Guest Lectures (MagEIA meets Theoretical Physics)

In the SCIAS guest lectures, the visiting professors and their hosts of the university introduce themselves and their research areas in the lecture hall of the Welz house to fellow guests, hosts and an interested audience of the university and the city in short 20-minute keynote lectures. Afterwards, all the participants have the opportunity to discuss and learn more about the respective projects and research areas to promote international and interdisciplinary exchange, dialogue and cooperation.

Speakers:

• Prof. Dr. José Marcos Macedo (University of São Paulo, Brazil): Divine epithets and the language of the Greek Magical Papyri
• Prof. Dr. Igor Herbut (Simon Fraser University, Canada): Emergent relativity in condensed matter

Prof. Dr. José Marcos Macedo is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). His primary research focuses on Greek religious language, Greek linguistics, and Indo-European poetics and phraseology. As part of the MagEIA project at the University of Würzburg, he is compiling an annotated lexicon of the divine epithets found in the Greek Magical Papyri, cross-referencing them with other relevant epithets from epigraphic, lexicographic, and literary sources up to the 4th/5th century CE.  

Prof. Dr. Igor Herbut is Professor of Physics at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. After receiving his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1995, he spent three years as a Killam postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia. His interests include field theories of interacting electrons, higher spin pairing and multicomponent superconductivity, as well as the physics of semimetals such as graphene and half-Heusler compounds.

The presentation and the following discussion are open to the public and will be held in English. All interested parties are welcome!

For more information, please consult the official invitation. Registration is requested.

Contact: SCIAS Office, scias-office@uni-wuerzburg.de