Physics and Mathematics in Kharkov in the first half of XX-th century

IQSE AMO QO Seminar Series

Tuesday, April 26, 11:30 CST, ZOOM&IQSE seminar room (MPHY 578)

Pizza will be served for IQSE members at 11:00 AM. The talk will start around 11:30 AM

Valery Pokrovsky

Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University

Kharkov University was established in the beginning of 19-th century, one of the oldest and most respectful Universities in the Tsar Russia. The Golden Age for physics and mathematics in Kharkov came in the years 1930-1950, when the great scientists Lev Landau and Lev Shubnikov and their disciples worked there. Simultaneously the famous mathematicians Naum Akhiezer, Alexei Pogorelov, Vladimir Marchenko and others developed a new mathematics. This blossoming of science was tragically interfered with Stalin’s purges.

In this talk a brief characteristics of Kharkov (now Kharkiv) physicists and mathematicians and their science will be presented. The speaker graduated from Kharkov University in 1953 and had a privilege and happiness of personal contacts with some of these remarkable people.

ZOOM information:

https://tamu.zoom.us/j/99696662195?pwd=NlFUZFpvamR6YllBUUZROFVReFhkQT09

Meeting ID: 996 9666 2195 Passcode: 757350

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