UA released the list of public lectures in the NEXT series: Science That Transforms. You should read the details of each lecture at the web site. Each one is provocative and fascinating.
The lectures are free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays beginning Jan. 27. The lectures will be held at Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. on the UA campus in Tucson.
January 27
Next: An Enormous Picture of the Universe
John Schaefer, UA President Emeritus and President of LSST Corporation
February 3
Next: Unlocking the Mystery of Matter
Elliott Cheu, Professor of Physics
February 10
Next: A Great Leap for Bioresearch
Vicki Chandler, Regents' Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Director of Bio5 Institute
February 17
Next: Darwin's Strange Inversion of Reasoning
Daniel Dennett, Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University
March 3
Next: Visualizing Human Thought
Elena Plante, Professor and Head of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
March 10
Next: Really Intelligent Computers
Paul Cohen, Professor and Head of Computer Science
Any webcasting or online archiving planned? (for those of us who don't live in Arizona)
ReplyDeleteGood question Callan. The lectures are being videotaped and made available as podcasts on the UA's iTunes U public site at itunes.arizona.edu.
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