SPEAKERS

The History of Relativity, 6/14/2005

Dr. Peter L. Galison is the Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. In 1997, he was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow; in 1999, he was a winner of the Max Planck Prize given by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and Humboldt Stiftung. Galison's books include How Experiments End (1987), Image and Logic (1997), and Einstein's Clocks, Poincar?'s Maps: Empires of Time (2003). In addition, Galison has launched several projects examining the powerful cross-currents between physics and other fields--these include a series of co-edited volumes on the relations between science, art and architecture. He co-produced a documentary film on the politics of science, Ultimate Weapon: The H-bomb Dilemma, and is now working on a second with Robb Moss, Secrecy, about the architecture of the classification and secrecy establishment.

Einstein's Cosmic Legacy, 7/11/2005

Edward "Rocky" Kolb is a founding head of the NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Group at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Presently he is the Director of the Particle Astrophysics Center at Fermilab. Kolb is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the co-author of The Early Universe, the standard textbook on particle physics and cosmology. He is alsothe author of Blind Watchers of the Sky: The People and Ideas that Shaped Our Views of the Universe.

Janna Levin is Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her work focuses on theories of the early universe, chaos, and black holes. She is also the author of the popular science book How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space, published in paperback by Anchor Books. Her second book, a novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, will be published in 2006 by Knopf.

Time's Arrow, 8/11/2005

David Albert is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the M.A. Program in The Philosophical Foundations of Physics, and author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience and Time and Chance and has published many articles on quantum mechanics.

Sean Carroll is an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department, Enrico Fermi Institute, and Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. His research ranges over a number of topics in theoretical physics, focusing on cosmology, field theory, particle physics, and gravitation. He is the author of a graduate textbook, Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity.

Antonia Contro is an artist who exhibits locally and nationally and her work is in noted private and public collections. In 2002, she was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship. She is on the advisory boards of the STREB Dance Company and the Center for Arts Policy, Columbia College Chicago. Shethe Executive Director of Marwen, a not for profit organization that provides art education, college planning, and career development programs to under-served students in grades 6-12.

Gretchen Helfrich (moderator) hosts Odyssey, Chicago Public Radio?s daily talk show of ideas. She has been with Odyssey since it went on the air in January 1998. In addition she has anchored several primary and general election night broadcasts. She holds a bachelor?s degree from Georgetown University?s School of Foreign Service.

Einstein's Hidden Worlds, 9/8/2005

Joe Lykken, after receiving his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1982, worked with Steven Weinberg on the first realistic theoretical models of supersymmetry. In 1984 he joined the stampede of particle theorists into superstring theory, and spent the next decade wrestling with deep issues of how strings are related both to quantum gravity and to particlephysics. In a 1996 paper he was the first to suggest that superstrings and quantum gravity might appear directly in the next generation of particle physics experiments. He also co-authored twoof the early papers on the physics of large or warped extra dimensions. Since joining the theory group at Fermilab in 1989, he has been involved in planning experimental searches for supersymmetry, the Higgs boson, andfor extra dimensions. He has served and continues to serve on number of special panels and committees charged with shaping the future of particlephysics. Lykken recently appeared on the NOVA television documentary "The Elegant Universe".

The Ethics of Scientific Progress: A The Public Square at the IHC Event, 10/6/2005

Lennard Davis is Literature and Disabilities Studies Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research has included the political and social history of the idea of normality, the history and theory of the novel, and the relation of disability to contemporary and historical culture and politics. He is currently working on a cultural history of obsession.

Eboo Patel is the Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit organization that brings young people from diverse religious communities together to build understanding between religious communities and encourage cooperative service to others. Patel earned his doctorate in the Sociology of Religion from the University of Oxford, where was a Rhodes Scholar.

Jenny Reardon is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Adjunct Research Professor of Women's Studies at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University in August 2002. Her book, Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics, was published with Princeton University Press in December of 2004.

Laurie Zoloth is Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities, and of Religion, at Northwestern University?s Feinberg School of Medicine. Her current research projects include the emerging issues in medical and research genetics, ethical issues in stem cell research, and distributive justice in health care.

Aaron Freeman (moderator), journalist and stand-up comic, is a popular commentator on National Public Radio?s flagship news program, ?All Things Considered.? He is also correspondent for Chicago Public Radio?s morning magazine ?Eight Forty Eight.? He frequently performs with the famed Second City Theater and is a sought-after humorous speaker across America.

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