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1 VISIT OF SIR ROGER PENROSE TO UTSA 3-6 DECEMBER 2013 UTSA PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

2 Prof Sir Roger Penrose Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, University of Oxford

3 ROGER PENROSE CAREER HIGHLIGHTS BSc WITH FIRST CLASS HONORS, MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON PhD, MATHEMATICS, CAMBRIDGE, 1957 RESEARCH FELLOW, ST. JOHNS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, FIRST PAPERS ON COSMOLOGY, 1957 PRINCETON, SYRACUSE, KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON VISITING PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, UT AUSTIN, 1963 ROUSE BALL PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 1973 FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 1972 KNIGHTED FOR SERVICE TO SCIENCE, 1994 RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE MANY ASPECTS OF GEOMETRY WITH CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY OF NON- PERIODIC TILINGS, GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY, FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM THEORY, AND COSMOLOGY

4 SIR ROGER PENROSE AWARDS AND HONORS Fellow of the Royal Society 1972 Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (with Stephen Hawking) 1975 Royal Society Royal Medal 1985 Wolf Foundation Prize for Physics (with Stephen Hawking) 1988 Dirac Medal 1989 Albert Einstein Medal 1990 Royal Society Royal Medal winner 1991 Naylor Prize of the London Mathematical Society 1991 Knighted for Service to Science 1994 Order of Merit, United States Academy of Sciences 2000 AMS Gibbs Lecturer 2004 De Morgan Medal Winner 2004 Copley Medal 2008 Fonseca Prize, University of Santiago de Compostela2011 Richard R. Ernst Medal by ETH Zürich for his contributions to science and strengthening the connection between science and society2012

5 PENROSE POPULAR WORKS Emperor’s New Mind : Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (1989) Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science Of Consciousness (1994) The Nature of Space and Time (with Stephen Hawking, 1996) The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, 2007 Cycles of time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe, 2012

6 SIR ROGER PENROSE VISIT TO UTSA 3-6 DECEMBER 2013 PRESIDENT’S DISTINGUISHED LECTURE, THURSDAY, 5 DECEMBER, 6:15 PM, MB AUDITORIUM, MB 1.104 “ THE BEGINNING OF THE UNIVERSE ” PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY SEMINAR, FRIDAY 6 DECEMBER, 3:00 PM, BB 3.04.18 “ CONFORMAL CYCLIC COSMOLOGY ”

7 UTSA PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY Contact: Jim Powell, James.Powell@utsa.edu

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