Please note that the Feb 12 event has been rescheduled for Feb 19.
The Senior Members Committee of Hart House presents an annual series of alumni-student dinners for an intimate group of Hart House members who are alumni, students, faculty, and staff.
Overview
Each dinner features a guest speaker who discusses a broad range of areas from business, politics, education and the arts. A question and answer session will follow the speaker's presentation.
The dinners include a meet the speaker reception with hors d’oeuvres, and a superb meal based around a theme inspired by the evening's topic accompanied by selected wines.
Tickets may be purchased in series of 3 or 6, or individually.
The 2019-2020 series features
- October 16, 2019: Catherine Gildiner: author of "Too Close to the Falls" will discuss her new non-fiction book “Good Morning Monster”.
- November 6, 2019: Tim Stewart, teacher and army piper “Toronto’s Fighting 75th in the Great War 1915–1919: A Prehistory of the Toronto Scottish Regiment”
- December 11, 2019: Professor Shauna Brail, Director, Urban Studies Program at Innis College “Ride-Hailing: Transforming Urban Mobility”
- January 22, 2020: Ann and Ross Stuart, Stratford Stage Manager “A Brief History of the Hart House Theatre”
- February 19, 2020: Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Professor emeritus and Google fellow “What is a thought?”
- March 18, 2020: John Monahan, Hart House Warden since 2015 “100 years of Hart House at U of T”
Guest Speaker
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Geoffrey Hinton
Professor
Prof. Geoffrey Hinton is the great-great-grandson both of logician George Boole whose work eventually became one of the foundations of modern computer science.
He set up the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London and then returned to the University of Toronto where he is now an emeritus distinguished professor.
He was the director of the program on "Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception" which is funded by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Since 2013 he has been working half-time for Google in Mountain View and Toronto