Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Alexander Blum

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Talks and presentations

  • 30 July 2011 – American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD – Vacuum Polarization - A Case Study of an Infinite Quantity in Early Quantum Field Theory
  • 30 September 2011 – Universities in Central Europe, Prague (with Dieter Hoffmann and Jürgen Renn) – At the Crossroads: Einstein and Prague
  • 12 May 2012 – New Directions in the Foundations of Physics, Washington, DC (with Christoph Lehner) – The limits of correspondence: How the methods of quantum mechanics proved insufficient in electrodynamics (1925-1932)
  • 5 June 2012 – General Relativity and Gravitation – 50 years after Jabłonna, Warsaw – Feynman in Jabłonna: Quantum Theory of Gravitation
  • 1 November 2012 – 5th ESHS Conference, Athens – Solving European Problems in the US: The Infrared Divergence
  • 13 December 2012 – Utrecht University – A Brief History of Quantum Gravity
  • 25 February 2013 – DPG Spring Conference, Jena – The Density Matrix The Story of a Failed Transfer