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SUMMARY:Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: "When Scientific Technica
 lities Matter"
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Essex will speak as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scho
 lar, giving the lecture "When Scientific Technicalities Matter." Sometime
 s mathematicians and physicists seem obsessive. Their geekish technicalit
 ies don't seem to matter, even though they actually do. This lecture is a
 bout how some of these seeming minutiae actually are important to how we 
 comprehend our world, and whether we are able to fear it or marvel at it.
  Essex is the co-discoverer of the entropy production paradox and is form
 er director of the Theoretical Physics Program at the University of Weste
 rn Ontario, where he is a professor of applied mathematics. His work on r
 adiation thermodynamics was highlighted at the 2011 Joint European Thermo
 dynamics Conference, and he has taught on this subject at the UNESCO adva
 nced school in Udine, Italy. Essex coauthored the award-winning "Taken by
  Storm:  The Troubled Science, Policy, and Politics of Global Warming" an
 d "Calculus:  A Complete Course." He has a B.Sc. (Hon.) from the Universi
 ty of Western Ontario, an M.S. from Rice University, and a Ph.D. from Yor
 k University.
LOCATION:Thomas Commons Room Hedges
URL:http://webapps.cornellcollege.edu/events/2013/03/21/8577/
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