Public invited to celebrate math, watch movie

April is National Math Awareness Month, and the UA is holding events to celebrate the role of mathematics in the security of Internet transactions.

The theme for this year is “”Internet Security.”” All events are free and open to the public.

Today a movie will begin at 4 p.m. in the Family and Consumer Sciences building, Room 101, about a 1980 UA graduate.

The movie, “”The KGB, the Computer and Me,”” is about UA doctoral graduate Cliff Stoll’s pursuit and capture of a German hacker who stole information from U.S. military computers over the Internet.

Physician poet to speak on healing

A physician and poet will speak today as a guest invited by the medicine and humanities departments.

Rafael Campo, a prize-winning author and Harvard physician in practice, serves mostly Latinos, LGBT and HIV patients. The event, “”The Poetry of Healing,”” will be from noon to 1 p.m. at in the Duvall Auditorium of the Arizona Health Sciences Center.

From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., there will be a special session for students titled “”Fact vs. Truth: Narratives in Medicine”” in Room 3117. There will be food and free books.