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Dr. Pauline Gagnon (CERN)
From Collaboration to Oblivion:
The Tragedy of Mileva Marić Einstein
What if Einstein’s 1905 “miracle year” wasn’t a solo achievement? Letters and biographical evidence reveal that Mileva Marić—Einstein’s first wife and fellow physicist—was far more than a supportive spouse. She was his intellectual equal, his study partner, and his collaborator on some of his most famous work. This talk examines the documented evidence of their partnership, placed in its personal and historical context. Through facts rather than speculation, we’ll explore why this talented physicist has been largely erased from history—and what her story reveals about how we remember scientific achievement.
The seminar will exceptionally take place in the lecture room T1!
Jiří Kvita (Palacky Univ. Olomouc)
A prototype of a water Cherenkov test experiment at CERN
Meeting with students
The meeting with students takes place on Monday February 16 at 14.10 in the A836 room (big lecture room on the 8th floor). All interested ones in the study of the Particle and Nuclear Physics program are kindly invited. Information in English will be given individually, the meeting is planned in Czech.
Timetables
The first (not necessarily final) version of time-tables is available at
Escape rate problem in driven Josephson junctions, Tomáš Novotný and Panch Ram (Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, CU), Informal Friday Coffee Club seminar, seminar room IPNP A 945, Friday December 12th, 13:30
Quantum tunneling by the instanton method in a parameter-dependent system, Vojtěch Loubal (FMP CU), Informal Friday Coffee Club seminar, seminar room IPNP A 945, Friday November 14th, 13:30
Study of the instanton solution describing tunneling during the transition between a double-well and a triple-well potential. The transition is controlled by a parameter that changes the symmetry of the system, introducing new complications in the description of the instanton trajectory and in the analysis of fluctuations.
Non-Hermitian operators in quantum theory – current status of the subject, prom. phys. Miloslav Znojil, DrSc. (Nuclear Physics Institute, CAS), Informal Friday Coffee Club seminar, seminar room A 945, Friday October 31st, 13:30
A compact review of the history and present stage of development of what could be called quasi-Hermitian formulation of quantum mechanics will be provided.