Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tilman Sauer
Veranstaltungsart: Kurs
Anzeige im Stundenplan: 00.Q+.460
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 5,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 5
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: Teilnahmevoraussetzungen: Interesse an interdisziplinärer Diskussion aktueller Wissenschaft und ihrer Geschichte, gute englische Sprachkenntnisse Anforderungen: Referate und Hausarbeit
Inhalt: On September 14, 2015, the LIGO cooperation detected, for the time, gravitational waves. The discovery was announced on Februar 11, 2016, and immediately was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2017. It so happened that this first direct observation of gravitational waves happened almost exactly 100 years after Einstein's publiction of his general theory of relavity. In this seminar, we will study various aspects of the discovery and the history of the search for gravitational waves. The title of the seminar is taken from a recent book with the same title, ed. by Jed Buchwald, Princeton University Press, 2020. The book collects contributions on the physics of gravitational waves by Kip Thorne and Barry Barish as well as further chapters on the discovery and significance of gravitational waves but also on the sociological, historical, and philosophical aspects of this significant event in the history of science. Lernziele: Verständnis eines aktuellen Forschungsthemas aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen, historischen, soziologischen und philosophischer Perspektiven
Zusätzliche Informationen: Lehrender: Tilman Sauer studied physics, mathematics, and philosophy at the Free University Berlin, and obtained a Ph.D. in computational theoretical physics in 1994. After postdoctoral positions in Berlin, Göttingen and Bern, he was Senior Research Associate in History at the California Intsitute for Technology and co-editor of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein at the Einstein Papers Project. In 2009, he obtained a habilitation in history of science at the University of Bern. Since 2015 he teaches history of mathematics and the natural sciences at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
