Poet and Physicist Iggy McGovern will present a selection of poems from his most recent book: Making Waves, a sonnet sequence based on the life of Erwin Schrödinger. Joining Professor McGovern will be Dr. Ian Jubb, of DIAS, to discuss the origins and context of the sonnet sequence which is split into five parts corresponding largely to specific important locations in which Schrödinger lived during his lifetime. Erwin Schrödinger came to Ireland in 1939, at the invitation of Éamon de Valera, and was appointed as the first Director of the School of Theoretical Physics here at DIAS.

About our Speaker

Iggy McGovern is Fellow Emeritus in the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin; he has published three collections of poetry with Dedalus Press, most recently The Eyes of Isaac Newton (2017). His awards include the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary, the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award for Poetry and the Hennessy Literary Award. A Mystic Dream of 4 (2013) and Making Waves (2021) are sonnet sequences based on the lives of William Rowan Hamilton and Erwin Schrödinger, respectively, and are published by Quaternia Press.

This will be an online event hosted via Zoom. Registration is required to receive the attendance link.