Prof. Karol Berger (USA) 6.06.2011

The Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań and the City of Poznań invite to an open lecture by one of the most interesting persons of modern world musicology - Prof. Karol Berger.

The lecture entitled "Musicology versus modern humanities" will be held on 6 June 2011 at 10:00 a.m. in the conference room of the Poznań Society of Friends of Sciences at 27/29 Mielżyńskiego St. in Poznań. The lecture is organized within the framework of the nationwide conference of musicology students and doctoral students which will be held from 6 to 9 June 2011 in Poznań.

Karol Berger is one of the most interesting persons of modern world musicology. He lived in Warsaw till 1968, when he interrupted his studies in musicology at the University of Warsaw and emigrated to the United States. In 1975, he graduated from the musicology doctoral studies at the University of Yale. Since 1982, he has been the Professor of Musicology at the University of Stanford, California.

Berger's interests in humanities are focused on the issues of the theory of art, its place in the social, economic and political life, "competing" - as Berger himself writes – "with history, philosophy and religion".

The City of Poznań and UAM invite to an open lecture by the outstanding physicist -  Prof. Jacek K. Furdyna from the University of Notre Dame (USA). The lecture entitled "Exchange coupling in magnetic semiconductor multilayers and superlattices" will be held on June 27 2011 at 3 p.m. at the Faculty of Physics UAM, 85 Umultowska St., Auditorium Maximum.

Prof. Jacek Furdyna is an outstanding specialist in the field of studies on properties of semiconductors applicable, inter alia, in semiconductor lasers. His current scientific activity covers new semiconductor materials such as: semiconductor lasers emitting blue and green-blue light, semiconductor nanostructures, quantum dots and wires and their networks.

He is a pioneer in studies on magnetic semiconductors which are the basis for spintronics. For many years, he has been working with the best scientific centres in the world dealing with new semiconductor materials, including the Institute of Physics PAN in Warsaw.