The roundtable explores how no thing conceived in the mind has enjoyed a greater confluence of cosmological, mathematical, philosophical, psychological, and theological inquiry than the notion of the infinite. The event examines the epistemological tension between the concrete and the ideal, investigating humanity's place in the universe and existence's comprehensibility.
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Alfred Scharff Goldhaber
Professor in the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University
Second-generation physicist; collaborated with parents on research.
Joel David Hamkins
Professor of Mathematics, Philosophy and Computer Science, City University of New York (College of Staten Island and CUNY Graduate Center)
Ph.D., C. Phil. (UC Berkeley); B.S. (Caltech).
Charles Liu
Professor of Astrophysics, City University of New York's College of Staten Island; Hayden Planetarium; American Museum of Natural History
Focus on colliding galaxies, quasars, universe star formation history.
Eric Steinhart
Professor of Philosophy, William Paterson University
B.S. Computer Science (Pennsylvania State University); M.A., Ph.D. Philosophy.
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