10th IBM Hursley Lecture

3rd November 2009 5:30 p.m. Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton

Professor David Clary FRS
University of Cambridge

Web page: http://www.events.soton.ac.uk/event/id:e2g-fyv7ovz8-lu5dxd/
Submitter: Hans Fangohr

Established in 2000 and sponsored by IBM Hursley Laboratory, the IBM Hursley Lecture series was created to provide an annual lecture at the University with the underlying theme being the interface between science and industry. Over the years, the University of Southampton has welcomed a host of distinguished speakers to present the lecture, including Dr John Taylor OBE FRS FREng, Dr Caroline Kovac and Sir David King ScD FRS. This year we welcome Professor David Clary from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. In this lecture Professor Clary will describe the remarkable and colourful career of the theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger. In an extraordinary paper in 1926 Erwin Schrödinger invented wave mechanics – the method that provides an accurate description of the properties of atoms, molecules and materials. He was an international scientist who wandered through Europe holding academic posts in Switzerland, Germany, Oxford, Austria, Belgium and Ireland. He was caught up in the political turmoil of the 1930s. His Schrödinger equation forms the basis for predicting and understanding any area of 21st century science involved with atoms and molecules - from the invention of new drugs to the development of the quantum mechanical materials of the information age

If you’d like to attend, email: lmr1@soton.ac.uk