Events in the Adrian College Mathematics Department
 

Adrian sponsors a monthly convocation on a wide range of topics. Recent convocations related to the sciences have included Allen Lightman, MIT, "The Physicist as Novelist"; Steven Pinker, MIT, "How the Mind Works"; and Sy Montgomery, Nature author, "In Search for the Golden Moon Bear"

CONVOCATION SPEAKERS OF INTEREST

Kenneth Miller, November 8, 2006, Dawson Auditorium
Kenneth Miller is at the center of the growing debate over the introduction of intelligent design to the science curriculum. Miller, a biologist from Brown University, among many other things, is the co-author of the most widely used biology text book in America's High Schools.

Lisa Randall, March 14, 2007, Dawson Auditorium
Lisa Randall has emerged at the vangaurd of a new movement to open minds to the potential for science to truly take us where no man (or woman) has gone before. A professor of Physics at Harvard, Randall is the most referenced physicist on the planet, and the author of an amazing new book called Warped Passages.