SAIS to host conference on national
defense policy
SAIS and the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S.
Army War College will hold a daylong conference called "The
Defense Transformation Debate: The American Military at the
Dawn of the 21st Century" on Friday, Oct. 5, from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. at SAIS's Nitze Building.
Paul Wolfowitz, deputy secretary of defense, is the
scheduled keynote speaker. Expert panelists from academia,
research organizations, government and the media will speak
throughout the day. For details, go to:
www.sais-jhu.edu/centers/fpi.
Members of the public must register by e-mailing
cmata@mail.jhuwash.jhu.edu or downloading a registration
form from the Web site.
Fall Wednesday Noon Series begins with Clio
winners
A showing on Oct. 3 of the 2001 Gold, Silver and Bronze
Clio Award-winning TV commercials opens the fall 2001
Wednesday Noon Series at Homewood. The Clio Awards recognize
creative excellence in advertising.
The Wednesday Noon Series is presented by the
Office of Special Events. All
programs, free and open to the public, are held from noon to
1 p.m. in Shriver Hall.
Astronomer Royal for U.K. to give Brickwedde
Lecture
For astronomers, the "big picture" is definitely
starting to get clearer with increasing speed, according to
Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal for the United Kingdom
since 1995.
Rees will speak this week at Hopkins on recent and
anticipated progress in astronomers' abilities to answer
scientifically some of their most fundamental questions
about the universe, such as: Where did the universe come
from? How did it develop? What is it made of? How will it
end? and Is it unique, or are there other universes?
Rees' lecture, titled "Our Universe and Others: From a
'Simple' Big Bang to Our Complex Cosmos," begins at 4 p.m.
on Thursday, Oct. 4, in the Schafler Auditorium of the
Bloomberg Center, Homewood campus.
"Within the last five years, we have learned the shape
of our universe and what its basic ingredients are," says
Rees, who is Royal Society Research Professor and a fellow
of King's College at the University of Cambridge.
Citing recent insights into the development of stars
and galaxies and numerous revelations about the planetary
systems circling other stars, Rees says, "This crescendo of
discovery seems set to continue throughout the present
decade. Fundamental questions that were formerly in the
realm of speculation--the beginning of our universe, its
likely end and its uniqueness, or otherwise--are now within
the scope of serious science."
Rees' talk is part of the Brickwedde Lectures, an
annual series funded through a bequest from Ferdinand
Brickwedde and his wife, Langhorn Howard Brickwedde.
Ferdinand Brickwedde received his doctorate in physics from
Hopkins in 1925. Rees, the author or co-author of nearly 500
research papers on cosmology or astrophysics, is the series'
23rd speaker. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1992.