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The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD
« on: April 05, 2017, 01:03:05 PM »
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Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin will visit UC San Diego on May 2 to publicly discuss his life and work with acclaimed science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson. The public talk will occur at 7 p.m. at the Price Center Theater, under the sponsorship of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 7th. They’ll be available online through the UC San Diego Box Office (click here). You also can buy tickets at the Box Office, which is located at Price Center, or order by phone, 858-534-TIXS. General admission tickets are $40 Faculty and staff will pay $20.

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Re: The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2017, 11:44:45 AM »
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WOW! We are already sold out for this amazing upcoming event w/ @GRRMspeaking & #KimStanleyRobinson! Tix still avail 4 students but HURRY!

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« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2017, 09:12:40 AM »
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Join us for a lecture by the inimitable physicist Sir Roger Penrose, 6/5 @UCSanDiego. More info and ticket info: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

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« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2017, 08:35:29 PM »
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December 7, 2017, 7:30—8:45pm Price Center Theater

Join us for the launch of the much-anticipated new novel by Andy Weir, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Martian. Weir will discuss Artemis-a crime caper set on the moon, in a near-future world that Weir builds with his trademark rich, scientifically accurate detail.

Artemis is the first only city on the moon. If you aren't a tourist or an eccentric billionaire, life in this fledgling new territory is tough. Providence and imperial dreams have been nickel-and-dimed from those who have called the moon their home. That's why Jazz doesn't rely on her day-job. She moonlights, instead, as a smuggler, and gets along okay with small-time contraband that is, until the chance to commit the perfect crime presents itself.

Weir will discuss Artemis with Dr. Erik Viirre, Associate Director of the Clarke Center and the Medical and Technical Director of the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE.

Book signing to follow. Copies will be available for purchase.

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Re: The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2018, 12:13:05 PM »
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"New Cosmological View of Dark Matter, which Strangely and Slowly Decays"

Lecture by Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University
January 19, 2018, 3pm
Liebow Auditorium
UC San Diego
Free and open to the public (seating first-come, first-served)

Sir Roger Penrose will give a talk on his latest research and provide an insight into the thinking of a modern day theoretical physicist. Is the Universe destined to collapse, ending in a big crunch or to expand indefinitely until it homogenizes in a heat death? Roger will explain a third alternative, the cosmological conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC) scheme-where the Universe evolves through eons, each ending in the decay of mass and beginning again with new Big Bang. The equations governing the crossover from each aeon to the next demand the creation of a dominant new scalar material, postulated to be dark matter. In order that this material does not build up from aeon to aeon, it is taken to decay away completely over the history of each aeon. The dark matter particles (erebons) may be expected to behave almost as classical particles, though with bosonic properties; they would probably be of about a Planck mass, and interacting only gravitationally. Their decay would produce gravitational signals, and be responsible for the approximately scale invariant temperature fluctuations in the CMB of the succeeding aeon. In our own aeon, erebon decay might well show up in signals discernable by gravitational wave detectors. The talk will blend Roger’s accessible style with an unapologetic detailed look at the physical principles. It should be of interest to practicing physicists and lay people who enjoy taking a more detailed look at physics.

Sir Roger Penrose, Emeritus Professor at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, winner of the Copley Medal and the Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking, has made profound contributions encompassing geometry, black hole singularities, the unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity, the structure of space-time, nature of consciousness and the origin of our Universe. His geometric creations, developed with his father Lionel, inspired the works of MC Escher, and the Penrose Steps have been featured in several movies. His tilings adorn 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.

Presented by the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego and the Penrose Institute.

Dr. Penrose was featured as a guest on Into the Impossible, the Clarke Center's podcast, on episode 10: Pictures, Pastries, and the Matter of the Universe.

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Graphic Science: Comics Engage the Cosmos

Save the date for May 8th, when we welcome Jorge Cham (creator of PHD Comics), Daniel Whiteson (physicist, UC Irvine), and Clifford Johnson (physicist, USC, and writer-illustrator) for an exciting evening of live drawing and graphic science! Cham and Whiteson collaborated on the new book We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe, which mixes popular science with comics, and Clifford Johnson is the writer-illustrator behind the graphic nonfiction book The Dialogues: Conversations About the Nature of the Universe. More details to come!

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WE HAVE NO IDEA Event @ UC San Diego Daniel and Jorge talk about "We Have No Idea" 05/08/18 ( May 8 ) - 19:00PM - Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination Join us!

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« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2018, 05:12:50 PM »
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ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Explore the future of medicine in an AI age with @RobertPicardo, @BasilLeafTech, @ucsdctri, @QI_UCSD, @hiskov, @LaurelRiek, and @eviirre—don't miss it! RSVP: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

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Re: The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2018, 09:58:32 AM »
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« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2018, 09:01:55 PM »
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Worldbuilding: Scenarios, for Fun and Survival — Program kickoff public lecture with Vernor Vinge

October 12, 5–7pm, Robinson Auditorium

UC San Diego

Free and open to the public; RSVP required

Light reception to follow


Learn about the complex process of science fiction worldbuilding to construct a dynamic future scenario with one of the masters of the field, Vernor Vinge.

