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Jocelyn Bell Burnell: University of Oxford
Jocelyn Bell Burnell - University of Oxford
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Avery Broderick: Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo
Avery Broderick - University of Waterloo
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Roger Melko: Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo
Roger Melko - University of Waterloo
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Rob Moore: Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences
Rob Moore - Stanford University
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Emily Levesque: The Weirdest Stars in the Universe
Emily Levesque - University of Washington
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Robert Spekkens: The riddle of the quantum sphinx: quantum states and category mistakes
Robert Spekkens - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
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Erik Verlinde: A new view on gravity and the dark side of the cosmos
Erik Verlinde - Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Janna Levin: Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Janna Levin - Columbia University
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell: University of Oxford
Jocelyn Bell Burnell - University of Oxford
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, winner of the 2018 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, is an accomplished scientist and champion for women in physics. As a graduate student in 1967, she co-discovered pulsars, a breakthrough widely considered one of the most important scientific advances of the… -
Avery Broderick: Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo
Avery Broderick - University of Waterloo
Dr. Avery Broderick will provide a highly accessible and interesting lecture on the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and international efforts to interpret horizon-resolving images of numerous supermassive black holes. Black holes are among the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the universe… -
Roger Melko: Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo
Roger Melko - University of Waterloo
Can computers think? They can certainly calculate - with staggering speed and ever-increasing power - and they have driven scientific and technological advances that would have been impossible without them. Even so, we would like to believe that, for some puzzles, there's no substitute for old… -
Rob Moore: Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences
Rob Moore - Stanford University
From the Stone Age to the Silicon Age, nothing has had a more profound influence on the world than our understanding of the materials around us. The Industrial Revolution of the 19th century and the Information Revolution of the 20th were fueled by humankind’s ability to understand, harness, and… -
Emily Levesque: The Weirdest Stars in the Universe
Emily Levesque - University of Washington
How big can a star get? Why would a star only pretend to explode? Can you hide one star inside another? Take a tour of some of the strangest stellar phenomena in the universe during this talk featuring Emily Levesque. From the biggest, brightest, and most volatile stars to the explosive fireworks of… -
Robert Spekkens: The riddle of the quantum sphinx: quantum states and category mistakes
Robert Spekkens - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Science is like puzzle-solving. Making sense of quantum theory is a particularly thorny kind of brain-twister, with more than its fair share of mysteries. If you are stuck on a puzzle, it may be because you have made a false assumption about the nature of some entity that is absolutely central to… -
Pauline Gagnon: Improbable Feats and Useless Discoveries
As a child, Quebec native Pauline Gagnon dreamed of understanding what the universe was really made of. As an adult, she studied exactly that, working at the largest experiment ever built, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. In her role as a Senior Research Scientist, based at Indiana University and… -
Erik Verlinde: A new view on gravity and the dark side of the cosmos
Erik Verlinde - Universiteit van Amsterdam
Are we standing on the brink of a new scientific revolution that will radically change our views on space, time, and gravity? In most circumstances, the theories of Einstein and Newton adequately describe gravity, but on cosmological scales, big questions arise, particularly surrounding the nature… -
THE TRUTH IS IN THE STARS, a Star Trek Documentary
Join the original Captain Kirk, William Shatner, as he interviews renowned scientists and celebrities about the enduring influence of Star Trek on popular culture, innovation, and creativity. THE TRUTH IS IN THE STARS chronicles Shatner’s journey around the world to discover how Star Trek’s… -
Janna Levin: Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Janna Levin - Columbia University
More than a billion years ago, two black holes collided. In the final second of their long life together, the black holes banged out a rhythm like mallets on a drum, creating gravitational waves – ripples in the shape of spacetime. One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of… -
Eugenia Cheng: How to Bake Pi
Mathematics can be tasty! It’s a way of thinking, and not just about numbers. Through unexpectedly connected examples from music, juggling, and baking, Dr. Eugenia Cheng will demonstrate that math can be made fun and intriguing for all. Her interactive talk will feature hands-on activities, examples… -
Amber Straughn: A New Era in Astronomy: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope has completely revolutionized our understanding of the universe, and has become a beloved icon of popular culture. As revolutionary as Hubble has been, we have pushed it to its scientific limits in many ways. Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, has been in…