Symposium to Offer Visions of Future

California Institute of Technology, celebrating its 100th anniversary, culminates its yearlong schedule of events this week in a centennial symposium, “Visions of a Sustainable World.”

The conference, which continues through Wednesday, has been designed to examine issues surrounding the sustainability of diverse human activity on the planet and to stimulate creative thinking about the future of rapidly growing populations and finite resources.

Panelists such as Roald Sagdeyev, Soviet space scientist and professor at the University of Maryland, Prof. Bruce Murray of Caltech, Jane Pisano, USC’s dean of public administration, and Robert White, president of the National Academy of Engineering, will discuss various issues of sustainability throughout the duration of the conference.

For registration and program information call (818) 356-2189.

ANTHROPOLOGY/ARCHEOLOGY

The culture, social organization and theories concerning the collapse of Mayan civilization will be discussed by prominent Maya scholars in a one-day symposium at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County on Sunday beginning at 9 a.m. Reservations are required. Call (213) 744-3534.

ASTRONOMY

Telescopes and binoculars will be the featured subject at the Moorpark Community College Astronomy Program on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Charles Temple Observatory on campus. Call (805) 378-1408.

HEALTH/MEDICINE

Women and HIV and promoting health care among minority families will be explored in two community programs to be held at UCLA.

UCLA pediatric psychologist Dr. Kathy Sanders-Phillips will discuss various aspects of social and clinical preventive health care in “A Model for Health Promotion in Ethnic Minority Families,” today at 4 p.m. in the Faculty Center on campus. Call (213) 825-5851.

On Nov. 9, the UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education and a coalition of community groups will present “Women and HIV: Facing the Epidemic,” a one-day conference focusing on the epidemiology and prevention of HIV infection and the social and political aspects of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Call (213) 825-3594.

PALEONTOLOGY

Meave Leakey and Alan Walker, members of Richard Leakey’s research team in Africa, will discuss discoveries from their 1990 field expedition along the shores of Lake Trukana in Kenya and trace the fossil evidence of early man found there in a program offered by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County on Nov. 10 at 2 p.m. Reservations are advised. Call (213) 744-3534.

MARINE SCIENCE

Visitors to the Cabrillo Marine Museum in San Pedro will be able to view live marine animals, handle tide pool creatures and examine marine artifacts in a special Discovery Center program on Nov. 10 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Call (213) 548-7562.