Wages of Fear/La Salaire de la Peur
May 17, 2012 | 7:00-9:00 PM | NYUAD Downtown Campus, Abu Dhabi
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Journeys in Film History | Open to the Public
In collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Film Festival
One of France's most controversial filmmakers for his involvement with Continental Films during the German occupation of France, Henri-Georges Clouzot became an international celebrity, even before his better-known Les Diaboliques (1955), with the release of Wages of Fear. The French-Italian co-production stars Yves Montand as a working-class European man who embarks upon a dangerous journey for money, transporting highly combustible nitroglycerine across the rugged, tropical terrains of an imagined Latin American country for a foreign-controlled oil company. (Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | France | 1953 | 131 Minutes | French w/ English subtitles)
Introduction by
Seung-Hoon Jeong Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, NYUAD
Turbulence in Quantum Two-Fluid Systems
May 21-23, 2012 | Abu Dhabi
Workshop | By Invitation Only
See May 21 for companion public event
Occurring ubiquitously in nature and technology, turbulence is one of the challenging subjects of classical physics. This workshop focuses on the interaction of classical turbulence with Angstrom-sized quantized vortices in superfluid helium. Understanding this interaction sheds considerable light on both quantum turbulence in superfluids and turbulence in classical fluids.
Convened by
Carlo Barenghi Professor of Fluid Dynamics, University of Newcastle
Victor L'vov Professor, Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Ladislav Skrbek Professor, Department of Physics, Charles University
K.R. Sreenivasan University Professor, NYUNY
William Vinen Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
Numbers in Nature, Arts, and Architecture
May 21, 2012 | 6:30-8:30 PM | Intercontinental Hotel Auditorium, Abu Dhabi
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Distinguished Lecture | Open to the Public
The role of numbers and number theory has long been involved in the quest of understanding how nature works and what lies behind the phenomena. This lecture explores how numbers deeply affect art, science, and architecture, from the pioneering Greek philosophers through the Arab mathematicians of the Middle Ages, and finally to the artist and the architects of the old and the new world.
Itamar Procaccia The Barbara and Morris L. Levinson Professorial Chair in Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
