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Ellis returns to Emory March 27

When South African physicist George Ellis led an afternoon workshop last semester, there was standing room only. And so we were delighted when we learned he would be coming for another visit.

You can catch Ellis again March 27. He will give a presentation on "Cosmology & Ethics" at 7:30pm in White Hall, Room 205. He will also lead a workshop on "Science in Service to Society" (RSVP requested) at 2:30pm in Cox Hall, Rooms 1 & 2.

George Ellis is Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a Quaker activist for racial and economic justice.

Among his many publications are, with Stephen Hawking, The Large Scale Structure of Space Time (1973); and On the Moral Nature of the Universe: Theology, Cosmology, and Ethics (1996), with Nancey Murphy.

He was awarded the Star of South Africa medal by President Nelson Mandela in 1999.

Ellis' visit is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics and the Science & Religion Course Program, Southeast, and supported in part by the generosity of the John Templeton Foundation.

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