Next Meetings

1 view

Skip to first unread message

Chris Boyd

unread,

Oct 6, 2012, 5:59:01 PM10/6/12

to Big Ideas Reading Group, BIRG-Bridgers, charles christ, Fran Hopkins, Marc Hopkins, Mike Chase, Ron Yeung

Hi BIRG members (BIRGers??--May bias against non red meat eaters),

Our next meeting is next Saturday at Le Boulanger in Cupertino at 3:30P

.Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World by Lisa Randall

The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation. Knocking on Heaven’s Door is an exhilarating and accessible overview of these developments and an impassioned argument for the significance of science

Nov 10 will be at Kepler's at 4P:

The Evolution of Cooperation(Revised Edition) by Robert Axelrod with forward by Richard Dawkins

Robert Axelrod is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. A MacArthur Prize Fellow, he is a leading expert on game theory, artificial intelligence, evolutionary biology, mathematical modeling, and complexity theory.

He describes a novel round-robin tournament in which various game-theoretic strategies were pitted against one another in the game known as the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma.

"The Evolution of Cooperation deserves to replace The Gideon Bible."--Richard Dawkins

Dec 8 at 3:30P at Le Boulanger

The Drunkard's Walk-Mlodinow.

There is a Mensa RG Nov 16-18 in Pleasanton Ca.

Hope to see you this coming Satureday. "Knocking" may prove timely with the recent discovery of the Higgs boson (the"God particle") at LHC. .