Visiting on Campus

Nobel laureate to give inaugural Hughes Lecture

The first annual Vernon W. Hughes Lecture will be given by Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel laureate and University Professor at Columbia University, on Friday, Nov. 6.

Lee will discuss "From CKM and Neutrino Mapping Matrices to the Timeon Model" at 4 p.m. in Rm. 59, Sloane Physics Laboratory, 217 Prospect St. Tea will be served at 3:30 p.m. in the third-floor lounge. Sponsored by the Department of Physics, the talk is free and open to the public.

Lee has served on the faculty at Columbia University since 1953. He and his colleague C.N. Yang were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957 for their research on the violation of parity law in weak interactions.

International Securities Studies talk will explore Communism

Archie Brown, emeritus professor of politics at the University of Oxford and emeritus fellow of St. Antony's College, will give a public lecture on campus on Monday, Nov. 9, under the auspices of International Security Studies.

His talk, "The Fall of the Wall and the Fall of Communism: Why — and Why 1989?" will take place 4:30-6 p.m. in Rm. 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.

Brown taught at the University of Oxford for 34 years. In 1980 he was a visiting professor of political science at Yale (concurrently with the University of Connecticut).

Brown's major publications include "The Gorbachev Factor," "Seven Years that Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective" and, most recently, "The Rise and Fall of Communism."

Newsweek science editor to discuss science journalism

The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism will host a visit by Sharon Begley, senior editor for Newsweek, on Thursday, Nov. 12.

Begley's talk, titled "Science Journalism in an Irrational World," will begin at 4 p.m. in Rm. 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The public is invited to attend this free event.

In addition to a bi-weekly column covering genetics, neuroscience, astronomy, physics, cosmology, climate and other sciences, Begley writes feature stories as well as the magazine's online Lab Notes blog. From 2002 to 2007 she was the science columnist at The Wall Street Journal, writing "Science Journal."

A Yale College graduate, Begley is the co-author of the 2002 book, "The Mind and the Brain," and the author of the 2007 book "Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain."

World renowned pianist to visit the campus

The Horowitz Piano Series will present a lecture by eminent pianist Alfred Brendel on Wednesday, Nov. 11.

Titled "On Character in Music," the lecture will begin at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall, Sprague Hall, 470 College St. The lecture will include musical examples performed by Brendel.

On Thursday, Nov. 12, Brendel will work with graduate pianists from the School of Music in a public master class on the stage of Morse Recital Hall. Tickets to the Nov. 11 event are $11-$20; $6 for students. Admission to the Nov. 12 master class is $8; free for full-time students with I.D. For more information, visit music.yale.edu or call (203) 432-4158.

Brendel has performed with virtually all leading orchestras and conductors and has appeared in the major cultural centers of North America, Europe and Asia. One of the most prolific recording artists of all time, Brendel recorded exclusively for Philips Classics for 30 years. In 2001, Brendel received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Cannes at MIDEM, the world's largest recording industry's fair.

Talk will examine ‘the most stolen artwork in history'

Noah Charney, founding director of the Association for Research Into Crimes Against Art (ARCA), will visit the campus on Thursday, Nov. 12.

"The Most Stolen Artwork in History: The Crimes and Mysteries of the ‘Ghent Altarpiece'" is the title of Charney's talk, which will take place 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Lecture Hall the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. The talk is free and open to the public. After the lecture, Charney will sign copies of "Art and Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World," at Atticus Bookstore/Café.

Charney is an art historian and founding director of ARCA, a non-profit think tank on the protection of cultural property. Charney was recently a visiting lecturer at Yale, where he taught a seminar on art crime.

In his talk, Charney will discuss Jan van Eyck's "Ghent Altarpiece," the world's most frequently stolen artwork, involved in 13 different crimes since its creation in 1432.

Lecture will focus on programs for ‘fathers on the fringes'

Anthony Judkins, social services program manager at the Connecticut Department of Social Services (DSS), and Brett Rayford, bureau chief of quality improvement at the Connecticut Department of Children and Families, will join Derrick Gordon, assistant clinical professor at the Consultation Center at the Yale School of Medicine, to speak in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Nov. 13.

Their talk, titled "Connecticut's Efforts to Engage Fathers on the Fringes: If You Build It Will They Come?" will be held 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Rm. 119, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public; no reservations are necessary. For further information, e-mail sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.

Judkins has been with the DSS for 16 years. For the past nine years, he has worked in the Office of Strategic Planning, where he manages the department's Fatherhood Initiative program, Community Services Block Grant, Human Services Infrastructure and most recently the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood project.

Rayford is a clinical psychologist with over 30 years of experience working with adolescents and young adults. He completed his pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. He was an assistant professor at Yale before leaving to return to public service.