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Location: Dively 202 (Map)
Thursday March 29, 2018
8:30 am Coffee and Registration
- 9:00 – 9:15 Opening remarks and welcome. President Barbara Snyder.
Session I
- 9:15 – 10:00 Olle Heinonen (Argonne National Lab)
- Fun with nanomagnets
- 10:00 – 10:45 Gordon Walker (Univ British Columbia)
- Buckminster Fuller and a persistent mystery in astrophysics
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
Session II
- 11:00 – Noon Michael Fisher (University of Maryland)
- Wilson’s Renormalization Group Theory: Ken Wilson as I Knew Him
- Noon – 12:45 Michael Hinczewski (CWRU)
- Entropic forces in evolution
12:45 – 2:00 Lunch
Session III
- 2:00 – 2:45 Alexander Vilenkin (Tufts)
- Black holes from cosmic inflation
- 2:45 – 3:30 Michael Mann (Penn State)
- Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Planetary Wave Resonance
and Extreme Weather Events
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee Break
Session IV
- 3:45 – 4:30 Harsh Mathur (CWRU)
- Philip Taylor: Life in Science
- 4:30 – 5:15 Philip Taylor (CWRU)
- Laws, equations, principles — the pathway to immortality
- 5:15 – 5:30 Dean Cyrus Taylor
- Closing remarks