Author Appearances

Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams

The View from the Center of the Universe

Discovering our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos

Starred events* are multimedia lectures with high-resolution astronomical videos, possibly with book signing afterward.

Late 2008

Sept 5-6 Fri-Sat – Public conference in Oslo to launch the Norwegion edition of View from the Center, with Prof. Bernard Carr

Sept 8-12 Mon-Fri – Joel and Nancy are plenary speakers at international conference in Granada, Spain, on Cosmology Across Cultures; give joint multimedia lecture on Fri Sept 12

Oct 4 Sat – Mt. Tamalpais Astronomy Talk*

Oct 27-31 – Joel lectures on cosmology to grad students at the National Observatory of Brazil, Rio de Janiero; Nancy and Joel give public talks (to be scheduled) to celebrate publication of the Portugese edition of View from the Center

Nov. 8 Sat – Chicago Humanities Festival – Invited speakers - early afternoon* http://www.chfestival.org/resources/content/WinterFINAL1.pdf

Dec 4 Thurs – Awards Banquet speakers, Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL *

Spring 2008

Mar 24 Mon – Public Lecture, sponsored by Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, Ohio State University, The Ballroom, The Blackwell Inn, 2110 Tuttle Place Park, 5 - 6 pm * http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~astro/ccapp/PublicLectures.html

March 26 Wed – Public Lecture at Vanderbilt University, Room 4327, Stevenson Center, 4 pm * http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases?id=39723

March 27 Thurs – Public Lecture in The Center for Science and Spirituality Series, “What it Means to Be Human: Science, Consciousness and Our Place in the Universe,” at Business and Aerospace Building’s State Farm Lecture Hall, Middle Tennessee State University, 7 pm *

April 14 Mon – The Public Lecture of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, May Hall, St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO, 7 pm *

Early 2008

Jan 6 Sun – Luau Evening, Evolutionary Epic conference, Makaha Resort, Oahu, Hawaii http://www.evolutionaryepic.org/

Jan 23 Wed – Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture, Smithwick Theater, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA, 7 pm * http://ephemeris.sjaa.net/0801/j.html

Late 2007

Sept 21 Fri – Lecture for Core Course, University of California, Merced *

Oct 18-19 Thurs-Fri – Talks at State University of New York, Geneseo, NY *

Nov 14 Wed – After-Dinner Lecture by Joel Primack, American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL *

Dec 16/18 Tues/Thurs – Nancy and Joel taught inner city high school kids about cosmology in Matthew Fox and Professor Pitt’s YELLAWE program in Oakland, CA *

Summer 2007

June 30 Sat – The Future of Intelligence in the Cosmos workshop, NASA Ames Laboratory – Joel: “The Future of the Visible Universe May Depend on Us”; Nancy: “Interstellar Travel Requires a Shared Cosmology”

July 16 Mon – J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture by Joel Primack, Los Alamos High School Duane Smith Auditorium, Los Alamos, NM, 7:30 pm *

July 17 Tues – Presentation, St. Johns College, Santa Fe, NM, 7:30 pm *

July 19 Thurs – Colloquium, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, 3:30 pm *

July 29 Sun – Keynote Lecture, International Society for the Study of Time Conference, Asilomar, CA *

Sept 10 Mon – Public Lecture at Science North, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 7:30 pm *

Sept 13 Thurs – Public Lecture at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 7:30 pm *

Spring 2007

April 9 Mon – Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics Public Lecture, 1800 Chemistry Bldg, 930 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI, 7:30 pm *

April 15 Sun – Public Lecture, David Rittenhouse Lab 1A, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 5:30 pm *

April 16 Mon – Panel Discussion in connection with Brecht’s “Galileo,” Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA, 7 pm

June 16 Sat – Epic and Futures Mini-Conference, The Presidio, San Francisco

Winter 2007

Jan 26 Fri - University of Texas, Austin, and McDonald Observatory, Robert Lee Moore Hall on the UT campus, Room 4.102, 7:30 pm *

Jan 27 Sat – Feast of Jewish Learning, Temple Beth Am, 26790 Arasterdo Road, Los Altos Hills, CA, 8:45-10:15 pm

