We are pleased to announce the Fall 2024 Anthony B. Evnin Lecture.

Join us for this exciting public lecture featuring Hideo Mabuchi, a 1992 Princeton Alumnus and Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. A physicist by training, Dr. Mabuchi explores a nexus of conventional scientific research in quantum engineering, traditional craft (as a dedicated ceramist), aesthetic philosophy, new materialism, and integrative education.

Making and Knowing

When we talk about bridging art and science in contemporary higher education, what’s really at play and what’s really at stake?  In this lecture I will offer a personal perspective forged from fervid efforts to reconcile my manual sidelines in traditional craft, which began surreptitiously as lines of flight from the institutional values of academic science, with cerebral commitments to analytic thinking and integrative speculation—commitments that ineluctably permeate the studio and lure me back towards the lab.  I’ll build my case from concrete correlates including 1990s travel alarm clocks and hierarchical data compression, redox potentials and the materiality of color, and Asian diaspora and indigo memristors.  I’ll turn to the humanities for a sense of purpose as an art and science educator, which I’ll find in defending the terrestrial order and being Earthbound.  I’ll use lots of images, one graph, and no equations.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. 
 

Register here for the in-person event.

Register here for the Zoom webinar.