Dr Atalay to Speak at Friday Luncheon

Bulent Atalay, PhD, is a physics professor at Mary Washington University, an adjunct professor at UVA, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

An accomplished artist in his own right, Dr. Atalay presents science through art, and art through science, and approaches the larger goal of achieving a synthesis of the two fields. He invokes the model of Leonardo – part-time artist, passionate scientist, consummate inventor. He is also much in demand as a speaker on art, archaeology, astrophysics and atomic physics.


His 2004 book, Math and the Mona Lisa, has been translated into numerous foreign languages.  Leonardo's Universe, co-authored with his former student Keith Wamsley, is scheduled for publication by National Geographic Books later this year.