Professor Roger Shepard is recognized as a cognitive scientist as well as the father of spatial relations-based research. He received the National Medal of Science for his contributions to the field of cognitive science. In 2006, he was awarded the Rumelhart Prize in theoretical foundations of human cognition. Shepard is Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Stanford University. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 23332]

Sarah Broadie is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has written broadly on topics in classical philosophy, especially Aristotle, but also extending to issues of causation, time, agency, and ethics. Her recent work focuses on Plato's theory of immortality. Focusing on studies of Aristotle, Broadie wrote Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics (1982) and Passage and Possibility: A Study of Aristotle's Modal Concepts (1982). A paperback edition of her most recent book Ethics with Aristotle (1991) was issued in 1993. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Humanities] [Show ID: 23314]

Dr. Michael Coe is recognized for his work in the field of the ethnohistory of Mesoamerica, the historical archaeology of northeastern United States, and writing systems. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Mexican Society of Anthropology.Coe has authored numerous world-renowned books on Mesoamerica including Breaking the Maya Code (1992). This book constitutes an informed account of one of the most exciting adventures of our age, the extraordinary breakthrough in deciphering the inscribed remains of Mayan monuments. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 23337]

Sir Harold Kroto is an English chemist and the 1996 Nobel Prize recipient in Chemistry. He currently serves as Francis Eppes Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University. He researches the high-resolution electronic spectra of free radicals produced by flash photolysis (the breaking of chemical bonds by light), as well as carbon dioxide and the molecules that contain chains of carbon atoms with numerous multiple bonds. Kroto's Nobel Prize was based on his co-discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a form of pure carbon better known as "buckyballs." He is presently researching nanoscience and nanotechnology. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 23326]

Dr. Michael Coe is recognized for his work in the field of the ethnohistory of Mesoamerica, the historical archaeology of northeastern United States, and writing systems. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Mexican Society of Anthropology.Coe has authored numerous world-renowned books on Mesoamerica including Breaking the Maya Code (1992). This book constitutes an informed account of one of the most exciting adventures of our age, the extraordinary breakthrough in deciphering the inscribed remains of Mayan monuments. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 23335]

Coe is the Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus at Yale University. He is recognized for his work in the field of the ethnohistory of Mesoamerica, the historical archaeology of northeastern United States, and writing systems. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Mexican Society of Anthropology. Born in New York in 1929, Coe received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1959. He began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee (1958-1960), after which he joined the Yale University faculty. Coe has authored numerous world-renowned books on Mesoamerica including Breaking the Maya Code (1992). This book constitutes an informed account of one of the most exciting adventures of our age, the extraordinary breakthrough in deciphering the inscribed remains of Mayan monuments.

Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 23336]

Joel E. Cohen's research deals with the demography, ecology, epidemiology and social organization of human and non-human populations. In 1984, he was named one of "America's Top 100 Young Scientists" by Science Digest. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 23338]

Stanley Katz is the Professor of Public and International Affairs with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and is a leading authority on American legal and constitutional history. In addition to his interests in the effects of private philanthropy on public policy, he has also researched the behavior of non-governmental conflict resolution organizations in Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine, and South Africa. Katz is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, where he served eleven years and was honored for establishing exceptionally effective working relationships with leaders of research libraries. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 23365]

John Conway is a prolific mathematician who researches the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He has also contributed to many branches of recreational mathematics, notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 23319]

Stanley Cavell is one of the most distinguished American philosophers of our time and an influential thinker in film and literary studies, politics, and the arts. His work brings together analytical, Continental and American philosophy (especially Emerson and Thoreau), the arts, and psychoanalysis. His influence has been felt in theories of film, literature, music, and politics, as well as in the philosophy of language and American studies. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Humanities] [Show ID: 23357]