2022-23 Colloquium: Strong Determinism

Dodd Hall 121

March 17, 2023 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Dodd 121   Join us on March 17th, 2023 for a colloquium with Eddy Keming Chen, UC San Diego. The talk will take place in Dodd 121 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow.   RSVP HERE     A strongly deterministic theory of physics is one that permits exactly one possible history of the universe. In the words of Penrose (1989), “it is not just a matter of the future being determined by the past; the entire history of the universe is fixed, according to some precise mathematical scheme, for all...

Bilingual Lecture Series: Nonviolence and the Revolution of Values in Iran

121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

خشونت پرھیزی و انقلاب ارزش ھا در ایران Nonviolence and the Revolution of Values in Iran Ramin Jahanbegloo Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 4:00pm, Dodd Hall 121 Discussion in Persian Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99540545809 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on April 2 to join.) In 2009, the world watched in admiration the peaceful protests of young Iranians in the aftermath of Iran’s fraudulent presidential elections that re- elected Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Today, a new generation is challenging the ideological structures of the Irnian theocratic regime. We have witnessed the courage and the...