Physicist and author Brian Greene to speak at Kenyon College

GAMBIER, Ohio (March 15, 2005) Brian Greene, author of the best-selling book about string theory, The Elegant Universe, and host of the three-hour Nova series of the same title, will speak at Kenyon College at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 31, in the College's Rosse Hall Auditorium. His topic will be his new book, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality, which is now out in paperback.

The Fabric of the Cosmos spent ten weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and inspired The Washington Post to describe Greene as "the single best explainer of abstruse concepts in the world today."

Using artful metaphors and humorous analogies, Greene succeeds in making the most sophisticated concepts in physics and cosmology accessible and entertaining to a general audience.

Greene has a background in theater and considers lecturing a form of performance. His Strings and Strings performances with the Emerson String Quartet are multimedia presentations involving both string physics and string music.

A graduate of Harvard University, Green was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and is a professor in both physics and mathematics at Columbia University. He is co-director of Columbia's Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics (ISCAP).

Greene's visit to Kenyon is sponsored by the College's Student Lectureships Committee and is open to the public without charge.