Professor William Reinhardt of the University of Washington will deliver the University of Colorado at Boulder's annual Phi Beta Kappa lecture titled "Chaos, the Birth of a New Science" on Monday, April 25.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be at 5 p.m. in room 150 in the Eaton Humanities Building, located at the intersection of Macky Drive and Pleasant Avenue across from Macky Auditorium.
Reinhardt's lecture will be illustrated and will introduce chaos science in a general fashion, including how it relates to phenomena like weather prediction, the structure of unique snowflakes and fingerprints, and reasons for subtle differences in plants and animals cloned from their genetic donors.
A professor of chemistry and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Washington, Reinhardt has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Senior Scholar. Reinhardt also is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was a CU-Boulder chemistry professor and JILA fellow from 1975 to 1984.
Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's oldest and most prestigious undergraduate honors organization. CU-Boulder is one of only about 250 colleges nationwide to have earned Phi Beta Kappa chapter status.
Parking for the event is available along University Avenue between Broadway and 17th Street.