Bangalore according to me: January 2017

Monday, January 23, 2017

Galileo's Sources in the Arts | Prof. Mark Peterson - Friday 27th @ 16.00

National Institute of Advanced Studies

Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru 560012

The Heritage, Science and Society Programme

is pleased to invite you to a

Public Lecture

Prof. Mark Peterson

Mount Holyoke College, USA

“Galileo's Sources in the Arts”

On Friday, 27^th January, 2017 at 4.00 pm,

Venue: Lecture Hall, NIAS

Chairperson: Prof. B.V. Sreekantan, Visiting Professor, NIAS

Moderator: Mr. Varun Bhatta, Doctoral Student, NIAS

Abstract: Galileo is popularly known for his part in the dramatic Copernican controversy, the question of whether the Earth moves, and for his trial and condemnation by the Catholic Church in 1633. A look at his whole biography, though, suggests that the Copernican controversy was merely an unfortunate interruption in a career that was actually about something else: the mathematics of Nature, beginning with the mathematics of the arts.

About the Speaker: Prof. Mark Peterson has been Professor of mathematics and physics at Mount Holyoke College, USA for several years. He is also a leading historian of science who has also had an abiding interest in the role of the arts in science. Apart from reputed publications in physics he has written extensively on iconic personalities such as Dante and Galileo and in relation to the Renaissance. He is author of Galileo’s Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts, (Harvard University Press). He has a PhD. in Physics in Stanford University.

All are cordially invited

Co-ordinated by: Prof Sharada Srinivasan, Head, Heritage, Science and Society Programme sharasri@gmail.com; tel: 08022185125

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

This will only take several minutes - Friday 20th @ 19.30 + Saturday 21st @ 13.30 & 19.30

This Will Only Take Several Minutes is set in a city not far from yours. Six strangers confront themselves and each other, seeking out their place and purpose. They grapple with hunger and sickness, love and solitude, through their shadowy pasts and the foggy present. In all of this there is but one certainty - that they cannot escape this place and must try anything they can to bear it.