May 11/13 · 7:30pm
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tue May 11 / Thu May 13 · 7:30pm
Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, gives two different lectures. Tuesday's An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies – Part III reviews what films such as Frozen, The Matrix and My Cousin Vinny got right and wrong about science, plus the physics of dragons in Game of Thrones. Thursday's Hope for Civilization draws on his book Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization.