Monday, 12 Nov 2012
Rebuilding the GOP after Watergate
Bring your lunch and join author Suzanne O'Dea for a discussion of her new book, Madam Chairman: Mary Louise Smith and the Republican Revival after Watergate. For much of her career, Mary Louise Smith stood alone as a woman in a world of politics run by men.
Geometry: From Riemann to Einstein and On to String Theory
String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. Shing-Tung Yau is the man who mathematically proved that these manifolds exist. He is the Graustein Professor of Mathematics and chair of the Math Department at Harvard University. He has won many awards including the...
Rewiring the Brain
Dr. Michael Merzenich is a leading pioneer in brain plasticity and Emeritus Professor at the University of California at San Francisco. He was on the team that invented the cochlear implant and is cofounder of Posit Science, a company that provides brain training software clinically proven to improve cognitive performance.