| WHAT: | Martin Nowak, Author of the New Book SuperCooperators, to Lecture on Evolution and Christianity |
| WHEN: | Tuesday, March 22, 4:15 p.m. |
| WHERE: | The Catholic University of America Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center, Great Room 620 Michigan Ave., N.E. Washington, D.C. |
| DETAILS: | Martin A. Nowak , professor of biology and mathematics at Harvard University and director of Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, will deliver a talk titled "Evolution and Christianity." This lecture is part of a series of events celebrating the theme of President John Garvey's inaugural year - Intellect and Virtue: The Idea of a Catholic University . Nowak's just-published book, SuperCooperators: The Mathematics of Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour (Or, Why We Need Each Other to Succeed) has been called "a fantastic journey into the science of cooperation." He is the author of more than 300 papers published in scientific journals. Nowak works on the mathematical description of evolutionary processes including the evolution of cooperation and human language, the dynamics of virus infections, and human cancer. Currently, he is working on "prelife," which is a formal approach to studying the origin of evolution. An Austrian by birth, Nowak studied biochemistry and mathematics at the University of Vienna with Peter Schuster and Karl Sigmund. At the University of Oxford as an Erwin Schrödinger Scholar, he worked with Robert May, the later Lord May of Oxford, with whom he co-wrote numerous articles and his first book, "Virus Dynamics" (OUP, 2000). Nowak became head of the mathematical biology group at Oxford in 1995 and professor of mathematical biology in 1997. A year later he moved to Princeton University to establish the first program in theoretical biology at the Institute for Advanced Study. He accepted his present position at Harvard in 2003. A corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Nowak is the recipient of Oxford's Weldon Memorial Prize, the Albert Wander Prize of the University of Bern, the Akira Okubo Prize of the Society for Mathematical Biology, the Roger E. Murray Prize awarded by the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, the David Starr Jordan Prize given jointly by Stanford, Cornell, and Indiana universities, and the Henry Dale Prize of the Royal Institution, London. This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call 202-319-5600. |
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