First, physicist Janna Levin visits to talk about her research (areas of which include black holes, the finite universe and theories of everything) & her latest book, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines. The book is a fictional account of the lives of mathematicians Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing.
http://www.jannalevin.com/
then,
mathematician Cathleen Morawetz, Professor Emerita at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and winner of the National Medal of Science in 1998.
http://www.nyu.edu/nyutoday/archives/17/09/Stories/Morawetz.html
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