A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines: Author Dr. Janna Levin, May 6

Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences
, the
Department of Art
, the Chancellor’s Office and Chapman’s Faculty Research and Development Center presents,
Dr. Janna Levin
, astrophysicist, writer and artist, on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 6 p.m. in Beckman Hall, 404.

Janna Levin has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of space-time. She is the author of the popular-science book,
How the Universe Got Its Spots
, and a novel,
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
, which won the PEN/Bingham prize. Janna was recently named a Guggenheim Fellow (2012).

She holds a BA in Physics and Astronomy from Barnard College with a concentration in Philosophy, and a PhD from MIT in Physics. She has worked at the Center for Particle Astrophysics (CfPA) at the University of California, Berkeley before moving to the UK where she worked at Cambridge University in the
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
(DAMTP). Just before returning to New York, she was the first scientist-in-residence at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing at Oxford with an award from the National Endowment for Science, Technology, and Arts (
NESTA
). She has written for many artists and appeared on several radio and television programs.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call (714) 997-6729.