Author Pam Houston reads as part of the Story Hour in the Library series. Houston's latest novel is Contents May Have Shifted. Her stories have been selected for The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA award for contemporary fiction, and The Evil Companions Literary Award and multiple teaching awards. She is the Director of Creative Writing at U.C. Davis and teaches in the Pacific University MFA program. She lives on a ranch in Colorado. For more information on the series please visit http://storyhour.berkeley.edu/
"Measuring 'Nothing' and Getting It Right" - a symposium in honor of the physics career of Dr. Stuart Freedman (http://freedman2014.org): Dr. James Napolitano (Professor at the Department of Physics, Temple University) speaks about his work with Dr. Freedman on an experiment to search for fundamental scalars in nuclear decay, including some interesting anecdotes from getting the work published. This talk first traces some of his history with Dr. Freedman, including "nothings" that he measured with him and some of the things that Dr. Freedman taught him.