2022 Kashi And Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture In The Sciences And Humanities: Remembering Kameshwar C. Wali

The Department of Physics and the Humanities Center cordially invite you to the 2022 Kashi And Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture In The Sciences And Humanities. This year’s Wali Lecture, serves as a remembrance of Kamesh C. Wali and his wide-ranging contributions to Syracuse University Physics, the Humanities, and beyond. The Wali family is pleased to welcome distinguished speakers offering personal remembrances and scholarly observations about Professor Wali’s body of work, his accomplishments as a researcher and mentor.  The event will be hybrid: Hendricks Chapel or Zoom.

Remarks and welcomes:

Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State University)
Dympna Carmel Callaghan (Syracuse University)
Simon Catterall (Syracuse University)
Vivian May (Syracuse University)
Karin Ruhlandt (Syracuse University)

Remembrances by:

Dr. George Campbell
Dr. Aharon Davidson
Ms. Tess Gallagher
Dr. Barbara Lust

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Kameshwar C. Wali was the Steele Professor of Physics Emeritus in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences. He was internationally recognized as a theorist for his research on the symmetry properties of fundamental particles and their interactions, and, as an author, for his books “Cremona Violins: A Physicist’s Quest for the Secrets of Stradivari” (World Scientific, 2010) and “Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar”  (University of Chicago Press, 1991) among many other books.

A Syracuse faculty member since 1969, Wali also held positions at Harvard and Northwestern universities, the University of Chicago, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (France), and the International Center for Theoretical Physics (Italy). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, whose India Chapter named him Scientist of the Year, and is a recipient of the Chancellor’s Citation at Syracuse for exceptional academic achievement. He was one of the founding members of the University Lecture Series.

The Kashi and Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities was established by his daughters, Alaka, Achala, and Monona as an expression of their admiration and gratitude for their vision, leadership, and dedication to the University and the greater community. The Lecture was inaugurated in 2008 and has been offered annually except for 2020, when it was suspended because of the pandemic.

Donations in honor of Kameshwar can be made to the Kashi and Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities at Syracuse University and mailed to: Office of Advancement and External Affairs, 640 Skytop Road, 2nd Floor Syracuse, New York 13244. Gifts can also be made through an online form.