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Calendar Oddities

Admission is free.
Reception to follow.

When is it, anyway? Not easy to say when reckoning time has always been a strange mix of astronomy, culture, math and magic. K.C. Cole, science writer, Annenberg professor and creator of the art/science/whatnot series Categorically Not!, will lead a panel of experts in exploring the inevitable oddities that make calendars so unreasonably interesting.

University professor Solomon Wolf Golomb of the USC Viterbi School and math department will explain, among other things, how Shakespeare and Cervantes could both die on the same date—yet also ten days apart. Noel Swerdlow, professor of the history of science and astronomy at Caltech, will share some cosmic thoughts on the astronomical origins of calendars and their creators. And “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin, a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and a regular performer at Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle (and on The Colbert Report), will work calendar magic to the amazement of the audience.

Organized by K.C. Cole (Journalism).

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - Forum Room

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski