The University of New Mexico’s Center for Science, Technology, and Policy is a co-sponsor of the Santa Fe Council on International Relations’ fall 2007 International Lecture Series on “Safety in a Nuclear World: Fears, Hopes, and Realities.” The fourth and final speaker, Richard L. Garwin, presents, “Getting the Best Deal We Can: A Practitioner’s View,” on Saturday, Dec. 1, at 3 p.m. at The Forum, College of Santa Fe.
Garwin is IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. He has served as director of the Watson Laboratory, director of Applied Research at the Watson Research Center and a member of the IBM corporate technical committee. He has been professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
From 1994 to 2004 he was Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. Dr. Garwin has testified before many Congressional committees on matters involving national security, transportation, and energy policy and technology.
He is author or coauthor of Nuclear Weapons and World Politics (1977), Nuclear Power Issues and Choices (1977), Energy: The Next Twenty Years (1979), Science Advice to the President (1980), Managing the Plutonium Surplus: Applications and Technical Options (1994), and Megawatts and Megatons: A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age?, with Georges Charpak, 2001.
Garwin received a B.S. in physics from Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, in 1947, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1949.
Following Garwin’s talk, a panel including Michael P. Peters, president, St. John’s College and former executive vice president of the Council on Foreign Relations; Maurice Katz, former science advisor to the US Ambassador to the IAEA; and Andrew L. Ross, director, Center for Science, Technology, and Policy, UNM, will join Garwin in addressing questions from the audience.
For more information, contact Andrew L. Ross, at aross@unm.edu or (505) 277-7391. For reservations go to www.santafecouncil.org or phone (505) 982-4931.