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Staff Reports
Arizona Daily Wildcat October
29, 1997
Today on Campus
- Let me guess, you want to see an afternoon matinee. In that
case, make
sure you check out today's Math Movie. Mathematician George Poyla stars
in "Let Us Teach Guessing,"
describing the process by which mathematics
was created. The film will begin at 4 p.m. in Room 202 of the Family Consumer
Resources building.
- Learn to compute probabilities by attending "The Uneasy Relation Between
Probability and Quantum
Mechanics" at 3:30 p.m. in the physics and atmospheric
sciences building. UA's William Faris will present this colloquium to explain
the notions of consistent history and decoherence and their role in recent
interpretations of quantum mechanics.
- Help save
the mountain gorilla. How? Chief Scientific Director at The
Dian Gorilla Fund, H. Dieter Steklis of Rutgers University, will present
"The Mountain Gorilla - Do We Know Enough About Them To Save Them?"
This discussion will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. in
the Anthropology building.
- A collaborative exhibit of art by Diane Mansfield Colligan, accompanied
by a poetry reading by
Charles Gillispie, will be take place at 5 p.m.
in the Arizona Gallery of the Student Union to demonstrate "The Relevance
of
Beauty."
-compiled by Kate Longworth
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