8 Nov 2011 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site |
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CRASSH 10th Anniversary Lecture Series: The Idea of the University
Professor Martin Rees
Professor Martin Rees (Master, Trinity College) will give the fourth in a series of six lectures on The Idea of the University.
The lectures are free and open to all, no registration required.
Further lectures in the series are:
About Martin Rees
He is a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy, and several other foreign academies. His awards include the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Balzan International Prize, the Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (AAS/AIP), the Bower Award for Science of the Franklin Institute, the Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation, the Einstein Award of the World Cultural Council and the Crafoord Prize (Royal Swedish Academy). He has been president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1994-95) and the Royal Astronomical Society (1992-94) and a trustee of the British Museum, NESTA, the Kennedy Memorial Trust, the National Museum of Science and Industry and the Institute for Public Policy Research. He is currently on the Board of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the Cambridge Gates Trust, and has served on many bodies connected with education, space research, arms control and international collaboration in science. In 2005 he was appointed to the House of Lords, and he was President of the Royal Society for the period 2005-10.