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Traditionally, book lovers travel to Leipzig in the spring for the Book Fair. After several years’ hiatus due to the pandemic, the time has finally come again: the Leipzig Book Fair will open its doors from 27 to 30 April 2023. Readers, authors, publishers and the media will then gather in Leipzig to exchange ideas, discover new things and look beyond the pages of their own books.
Mittweida University of Applied Sciences will also be taking part. At stand D307 in Hall 2, Professor Röbbe Wünschiers and René Kretschmer will be presenting publications and works by members of our university and, together with colleagues from the University Communications team, will also be providing advice on study opportunities at the university.
Among other things, they will be bringing with them Professor Alexander Horn’s new English-language textbook entitled “The Physics of Laser Radiation–Matter Interaction – Fundamentals, and Selected Applications in Metrology”. The textbook deals with the fundamental processes that occur during the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter. It guides students from a general discussion of electrodynamics – which forms the mathematical basis for Maxwell’s equations – to key results such as the Fresnel equations, Snell’s law and the Brewster angle.
This year, authors from Mittweida University of Applied Sciences are also taking part in events at the Leipzig Book Fair. Both ‘Leipzig liest’ and ‘#buchbar’ – a new event format at the Book Fair – will each feature two events with professors from Mittweida. Whilst ‘Leipzig liest’ features author readings in the traditional sense, the #buchbar focuses on informal encounters. At the heart of the #buchbar is a ‘community table’ – a long table where six authors and members of the interested public can sit down and chat over coffee and croissants. In addition, there will be moderated discussions at the bar.
Our Vice-Chancellor for Education, Professor Christoph Meyer, will be kicking things off. On Friday 28 April 2023, from 4.00 pm to 4.30 pm, the ‘Leipzig liest’ event in Hall 2 at Stand C600 will focus on Greta – ‘Greta Wehner – A Whole Human Life’. Professor Meyer has painted a portrait of this extraordinary woman, who later became the wife of the politician Herbert Wehner (deputy chairman of the SPD, Federal Minister and leader of the parliamentary group in the Bundestag for over 13 years). Driver, secretary, companion, organiser, servant. A fulfilling, eventful life in politics. She made a significant contribution to the release of prisoners and family reunification. After his time as an MP, Herbert Wehner and she married. This marked the beginning of many long years spent caring for a person with dementia. After Herbert’s death, Greta became involved in social policy and worked towards the reunification of East and West. She founded an educational institute and a foundation, and moved to Dresden in 1996 because she wanted to ‘bring a piece of Herbert back to his Saxon homeland’.
On Saturday 29 April 2023, from 4.00 pm to 4.30 pm in Hall 2 at Stand D500, Professor Röbbe Wünschiers will be reading from books on the theme of ‘Genes, Genomes and Society: From New Atlantis to Genetic Engineering’. Where does our society stand today? To what extent, and at what levels, do we consciously and unconsciously interfere with nature? How do we perceive nature? By taking a literary look back at the past, the aim is to sharpen the audience’s awareness of nature.
At the #buchbar on Thursday 27 April 2023 from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm in Hall 2, Stand E600, Professor Röbbe Wünschiers will be discussing ‘The Living Past’, as the session is titled. The authors in this session look back from different perspectives and with different motivations. Whether in autobiographical texts, out of academic curiosity or as a starting point for engaging storytelling – background plays a major role for the authors. And because they confront their past, their experiences and the influences that have shaped them, something new can emerge – sometimes entertaining, sometimes educational, but always anything but ‘a thing of the past’. (Source: #buchbar website) Professor Wünschiers examines the genetic past of our living world and the resulting prospects.
Professor Dirk Labudde will be a guest at the #buchbar in Hall 2, Stand E600, on Sunday 30 April 2023 from 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm. His session is entitled “The Fascination of Crime”, and the description reads: The “dark side” of crime never ceases to fascinate. Join a forensic scientist on a journey of discovery through the depths of real-life criminal cases; imaginative stories about gangsters both big and small, set in this world and others, are sure to give children and adults alike goosebumps. Who has the courage to look darkness in the eye? (Source: #buchbar website)
Professor Dirk Labudde presents his new book *Digital Forensics: The Future of Crime Investigation*. He reconstructs crime scenes using 3D models, simulates the sequence of events and creates digital doubles of victims and perpetrators. Whenever investigators reach a dead end using traditional methods of evidence analysis, they turn to Dirk Labudde. Drawing on his most gripping cases, he demonstrates that the future of digital forensics is already well underway, highlighting both the opportunities it presents and the risks involved.