Alexander Blum
Research Scholar
Dr. rer. nat.
Residence: May 1, 2010 - October 31, 2014
Profile
Curriculum Vitae:
since 2010: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the MPIWG, Dept. 1
2009: PhD in Theoretical High Energy Physics (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
2007-2009: PhD scholarship - Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2006-2009: PhD student (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg)
Current work:
History of Quantum Gravity and its Relation to Quantum Electrodynamics and Particle Physics
History of the Notions of Covariance and Energy Conservation in General Relativity and Quantum Physics
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
Teaching activities
2007-2009
– Several Tutorials on Experimental Physics (Atomic, Nuclear, Particle, Environmental Physics, Optics, Quantum Mechanics) at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
2012/2013
– Seminar on Sources in the Development of Quantum Mechanics at FU Berlin Physics Department (with Christoph Lehner)
