Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea
Luis Reyes-Galindo
2:00pm, Wednesday
12th March 2014
Master’s Common Lounge,
Level 3, Residential Block
Refreshments will be served.
Only 30 seats available!
Please register at tembusu.nus.edu.sg
Luis Reyes-Galindo received a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Science School of the National University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2005, and a Master’s Degree in Philosophy and Sociology of Science and Technology from the Philosophical Research Institute at UNAM in 2007. During that time, he was an Associate Student of the UNAM Physics thesis was dealing with the Casimir effect a quantum phenomenon that describes the behaviour of thin materials in close proximity; for his Master’s, he carried out a sociological/philosophical case study of controversies in Casimir effect experiments. He also researched controversies regarding ‘dark matter’ and has published on fraud and bogus detection in the Mexican ‘War on Drugs’. An ex-physicist and ex-philosopher for science, his main research lines are the Sociology of Theoretical Physics and the wider aspects of tacit knowledge in scientific cultures.
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