Community members are invited to UC Davis for a public discussion forum with new University of California President Robert Dynes on May 27.

Dynes, a first-generation college graduate who went on to become a distinguished physicist and the chancellor of UC San Diego, became president of the 10-campus University of California system on Oct. 2, 2003. In his first year in the position, the president plans to visit every campus.

This will be his first visit to the UC Davis campus as president.

Dynes will spend two days touring the Davis campus and the health-system campus in Sacramento. He will talk with UC Davis administrators, faculty members, staff members, students and community leaders. He will lunch with the UC Davis Foundation Board and attend the gala dinner for the recipient of the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement.

The public is invited to the "Dialogue With the President" on Thursday, May 27, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Jackson Hall of the Mondavi Center. For a half hour, representatives of the California Aggie newspaper editorial board will interview Dynes. For the next half hour, audience members will be able to ask him questions.

Those attending the dialogue are invited to stay for music and dance performances by UC Davis students and faculty members. The performance program ends at 3:15 p.m.