Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, D.C. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters.
Date: Wed., February 27, 2008
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Crystal Cove Auditorium, UCI Student Center
Sponsor: Department of Physics & Astronomy, School of Physical Sciences
Event Description
The Dark Side of the Universe: Beyond the Stars and Stuff We Are Made Of
Michael S. Turner is chief scientist and director of strategic planning at Argonne National Laboratory and Rauner Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago.
Date: Thu., March 6, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Crystal Cove Auditorium, UCI Student Center
Sponsor: UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality
Event Description
Managing Nuclear Proliferation
Thomas C. Schelling is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, Department of Economics and School of Public Policy. In 2005, he shared the Nobel Prize in Economics with Robert Aumann of the University of Jerusalem “for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.”
Date: Thu., April 3, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Claire Trevor Theatre
Tickets: $15, $9 for students Call: 949-824-2787
Sponsor: Departments of Dance and Music, Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Event Description
An Evening of Solo Voice
Meredith Monk is a New York-based composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, music theater works, films and installations.
“A composer, singer and theater artist for whom experimentation has led to wondrous discovery, Monk conjures up a spectrum of colorful and evocative sounds from her one-of-a-kind vocal instrument.” — The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer
Start Date: November 13, 2007
End Date: April 3, 2008
Art: NASA image of the “bullet cluster” – showing the inferred dark matter distribution as blue and the measured hot gas distributions in red – is considered among the strongest evidence for the existence of dark matter.
The Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellows Series brings to Irvine global scholars and intellects who are illuminating the challenges and possibilities of our increasingly interdependent world.
Unless otherwise indicated, presentations are free and open to the public. For more information, call 949-824-6503.