The School of Global Policy and Strategy is celebrating its 30th anniversary by partnering with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination to produce San Diego 2049, a series of programs through 2018–19 that will use the imagination and narrative tools of science fiction to stimulate complex thinking about the future and the ways we could shape it through policy, technology, innovation, culture, and social change.

The much acclaimed science fiction writer Vernor Vinge is author, among other books, of Rainbows End, which takes place, in part, on a future UC San Diego campus. Vinge has won five Hugo Awards, including one for each of his last three novels, Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and Rainbows End (2006). Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his science fiction, he became an iconic figure among cybernetic scientists with the publication in 1981 of his novella "True Names," which is considered a seminal, visionary work of Internet fiction and cyberspace. Dr. Vinge is Emeritus professor of mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University and also noted, among other things, for introducing the term “the singularity.”

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« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2018, 10:18:00 PM »
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November 12, 2018 7:00pm–8:30pm
Telemedicine Auditorium, UC San Diego

Tickets: $12 via Eventbrite

Tickets are required

Cixin Liu, China’s most beloved science fiction writer—and one of the most important voices of the 21st century—will join celebrated American science fiction writer John Scalzi at the Clarke Center to discuss their work and the power of speculative worldbuilding. The authors will sign books following the event, which will be available courtesy of Mysterious Galaxy.

Cixin Liu, or Da Liu, as he is affectionately called by his fans, is the most prolific and popular science fiction writer in the People’s Republic of China. Liu is an eight-time winner of the Galaxy Award (the Chinese Hugo) and a winner of the Nebula Award. Translated in English by Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem achieved major acclaim, including recognition by former president Barack Obama. Prior to becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan, Shanxi.

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won the 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel for Redshirts, and his debut novel Old Man’s War was a finalist for Hugo Award. His other books include The Ghost Brigades, The Android’s Dream, The Last Colony, The Human Division and Lock In. He has won the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for science fiction, the Seiun, The Kurd Lasswitz and the Geffen awards. Material from his widely read blog Whatever has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. His latest book is The Consuming Fire.

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Re: The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2018, 08:18:24 AM »
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thx for the heads up- anyone else thinking of going?
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« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2018, 06:21:40 PM »
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Friday, December 14, 2018
3:00 - 4:30 p.m. | Kavli Auditorium, Tata Hall for the Sciences
UC San Diego

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In this special lecture, Sir Roger Penrose will explore how Hawking Points --Stephen Hawking's prediction of glowing black holes -- explain the nature of how our universe was formed and if there are others like it.

Sir Roger Penrose, the celebrated mathematician and physicist, is an Emeritus Professor at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford and winner of the Copley Medal and the Wolf Prize in Physics -- which he shared with Stephen Hawking. He has made profound contributions in geometry, 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.

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« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2019, 07:10:51 PM »
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Freeman Dyson and Gregory Benford (Ph.D. ’67)—two living luminaries in the fields of physics and futurism—join us on 1/30 to peer ahead 35 years, to 2054, and share their insights into what may be in store! Hosted by @imagineUCSD and @UCSDPhySci. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

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« Reply #14 on: April 26, 2019, 01:32:13 PM »
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Please join the UC San Diego Library for a special screening of Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2007, 117 min.), directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Sean Young.

The film is a loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It’s set in a dystopian 2019 Los Angeles and follows Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a detective who is pulled out of retirement to take down a group of escaped androids called replicants.

Blade Runner initially underperformed in theaters when it was first released in 1982; some praised its thematic complexity and visuals, while others were displeased with its slow-paced narrative and unconventional plot. However, by 1992 it had become a cult classic and was re-released in newly edited versions.

A panel discussion featuring UC San Diego alumnus and Hugo and Nebula award-winning author David Brin, Hollywood insider Paul Sammon, urban theorist Mike Davis and former UC San Diego faculty member in the Department of Literature Stephen Potts will take place before the screening at 6 p.m., also in the Atkinson Hall Auditorium. The panel discussion and film screening are free and open to the public but space is limited. Registration is required for both events, separately.


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San Diego 2049: Closing Keynote with Kim Stanley Robinson and Team Project Competition

May 22, 2019

5:30–7:30pm

Robinson Auditorium, UC San Diego

Free and open to the public; RSVP required

A light reception will follow

Kim Stanley Robinson—the multiple award-winning science fiction writer, climate change expert, and UC San Diego alum—joins us to deliver the closing keynote to San Diego 2049, sharing his insights into the future of the border region and how the practice of science fictional worldbuilding can help us imagine—and impact—issues of vital importance to individuals, our communities, our species, and life on planet Earth.

This evening will also feature the final projects of several UC San Diego graduate student teams who have been participating in the San Diego 2049 series and imagining their own future scenarios for the region.

Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.

A light reception will follow the event.