Summary: This week features a lecture by Fred Cooper titled "Bridging the Two Worlds." It was recorded on January 11th, 2012 in New York City. This is the second of a two part podcast. Dr. Fred Cooper is a quantum field theorist who was a Ph.D. student of the Nobel Prize winning Physicist Sheldon Glashow, one of the co-inventors of the Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics. He has written over 200 published papers in various physics Journals and has co-authored a book Supersymmetry and Quantum Mechanics. He has been a student of Tai Situ Rinpoche since 1981. He has also received direct Mahamudra transmissions from the first Kalu Rinpoche and VV Mingyur Rinpoche. Fred has been teaching meditation at Karma and Shangpa Kagyu centers affiliated with Kalu Rinpoche for over 20 years and he currently is the President of Kagyu Shenpen Kunchab Buddhist Center in Santa Fe, NM.
