How To Build A Time Machine with Dr. Ronald Mallett

All attendees receive a signed copy of Dr. Mallett's book "The Time Traveller: One Man's Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality. Ronald Mallett with Bruce Henderson"

ABOUT DR. RONALD MALLETT:

Physicist Ronald Mallett was born on March 3, 1945 in Roaring Springs, Pennsylvania to Dorothy Kimbrough and Boyd Mallett. Mallett joined the United States Air Force in 1963 and later was admitted into Pennsylvania State University, where he received his B.S. degree in 1969, his M.S. degree in 1970, and his Ph.D. degree in 1973 in physics.
After receiving his Ph.D. degree from Pennsylvania State University, Mallett was hired in 1973 as a research scientist for United Technologies Research Laboratory in Farmington, Connecticut. Two years later, in 1975, he was hired as an assistant professor of physics at the University of Connecticut, in Mansfield, Connecticut, and subsequently promoted to associate professor in 1980. From 1981 to 1982, Mallett served as the Ira Reid Visiting Professor at Haverford College, in Haverford, Pennsylvania. In 1982, he served as a visiting scholar at the Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. Mallett was then promoted to professor of physics at the University of Connecticut in 1987, where he remained until his retirement in 2018.
Known for his work on the theory of time travel, in 2002, Mallet presented at the Third International Association for Relativistic Dynamics Conference. In 2003, he was featured in the documentary The World’s First Time Machine, directed by Ben Bowie, and in 2006, Mallett published his memoir, Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality.
Mallett is an honorary member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of National Society of Black Physicists. In 2006, he was elected vice president of the International Association for Relativistic Dynamics.
Mallett received the Altoona Outstanding Alumni Award from Pennsylvania State University in 2006; and, in 2007, he was named an Alumni Fellow. In 2012, Mallett was also named a distinguished alumnus by Altoona Area High School, in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY, "HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE":

How to Build a Time Machine follows two men as they set out on a journey to build their own time machines. Rob Niosi is a stop motion animator who has spent the last 13 years obsessively constructing a full-scale replica of the time machine prop from the 1960 adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine." It's his attempt to recapture the memory of seeing the film in theaters with his father. Dr.Ron Mallett is a theoretical physicist whose story begins with a tragedy. He was only 10 years old when his father died suddenly of a heart attack. Distraught, he sought solace in science-fiction. After reading "The Time Machine," Ron dedicated his life to studying physics. He has since become a professor at the University of Connecticut and is now working on building a real time machine in the hopes that he might go back in time to save his father's life.

ABOUT DR. MALLETT'S BOOK, "THE TIME TRAVELER: ONE MAN'S MISSION TO MAKE TIME TRAVEL A REALITY:

Ron Mallett was just 10 when his father died suddenly. Devastated, he found solace in the science fiction of H.G. Wells, believing that if he could build a time machine, he could go back into the past, warn his father and perhaps save his life.
Ronald Mallett is now a professor of theoretical physics. Remarkably, this working-class African American boy from the Bronx stuck with his vision, overcoming poverty and prejudice in the pursuit of his obsession. This is the story of his extraordinary journey of self- and scientific discovery. With simple language and elegant metaphor he lays out his theories and presents the reader with what is an actual blue print for a time machine.A dramatic and compelling memoir, it is also a brilliant introduction to a riveting but generally baffling subject, and a truly inspirational account of astonishing achievement.

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