This year’s Alexander M. Cruickshank Lecture (public lecture) will be delivered by Prof. Sean Carroll.

Theoretical physicist, philosopher, and science advocate—Sean Carroll’s research focuses on some of the most foundational questions about quantum mechanics, spacetime, cosmology, and complexity. He is the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and the host of the polymath podcast Mindscape.

URI’s annual Alexander M. Cruickshank Lecture, which is endowed by the trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences and named to honor the former director Dr. Alexander Cruickshank who was also the former head of Chemistry at URI.