Mar 1 Thurs – Princeton Club of Northern California and Harvard Club of San Francisco, Gordon & Rees LLP, 275 Battery Street, Suite 2000, Embarcadero West, San Francisco, 6-8 pm *

November 2006

Nov 11 Sat - Advanced Imaging Conference, Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, 1:30 pm *

Nov 13 Mon - Sonoma State University, What Physicists Do Colloquium, Darwin Hall 103, 4 pm *

Nov 17 Fri - Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Sigma Xi and Teilhard Society Lecture, 3:15-5 pm

Britain and Ireland - October 9-18, 2006

Oct 9 Mon - Archaelogy Lecture Theatre, Gordon Square, University College London, 4 pm *

Oct 10 Tues - Mason Lecture Theatre, Bancroft Building, Queen Mary, University of London, cosponsored by the Scientific and Medical Network, 6:30 pm *

Oct 11 Weds - Oxford University, Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, 4:30 pm *

Oct 12 Thurs - Miller's Academy of Art and Science, 28a Hereford Road, Notting Hill, London, 7 pm *

Oct 16 Mon - Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, 7 pm *

Oct 18 Weds - Cambridge University, Institute of Astronomy, 7 pm *

October 2006

Oct 2 Monday - Congregation Etz Chayim Yom Kippur presentation and study group, Gunn High School auditorium, starting 1 pm

Oct 25 Weds - NASA Ames Director's Colloquium, 2 pm; NASA Research Park public lecture, 7 pm *

Oct 26 Thurs - Temple Beth El, Soquel, CA, 7 pm

Oct 30 Mon - San Francisco State University, 411 Thornton Hall, 4 pm

Spring - Summer 2006

Mar 9 Thurs - Santa Cruz, California, Halliday Lecture, University Inn and Conference Center, 8 pm

Apr 6 Thursday - Publication date: books go on sale
New York City, Columbia University Observatory, Room 833 Mudd (Engineering School) enter campus at 116th Street entrance, 7:30 pm *

Apr 10 Mon - Stanford University, Room 200 Hewlett Teaching Center, 8 pm *

Apr 11 Tues - Capitola Book Cafe, Capitola, California 7:30 pm

Apr 12 Wed - Salt Lake City, Frontiers of Science Lecture at University of Utah, Skaggs Biology Bldg., 7:30 pm *

Apr 17 Mon - Portland, Oregon, Reed College 4 pm; Powell's Books, 1005 W Burnside, 7:30 pm

Apr 18 Tues - Seattle Town Hall, 1119 8th Avenue, 7:30 pm *

Apr 19 Wed - Vienna, Virginia, Borders Books, 7:30 pm

Apr 20 Thurs - Washington, DC, Politics & Prose, Treasury Executive Institute, 9 - 11 am *

Apr 25 Tues - San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences, Sequoia Boardroom, 875 Howard Street, 2 pm and 7:30 pm *

Apr 28 Fri - Chicago, Transitions Bookplace, 1000 W. North Avenue, 7:00 pm

Apr 29 Sat - Chicago, Field Museum, 1 pm *

May 2 Tues - Berkeley, University of California,Sackler Lecture, 5:45 pm * 2050 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. - contact: Loraine Dowling, ldowling@berkeley.edu (510) 642-7091

May 3 Wed - Davis, CA, University of California, Sciences Center Lecture Hall, 8 pm *

May 8 Mon - Santa Cruz, CA, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 7:30 pm

May 9 Tues - Santa Cruz, CA, University of California, Media Theater, 8 pm *

May 10 Weds - Irvine, CA, University of California, Room 100 Engineering Lecture Hall, 8 pm *

May 16 Tues - Harvard Observatory Author's Night, Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, 8 pm *

May 31 Wed - Philadelphia, Franklin Institute, 6:30 pm *

June 2 Fri - Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, McDonnell Hall A02, 1:30 pm *

June 6 Tues - Keynote Lecture, Metanexus Annual Conference on Science and Religion, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia *

June 25 Sun - Keynote Lecture, Evolutionary Salon on Transformational Philanthropy, Gold Lake Mountain Resort, Colorado *

Aug 25 Fri – Invited Lecture, Google NYC, 1440 Broadway 21st FL, New York, NY 10018 *

* Multimedia lecture with high-resolution astronomical videos, possibly with book signing afterward

Last updated August 16, 2007.