| Portuguese Address: | Dr. rer. nat. Frieder Kleefeld | ||||||||||||
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| Czechian Address: | Dr. rer. nat. Frieder Kleefeld | ||||
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| Former member and now collaborator of the | |||||
| Doppler Institute for Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics | |||||
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| German Address: | StR Dr. rer. nat. Frieder Kleefeld | ||||||
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Presently I am permanently working as a Bavarian secondary school teacher for physics and mathematics (and sometimes also for computing) in the Helene-Lange Gymnasium Fürth in Germany. During 2006 and 2008 I had successfully passed a formation as a Bavarian secondary school teacher for physics and mathematics in the Helene-Lange Gymnasium Fürth (Stammschule) and the Hardenberg-Gymnasium Fürth (Einsatzschule) in Germany. Parallelly to my work as a school teacher I am participating in some Portuguese research projects with titles like "Challenging new and old resonances in hadronic physics" and in the Czech project LC06002. Until 31.10.2005 I was - according to specific rules - a postdoctoral research fellow (category: Bolsas de Pós-Doutoramento (BPD)) of the FCT presently working at the CFIF (See also here!). The FCT is financing various scientific topics and institutions directly or through project funding. The FCT displays some Portuguese scientific job announcements here (See also here!). The EPS announces physics job openings here.
 | Lost Causes in Theoretical Physics by R. F. Streater |
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| | (Anti)causal Local Quantum Physics |
| | Non-Hermitian classical and quantum physics |
| (see e.g. PT-symmetric quantum theories or The PT Symmeter) | |
| | Covariant description and solution of field theoretical many body |
| problems (e.g. Bethe-Salpeter and Dyson-Schwinger equations) | |
| | Consistent relativistic field-theoretic treatment of composite systems |
| | Consistent relativistic field-theoretic treatment of resonant / unstable |
| systems | |
| | Application: calculation of exclusive production of heavy / strange |
| mesons in proton nucleus collisions at high momentum transfers | |
| | Application: calculation of electromagnetic formfactors and |
| properties of composite / unstable particles | |
| | Systematic field-theoretic treatment of Initial- and Final-State |
| Interactions in hadronic many body reactions | |
| | Special focus on the problem of Coulomb-scattering in Initial- and |
| Final-State Interactions | |
| | Linear Sigma Model |
| | Chiral Perturbation Theory |
| | Strong interaction physics in the non-perturbative regime (chiral and |
| confinement-deconfinement phase transitions) | |
| | See also: The particle adventure - the fundamentals of matter and force |
| | Trying to understand, what is stated elsewhere. |
| See e.g.: Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem , The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 - Advanced Information. |
Planned participations in conferences and workshops
Participation in conferences and workshops
Selective interesting conferences/workshops I couldn't attend
My former address in Erlangen/Germany
This can take years of work. You should not give up. If you believe that your new idea is a good one, you should work hard and never be afraid to reach the point where a new-comer can, with little effort, find the result you have been working, for so many years, to get.
The new-comer can never take away from you the privilege of having been the first to open a new field with your intelligence, imagination and hard work. Do not be afraid to encourage others to pursue your dream. If it becomes real, the community will never forget that you have been the first to open the field."
(p. 199 in Antonio Zichichi, "Subnuclear physics: the first 50 years: highlights from Erice to ELN", edited by O. Barnabei, P. Pupillo, F. Roversi Monaco (World Scientific series in 20th century physics: vol. 24), (c) 2000 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.)
In vibrant fields of observational science, practitioners cannot be too dogmatic or doctrinaire for the simple reason that their ideas will soon be put to the test. Unless there is an unusually high level of certitude, it is not a good idea to be dogmatic. There is too much to lose, whether it is just feeling bad about being wrong, being embarrassed, or even having more trouble getting a job.
It makes a big difference behaviourally when science is strongly data-driven, with the 'fear factor' front and centre. And this difference feeds back into improved sociology throughout the entire scientific community. On the other hand, when there is no fear factor, there is no penalty for dogmatism. And so dogmatism often emerges.
I do not mean to imply that science which is not data-driven is not good science. That would leave out all of mathematics. And aesthetic judgments do matter. But I do think that when practising such science one should exhibit at least as much skepticism and doubt as certainty, and as much tolerance for other points of view as is the case in a strongly data-driven environment.
... The great thinkers of the past, including Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, had plenty of ideas of what the big picture should look like. But in the light of present data, the facts simply do not fit their ideas. I think a necessary condition for presuming that the present situation is different is that there exists concrete evidence for convergence toward simplicity. Yet, neither observational cosmology, nor 'string phenomenology', nor phenomenological supersymmetry, at the electroweak scale as well as at the grand-unification scale, points the way toward a simpler big picture. There remains a clutter of poorly understood numbers no matter where one looks. ..."
(p. 7 in "News from ICTP" (Spring 2005, No. 112), published by the Public Information Office of The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy)
