Katz-Cohen Lecture: "The Universe Speaks in Numbers - How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets"

Dates
Tue, Nov 19, 2019 - 04:30 PM 鈥 Tue, Nov 19, 2019 - 06:00 PM
Event Address
85 St Nicholas Terrace, New York, NY 10031
Phone Number
212-650-6850
Event Location
ASRC Auditorium
Event Details

Katz-Cohen Lecture: "The Universe Speaks in Numbers - how modern math reveals Nature's deepest secrets" Natalie Wolchover interviews Graham Farmelo

Tuesday, November 19, 2019  |  ASRC Auditorium  |  4:30-6:00 p.m.

Dr. Graham Farmelo will be speaking about his latest book, 鈥淭he Universe Speaks in Numbers - how modern math reveals Nature's deepest secrets鈥. This is a history of the entangled development of physics and mathematics over the last 60 years or so. Dr. Farmelo will also be available to autograph his books.

is a well known science writer. He is the author of several books including 鈥淭he Strangest Man鈥, the definitive biography of Paul Dirac, Nobel Laureate, one of the inventors of quantum mechanics and one of the greatest physicists of all time and 鈥淐hurchill鈥檚 Bomb: The Hidden History of Science, Politics and War鈥. Recently he was chosen as the official biographer of Stephen Hawking.

He was awarded the Kelvin Prize and Medal in 2012 for outstanding contributions to the public understanding of physics from the UK Institute of Physics. Awards for The Strangest Man include: Costa Prize for biography, UK, 2009; Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize, 2010; 鈥楶hysics World鈥 book of the year, 2009. DR. Farmelo was also the Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography, from the PEN American Center 2010

For more information on Dr. Farmelo, visit his website is:

is a senior writer and editor at Quanta Magazine covering the physical sciences. Previously, she wrote for Popular Science, LiveScience and other publications. She has a bachelor鈥檚 in physics from Tufts University, studied graduate-level physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-authored several academic papers in nonlinear optics. Her writing was featured in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015. She is the winner of the 2016 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award, the 2016 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, and the American Institute of Physics鈥 2017 Science Communication Award for Articles.

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We hope you can all be there. However, if you cannot attend, we will be streaming the interview LIVE on the zoom website!

zoom.us/j/761011333

Meeting ID: 761 011 333

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