Phi Beta Kappa Lecture
The Art of the Motorcycle
Dr. Charles Falco

Thursday, March 15, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Clark Arts—Maddox Theatre

Charles Falco, Ph.D., is Professor of Optical Sciences and Chair of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Arizona. In addition to his scientific work, he co-curated the industrial design exhibition The Art of the Motorcycle that set attendance records at the Guggenheim Museums in New York, Las Vegas, and Bilbao, Spain. More recently, he collaborated with artist David Hockney to discover evidence showing many artists as early as Jan van Eyck used optical projections in creating portions of their work. These findings were profiled in a BBC documentary and the subject of two international conferences. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine.