Dr. Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics. This month's talk is titled "Applying Physics to Philosophy".
Paul Davies is a British-born theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and best-selling author. He is Regents’ Professor and Director of Beyond: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.
The Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science invites you to attend a special lecture by Andrew Briggs, "It Keeps Me Seeking", to be followed with a panel discussion featuring Paul Davies, Barry Ritchie and Hava Samuelson.
The Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science is collaborating with the Interplanetary Initiative to present a symposium on "Planetary Intelligence: Humanities' Future in the Age of AI". There will be a variety of different talks.
Each year the Beyond Center presents a special award to a leading scientist to honor the life and work of Eugene Shoemaker and his wife Carolyn Shoemaker.
Dr. Forrest is a Professor in CIDSE and Center Director in the Biodesign Institute. She studies the biology of computation and computation in biology.
Dr. Adami obtained his Ph.D. and M.A. in theoretical physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, as well as a Diploma in Physics from Bonn University (Germany). His main research focus is Darwinian evolution.
Everywhere modern humans went, they constructed their own ecological niche by eliminating competitors. How did this relatively young species accomplish so much in so little time? Join Curtis Marean in this discussion.
Dr. Susan Rosenberg’s group reports phylogenetically deep translational discovery of fundamental, conserved biology in the bacterium E. coli.
Physical emergence-crystals, rocks, sandpiles, turbulent eddies, planets, stars-is fundamentally different from biological emergence-amoeba, mice, humans-even though the latter is based in the former.