Skip to main content
Intellect

Lee Library hosts Leslie Norris, Dallin S. Durfee in lectures

The Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University will host guest speakers Leslie Norris and Dallin S. Durfee during the next two weeks in the library auditorium on the first floor.

Leslie Norris, professor of creative writing and poet-in-residence at BYU, will speak to those in attendance as part of the English Reading Series Friday, Jan. 27, at noon.

BYU physics and astronomy professor Dallin S. Durfee will discuss “Splitting and Recombining Atom Waves” as part of the House of Learning Lecture Series Thursday, Feb. 2, at 2 p.m.

Admission to both lectures is free and the public is welcome to attend.

A native of Wales, Norris received the Utah Governor’s Prize in the Humanities in 2004. He has also received many different awards for his poetry from various institutions, including BYU’s Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer in 1990.

Norris has published several collections of poetry, two stories for children and, with professor Alan Keele, translations from the verse of Rainer Maria Rilke.

Durfee will focus his lecture on experimentation and development in the field of “atom interferometry.”

“Everything in the universe is probabilistic,” says Durfee, who specializes in most everything related to the study of atoms and has written numerous papers on the subject of Bose-Einstein condensed atoms. “A particle, or even a person, does not actually exist at a particular location until its position is measured.”

Durfee has also taught and conducted research at Yale University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his doctorate in 1999.

For more information on the Reading or House of Learning lecture series, visit library.byu.edu or contact Michael Hooper at (801) 422-6687.

Writer: Brian Rust

Related Articles

data-content-type="article"

Innovative group of BYU students roll out new AI tech to solve parking problems

March 19, 2024
A group of enterprising BYU students aim to significantly — if not entirely — reduce parking violations in paid parking lots, college and otherwise. And their idea, an AI detection and tracking system called Spot Parking (more on that in a minute), just got a major endorsement and $12,000 in cash by winning the 2024 BYU Student Innovator of the Year (SIOY) competition.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection=false overrideCardHideByline=false overrideCardHideDescription=false overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"

Q&A with President Reese on BYU’s undergraduate teaching focus

March 15, 2024
In this Q&A series with President Reese, he shares more about the seven initiatives he shared in his 2023 inaugural response and how they apply to BYU employees.
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection=false overrideCardHideByline=false overrideCardHideDescription=false overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"

BYU math videos aim to transform equations into excitement

March 13, 2024
From calculating the perfect bottle flip to understanding how much force is behind a penny dropped off a skyscraper, Math the World videos creatively answer the age-old math question, “When will I ever use this?”
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection=false overrideCardHideByline=false overrideCardHideDescription=false overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection=false overrideCardHideByline=false overrideCardHideDescription=false overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText=