Nov 28, 2024; Interactive Event

Café & Philosophy: Alexander Blum

Speaker(s) Alexander Blum, MPI - History of Science, Berlin
Start and end time 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Location CRTD, Seminar Rooms 1,2
Address
Fetscherstraße 105, 01307 Dresden

An event visual. It advertises the event Café & Philosophy. It has a light blue to turquoise gradient background. In the top left corner, there is a logo of an open book with a steaming cup on top. On the outside of the book, there are a DNA double helix and the Greek letter Φ. There is text: "café & philosophy." Below the logo, there is more text. The text says "Next on Café & Philosophy at CMCB:" followed by "GUEST: ALEXANDER BLUM" in turquoise. Beneath, in smaller turquoise text, it says "(MPI - History of Science, Berlin)." In the center, italicized text reads "The history of the search for a theory of everything." At the bottom left, a turquoise box with white text displays the event date, time, and location: "28/11/2024, 1pm (CRTD - seminar rooms 1, 2)." In the top right corner, there the logo of TU Dresden. To the right of the center, there is a portrait of Alexander Blum in a circle with a thin, white border. He is leaning against glass, and looking to the left of the photographer. In the bottom right, there is a QR code with text below that reads "Find out more about our guest!" The QR code leads to a link: https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/de/people/ablum. © TUD/ Café & Philosophy

Café and Philosophy on campus feature on-site talks by guest speakers who will share their contributions on the Philosophy of Science, fostering community engagement in a relaxed and inviting atmosphere—with coffee and snacks provided!

As for the next speaker, we are honored to welcome professor Dr. Alexander Blum, MPI group leader at the Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) who will be presenting insights from his research on the history of the search for a theory of everything.

Prof Alexander Blum (Group leader at MPI-Final theory program, professor at FU Berlin department of physics and history of science) has a PhD in theoretical particle physics from the University of Heidelberg (research at the MPI for Nuclear Physics, 2009). Joined the MPIWG, where he started out as a member of the Quantum History Project (until 2012), his research interests lie in the history and philosophy of modern physics, with a strong emphasis on the postwar period.

Guest: Alexander Blum
Title: The history of searching for a theory of everything
Date: 28th November, 1 pm

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