Stephen Hawking helped us launch this program in 2006; for this year's program see the On the Same Page home page.

The Art of Writing Science

Four eminent writers will talk about the experience – the challenges and rewards – of writing about science from diverse perspectives and for diverse audiences. This panel is presented in conjunction with the new On the Same Page initiative in the College of Letters & Science.

Monday, March 19, 2007
4:00-5:30
Toll Room, Alumni House
UC Berkeley

Featuring

Walter Alvarez, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at U.C. Berkeley and author of T. rex and the Crater of Doom

Timothy Ferris, Professor Emeritus of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley and author of The Whole Shebang and Coming of Age in the Milky Way

Leonard Mlodinow, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, co-author of A Briefer History of Time, and author of Euclid's Window and Feynman's Rainbow

Anne Nesbet, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at U.C. Berkeley and author of Savage Junctures: Sergei Eisenstein and the Shape of Thinking; currently working on a book on neurobiology and cinema

Admission is free, and everyone is welcome.

Co-sponsored by the College of Letters & Science and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities