Madhur Anand is the author of the book of poems “A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes” (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC, 2015) and the experimental memoir “This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart” (Strange Light/ PRHC, 2020), both considered trailblazing in their synthesis of art and science. “A New Index” was a finalist for the 2016 Trillium Book Award for poetry. “This Red Line” won the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her second collection of poems will be published by McClelland & Stewart in Spring 2022. She is a full professor of ecology at the University of Guelph, and was appointed the inaugural director of the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research.
Philip Holmes has published four collections of poetry: “3 Sections of Poems” (1971), “A Place to Stand” (1977), “The Green Road” (1986, a Poetry Book Society recommendation), and “Lighting the Steps” (2002), all with Anvil Press (United Kingdom). The first two are out of print; the others are available from Carcanet Press, Manchester, UK. Holmes is emeritus professor of applied and computational mathematics and mechanical and aerospace engineering and was a member of the Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. He studied engineering at Oxford and Southampton Universities in the United Kingdom, and taught at Cornell University from 1977–1994, before moving to Princeton. He has worked on nonlinear dynamical systems and collaborated with engineers, biomechanicians and neuroscientists. Holmes is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, the American Physical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
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This event was recorded on February 21, 2022.