Chern Hall Dedication, (March 3, 2006) | Back to Main Dedication Page |
| The Dedication of Shiing-Shen Chern Hall at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) was celebrated on Friday, March 3, 2006. The festivities attended by 200 guests included a reception and tours of Chern Hall conducted by Bill Glass, Architect, David Eisenbud, Director, and Hugo Rossi, Deputy Director. |
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| The Dedication program featured Doug Lind, Master of Ceremonies, and the following speakers: |
David Eisenbud, Director  Nat Simons on behalf of Jim Simons (Trustee and Co-Chair of the Capital Campaign) |
| Roger Strauch, Treasurer, Trustee and Co-Chair of the Capital Campaign Cal Moore, Co-Founder Isadore Singer, Co-Founder |
| William Rundell, NSF Robert Birgeneau, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley William R. Glass, Architect |
| Dusa McDuff, Former Chair of the Board of Trustees Donald Saari, Chair of the Board of Trustees |
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| The Dedication celebration culminated with an Inaugural Musical Concert by Matmos (Andrew Daniel and Martin Schmidt) performing the world premiere of a multi-media work entitled, "A Musical Enigma; Matmos Meets Turing," which featured audio from an Enigma machine encrypted into the composition. A video of this performance can be found here: http://www.msri.org/communications/vmath/VMathVideosSpecial/matmos/matmos |
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Click an image below to enlarge the photo.
Photographs by Sheila Newbery |
View Program from Chern Hall Dedication (PDF, opens in new window) |
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