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The Chancellor's Premier Lecture Series
Upcoming Event
The Fall 2010 lecture will feature Grace Fong, D.M.A., Director of Keyboard Studies and Assistant Professor of Music, College of Performing Arts. The date for the lecture has not been announced.
About the Lectio Magistralis
Until the last century, it was traditional in most European universities for new faculty members to present scholarly addresses to fellow faculty members. Speakers would situate their research within the context of their disciplines and present new ideas and directions in an approachable way - a way that would be understandable to an audience whose interests covered a wide range of academic fields. More generally, the tradition of the Lectio Magistralis now continues in universities around the world as a way to present a scholar at the peak of his/her intellectual power, with talks directed toward an educated public rather than a specialized group.
Chancellor Daniele C. Struppa states his vision for Chapman's Lectio Magistralis series: “As a mathematician, the inaugural lecture of Felix Klein, prepared in 1872 and known as the ‘Erlangen Program,’ is one of the pivotal points of the development of my discipline. With his program, Felix Klein reinterpreted geometry and algebra in a way that opened the way for their futures. And yet, his ideas were offered in a way that made it understandable even to colleagues who had no formal mathematical training. With this new lecture series initiative at Chapman, I would like to recreate this sense of excitement for our intellectual pursuits and allow the growth at our university of an environment which will stimulate dialogue and interaction among participants from diverse backgrounds, fields of interest and levels of expertise.”
Archives
2009
Yakir Aharonov , Ph.D.
"What can we learn about ourselves from modern physics?"
Dr. Aharonov sat down with Dr. Paul Davies, a professor of physics at Arizona State University and the Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, to discuss the areas of tension between objective scientific description and conscious experience. He spoke of recent advances in the foundations of physics and quantum theory that offer hope for a fresh approach.
Dr. Aharonov, a professor of theoretical physics and the James J. Farley Professor in Natural Philosophy at Chapman, has made seminal contributions to physics, particularly in the field of quantum mechanics. In 1998, he received the prestigious Wolf Prize for his 1959 co-discovery of the Aharonov-Bohm effect. This effect, along with the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen/Bohm effect, has provided the foundation for work on the development of ultra-powerful computers.
Watch Dr. Aharonov's lecture.
2008
John Dickhaut, Ph.D.
"Bad guys and good guys: reputation and counting is what makes modern economies work"
Professor of Accounting and Economics and Jerrold A. Glass Endowed Chair in Accounting and Economics, Dr. Dickhaut presented the inaugural Lectio Magistralis on November 20, 2008. In his lecture, Professor Dickhaut argued that the original mechanism for conducting trade is the brain itself: "Cheater and cheater detection are an integral part of a number of primitive animal societies. When coupled with the ability to count - which also exists in animals - there is a possibility of creating a vast network in which the integrity of repeated transactions can be preserved."
Watch Dr. Dickhaut's lecture.
For more information, please contact the academic events office at (714) 997-6565.
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