{"id":6045,"date":"2011-01-11T11:07:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T19:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=6045"},"modified":"2011-01-11T11:07:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T19:07:18","slug":"doings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/11\/doings\/","title":{"rendered":"Doings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For you L.A. locals, tonight I&#8217;m giving an informal talk at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alhambralibrary.org\/events.html\">Alhambra Library<\/a>; all are welcome.  Which reminds me of a few other public events coming up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Of course <a href=\"http:\/\/tedxcaltech.com\/\">TEDxCaltech<\/a> is this Friday.<\/li>\n<li>On Monday 24 January I&#8217;m giving a public lecture at my alma mater, <a href=\"http:\/\/campusevents.villanova.edu\/VUEvents\/EventList.aspx?fromdate=1\/24\/2011&amp;todate=1\/24\/2011&amp;display=Day&amp;type=public&amp;eventidn=5720&amp;view=EventDetails&amp;information_id=17442&amp;print=print\">Villanova University<\/a>, on Philadelphia&#8217;s scenic Main Line.<\/li>\n<li>For any glamorous cinephiles who will be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/sundance.slated.com\/2011\/films\/illbeyourmirrorthescienceofourselves_sundance2011;jsessionid=7DFDCA26514481018D60048C11859D78\">Sundance Film Festival<\/a>, I&#8217;ll be on a panel on Friday the 28th to talk about science and movies.<\/li>\n<li>On January 30 I&#8217;m giving a talk for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/upcoming-lectures\/\">Skeptic Society<\/a>.  No details yet, but it will be at Caltech.  I&#8217;ll be busting out a brand new talk, on the laws of nature and the meaning of life.<\/li>\n<li>On February 21 I&#8217;m giving a colloquium at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/physics\/\">Carnegie Mellon<\/a> in Pittsburgh.  No explicit public talk, but they usually allow interlopers.<\/li>\n<li>On March 1 I&#8217;m giving a public lecture at <a href=\"http:\/\/academic.reed.edu\/physics\/\">Reed College<\/a> in Portland.  Back to the arrow of time for this one.<\/li>\n<li>The last weekend in March, Jennifer and I are doing some sort of joint gig at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdsciencefestival.com\/\"> San Diego Science Festival<\/a>.  Details yet to coalesce.<\/li>\n<li>On April 5 I&#8217;m doing a fun event as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lfla.org\/aloud\/\">ALOUD series<\/a> at the LA public library.  It&#8217;s a joint appearance with poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barclayagency.com\/hirshfield.html\">Jane Hirshfield<\/a>.  We&#8217;ll be seeking common ground between our disciplines; failing that, fisticuffs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also some special big-ticket events coming up this summer &#8212; more once they are whipped into shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For you L.A. locals, tonight I&#8217;m giving an informal talk at the Alhambra Library; all are welcome. Which reminds me of a few other public events coming up: Of course TEDxCaltech is this Friday. On Monday 24 January I&#8217;m giving a public lecture at my alma mater, Villanova University, on Philadelphia&#8217;s scenic Main Line. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}