The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego is hosting Sir Roger Penrose, who will be presenting a talk entitled "Fashion, Faith and Fantasy, and the Big Questions in Modern Physics." A book signing will follow. The event will be held on Monday, June 5, 2017 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. at the Hojel Auditorium.
Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematician and physicist, as well as author of numerous books, including The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics. He is
a winner of the Copley Medal, and the Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking. Penrose has made profound contributions in areas of research related to black hole singularities, the unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity, the structure of space-time, the nature of consciousness, and the origin of our Universe.
Penrose's geometric creations have been featured in several movies. His tilings can be seen on many public buildings, including the Oxford Mathematics Institute, and will soon decorate the San Francisco Transit Terminal. Their fivefold symmetry, which was initially thought impossible or a mathematical curiosity, has now been found in nature. In 1989 Penrose wrote The Emperor’s New Mind, which challenged the premise that consciousness is computation, and proposed new physics to understand it.
Additional Information here:
http://imagination.ucsd.edu/_wp/news/sir-roger-penrose-fashion-faith-and-fantasy-and-the-big-questions-in-modern-physics/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WXTX0IUaOg
