An Event Honoring Dr. Charles H. Townes, the 1964 Nobel Laureate in Physics and 2005 Templeton Laureate

The Aaron & Margaret Wallace Foundation

Sponsors and Supports:

THE GLOBAL WATER CRISIS
-Townes and Tagore 3rd Annual Seminar-
Honoring Dr. Charles H. Townes, 1964 Nobel Laureate in Physics,
2005 Templeton Laureate

The nonprofit International Institute of the Bengal and Himalayan Basins, or IIBHB, is getting the word out to people who would appreciate an event honoring Dr. Charles H. Townes, the 1964 Nobel Laureate in Physics and 2005 Templeton Laureate.

The keynote and guest speakers will include some of the other giants of modern physics.  We would be very grateful if you could attend as well as make the event information available to your colleagues and graduate students.  We would like for as many people as possible to attend this free event. Refreshments will be served.

There will be free admission to the reception at 1:30 p.m. and Seminar which will take place at 145 Dwinelle Hall, U. C. Berkeley Campus, Berkeley, CA, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, the 21st of July, is free.  Prices for the Himalayan dinner which will be from 8-9 p.m. are $10 for advanced tickets and $100 for a seat at the laureates’ table.

Dr. Townes, the 1964 Nobel Laureate in Physics, whose life and work we will be celebrating, invented the laser. Guest Speakers include Dr. Townes, Frances Townes, Martin L Perl, the discoverer of the tau lepton and 1995 Laureate in Physics, and Dr. Douglas Osheroff of Stanford, who was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with Helium 3.

The International Institute of the Bengal and Himalayan Basins located in Berkeley, is devoted to the purification of drinking water in the developing world and beyond. The current focus is removing arsenic from the ground and surface waters of the Bengal Basin of India and Bangladesh. The Director- Rash B. Ghosh is widely respected for having accomplished much of the early work on canopy chemistry, the role of trees in offsetting carbon released into the atmosphere, which contributes to global warming.