PATHS: Charting, Navigating & Bridging: May 6 -June 28 2013 Simons Center Art Gallery Lecture by artist W. Bradford Paley Tuesday June 11, 5:30pm. Wine and cheese reception at 5:00pm. All are welcome.
Last Thursday was the first International Culinary Masters Series in the SCGP cafe. The series began with Italy and focused on its distinct cuisine and wine. Participants arrived to find an array of colorful, fresh ingredients, and were taught how to prepare four recipes from start to finish. This will also continue in each … Read more
First prize: Trust Territory by Robert Crease Second prize: Entanglement by Les Hunter Third prize (tie): Effect Size by Heather-Ayn Indelicato, Discontinuities by Bryan J. Field Honorable Mention: With Strings Attached by Luca Mazzucato, The Garden Gnome Extraction by Faisal Qayum and Christopher Miao. Bringing science and theatre together can provide the inspiration for a … Read more
Featuring Tony Tyson from LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope). When: Thursday May 2nd, 5:00pm at the Simons Center Auditorium, room 103 Wine and Cheese Reception at 5:00pm, Lecture at 5:30pm Title: “LSST: New Science Frontiers” Speaker: Dr. Tony Tyson; LSST, Physics Department, University of California, Davis, CA Homepage: http://www.lsst.org/lsst/lsst_cs [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] ABSTRACT: Expected … Read more
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Thursday, April 25, 2013 Wine and Cheese Reception starting at 5:30 pm William F. Duffy is a professional sculptor ,he has been a consultant for the CAD/CAM industry and also has taught 3D computational graphics at the college level. His work investigates 3D computational graphics to define and represent … Read more
What Can Big Data Teach Us About Society and About Ourselves? Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on issues at the interface of networks and information, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web … Read more
UNIVERSE OR MULTIVERSE? Andrei Linde studied physics at Moscow State University, was a member at CERN and is currently a Professor of Physics at Stanford University. He is an author of more than 250 papers on particle physics, phase transitions and cosmology. As a founding author of the inflationary universe scenario, he has written … Read more
