Marcelo Gleiser on The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto For Humanity's Future In-Person / Online
This is a hybrid event. Join us in person in the Mayer Room or online via Zoom. The Zoom registration is below. No registration is required for in-person attendance.
Marcelo Gleiser will speak on his new book, The Dawn of a Mindful Universe. "An award-winning astronomer and physicist’s spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity—the foundations of science—to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change."
Marcelo Gleiser is a theoretical physicist specialized in cosmology and high energy physics, complexity theory, and astrobiology. He has been at Dartmouth College since 1991. His undergraduate degree was from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1981), followed by a Masters from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1982), and a Ph.D. from King's College London (1986). He was a postdoctoral fellow at Fermilab (1986-1988) and at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1988-1991). He is a Fellow and past General Councilor of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House and NSF.
- Date:
- Thursday, November 16, 2023
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Mayer Room
- Online:
- This is an online event.
- Event URL:
- https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqd-mvrjovGNwhbY4rNr7uSNuRS06yboZU
- Categories:
- Adult