israel, Dec 1971. Includes invitations to Peierls to come as Visiting Professor, to deliver the Wunsch Lecture, to give colloquium at the Hebrew University and subsequent correspondence regarding the scheduling of the visit. The file includes a typescript of Peierls's Wunsch Lecture 'Is there a crisis in science?'.

Symposium on 'Development of the Physicist's Conception of Nature', Trieste, Sep 18-25, 1972 (Peierls served on the sponsoring committee). Includes a draft programme with Peierls's comments and suggestions and correspondence regarding Peierls's lecture. (The Symposium was dedicated to Dirac on his 70th birthday).

Address to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Mar 5 1973, 'The role of the "observer" in quantum physics - an implication for the relation of physics to biology?'. Includes invitation plus related correspondence, 1971-1973. Lecture at CERN, Mar 28-Apr 4, 1973 'Some old fundamental problems of physics'. Includes invitation and related correspondence, abstracts of lectures (4), travel and accommodation arrangements and programme, 1972-1973. Centenary Conference, Physical…

Netherlands Physical Society Symposium, Amsterdam, 1948 US Department of Commerce, Conference, California, 1949 Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburg, Chair in Theoretical Physics and Visiting Professorship, 1950-1952 Summer Session, University of Wisconsin, 1951 Summer Session, Stanford University, Visiting Professor, 1952, 1953, 1955 …

Visiting Scientists Program in Physics, USA (4 offers), 1960-1964 Institute for Theoretical Physics, Zürich (visit), 1961 Department of Physics, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Mexico City, Head of Physics Department, 1961 Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York (visit), 1961 Summer School, University of Colorado, 1962 …