Pittsburgh Section

4 - Elements of the General Theory of Relativity with gravity - 1915. How people helped him (discussions about Eddington, Max Planck, Minkowski, von Laue and Lorentz mainly), and an explanation of the General Theory.

5 – Einstein’s Nobel Prize in 1922 and the first consequences of the General Relativity theory (Kaluza and his fifth dimension, Dirac developments with anti-matter, and Black Holes).

6 - Today’s known consequences of the Theories of Einstein. The development of the General Relativity theory that leads to “The Big Bang”, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe results in 2008, and the new theories: the 20 years old String Theory and the new Loop Quantum Gravity Theory.

7 - The Death of Einstein in 1955. Set of conclusions that we can draw from his life and his thinking.

At the end of the presentation, everybody will understand the Theory of Relativity.

Only one equation is shown in the presentation: Einstein’s Field Equation. The cosmological constant is discussed. The mathematics is kept to the minimum, and only the consequences are proposed.

Speaker: Georges F. Montillet (M 1971, SM 2002, LSM 2009) was born in France. He graduated from the Polytechnic French National Institute of Grenoble, France (with a MS+1 year) in 1968 in Power Electrical Engineering and immigrated to New York, USA in 1969 after working on several projects in France and Algeria. In 1974 he obtained a MBA from NYU-Stern School of Business in New York, and a Doctorate in 2005 in Electrical Engineering. He published a total of 48 technical papers.

In 1970 he worked for the Tarbela Dam Project of Pakistan. He joined Cogenel Inc, in New York, in 1971 and the company changed name during the years. He was Executive Vice President of GEC ALSTHOM T&D for the USA, then Deputy General Manager of the ALSTOM US High Voltage Switchgear and was with AREVA T&D on the Board of the Research & Technology for 5 years. He started the manufacturing of Dead Tank Circuit Breakers (38 kV to 345 kV) for GEC ALSTHOM T&D in the USA in 1990. He left Areva in 2008 and founded GFM Consulting LLC.

He is a Life Senior Member of IEEE, Honorary IEEE Member of the High Voltage Switchgear Committee, and of the High-Voltage Circuit Breaker Subcommittee. He is the IEEE Chair of the PC37.06 working group (now a standard C37.06-2009) and Chair of the PC37.09 Cor. 1 and Vice-Chair and member of several IEEE and IEC joint working groups. He is in addition a Senior Member of the SEE (French Society of Electrical Engineers), Paris, France, of the Society of Friends of Andre-Marie Ampere.