活动预告 | 哥伦比亚大学天文学系教授David Helfand做客清华大学苏世民书院-清华大学苏世民书院

活动预告 | 哥伦比亚大学天文学系教授David Helfand做客清华大学苏世民书院

2019.01.08

About the event

We generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of information per day, or 250,000 pages for each of the 7.6 billion individuals on the planet -- every day. Much of it is junk. And following the 29th anniversary of the first World Wide Webpage, the junk distribution network is free. The tsunami of misinformation abroad in the land threatens to drown both sensible individual decisions and the formation of rational public policy. I will explore the origin of the misinformation glut and illustrate the apps one must install in one's pre-frontal cortex to survive in the Misinformation Age.

About the speaker

David J. Helfand, a faculty member at Columbia University for forty years, served nearly half of that time as Chair of the Department of Astronomy. He also recently completed a four-year term as President of the American Astronomical Society, the professional society for astronomers, astrophysicists, planetary scientists and solar physicists in North America. He is the author of nearly 200 scientific publications and has mentored 22 PhD students, but most of his pedagogical efforts have been aimed at teaching science to non-science majors. He instituted the first change in Columbia's Core Curriculum in 50 years by introducing science to all first-year students.

In 2005, he became involved with an effort to create Canada's first independent, non-profit, secular university, Quest University Canada. He served as a Visiting Tutor in the University's inaugural semester in the Fall of 2007 and was appointed President & Vice-Chancellor the following year to lead this innovative experiment in higher education. For six years in a row, Quest has been ranked #1 in Canada in the National Survey of Student Engagement.

He completed his term as President of Quest in the fall of 2015 and returned to Columbia where he now heads the Committee on Innovative Teaching and Learning. His first book, A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age, appeared in February 2016 and came out in paperback August 10, 2017.

时间

1月9日周三晚上7:00
晚上6:30开始入场

地点

清华大学苏世民书院，华夏幸福厅，地下一层

Participation

Tsinghua students, faculty, and staff may present a valid Tsinghua ID Card to access this event. Attendees who do not have a valid Tsinghua ID may register by sending an email with the name, organization affiliation, and contact phone number for each attendee to rsvp@sc.tsinghua.edu.cn. Guests will be admitted on a first come basis until all seating is full.This lecture will be delivered in English.

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