Attention! Prof. Dr Harald Lesch has unfortunately had to cancel his planned lecture for personal reasons. Admission tickets are no longer valid. A rescheduled date will be announced in good time.

[Status 07.01.2013]

Oldenburg. "Why is physics so successful?" - Prof. Dr Harald Lesch, physicist at the University of Munich, science journalist and TV presenter, will answer this question on Monday, 14 January at 4.15 pm at the University of Oldenburg (Haarentor campus, Building A14, Lecture Hall 1). Lesch is giving his public lecture at the invitation of Oldenburg physicist Prof Dr Alexander Hartmann as part of the Physics Colloquium. Those interested can register online as of now.

Lesch is a university lecturer in Theoretical Astrophysics at the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Munich and is one of the best-known science journalists on German television. The physicist has presented the television programmes "alpha-Centauri", "Lesch & Co" and "Leschs Kosmos", among others. In 2008, he took over the moderation of the ZDF series "Abenteuer Forschung" from Joachim Bublath. His research focus includes cosmic plasma physics and the search for black holes in the centre of the Milky Way.

In his lecture, Lesch will explain why physics is one of the most successful ends of project of human reason. Through the interplay of theory and experiment, physics has succeeded in studying large parts of the energetic-material part of the universe in great detail, classifying them and ultimately visualising them in mathematical models. The starting point of this research was the assumption that nature is a whole and that the very largest is directly related to the very smallest. Lesch's lecture sheds light on this area of tension and shows why cosmology is also elementary particle physics.

Attendance at the event is free of charge, but is only possible by prior registration: www.amiando.com/Physik_Kolloquium_Oldenburg_14Jan13.html

[University press release from 7 December 2012]