Monday, April 9, 2007

Janna Levin




It's WOMEN IN SCIENCE NIGHT on The Speakeasy!

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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