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Thursday, April 19, 2012, 7:30 pm
Friday, April 20, 2012, 11 am
Dr. Brian Greene is one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and author of the national bestsellers, The Elegant Universe and The Hidden Reality. A brilliant, entertaining communicator of cutting-edge scientific concepts, Greene was described by The Washington Post as “the single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the world today.” In 2008, he co-founded the annual World Science Festival. The festival’s mission is to take science out of the labratory, making the esoteric understandable and the familiar fascinating to the general public.

Thursday, May 10, 2012, 7:30 pm
Friday, May 11, 2012, 11 am
Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis and educated at Harvard. He has been a child actor, a jazz musician, a speechwriter, a dismally failed entrepreneur, and a five-time Jeopardy champion. His first novel, Prague, was named a New York Times Notable Book and received The Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for best first novel. Author of five novels, including Egyptologist and The Song is You, Arthur’s work has been translated into twenty-five languages and is the source of three films currently in development. His fifth book, The Tragedy of Arthur, was published in April 2011.