Wow! Amazing lectures coming up….

The President's Lecture Series at Rice University is bringing some amazing speakers this year! Sylvester Gates speaks on Wednesday, October 15th in the Shell Auditorium, McNair Hall. For some of his work see:

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Breakthrough [videorecording] : the changing face of science in America

Blackside, Inc.

QC794.6 .S85 E43 2003


The elegant universe [videorecording]

McMaster, Joseph.

QC73.8 .C6 E436 2005


Einstein's big idea [videorecording]

Bodanis, David. E=mc²

Andrew Wiles will be speaking on Tuesday, November 11th. Read about his work:

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Fermat's last theorem : the story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years
by Singh, Simon.


 

Data on display

A great little interview in Nature News with two researchers who are putting their research results online–before they publish. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080915/full/455273a.html

2009 Events

2009 will be a busy year! In the year 2009, the world will celebrate the International Year of Astronomy as it commemorates the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s use of a telescope to study the skies, and Kepler’s publication of Astronomia Nova. 2009 is also the anniversary of many other historic events in science, including Huygen’s 1659 publication of Systema Saturnium. http://astronomy2009.us/

2009 is also the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary
of the publication of his seminal work, ‘On the Origin of Species’. Cambridge is having the biggest celebration: http://www.darwin2009.cam.ac.uk/  This is what we are doing locally: http://www.darwin2009houston.org/