The seminars will be scheduled on a monthly
basis.
The first speakers of the series On
November 23rd will be: Malcolm Longair,
FMR and former Director of Cavendish Institute in
Cambridge, who will discuss how Maxwell discovered the
Laws of Electromagnetism and the important role played in
the discovery by the analogies; Don
Zagier, a well known number theorist, who will
unveil the fascinating story of the mathematical
discoveries made in Japan during the 17th and 18th
centuries, in the period in which the country was in
complete isolation; Elena Castellani,
a recognised philosopher of science, who will discuss the
crucial role played by symmetry in the development of
science; Luisa Bonolis, a
renowned historian of science of the Max Planck Institute
in Berlin, who will underline the emergence of a crucial
scientific area as the relativistic astrophysics, starting
from the first analysis of white dwarfs in the mid 1920 to
recent studies on colliding massive stars.
The schedule will be as follows:
- Malcom Longair, 23 November
2016, 3 pm, room 138 - SISSA
- Don Zagier, 6 December
2016, 4 pm, room 138 - SISSA
- Elena Castellani, 18
January 2017, 3pm, room 138
- SISSA
- Luisa Bonolis, 22 February
2017, 3 pm, room 138 - SISSA
All seminars will be held in room 138, first floor SISSA
Via Bonomea 265 - Trieste.
Summary of the topics and more complete
information on these events can be found in the enclosed
file.
The series of meetings will continue
in March, April and May with talks about the life and work
of Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) (by Anna
Maria Lombardi),
Giuseppe Occhialini (1907-1993) (by Valeria delle Cave) and the history of the theory of strings
(by Andrea Cappelli).
Additional details will be provided in due
time.