[CS] Fwd: 2013 Jackie Pritzen Lecture- April 2, 5:00 at Hampshire College

[Paula Harmon]

Tuesday April 2, at 5 p.m. in East Lecture Hall, Hampshire College
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Subject: 	2013 Jackie Pritzen Lecture-save the date April 2
Date: 	Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:22:20 +0000
From: 	Marie Muir <mmuir at fivecolleges.edu>

Best,
Marie L. Muir

Assistant to the Director of Academic Programs
Assistant to the Director of Communications
Five Colleges, Incorporated
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Earlier this year Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Physics at 
Hampshire College was selected as the 2013 Five College Jackie Pritzen 
Lecturer. On Tuesday April 2, at 5 p.m. at Hampshire College, East 
Lecture Hall, Dr. Bernstein will give his lecture entitled "SuperDense 
Quantum Teleportation: Sciences for the 21st century, service to society 
and the roles of the ISIS Institute at Hampshire College."

Herb Bernstein is an engaging speaker, a Quantum Teleportation expert & 
excellent teacher who wonders out loud about the uses and effects of new 
knowledge. What should we do when we discover -- nay, prove -- that the 
objects of investigation in science are actually created by our inquiry? 
How does one effectively go beyond value-free notions without destroying 
the validity of our knowledge, while avoiding the replacement of truth 
by truthiness and preventing displacement of science with 
self-interested bias?

For over twenty years, the ISIS institute has undertaken inquiry to 
grapple with finding a moral epistemology in the real world environment 
of projects ranging from studies of genomics to cleaning military 
nuclear and toxic wastes, using Westover Field as a test case. With 
efforts in the biological, social and physical sciences -- projects 
based at home and in the third world, community collaborators and 
science-studiers as well as scientists, ISIS has served as a modern 
house of experiments in developing reconstructive knowledge. The goal is 
a way of knowing that incorporates lessons from the 20th-century proven 
limits to knowledge, the lived fact of social and human interactions in 
all knowledge workers' lives and the problems of economic systems.

Bernstein is professor of Physics and president of the ISIS institute 
for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies at Hampshire College. He is a 
Fellow of the American Physical Society; was science policy consultant 
to the World Bank, to AAAS (on international science) and to the 
President's Science Adviser, as well as a Kellogg Foundation National 
Leadership Fellow. A post-doctoral Member of the Institute for Advanced 
Study in Princeton, Herb is now Emeritus Trustee of the IAS Alumni 
Board. Herb's work in science has helped launch two fields, neutron 
interferometry and quantum information science -- especially by 
proposing completely DO-able experiments with anti-intuitive outcomes 
that strikingly illuminate key points of qauntum theory. The fourth such 
experiment is now underway with NASA funding: SuperDense Teleportation.

Herb's efforts in "Pursuit of Simplicity" won the Sigma Xi Procter Prize 
(for explaining science to public audiences) with Victor Weisskopf in 
1984. Much more recently, as a co-founder of Anacapa Society for 
theoretical and computational physicists, he helps promote, support and 
encourage their research conducted at four-year colleges and universities.


-- 
Paula Harmon, Administrative Assistant
School of Cognitive Science
Hampshire College
893 West Street Amherst, MA 01002
phone: 413.559.5502
fax: 413.559.5438
http://cs.hampshire.edu


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