University Symposium: Time
Each year the Institute for Advanced Study offers a University Symposium - a series of connected events which explore a critical question or issue from a variety of vantage points. The 2007-08 University Symposium focuses on how we perceive and construct Time.
Scholars across the curriculum view time as a vital element in the production of knowledge, yet they understand and use time in a wide variety of ways. The geologist's examination of time over vast eons, for instance, distinctly differs from the biographer's examination of a single human lifetime, while the physicist and the philosopher, in contrast, may share fundamental ideas about time as one among many dimensions.