[Mathmajors] Breakfast with Mario Livio

[Mandy Duvall]

As you may have already hear, author and astrophysicist, Mario Livio is on
campus this week for the Danz Lecture series. He will also be giving a
seminar to the Math Club titled "The Golden Ratio" on Thursday, October 18th
from 9:30-10:20am in PDL-C36. Bring your coffee down and enjoy an
interesting lecture!


A Short Bio:
Mario Livio is a Senior Scientist at STScI and the author of three
popular-level books on cosmology, beauty, and symmetry.  Read more
about his interests and accomplishments at http://www.mariolivio.com/
about-the-author/.

Mario works on a broad array of astrophysical areas, from cosmology,
gamma ray bursts, black holes, history, galaxy formation, planet
formation, and the anthropic principle.  Some of Mario's more recent
scientific publications include:
  "Hubble's Top Ten" 2006 Scientific American, 259, 42
  "Anthropic Reasoning" 2005 Science, 309, 1002 (with Sir Martin Rees)
  "Disks and Planets around Massive White Dwarfs" 2005 ApJ 632 37
  "Astrophysics of Life" Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521824907
  "How special is the Solar system?" 2004 Monthly Notices RAS 354, 763
  "Type Ia supernovae and their implications for cosmology" 2004 Rev
Mex AC 20, 274
  "Orbital Capture of Stars by a Massive Black Hole via Exchanges
with Compact Remnants"
      2004 ApJ, 606, 21(Letters)
and his three popular books,
  "The Accelerating Universe" (2000)
  "The Golden Ratio" (2002)
       ("Peano Prize" for 2003, and the "International Pythagoras
Prize" for 2004)
  "The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved" (2005)

Related Events of interest at UW:
* We October 18 6:30PM in Kane 130 - Livio's Danz Lecture
      "Symmetry: From Perception and Mate Selection to the Laws of
Nature".
      (http://www.grad.washington.edu/lectures/
schedule.htm#MARIO_LIVIO).
* Tu October 17 2:30 PM in PAB A116 - Astrobiology Seminar "Cosmology
& Life"
* We October 18 (morning) - KUOW interview, Steven Scher
* Th October 19 4PM in PAB A102 - Astronomy Colloquium,
"Astrophysical Jets".
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