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Contact: Susan Jamieson-McLarnon 604.291.5151; susan_jamieson-mclarnon@sfu.ca
March 3, 2004
Nobel laureates Anthony J. Leggett, for physics and Shirin Ebadi, for peace, "headline" Simon Fraser University's Nobels and Other Prizes free public lecture series, March 4- April 21, at the university's downtown campus. Both Ebadi and Leggett received their Nobel prizes late last year.
Leggett (6 pm, Thursday, March 11 at Harbour Centre) will review his early attempts to understand the behavior of liquid helium-3, below 3 mK (three one-thousandths of a degree above absolute zero). This research resulted in the discovery of "spontaneously broken spin-orbit symmetry," an essential ingredient in the interpretation of nuclear magnetic resonance data.
Iranian lawyer and activist Shirin Ebadi will give the Peace lecture at the Wosk Centre on 6 pm, Wednesday, April 21. Ebadi has spent decades promoting peaceful solutions to social problems. As a leading human rights defender for women, children, and victims of government repression, she focuses on the issue of compatibility between Islam and democracy. Free tickets to this lecture will be distributed through an on-line lottery. Information on the lottery will be available on March 18 at www.sfu.ca
Other lectures in the series:
Thursday, March 4, 6 pm
SFU physics professor Elana Brief discusses the discoveries of medicine Nobel winners Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield and the science behind magnetic resonance imaging and its far-reaching applications.
Thursday, March 18, 6 pm
SFU English professor Paul St. Pierre discusses reclusive South African Nobel novelist J.M. Coetzee.
Thursday, March 25, 6 pm
Eric Accili, SFU kinesiology professor, on work of Rod MacKinnon who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for producing an image of cell membrane channels.
Thursday, April 1, 6 pm
SFU mathematician Peter Borwein on the problems and effect on mathematics of the Clay Mathematics Institute's seven $1 million prizes for the most outstanding mathematical challenges.
Thursday, April 15, 6 pm
SFU economist Peter Kennedy discusses how the work of Nobel laureates' Robert Engle and Clive Granger forever changed the way time series analysis is conducted.
All of the lectures in the series, except the April 21 Peace lecture (at the Wosk Centre, 580 West Hastings), will be held at SFU's Harbour Centre campus at 515 West Hastings St. Seating is limited. Reservations 604.291.5100. Information on the lottery for free tickets to the Peace lecture will be available on March 18 at www.sfu.ca.
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Leggett (6 pm, Thursday, March 11 at Harbour Centre) will review his early attempts to understand the behavior of liquid helium-3, below 3 mK (three one-thousandths of a degree above absolute zero). This research resulted in the discovery of "spontaneously broken spin-orbit symmetry," an essential ingredient in the interpretation of nuclear magnetic resonance data.
Iranian lawyer and activist Shirin Ebadi will give the Peace lecture at the Wosk Centre on 6 pm, Wednesday, April 21. Ebadi has spent decades promoting peaceful solutions to social problems. As a leading human rights defender for women, children, and victims of government repression, she focuses on the issue of compatibility between Islam and democracy. Free tickets to this lecture will be distributed through an on-line lottery. Information on the lottery will be available on March 18 at www.sfu.ca
Other lectures in the series:
Thursday, March 4, 6 pm
SFU physics professor Elana Brief discusses the discoveries of medicine Nobel winners Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield and the science behind magnetic resonance imaging and its far-reaching applications.
Thursday, March 18, 6 pm
SFU English professor Paul St. Pierre discusses reclusive South African Nobel novelist J.M. Coetzee.
Thursday, March 25, 6 pm
Eric Accili, SFU kinesiology professor, on work of Rod MacKinnon who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for producing an image of cell membrane channels.
Thursday, April 1, 6 pm
SFU mathematician Peter Borwein on the problems and effect on mathematics of the Clay Mathematics Institute's seven $1 million prizes for the most outstanding mathematical challenges.
Thursday, April 15, 6 pm
SFU economist Peter Kennedy discusses how the work of Nobel laureates' Robert Engle and Clive Granger forever changed the way time series analysis is conducted.
All of the lectures in the series, except the April 21 Peace lecture (at the Wosk Centre, 580 West Hastings), will be held at SFU's Harbour Centre campus at 515 West Hastings St. Seating is limited. Reservations 604.291.5100. Information on the lottery for free tickets to the Peace lecture will be available on March 18 at www.sfu.ca.
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