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“Knocking on Heaven’s Door”

2012 Science Without Limits Symposium Keynote Speaker: Lisa Randall

Lisa Randall  is Professor of Physics at Harvard University. She is one of today’s most influential and highly cited theoretical physicists, and has received numerous awards and honors for her contributions.  Her work has been featured in         Time magazine, Newsweek, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vogue, the Economist, Scientific American,Discover, New Scientist, Science, Nature, and elsewhere. Randall is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Physical Society, and is the recipient of several honorary degrees.  When not solving the problems of the universe, she can be found rock climbing, skiing, or contributing to art-science connections.  Hypermusic Prologue, a small opera for which she wrote the libretto, premiered in the Pompidou Center in 2009, and Measure for Measure, an art exhibit she co-curated, opened in Los Angeles in 2010.

Dr. Randall also authored the recently published book “Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World”  and also authored the NY Times best seller “Warped Passages:  Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions”. 

 

“Knocking on Heaven’s Door” is  currently available for purchase at the L&C Bookstore.