Avi Loeb
Mon, Nov 06
|New York
On November 6th at 3:30 pm this event will be held in person at Hunter College, East building 10th floor. RSVP required.
Time & Location
Nov 06, 2023, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
New York, 695 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065, USA
About the event
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times,Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L’Express and more). He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1988), and was subsequently a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1988-1993). Loeb has written 9 books, including most recently, Extraterrestrial and Interstellar, as well as over a thousand scientific papers (with h-index of 123 and i10-index of 574) on a wide range of topics.
Loeb is the Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (2007-present) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and also serves as the Head of the Galileo Project (2021-present).
He served as Harvard’s Department of…