Conversations w/Two Nobel Prize Winners Including Dr. Thomas Schelling

 

 

"Conversation with Two Nobel Prize Winners"

 


 

October 22, 2014 from 7-9pm

 

 

Auditorium

 

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School

 

4301 East-West Highway

 

Bethesda, MD

 

 

Join us for an evening with two Nobel Laureates who will share their life stories to inspire and encourage an interest in the sciences and related fields.

 

 

Dr. Thomas C. Schelling - 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in understanding conflict, negotiation and cooperation through game-theory analysis. Often referred to as the father of game theory, Schelling served in the Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy Administrations’, and later became one of the founders of the Kennedy School at Harvard University.


Dr. William Phillips - 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics along with two colleagues, for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light, a technique used to slow the movement of gaseous atoms in order to better study them. Dr. Phillips works at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg


 

 

Open to the general public - - - - Students free of charge, $5 entrance fee for adults

 

 

(proceeds benefit the BCC High School Educational Foundation, www.bccedfoundation.org)


Contact: James Becker at bccscandinavianclub@gmail.com