Nuclear increase topic for Economic Laureate speech

A Nobel Laureate will discuss nuclear proliferation at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Crystal Cove Auditorium as part of a UCI lecture series.

Thomas C. Schelling will speak as a guest of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellows Series on “Managing Nuclear Proliferation.”

Schelling is a professor at the University of Maryland. He shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2005 for his work on game theory and its application to conflict and cooperation in groups.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, go to www.chancellor.uci.edu/cdfs.shtml.

— Daniel Tedford